#the swankers

[theunderestimator-2]

Reading stories of betrayal, despair & friendships going south from “Wally …Did You No Wrong” by Ron Evans:

some of you may -or may not- be familiar with the sad & obscure tale of the lost Sex Pistol, Wally Nightingale, Steve Jones & Paul Cook’s schoolmate who actually put the initial pre-Pistols band together as a trio & provided the classy rehearsal space (“Riverside” studios in Hammersmith, London, where the boys could sneak in since Wally’s dad worked there as an electrician) but got the boot because Malcolm McLaren had decided he didn’t fit the image he had envisioned for the band, being the geeky & uncool kid with the ‘old man’s glasses’. He was completely erased from the Pistols history in a heartbeat, as though he had never existed and the rest is known R’n’R history.

Wally’s story remains a fairytale gone bad, one in which the dishonest get all the glory while the good guy is left with bollocks, and Ron’s book is so rich in first-hand feedback and so well written that sometimes it’s hard not to actually see the narrative played in your head as a scene from a movie that hasn’t been filmed yet. Like the heartbreaking part where Wally’s pals come to his parents’ house, after he was ousted from his own band, to get all the gear that he kept in his bedroom: guitars, acoustics, amps, saxophones, foot controls and harmonicas that had been nicked throughout the band’s lifespan. Wally had been gutted but he managed to keep it all in with dignity (he was such a lovely bloke that he even went for a drink with his ‘former’ bandmates that same night after he got the axe) and when they came with a van to move the gear, he dutifully even helped them to unplug and pack everything up, carefully putting everything in their cases, while his mum and dad silently stood in the hallway, till his mum broke into tears and had to be hurried into the living room while shouting that they owed Wally:

“I could hear her crying as I went back upstairs to say goodbye to Wally. His bedroom door was ajar and I looked through the gap. All I could see was that second-hand Les Pau copy he’d bought in order to start the band sitting on its stand, and Wally sitting on his bed crying”, says his schoolmate Steve Hayes.

Needless to say that the late Wally Nightingale is my all-time favorite R’n’R anti-hero, the most underrated figure in the entire history of punk & the undisputed champion of punk rock underdogs, and Ron Evans, his younger schoolmate/neighbor/friend/bandmate in Key West -the band Wally Nightingale played after the Sex Pistols- has done an excellent job in documenting Wally’s tragic path to self-destruction. You can order the book from his site: https://www.ronevans.rocks/, as well as his cool music, which you can also enjoy on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1z5w6O0737uoAZutq48mrn

[shizuma-akira]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWANKER 💥

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[littlescaryinternetguy]

Top 5 places to nap as a fairy?

First of all, allow me to say that the very worst nap is better than the very best moment of consciousness, so there are no bad places to nap, with the possible exception of on train tracks or in heavy machinery. However, even heaven has its swanker neighborhoods, so here's my fave places to nap:

5. Look, there's a reason clichés are clichés, and it's pretty hard to beat napping in a sun-kissed rose. There are occasional pollinators to deal with, but every rose does indeed have its thorn, as they say. I believe the hair metal band Poison taught us that. 4. The only reason napping in the soft palm of a loved one isn't higher on the list is because invariably the loved one will, selfishly, demand to move their hand. Oh, your hand fell asleep? Look, there's people out there on fire, now THAT'S a problem. Plus, more to the point, I was asleep. Like, grow up. 3. Gonna say it, y'all's beds are real big. Also the covers are very thick and fluffy. And the pillows are the size of my hometown. To be honest the only problem with human beds is a) option paralysis, and b) humans. 2. If you can find a cat who doesn't try to dismember you, sleeping in the middle of a curled-up kitty is just great. Just make sure you're not allergic first. Ask your physician. 1. The best? The hollow of the throat of an equally napping loved one. The heart, the breath, the softness. The hollow of the throat is a vulnerable spot, as anyone who enjoys self-defense knows. To be allowed to sleep there is not only to be let in, but also to serve as a defense. It is a solemn and drowsy duty.

[bluebeerg]

"Your swanker and your bearing and the just-right clothes you're wearing Your short hair and your dungarees And your lace-up boots. I know you."

Fun Home, Melbourne Theatre Company (2022)

Co-produced with Sydney Theatre Company [x]

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[kirkoid-music]

Swanker (Tangent Remix) - April 2009

Having discovered the joy of using vocals in music, I started to revisit some of my instrumental back catalogue to see if I could find vocals to fit. It had often bothered me that I didn't have vocals for my tracks. This was one of those times, and the track was Tangent, a track I had recorded three years previously.

A band called Drip from Manila uploaded the vocals from one of their tracks, Swanker, for a remix competition. I mixed the vocal track into Tangent, and Swanker (Tangent Remix) was born.

It's interesting how much of the track gets 'lost' or 'covered up' by the vocals. The original track had none so I had worked to keep it interesting using just the sounds. Some of this doesn't come through in the remix version the way it does in the instrumental. Because of this, I decided to keep both in my active back catalogue and include both in my Chronology.

