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We're back for another leisurely Sunday afternoon of in ya face punk! Doors 2pm £10 ADV / £12 OTD Desperate Measures Formed 1981 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now Based in London, we play punk with a big helping of rock. Think Sex Pistols jamming with Guns N Roses and Iggy & the Stooges. https://www.facebook.com/DesperateMeasuresnz https://www.instagram.com/desperatemeasuresnz https://open.spotify.com/artist/6I32Vd1TBVSbXVTY3ORhTH https://www.youtube.com/@eugenebutcher165 High Rise Reptiles (FKA Seeds of 77) A musical celebration of the roots of punk rock and beyond. One goal, making hard edged music heavily influenced by punk rock and it?s early 80s aftershocks. https://www.facebook.com/seedsof77 https://seedsof77.bandcamp.com https://www.youtube.com/@seedsof7727 T.A.T. (There's Always Time) Female fronted punk/rock band based in Bath playing hard hitting tunes to prick your social conscious. Darkly moody and Bauhaus-esque with Polystyrene-levels of pitch and passion. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1186325972321825 https://www.instagram.com/t.a.ttheresalways https://open.spotify.com/artist/4eA8iJC1tL1XidpgyhJzkc https://www.youtube.com/@drummerattat
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Desperate Measures Biography

There is more than one artist named Desperate Measures:

1. Coming straight outta the Mosh Mansion is Desperate Measures from Maryland. Formed in Summer 2001 from the ashes of Gamewinner and No Justice, they have released a demo and the “It’s On Your Hands” 7”/MCD. Their music has been compared to Side By Side and with good reason. Currently they are writing new songs, playing out, and planning a winter tour.

2. Desperate Measures were a New Zealand answer to pop punk, a few years after the whole Sex Pistols thing, but they were fun and had a few good songs for all the punk posturing. They had a reasonably heavy following in their hometown of Christchurch, or it seemed so at the time. The band featured Eugene Butcher - Vocals (now doing something in multimedia in London where he has lived for 10 years), Eric Vandenhoven - Bass Guitar (now doing Chef things in Auckland, later of Evasive Action, Southern Front, Iceland, Champion Beat), Shane - Guitar (now runs an Auckland recording studio), Greg - Drums. The band managed to record and self release a 4 song EP 1984, as well as a live-to-multitrack set which ended up as the first Failsafe Records release, Wasted Again (a split with Unauthorised). As with many rough punk bands the Measures spawned a number of talented musicians, notably Eric Vandenhoven, whose inventive bass playing went on to encourage and influence many local musicians.

3. The Desperate Measures are an a capella group based at Marlboro College, Marlboro Vermont.
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