West 12 Spots

The beauty of punk rock was that it gave an opportunity to anyone with enough balls, like West 12 Spots, to get up on stage and have a go. What it didn’t do is make any promises regarding the quality of those acts.

So West 12 Spots gained their moment of infamy when an article appeared in the Acton Gazette of October 6th 1977 recounting their gig at the Priory Youth Centre. The boys arrived with just two guitars and managed just two songs before being asked to leave and that was the end of their career.

The gig was put on by one Derek Gibbs, who appears on the front cover of the famous New Wave compilation on Phonogram and would later front his own band The Satellites. Love the desciption of him as an ‘active punk rocker!’

Short and sharp! There’s a moral there somewhere!

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