Neil Crud’s 2007 Predictions


(North Wales Weekly News)
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Homespun

Often controversial, and often as much intent on upsetting and threatening people, Homespun stayed friends with Adam Walton long enough to be offered a session.

Tracks aired: A Beautiful Mess / A Friend of Ours / Eighth Apology / Scream

Spinning Home

Did a video shoot for Homespun to promote their new single Badman. The initial idea was to have the frontman Terry abducted in a sack during a gig, some nice enclosed shots of him singing in the sack, the band in the back of a van playing and then the ‘body’ being dumped outside a police station.
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The Damned, Metallic, Homespun @ Llandudno Conference Centre

Tattoo removal by laser treatment is very painful & very expensive. I’m halfway through a 12 month course & ironically one of the tattoos to be removed is a love heart with The Damned beautifully designed by the side of it. I was 18 at the time & in love with the band; a love affair that hasn’t waned. So in the run up to this gig I’ve been like a little boy who’s just found the keys to the local sweet shop. I’ve grown up with The Damned, ‘Machine Gun Etiquette’ is rated in my Top 5 Albums of all time, & since that 14 year old spikey punk kid witnessed them at the Pier in Colwyn Bay in 1981, I’ve been a changed man ever since, or was it after being buggered by the support band The Anti-Nowhere League?.
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Babakin, Homespun, Carpet @ Breeding Ground, Rhyl

A very local feel – Hitchcock had planned to have a live birth on stage but the drummer’s wife chickened out last minute & opted for her local hospital instead. Thankfully Carpet were on hand to fill the spot with 24 hours notice.
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