Everything is more fun in my own head.

[hirez]

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The concept of Doktorbands has lived in my head since, um, oh-fuck-i-dont-know, probably the mid 80s when I read something about them in a random zine. Probably. I don't really remember and I like it better that way. The next time I came across this malarkey was when I found Compendium in Camden in 1989.

There was a bloke outside Camden tube, busking a passable Hawkwind impersonation and playing a SH101 with his feet. I think.

I came home with a copy of 'Three-fisted tales of 'Bob'', which surprised precisely none of the people I was living and working with at the time.

That's a whole other story in itself.

Don't go looking on YouTube for Doktorbands because the beer-crate video can never match the reality in your own head. (Somewhere between 'Hotrod' period Ministry, Lynyrd Skynyrd, MBV and PiL)

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[s0b.livejournal.com]

Could the bloke outside the station have been "Rory" he of "the invisible band" ... flying V-beard and a matching guitar?

ISTR Vague did something about Doktors of Insanity in about '88 or '89 and there would have been stacks of them in Compendium (RIP)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly and quite possibly.

I think I bought a number of Vagues at one or other of the Billy Bragg or Fall gigs that were in Cheltenham and/or Gloucester, so the timing fits.