80’s music scenes # 1 – Psychobilly and the garage band revival

Unfairly denounced as a bit of a ‘knuckle headed’ musical movement, the Psychobilly/80’s garage scene did throw up some interesting bands that had a little more to offer than the ‘by number punk -rockabilly’ offered by The Meteors or The Guana Batz , as this classic clip from the Tube proves:



As someone who frequented The Clarendon in Hammersmith during my youth I can vouch for how much fun this scene really was. Maybe it’s time for a revival?