Vice Squad is a punk band formed in 1978 by the explosive Beki Bondage, here on the picture. She's been on the punk scene for more than 30 years and she's been called a jewel in the crown of England's glory...
After she left Vice Squad in 1983 she joined another punk band called The Ligotage and then in 1986 she formed The Bombshells.
It's only in 1998 that Beki reformed with Vice Squad and they've been touring ever since, specially in east europe.
She is often cited as being the first punk pin-up featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME, and Smash Hits.
It's with great pleasure that I went to see her play in Brighton at The Royal Albert. They were playing with The Derellas which is another punk band from London. The venue was quite intimate and it was packed.
She played a lot of old Vice Squad songs, she had a lot of energy and looked like a 25 years old punk singer still, after all those years she kept a kind of eternal punk youth.
She was raw and straight, talking to a mostly male audience, dominating them all by her jokes and answers that no one else could have think of.
Their drummer never rehearsed with them before, the original drummer had a problem and couldn't make it to the gig so they were lucky to find one quite quickly just before the gig. No one would have noticed he wasn't an original member if she didn't say because he was really good. (reminded me of my own situation in Paris at the Sentier des Halles gig )
They played a long gig, and they did it in a punk atmosphere, talking to the fans after the gig...
here are some more pictures i took of the gig :
Once a groupie, always a groupie ! ;)
and to finish on a rock'n'roll touch, my picture with Tim, bass player of The Derellas and also ex bass player of Nurotica.
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