After an incident, we move our practise space to the cellar of our drummer’s home in Haren, a 7 km bicycle drive from home. My new band start rehearsing in the cellar of the Grand Theater squat and after hearing the “Boston Not L.A.” LP, we change style from midtempo punk to fast chaoscore. There I buy my first copy of Maximum Rock’n’Roll fanzine and we are amazed and inspired by the D.I.Y. I form my first band at the Dead Kennedy’s/M.D.C.
Later he will be leader of the notorious Z-Side Skins (there’s nice pictures of him in the “Inside Z-Side” book) and member of the national nazi-party CP’86. He is part of the Simplon/Boer’n Punx crew so nobody mess with him. There I also meet Van Gool, a huge skinhead always keen to harass small punx.
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Within time it’s full of bandnames and studs.Ī punk girl from my friend’s school take us to my first punkconcert in Simplon on 24 april 1982: Vopo’s and End Result. I get my first and only leather jacket from André Drenth/Subway who was good friends with my parents.
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There I see all the punx from my school plus many more pogoing like there’s no tomorrow. I am sitting right in front of the band and have a perfect view on the crowd. Together with a very good friend I visit my very first punkconcert by Bunker from Rotterdam on the Sterren in het Bos festival in August 1981. Unfortunately inserts of records are often missing at the latter. Subs and local bands such as Jetset and Massagraf in the Hemmes recordshop who also sell cassettes.
Back in Groningen I get more in De Cirkel recordshop like Crass, Dead Kennedys, U.K. My first punk LP is the first three by The Clash that I buy in Avignon, France in the summer of 1981 during a holiday with my parents. I start checking the bands on their jackets and schoolbags. When I get in junior high in 1980 (Heijmans College), I run across punx in higher classes. Alot of those bands have the energy of punkbands, especially onstage. In that time I am very much into the The Police and later I get heavily into Two-Tone ska. At the end of the 70’s I buy my very first LP at the Elpee recordshop: Salisbury by Uriah Heep, not because I am into hardrock but because there is a Chieftain tank on the sleeve (I get to really appreciate this record in the 90’s). My parents often take me to the annual and free Sterren in het Bos manifestation with tons of bands. My father plays in bands in the 60’s and 70’s as a bass- or guitarplayer ( Coffin, The Starfighters, The Jaguars, Subway) so needless to say I am brought up with alot of music. On tours people know me as Michael Bacteria hence this selective biography: For all activities please see the index above. The name is taken from the 1985 compilation LP “ Cleanse the Bacteria”.