It still amuses me to think that in the early '80s I was sitting in classrooms in a funny little school in Lewes High Street, two doors up from the Con Club, decorating the back pages of my exercise books with band logos. At that time, nothing ever happened in Lewes, the sleepy county town of East Sussex. In 1264, rebel baron, Simon de Montfort clipped Henry III's kingly wings and forced constitutional reform, oh and each 5th November Lewes hosts a famous Bonfire Society parade through the town. Other than that nothing ever happened. However, a few short years ago, the Con Club in the High Street started putting on the very same bands that we were all talking about in class 45 years ago!
Here we have one such band, Chelsea in a recording courtesy of the Acid Drops blog site (see 'Other Blog Sites of Distinction' section in the right hand panel of the site.
Chelsea are currently doing the rounds marking the 50th anniversary of the band and punk rock - Chelsea were there are the beginning. However, it is a Gene October-less band on the road right now as the singer recuperates from major surgery.
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