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About the show
The second night of the 50th anniversary celebrations at the 100 Club continues by honouring the legacy of the original 100 Club Punk Festival, bringing together artists whose music helped shape the future of punk and alternative music.
Support for the evening is TV Smith and The Bored Teenagers, performing a special and exclusive Adverts ‘77 set that revisits the sharp songwriting and outsider spirit that made The Adverts one of punk’s most influential bands. TV Smith’s live performances remain celebrated for his intensity, intelligence and emotional honesty, capturing the atmosphere of punk at its most vital.
Headlining the night is John McKay’s Reactor, led by the pioneering guitarist whose innovative playing with Siouxsie and the Banshees helped redefine the possibilities of post-punk guitar music. Atmospheric and hugely influential, McKay’s sound became a blueprint for countless bands that followed.
The evening will be hosted by Marco Pirroni, a member of the original Banshees line-up and a central figure in the early punk and post-punk scene. Throughout the night, he will share memories and stories from a period that transformed British music and culture.
Set against the backdrop of the historic 100 Club, the second night celebrates not only the raw beginnings of punk, but also the creativity, experimentation and influence that continued long after 1976.
Featuring
John McKay’s Reactor
John McKay is an English musician and songwriter who was the first studio guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Siouxsie was clearly the focus of the band, but the sonic dynamo was John McKay, composer of most of the album’s music and hit singles, such as Hong Kong Garden, while simultaneously creating a wholly new guitar sound that was harsh and brittle, yet melodically intoxicating, best articulated by a confounded Steve Albini many years later, “. . . only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs”.
Many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credited John as a major influence, including Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2‘s The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr,and even the two guitarists who followed him into The Banshees – The Cure‘s Robert Smith and Magazine‘s John McGeoch.
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TV Smith
Frontman of seminal punk band 'the Adverts', now performing as a quality solo performer, singing like it was his last hours on earth ever!
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