Photograph
The Worst
The Electric Circus
1977

“woody was a national front , BNP racist prick , i loved the worst but him being a part of the band tainted it for me, evil idiot!”

“I don't think he played more than a couple of gigs with them (if that). I never really discussed politics with him, but, I know he was a full on skin within a year of this pic being taken, so you're probably right.”

“Fond memories of the Worst, shame they never made anything, I wanted to record them for Bent Records but Richard Boon kept promising them he would do it but he never did - booo hisss, I think their first gig was with us [The Drones] at the Squat along with the Fall and Joy Division what a line up! They just turned up and asked if they could play, initially we had to say no due to the stage already being full of equipement, they said they would play on the floor in front of the stage I said go for it, I pissed myself when they brought the drums in, a Chad valley bass drum and a 1930's snare and a 'cymbal' they played with one vocal mike and they were BRILLIANT fabulous lyrics and attitude, for those of you who didn't like Woody the other two always beat him up after every gig for being useless on the bass, he could only play by the dots poor thing”

“HI,THE WORST PLAYED RAFTERS A FEW TIMES.THEY SEEMED TO BE THERE ALL THE TIME WHEN I USED TO GO.76/77.THEY ALWAYS LOOKED THE REAL DEAL TO ME.PUNKS...NEVER SOLD OUT...”

“I knew 2of the members of the worst personally, Ian and Alan, i didn't know Woody, but Alan's wife told me the reason they got rid of him was not because he couldn't,but because he could, also they said he didn't move enough, if you want to know what happened to them, as far as I know Ian (Ozzie still lives round Preston, and Alan split up with his wife and went to live in America, Ian told me once that Warner Brothers rang them up and offered them £5000 to sign a recording contract, he asked them if he'd heard them play, when he said no Ian told him to f--k off lol they are on a record somewhere, but there's no name of the group or name of the tune, they started it for a laugh and that's what they did, they were playing at the cavern club one night, backing up the Buzzcocks, and he asked me and my girlfriend at the time who was a friend of his wife's to go, in one of the brakes Alan said let's go to the dressing room, we went in and Pete Shelley was there, Alan introduced me and Shel”

“Dave Bentley where are you!”

“davebay54@gmail.com”

“davebay54@gmail.com”