Garbage Days Revisited #89: The Babysitters - "The Babysitters" (1985)
"Open your eyes, open your ears, open yer wallets and get us some beers!" - The Babysitters - Can You Hear It? Many many years ago, your correspondent joined up with a band of glam-punk reprobates called Casanova Frankenstein as rhythm guitarist. This would probably have been somewhere around my early-to-mid-twenties – after four or five years as an Angelic Upstarts / SLF devoted skinhead, I had a bit of a “fuck this for a lark” moment with punk and oi after a couple of disastrous gigs. Firstly, we went to see a gig at the Fenton (along with the Vine, one of me and the other lads in my previous band’s stomping grounds at the time) of Deadline (a rather good tuneful streetpunk band from London who never really got the rub they deserved in my humble opinion – they may crop up in a future SFTJ footnotes somewhere) supported by the Mingers (a hardcore thrash-punk band from here in Leeds, a couple of whom I was friends with) and the place got invaded by BNP fuckwits. I se...