Angelic Upstarts - The Murder of Liddle Towers

[@GamerOwen]

my dad recommended me this song and I've been obsessed with it ever since , an amazing song and well made lyrics with a pretty relevant meaning even nowadays

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

God bless ❤

[@cosmic2x472]

your dad must be a good man!!! Way to go Pop

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

@@cosmic2x472 🤩🤩🤩

[@DavidHarrison-js3ji]

Find out what a nasty vicious pig towers was before you make a judgement. I was around at the time and know the facts .

[@class2instructor32]

I'm in my 40's & my Dad used to listen to this when I was 7 or 8 , he had seen them a few times. Unfortunately its Still Relevant.

[@llokkee]

This beats the shit out of any of the sorry excuse for music we have the misfortune to have to endure today.. U know what,im just glad I was a part of something so damn fucking good!! Oi Oi Punks n Skins!

[@jasonquigley8166]

I had the honour of meeting Chris who managed these ! What stories he’s got from that era you wouldn’t even believe it. around the globe with all sorts of punk bands what a story the man has ! Still promotes around the north east now what a character

[@llokkee]

@jasonquigley8166 Nice one mate I also had the pleasure of meeting the band years ago in London I used to play in a few punk/skinhead/ska bands when I was a teenager so was heavily involved in the scene. Although I'm from Belfast and lived in Dublin at the time. The scene in the 80s was fantastic Loved every second of it Oi oi!

[@Hardcore4Losers]

The greatest has gone and the greatest has left us. Rest in Power MENSI

[@peterquinnin7446]

One of the best punk singles I've ever heard well done angelic upstarts

[@normanjones7490]

Best one was Doo door doot doot ! Doo did Doo doo! I was their d j. Dodgers ( gud pu b embroidery xx

[@lisaaltavilla4095]

Yeah ! (And we are the people is a good track ,) I used to jump around to this album , with my school mates ,lunch time around mine ! , 👍🎶🎶🎶🎸

[@MartinBlack]

The Upstarts are one of the great underrated bands of British punk rock, I've a lot of respect for Mensi

[@Antinxi]

fuck off knobhead

[@RockNRollrules]

Antinxi Puerto Deal with it, you mummy's skirt.

[@ou4534]

The best next to cocksparrer

[@anttipasti8116]

RIP Mensi😥

[@Boilingfrogg]

Just found out the sad news that mensi passed away 2 days ago.

[@kentvikman1086]

In the light of recent events in the states, this classic hasn't felt as poignant since its day.

[@lisaaltavilla4095]

Love this track , great Riffs , 🎶🎸❤️

[@garydouglass9577]

R.I.P. mate 😢😢 mate and legend. Always live on with these songs ✊🏼✊🏼

[@andyg.9406]

Angelic Upstarts, a genuine British punk band.

[@richardwilson5127]

And they wonder why we hate the police the murdering bastards cos they wear a uniform they think they can do wot they want this government u

[@richardwilson5127]

See wot I mean they wouldnae let me finish wot I wa saying fucking arseholes murdering bastards

[@tom360063]

@@richardwilson5127 I don't believe it.

[@stevemorgan4494]

As a young Skin in the 80's, this track explained loads to me.

[@OldJoeClarke]

Such a great song, also a young skin in the 80's. working on a YTS scheme and bought the vinyl with my crappy wages, happy days, except for the YTS scheme...

[@Jay_the_boss]

Steve Morgan

[@drghostboy8319]

the 80s tail end of the 70s for me, #faroutman

[@kuposceptre]

@@OldJoeClarke Yea them yts schemes where shit lol 28 quid slogging fcking 40+hrs a week for some twat,

[@sarahcrees]

Thank you for uploading the original single version. Awesome.

[@roymeadows1708]

An absolute masterpiece..Probably the greatest punk anthem of all time..

[@ian-sb4xr]

Saw these a few times at the old 29 in s/land one night showaddywaddy were at the empire theatre next door. both finished about the same time they was hell on outside.....the good old days...

[@K4izerr]

R.i.p Mensi, came here to pay tribute, proper legend gone too soon

[@Nomieghirl]

R.I.P. Liddle. 😢 Many thanks to Mensi, for making sure that he wasn't just another statistic! 👍💜💜💜

[@julianastin1651]

Liddle towers was a boxing coach in birtley who bullied the kids he was coaching and would get tanked up pick on weaker people than himself and picked a fight with the police outside the key club in birtley and paid the price karma

[@tom360063]

@@julianastin1651 Exactly. I’m too young to remember him but I’m from Chester/Birtley and everyone in the pubs know what he was like. A total bully who won’t be missed.

[@DavidHarrison-js3ji]

​@@julianastin1651well said he was a drunken thug who finally got what was coming to him .

