{"id":3398,"date":"2015-03-14T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:33:06","slug":"my-top-london-punk-songs-another-tulse-hill-night-by-999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2015\/03\/my-top-london-punk-songs-another-tulse-hill-night-by-999\/","title":{"rendered":"My top London punk songs – Another Tulse Hill Night by 999"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is one of a series describing my top ten London punk songs<\/a><\/p>\n

From what I can see, kids these days don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be really, really bored; they\u2019re missing out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"999-compressor\"More often than not, boredom drives you to DO SOMETHING and in 1977 this meant finding a crappy guitar, learning a chord or two, joining a punk band and writing songs about being bored, \u00a0a virtuous circle.<\/p>\n

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999<\/a>‘s \u2018Another Tulse Hill Night<\/strong>\u2019 describes the utter tedium\u00a0of living in a\u00a0dreary suburb of south London in the mid\/late 70s.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening?
\nWhat\u2019s going on?
\nEvery day is just the same
\nYou sit around
\nOr hang around
\nYour best friend’s the telly
\nYou gotta get out
\nIt’s another Tulse Hill night for you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

999 Specialised in fast, poppy punk-rock,\u00a0the critics didn’t like the band but we did, we knew better.<\/p>\n

The first couple of albums and early singles still sound rather thrilling, the kind of tracks that demand you play them LOUD, I can’t help but feel energised and un-bored when I listen to 999.<\/p>\n