Since being 16-years-old, I've spent my life either in bands or working on my own music (with others), most recently releasing albums as either Black September or Black Sedan.
Untermensch
Formed in the gritty Northern industrial wasteland of Rochdale, Untermensch were the archetypal voice of intelligent, creative youth who knew exploitation, subjugation, marginalisation and a bent Tory Government when they saw one.
As those at a decaying society's margins were scooped together in rotting high-rise cesspools and left to fend for/destroy themselves, they felt first-hand the tightening fist of Thatcherism - and the reciprocal cold thud of an angry Doc Martin in the spuds.
As the song says - "This is 1982. This is sick" Indeed, Untermensch were archytypal angry young men themselves. In a bleak world of mass unemployment, simmering rebellion, nuclear threat and social breakdown, they were against everything, everywhere all the time. In a scary, difficult age, it was a good place to be.