The bay inn would like to proudly present THE USEFUL SHOES playing for the firsttime at the bay inn live this SATURDAY FROM 9PM wee story about the band Formation The idea for The Useful Shoes was born out of the explosion of British and American punk and new wave music in 1976/1977. As a bored (just) teenager in Paisley and keen observer of this nascent music scene, Ken Macdonald could see it was about so much more than the music. Many bands would make the front cover of the NME on the strength of their name alone. Even if they went on to record, this was the era of obscure one-off 7” vinyl singles in arty picture sleeves by bands who would be there one minute and, following a five star review for their debut waxing on some achingly hip independent label, be gone the next. The more ambiguous the band, the more collectable they were. Ken’s collection of these singles grew and grew and his house became the place to go for young men like me to hear the songs that mattered. Some like Wazmo Nariz (Tele-Tele-Telephone/Wacker Drive - Stiff BUY 33, 1978) are long forgotten, some like The Modern Lovers (Roadrunner/Pablo Picasso – Beserkley PA205, 1977) were odd, one-off chart hits and others like The Human League (Being Boiled /Circus Of Death FAST 4, 1978) went on to greater things, or at least different haircuts. As the months went by, Ken could be found within the blue walls of his attic conversion bedroom, avoiding studying for his law degree and attempting to whack out the bass-lines to these tunes on his Macca-style Hofner bass.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:01:44 +0000
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