The Forgotten Rebels

The Forgotten Rebels are/were a Hamilton punk band who sometimes played in London. These photos are from a couple of gigs in 1982 at the Cedar Lounge and at Fryfogles -- both bars are long since gone.

Mikey DeSadist (the pimply faced wastrel in the photos) was the singer and wrote their tunes .... "Bomb the Boats and Feed the Fish", "Elvis is Dead", "No Beatles Reunion", etc. We often wondered if these outlandish sentiments were in jest or not and we did ask -- the band sometimes stayed with us when they played the Cedar Lounge.

While I can take credit for some of these photos my school chum Neil Farnsworth (who shot our wedding photos) was involved as well. You can find him in a few photos with one of my Canons and a 16mm lens. So he takes credit for some of these photos.

In those days we'd buy 50' rolls of TriX film, wind it onto canisters and then Kate and I would develop it weeks if not months later in our kitchen. 

Some of the negatives in this collection are in awful condition -- dusty, scratched, etc. But they're historically interesting for some of us.

Here's an album of photos and another from a different gig from back in the day.