Got the train to Manchester to the legendary Boardwalk venue on Little Peter Street, meeting up with Jill The Ripper and Ann The Beermonster.
Antisect's album 'In Darkness There Is No Choice' was a regular visitor to my turntable, bringing with it a bleak charcoal canvas of despair. Definitely from the Crass school of ethics, blending darkened hardcore with mid-term Flux Of Pink Indians and Dirt. This was to be their final tour, splitting up later this year before returning twenty odd years later as the real deal with a thumping metal sound and even angrier words.
I recall the Boardwalk being packed out and very little lighting for this gig. Apparently local indie pop band The Man From Delmonte opened up, but we either turned up late or they were instantly forgettable.
Dan from Darlington were making noises on the scene, with their eccentric punk/hardcore catching the ear of John Peel. And Antisect kept the anarcho-crusty types happy. We stayed near the back, well (in darkness) there was no choice as it was too jam packed to get any closer.
We crashed at Jill's in Glossop and got the train back in time for work at the arcade in Colwyn Bay.
Here's a dodgy recording of the gig...
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