Garbage Days Revisited #81: Eater - "Ant" (1977/2022)
"Oh well, here I go again/Nothing to give and nothing to gain..." - Eater - Outside View The general consensus when punks talk about Eater is that they were a band who had plenty of energy and enthusiasm but not a whole lot in the way of skill and guile (then again, wasn't that the whole point of punk in the first place?) Formed in the early days of punk by frontman Andy Blade, his brother Social Demise and their schoolfriend Brian Chevette, the novelty of them being such a young band even by punk standards saw them quickly coming to the attention of the press and their debut single Outside View , produced by Pistols associate Dave Goodman, would see them as one of the very first punk bands out of the gate in '77 (Ian Woodcock joining on bass and Dee Generate having replaced Social on drums by this point). They were regulars at the Roxy and, being big Alice Cooper fans (they would frequently perform a speeded-up take on I'm Eighteen renamed Fifteen ), were o...