1980s Punk Uk Mugs
Description: The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley in 1976 by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) and Lol Tolhurst (drums). The band's current line-up comprises Smith, Perry Bamonte (guitar and keyboards), Reeves Gabrels (guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), and Jason Cooper (drums). Smith has remained the only constant member throughout numerous line-up changes since the band's formation, including stints with guitarist Porl Thompson and drummer Boris Williams, though Gallup was absent for just six years of the band's history.
Description: The second poster for The Clash's infamous 1981 show at Bond International Casino in New York City for the Sandinista! Tour. Eight shows were sold out, but demand was so strong, they added nine more for a total of 17 shows. There was a second round of posters created to promote the shows, and this is it!
Description: The scientists at ObscuraTee Laboratories have painstakingly researched and re-created the shirt Joe Strummer made famous. The shirt has been seen in Bob Gruen's rooftop photos of the band overlooking NYC and on a television interview with Tom Snyder. We assume Strummer had the shirt made because it uses a fake newspaper template available to custom t-shirt shops of the 1980's. It may have been to commemorate The Clash's oversold Bond's International Casino shows, of which, The Clash would play a total of 17.
Description: It was June 1983 that Planet X opened its doors at Macmillans in Concert Square. This was the first of the five venues around Liverpool it called home, later moving to Brady’s in Mathew Street, then Jody’s in Stanley Street, before moving to its own places – first in Temple Street and, finally, in Hanover Street. The Liverpool club added a great deal of color, darkness, and gothic glamour to the city's nightlife scene, living through several waves of the goth movement and was, from its inception, a place that Liverpool’s outsider crowd could call their own. The final night for Planet X came on New Year’s Eve in 1993, though other than the owner, nobody knew it would be the last call for this legendary goth club...
