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EAST END BADOES
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AN INTERVIEW I DID RECENTLY FOR A NEW FANZINE

EAST END BADOES.

Being as this is the first issue of a great new fanzine we had to find something very special to include to make it stand out from other zines, so what better than the first interview with one of the legendary early oi! bands the EAST END BADOES. I count myself very lucky to be a friend of Terry Hayes the original singer of the badoes who is an absolute gentleman, and doing this interview I’ve managed to spend quite a bit of time with him, swapping stories of the early days of oi!. I,ve also spent a bit of time in the studios with all the boys Terry, Dom, Texas and Chris, so doing this interview is one of the most enjoyable things I’ve done in our scene. This is how the interview went.

Jim :- What was the driving force behind you reforming the badoes after all these years?

Terry :- I’ve got to say the main driving force has got to have been Watfords finest Jon Richard aka Watford Jon. After years of talking about doing something going back to I think HITS 2000 in Berlin. Jon said shut the fuck up talking about and do it, so I got some good lads together and away we went. I’ve also got to say FANX to Fitzy for all his advice and help and FANX to all our close mates including yourself Jim, Barnet Mark, Mark Keating, Lee Munns, Ian Harrington and all the Argy Bargy crew. Last but not least to the superb lads who make up the band Texas Joe, Dom and Chris

Jim :- Are you enjoying being back in rehearsals and singing with a band again?

Terry :- Love it and should have done it years ago, gotta say though, after taking of the rose coloured specs, and the earplugs out I was having second thoughts, but now we are getting it together and getting it right, I think it might be quicker when we get rid of that fucking singer.

Jim :- As we all know you are still a big part of the London oi! scene, do you think that gigs are better now to attend or were they better in the old days.

Terry :- my personal feelings on this are there is no comparison. Today’s gigs are great. The only aggression at the gigs is from the music being played on stage, and the men , women, girls and boys giving it what for in front of the stage. Anyone of an age to remember gigs from the late 70’s early 80’s would I think agree with me.

Jim :- who are your favorite bands?

Terry :- Business, D.K.M, Argy Bargy, Sparrer, Last Resort, Rejects, Discipline, and many many more, I will say the above are not necessarily in that order, but who cares its all about the music and the people involved.

Jim :- will you be performing any gigs in the near future?

Terry :- yes we will be we have 2 maybe 3 gigs in and around December, as long as all goes well.

Jim :- what is the line up for the band?

Terry :- on bass we have 1 fingered Dom, on guitar we have chris (young roi) Tibbot, on drums all the way from the U.S (that’s because no one over there wanted him) Texas Joe and singing (lets rephrase that) trying to sing Terry Hayes.

Jim :- what do you think of the big weekend punk/oi! festivals such as Wasted, Punk and Disorderly etc etc and do you think we should have one in London every year?

Terry :- Absolutely superb wether here or in Europe . Hits, Wasted, Punk and Disorderly etc etc are all well supported , you have such a great mixture of punk/oi! old and new something for everyone involved. A part of what I like to see is the young kids following in their mums and dads footsteps as young punks and skins for this scenes future.

Jim :- will you be performing your old badoes songs in your set?

Terry :- there will be some old, some new, and some borrowed

Jim :- have you written any new material for the band and will they be part of the set?

Terry :- yes we do have new material as hinted in the last question, we will be doing more new stuff than old, I just hope its to everyone’s liking.

Jim :- who are your musical influences?

Terry :- my first records where SLADE and SWEET (don’t think WHAT! Take away the make up and the stage get up, and you had a good rock band). Then came the early days of punk PISTOLS,CLASH etc, but the RAMONES were my band seeing their early gigs was great. Running alongside at the same time were COCKSPARRER who we first saw at the roxy after reading an article in our local east end paper. SPARRA had a very large following from our area, POPLAR, STEPNEY, BOW, and the ISLE OF DOGS, although we were called the POPLAR BOYS. I have some great memories of the SPARRA days, but sparra came and went in a flash (although in hindsight that may have been a good thing for the lads). I still remain very good friends with them today 29 years is a long time.
The punk thing had all but died as a working class thing with the influx of the middle/upper class college mob, out of the mix SHAM 69 had come to the fore playing the kind of punk I enjoyed. And then the arrival of the kings of oi! oi! THE REJECTS. Followed closely at that time by the UPSTARTS, THE BUSINESS, THE LAST RESORT AND THE 4SKINS, what more could you want as influences go.

Jim :- what is the best gig you have been to in the last year?

Terry :- over the last year I’ve seen many good punk/oi! gigs THE BUSINESS, ARGY BARGY, D.K.M etc, but the REJECTS gig in September to me was 2nd to none oi! oi! to the core, the crowd, the support band mr BUSHELL and the infamous GONADS, everything on that night was superb.

Jim :- is there a particular band from the early days you would like to see reform?

Terry :- its got to be the 4SKINS line up HODGES,HOXTON,ROCKABILLY STEVE and JOHN JACOBS. Having known OXO/GARY for many years, I would love to see the prodigal sons return. I must add when we were at the rejects circus tavern gig, I did give hoxtons ear a bit of a bashing to get it back together again, I’ll keep trying and we will see.

Jim :- do you think that it is time for oi! music to be accepted into the main stream again, so that we could see the bands we love on T.V, in magazines etc etc as we used to such as when bands like sham and the rejects appeared on top of the pops.

Terry :- my feeling on this is the music industry still think our music equals political trouble, which is totally stupid, after southall you have seen nothing that resembles a sham, rejects, upstarts type song anywhere near the mainstream music charts all of which had chart success previously. I don’t believe that not one of our type songs have not sold enough to be somewhere near the top 50. maybe I’m wrong?. I think if some of the young bands keep going as they are their will be success in the near future I hope.

Jim :- do you think there are enough young people coming to oi! gigs nowadays?

Terry :- no there are not enough, what I would like to see is some of the American bands GREEN DAY, BLINK 182 (who have not been around for a while) etc, to get down to some of the young british bands and give them a bit of support.

Jim :- finally is there anything else you would like to say?

Terry :- I would like to mention the ANCIENT BRITON pub in a dingy little backstreet in poplar, famous for its Sunday oi!/punk night, with my brother in law Terry the d.j at the helm. This little pub was packed to the rafters from 79 to 84, all the poplar boys along with other regulars BUSHELL, JEFF TURNER, HOXTON TOM, GARY HODGES, STEVE BRUCE, STEVE BURGESS, FITZY, BARNET MARK, SKULLY, THE LEGENDARY TONY (boozy) BARKER from angela rippons bum, LEE DURY and the boy from erazorhead aka the east ends answer to the ramones BARNEY RUBBLE, and many more. Bands would air there new demos their, along with SPARRA who on one sundaynight bought down this demo of a track called ENGLAND BELONGS TO ME maybe some of the readers of this will of heard of that song. That’s how it all began the grass roots of oi! and long may it remain. If you think I’ve gone on too long, my apologies. If not fanx for giving time for the way I saw/see it.

Oi! oi! that’s your lot thanks hayze

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