The Decent Pub Rock Thread

[Jamie Renton]

Any version of "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding" would have done the trick but, for authenticity's sake (cos we all like a bit of authenticity round here, right?), I've gone for Brinsley Schwarz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkuEBHMCOyY

I'll think of some more later. Please feel free to add your own pub rockin' favourites as well

Mine's a pint of bitter etc etc

[AndyM]

I was hoping to put up a link to Derek Dull and the Slide-Rules' epochal We're 'Blokes With Side Partings and Lots of John Mayall Albums Who Look Like They've Come Round to Read the Meter', but inexplicably it's not on YouTube.

[Rob Hall]

The Count Bishops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HntZDao0Tkg]

Roogalator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvKG2rjDKE

Ducks Deliuxe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6IDGGJVnBo

[Rob Hall]

And live from the Centurion, Deptford High Street (with Gladys taking time off from pulling pints to do the intro):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lp_e4wUnz4

[Jamie Renton]

Dr Feelgood - Roxette (the comments underneath regarding David Hepworth and Mark Ellen's into are worth a look)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaybV46MA6E

Graham Parker - Back to Schooldays (as featured on the first Honky Tonk compilation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZi2YXTy00M

Kilburn & the High Roads - Rough Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6C8NNbqcG4

[john poole]

The 101ers - Keys to your Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9hBmf5-qg8

[Chris P]

I thought quality pub-rock was by definition, theatrically or in reality, indecent, shady, seedy or disreputable

[Adam Blake]

Andy, I don't know which pubs you used to hear music in but the stereotype you mock so spitefully has never actually existed - at least as far as I know, but then again I am 18 months younger than you and possibly had my nose glued to the pub window when you and your buddies were inside, baying for Derek to encore...

Rob, thank you for remembering that Roogalator record, which I always liked.

Here's one of my favourites, from a skinny speedfreak who kept his harps in a pint of lager. He turned me on to Little Walter (before doing six years for trying to rob a post office with a toy gun) so my gratitude to him is boundless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTKTIOSEE-4

The best ever Beatles cover (no arguments please):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkkJlskSJAI

Just like a 60s punk band, they only made one great record, but it is a corker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NrhE4FtqSc

And much as I enjoyed "I Want Candy", this is still the best Count Bishops record for my money and a virtual definition of "Decent Pub Rock":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_i306jOudQ

[kevin]

Amazorblades - Common Truth (Recently covered by Paolo Nutini)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwTlVyqjX0I

B side Messaround

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFpClwhfkYY

[AndyM]

Andy, I don't know which pubs you used to hear music in but the stereotype you mock so spitefully has never actually existed - at least as far as I know, but then again I am 18 months younger than you and possibly had my nose glued to the pub window when you and your buddies were inside, baying for Derek to encore...

Calm down dear. I always avoided pubs with live music, preferring ones with good jukeboxes where I could hear proper hits made by successful musicians.

[MartinOwen]

I enjoyed Bontemps Roulez in the Kennsington on a few occassions - anyway here is Steve Van-Zeller reliving his youth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ygjKTgdpQ

[MartinOwen]

And of course Buster Crabbe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQa_BRRpacs

[Kari Salonen]

In this remote corner pub rock became known through the leading rock monthly of the era - its editors were all fans of Nick Lowe etc, so everything released by Stiff or Chiswick got attention.

As for indecent, shady and seedy, how about Stack Waddy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCR4gEeD4f8

But the one I thought of adding was Kursaal Flyers. Back then I thought, what an odd name. I only learned the meaning of Kursaal years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMHpo--njc

[MartinOwen]

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRcyGZyh85k

and there was a night in 1973 at the Greyhound when Bob Marley performed. Came over for the Radio 1 in Concert at the Paris Theatre I think.

[will vine]

I STILL miss KOKOMO the most of all but I can't seem to post anything of theirs.

I loved CLOVER http://youtu.be/0Bw0_QfLvMg

One of the best gigs I remember, and definitely not on Youtube, Archie Leggert's 747.

ACE were good, FBI, CHILLI WILLI......... and I used to see SHAKIN' STEVENS regularly down at The Torrington too. Happy Daze!