Reviews for Swanker (Tangent Remix):

I enjoyed listening to your track - the whole vibe was pretty cool. Thanks.

[godsavethequeen1]

SEX PISTOLS

1972 - school friends Steve Jones and Paul Cook decided to form a band with the original name of The Strand it then became The Swankers. Glen Matlock later joined in 1974. The band took inspiration for the music from the 60s mod and rock n roll of The Who and The Small Faces. However it was not until John Lyndon (John Rotten) that the band took on a whole new identity and renamed themselves ‘The Sex Pistols’. Malcolm McLaren (the bands manager at the time) spotted Lyndon in his shop wearing a homemade ‘I HATE Pink Floyd’ T-Shirt.

Having made their live debut as quickly as November 1975, by early 1976 the band began playing live regularly, in any place that would book them. With their unique looks the Sex Pistols were something special. This was a time period where you style and looks could get you in to serious trouble. They would have to fight their way to the van after a gig as people would try to attack them. A majority of time when the Pistols would play people just simply didn’t get it. Everyone thought the band could not play and that John couldn’t sing. The pistols managed to affect everyone who laid eyes upon them, whether the it was negative or positive they always managed to get a reaction.

The band signed to EMI for £40,000 on October 8th 1976. The band were not going to sign to just any old record label. They had the help of Malcolm McLaren aka the blagger. ‘Anarchy in the UK’ was eventually released November 26th 1976.

Rotten and Matlock started having issues with each other and so with that Matlock officially left on ‘mutual consent’, with thatJohn decided to bring his old friend John Simon aka Sid Vicious. Sid already knew Steve and Paul and fitted the bands image a lot better than Matlock. Although Vicious basically couldn’t play the bass. The band got a new label with A&M and their next single was the extremely famous ‘God Save The Queen’. Rotten’s alternative National Anthem. The release of God Save The Queen basically set the band up for life and sent shock waves up and down the whole country.

Sex Pistols Official. (2007). Bio - Sex Pistols. [Online]. SexPistolsOfficial. Available at: https:///.www.sexpistolsofficial.com/bio/ [Accessed 21 February 2023].

Wednesday 22 February

[joeymiya]

When I get my ass into college I'm going to swanker up in the coolest outfit I have and then for the rest of the days I'll just rock up wearing shirt that says "local sleeper" and my only serviceable pair of pants that are jeans. The only pants I own are jeans

[falling-on-a-bruise]

Today Is…Sex Pistols First Official Gig

Although this wasn’t their ‘first’ gig, it was their first official one and the line up was vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock.The Sex Pistols evolved from the Steve Jones and Paul Cook band the Strand (aka the Swankers) and they would hang out in Malcalm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood’s clothing shop and Jones asked McLaren who had been…

[hrvamji]

Swankers.

[puppyeared]

how rude

[chisatowo]

Building silly eternal gales aus in my brain (<- wants a less emotionally devastating version of the cast to think abt)

[theunderestimator-2]

did reading the book about wally hurt your opinion of the band?

The Swankers, the pre-Pistols act, probably wouldn't have been anything more than your average punk band of the time, so I think everything happened for a reason -of course that didn't make it right for Jones & Cook to stab Wally in the back.

[humanityinahandbag]

I love how the Good Omens fandom as a collective whole looked at a swankering, leather wearing, tight jeaned demon who blasts rock and roll from inside his vintage car speckled in fake bullet holes and then did a 180 and looked at the bumbling bookseller and they all pointed their fingers at the latter and said “him. he’s the kinky one.” 

[between-two-fandoms]

My life has never been the same since the day Joey Batey swankered into it with bread in his pants.

[tomjopson]

I do not know who had been responsible for some of the names [of the dogs], which seemed to represent a variety of tastes. They were as follows: Rugby, Upton Bristol, Millhill, Songster, Sandy, Mack, Mercury, Wolf, Amundsen, Hercules, Hackenschmidt, Samson, Sammy, Skipper, Caruso, Sub, Ulysses, Spotty, Bosun, Slobbers, Sadie, Sue, Sally, Jasper, Tim, Sweep, Martin, Splitlip, Luke, Saint, Satan, Chips, Stumps, Snapper, Painful, Bob, Snowball, Jerry, Judge, Sooty, Rufus, Sidelights, Simeon, Swanker, Chirgwin, Steamer, Peter, Fluffy, Steward, Slippery, Elliot, Roy, Noel, Shakespeare, Jamie, Bummer, Smuts, Lupoid, Spider, and Sailor. Some of the names, it will be noticed, had a descriptive flavor.

Sir Ernest Shackleton — South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance, Chapter 1: Into the Weddell Sea

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[10yrsyart]

*swankers in and uses the tone of barney stinson screaming have you met Ted* HAAAAAAAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW ZIM MOVIE ON NETFLIX?! THOUGHTS? OPINIONS? ARE YOU GONNA DO SOME DOODLES FOR THEM IN CELEBRATION?