If you were smoking I would put you out
If I knew I wouldn’t be in doubt
No smoke without fire
No one to admire
My problem – my solution
Author: shaun tenzenmen
Australasian DIY music specialist and practising poet, amongst other things
Poems on this day – 28th July 1988
Sandcastles
Watch the seas roll and fall
Ancient mariner’s screaming call
Something built that falls apart
Ending something which didn’t start
Today’s sandcastles, tomorrow’s memories
Hooded Justice
Can you compete against crime
Without turning into a criminal?
Can you stand by, all the time
Watching others destroy it all?
Who watches the watchmen?
Turquoise
Colours of your holiday paradise
Beautiful seas that fall and rise
See something that looks real nice
Have it for half the price
Buy it as your Turkish Delight
You know it’s gotta be right
Give someone a nice surprise
You know these Turks are wise
Coincidence
Picked up a bible the other day
Someone just told me a story
Just seemed the same
Had a friend who went away
Said I’ve heard it before
Just another game
Difference
Sometimes the lines are drawn
Between dusk and dawm
Between reality and fantasy
Between truth and lies
Between earth and skies
The difference is
No one cares
And someone cares
Wacko Jacko – 22nd July 1988
Ooo! You set my hair on fire
Dancing like a real live wire
Moonwalking across this stage you’ve set
I reckon the people deserve what they get
Maybe Mike is smarter than you thought
Think of all the records you’ve bought
And surely it is you who is mad
Everyone knows a good boy is sometimes BAD
Poems on this day – 18th July 1988
Get Fit
Pump that iron
Watch your muscles grow
Pump that iron
Keep up the flow
Pump it hard
Eat ten salads a day
Pump it hard
Get fit straight away
Walking across the dunes
Ten girls on each arm
More muscles than brains
Never did you any harm
In Love Again
I said next time it wouldn’t happen
I wouldn’t make that mistake twice
Oh shit, I’ve fallen in love again
What the hell, it feels so nice
Sects
Instinct – just insects
Bugs – being rejects
Seeing something bad
A broken toy – so sad
Seclusion – mind reflects
Illusion? Curiosity inspects
Seeing something bad
Sects mad, sects mad
Causing A Scene – 15th July 1988
This could be the chance of a lifetime
But the feelings in our hearts just don’t seem to rhyme
Too much hypocrisy, not enough respect
We’re all individuals, it’s that we seem to forget
How can we push against the tide
When we’re preoccupied with pride?
Don’t you think it’s time we really tried
And put our self-righteousness aside
Too many people are just too content
To put time aside and try to prevent
The feelings that are in their hearts
That keeps you and me apart
Why do we idly threat and pass that cold stare
Isn’t it time that we were all aware
All these different sects just have to be
On the whole, we could all agree
All I’m trying to do is cause a scene
Bringing reality into my dream
Inducing energy into the core
Making it even better than it was before
Poles – 10th July 1988
You know Polo’s are just full of holes
Shoes are shit if they haven’t got soles
Death comes for whom the bell tolls
But where do pole vaulters keep their poles?
Culture Shock, Hate That Smile, Corporate Grave – West Indian Club, Southampton, Hampshire, UK – 29th June 1988
From the STE Collective Facebook page:
S.T.E. 1! CULTURE SHOCK/HATE THAT SMILE/CORPORATE GRAVE – Wed 29 June 1988 – Southampton West Indian Club.
Kent Jolly who was an American woman living in the U.K. was booking a CULTURE SHOCK tour & contacted me (Rich) about a Southampton gig. A load of us had a meeting at the Joiners & put some money into a kitty. Paul Jay came up with the S.T.E. (Southampton, Totton & Eastleigh) Collective name simply based on the places where we lived. This might have been HATE THAT SMILE’s 1st gig – they were ex ATROX & old friends from Dorset (Wimborne, Dorchester & Wareham). This was definitely CORPORATE GRAVE’s first gig with Rik Godfrey on bass after Bren left. I made the flyer which was a bastardisation of a BRIGANDAGE poster with the pics from a CULTURE SHOCK fanzine interview I think. Beforehand we were really worried that no one would turn up but over 200 did. Bing at the WI warned us prior to the gig about people smoking drugs at the gig, which was ironic as afterwards when we went to pay him the member’s room was thick with smoke.
Paul Chambers: Yep, HTS 1st gig, I broke my A sting on the 1st note of the 1st song and replaced it in the dark with a D.
27th Jan 2024 – I reckon this picture must be from the first Hate That Smile gig because I actually don’t even remember Rich Waitland ever playing live with us so I think perhaps this would be our first show and that he bowed out soon after. Looks like we managed to get a good crowd of two people up and dancing, that being juggling Rut on the right.
Golden Oldies – 28th June 1988
You laugh at your boss
When he winces at the radio
You think he’s just so old
Cos he enjoys the golden oldies show
One day, you too will be old
And your kids will laugh at you
And when you hear the golden oldies
Will you be able to laugh too?
Parents – 27th June 1988
Got to be in by ten o’clock
Say you’re prayers before you go to bed
Daddy will come and tuck you in
Eighteen years old without a thought in her head
Wash your hands before you eat
What’s he doing in your room?
I don’t like the look in his eyes
You’ll have to finish with him and soon
Parents – who’d have them?
Worship – 23rd June 1988
A woman’s body is to be worshipped
Cos her mind is nothing but confusion
If a girl is sensible and sexual
It’s probably just an illusion
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