Predator
Ant Gerrard – Guitar, Geoff Howarth – Vocals, Jere Randall – Drums
Originally called Thin Ice this Stockport band Predator issued this little ditty Punk Man / Paperboy Song on Criminal Records 1978, a label allegedly half owned by Christopher Biggins! The song had no picture sleeve but the insert below. They released another single 3 years later! but that’s not important here. Is this song another one hit cash in? Who knows but for some reason I think its a fantastic single.
A mammoth buzz saw riff that Van Halen would die for, introduces ‘Paperboy Song’ with such laid back singing and tongue in cheek lyrics I piss myself laughing at the plight of the paperboy, the punkest of topics! (Crass never wrote them like that did they?) ‘I don’t like dogs they bite my bum!’
I even like ‘Punk Man‘…. its got a kind of groove and again features that laid-back singing. Buy it or steal it!
It was good to see Punk Man/Paperboy Song by Predator featured in one of your compilations. I was involved in recording the single these songs were taken from. The single was recorded in a spare room at Lydney Youth Club. If memory serves, the line-up at that time was:
Originally, Geoff Howarth had played bass, with Ian Hodgkinson on vocals and Paul Cooke on drums. Email from Steven Thomas 4/7/01
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