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| It could only happen in Punk. What was once deemed a revolutionary form of music breaking new ground pushing new boundarys and creating new highs in anger. We innevitably got copycats, fakes and obvious plaigarism. A lot of bands were ridiculed for this and some actually did copy the groundbreakers with varying degrees of success. Well it was the latest fad and some wanted a chunk of the action, others were less talented and hadn't much choice but to follow like sheep. Everyone wanted to be part of this punk phenomenon which was sweeping the nation. And of course the kids started dressing the same as the bands who they were into. We stuck soap in our hair, bought or nicked a leather, pulled faces at wary shoppers and wore pins coz it was fun. We all become a sort of clone in the end trying our hardest to take an individual swipe at what we read and seen as punk. Without a doubt the Pistols were the most imitated of the punk bands but that kinda influence is absolutely everywhere these days be it Green Day clones, Riot/clones or Darby Crash clones and tribute making a nice little meal ticket playing other peoples music and giving kids who wernt' born in 77 a chance to savour what was once a part of history. We are sometimes outraged, amused and slighty embarresed by it all, because lets face it individualism is a much soiught after commmodity in this day 'n' age. However curiosity still kills the cat so we go along to see how wrong these clones play. But if you really wanna know where it all started head back to the dark distant past of 1979 in the letters page of Sounds music publication. You start to notice a small trickle of Nancy clones started appearing much to our amusement. Then of course wheres theres Nancy theres a Sid clone almost immediately after he bit the dust there was an avalanche of Sid Clones pulling faces in photobooths the length n breath of a nation vying for that covetted title of the best Sid lookalike. Its highly amusing in retrospect coz every town and city throughout Britain had a Sid. As we all now live in a world of fully fledged Sex Pistols tributes playing the boards, Sid N Nancy films to study made with real mehod actors and a whole host of punk history being duplicated re-enacted and played out before our very eyes do we need the real thing? I have a bunch of other punk clones I wanna show you and some are near enough spits its unreal while others are here to see what measures people will go to ape their heroes.... Peter Don't Care |
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| ARE YOU A CLONE OR WERE ONCE ONE? MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS OR WAS? If so send an image in like Sid from Nuneaton did (below) when he was a teeny bit slimmer in the mid-80's and we will give you a place in the cloned incubator, and full credit of course. Any punk you think looks like a punk we might recognise not just a Sex Pistol are welcome. Peter Don't Care |
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