Hendrix In Nottingham / September 4 2008
I was in Nottingham yesterday buying some Doc Martens when I noticed a heavily tattooed man cleaning the big front windows of Debenhams department store in Slab Square. It was none other than disgusting punk troubadour Hendrix Sikboy.
Dressed in black leather and sporting a huge peroxide hairdo, he was shouting the lyrics to the Sex Pistols song Pretty Vacant at passing shoppers as he went about his soapy work. I thought he hadn’t seen me but I was wrong. ‘Madman!’ - he calls everyone Madman - ‘Mr Lawrence of Arabia! Dogshagger! Hendrix is a punk rock window-cleaner! Been buying yer new booties?’
‘Hello, Hendrix. No, you can’t book the studio.’
My friend, the drummer Sonny Starr used to play for The Sikboy Federation, Hendix’s old band for whom I once had the misfortune of hosting a three-day recording session. They were a nightmare in the studio: drinking and vomiting, defecating on toilet seats and urinating on visiting black men. Their band motto was We Shag Dogs.
Unfortunately, amongst many other depraved things they did at the time to bolster their notoriety, they actually did abuse Alsatian dogs in this way. They had various video nasties of themselves raping and torturing the poor animals.
‘Bye, Hendrix. I already told Sonny I don’t want anything to do with you.’
‘Dogshagger!’
Many people expect recording studios to be rather glamorous environments, don’t you know.
Filed under Bands / Dogs / Drummers / Idiots / Punk / Recording Studio / Rock'n'Roll Excess
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2 comments on “Hendrix In Nottingham”
Nelson Galaxy / September 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
What a joyous two weeks they were. It is nice to see that instead of singing about young girls weeing themselves Hendrix is now performing as an urban vision technician.
Napoleon Fantastic / September 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Indeed.
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