[@trevorowers44]

and the Tom Robinson Band too!

[@AcuLifeClinic]

Probably for me the best punk song ever. I remember this amazing 7” with an equally good b side. Brilliant!

[@richardwilson5127]

This is punk I was lucky to be born in 62 76 on wards what a decade of music especially the PUNK era never forgotten best years o my life dicky fae the HULLTOON

[@garry226]

I was a Mod when this came out, but I just had to have this . What a great album . The Red the white and the blue !!!!

[@MrWREV]

Still got this single, still great..That guitar solo......

[@DOMSKYTRANCE]

Got this from Small Wonder records on release

[@feldpost58]

Bought this single after seeing the Upstarts playing in Old Eldon Square in Newcastle Upon Tyne way back when. Early punks, lots of police; the Upstarts kicking a pigs head with a police helmet around a scaffolding stage. got the record (b side Police Oppression) from the local HMV shop. Original issue, before Small Wonder etc were involved. I think 500 singles were pressed with PC, and I still have one!

[@JamesJones-bb4bx]

Police oppression..b side middle towers...what I remember

[@peternicklin2693]

mensi, writing from the heart, top man.

[@TheMOOXTER]

I live in Birtley..... Monumental song really!!. I love the blues (music) this is very important in our history. Good tune too!!!!!! Punk is mint.

[@Madadict]

most epic song ever! the best song you will EVER hear.

[@aggyuvf]

Bought this song as a 45 many moons ago still a really powerfull song RIP Liddle

[@mortyderby]

RIP mensie . Sad loss to live music

[@wideernie]

Probably the greatest punk single ever. The conviction in the vocals and fantastic guitar put this right up there.

[@otlseal9159]

Great tune Av still got this on vinyl somewhere The B side, Police Oppression is even better Who killed Liddle

[@andysandel9325]

Still A Excellent Classic Now As It Was On Its First Release Rest In Peace Liddle Towers Never Been Forgotten ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@anthonywalsh7613]

Saw them back in early 80s in Liverpool. 👏🏼👏🏼

[@kennethforbes569]

always good to hear them again seen them in dundee 1978

[@antstead2329]

I commented on this song a couple or so of years back but either way, RIP Mensi.

[@mikemichelson5673]

This goes on and on. Bringing back warriors. This is what they will do.

[@trojanjock30]

Got arrested for wearing the t-shirt back in the day

[@briansheets6004]

Let's hear more!

[@trtr-bc3zl]

I had the liddle towers kill the bill tshirt

[@saint555ful]

@@trtr-bc3zl have you still got the tshirt...Good man yourself..

[@popatyourecords]

got arrested for a word;; my friend back in the day was asked to remove his jacket which had a dead kenedys single title written across the back can you guess,, another friend got nicked for shouting the word abuse about one hundred times at 2 cops, they cuffed his hands behind his back,, and pushed him down a flight of stairs, smashing all his front teeth ye they hated punks and skins

[@ianjones4116]

I got nicked for wearing Anarchy Tampon,,, then for The Cambridge Rapist Tampon. Fuck the police,, I still wore them .

[@caseynevell3629]

I have listened to these for years the best punk 🚀🚀🚀🤯

[@MegaTightMike]

One of the greatest records ever made.

[@rangatang100]

Pure class. Lotta love for the

[@verity617]

A great band, one of South Shields best bands, brilliant!!

[@garry226]

I was also a MOD , when this came out, priceless tune , sad but true story.

[@dereklaidlaw6445]

Magic pure class act canny get bands like this the day

[@robcoghill1676]

Remember buying this single in Percy Street Newcastle, photocopied paper sleeve! Still as amazing today. POLICE KILLED LIDDLE TOWERS!!!

[@shaungreen2009]

The man was straight And for the people you won’t get better then that

[@liannerowell3079]

just fkin wow..45 yr since i heard this!

[@adders42]

Best track they ever did - thanks fer the memories!

[@neiltaylor4639]

Upstarts are amazing saw them in Derby last week just great

[@aggyuvf]

God bless ye still Liddle :( after all these years ye urny forgotten

[@jasonbrighton2917]

Mad times. Violence was everywhere from the old bill to us. I was no angel and took a whack but the law could be awful and this time they went too far. Fair play to the Upstarts, this is their greatest song..

[@markharris4539]

Great fookin song! 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@smart193]

must get in up in the attic i got this vinyl record, great song

[@sinclairjames5117]

Thanks to a mate from Shields, the first punk band I ever saw live - the best...x

[@nopretribrapture2318]

Hence the police are called filth for a Reason! Nice to hear this again.

[@andyg.9406]

Just Fantastic

[@jackharkins1689]

Cheers Mensi. R.I.P

[@dafitz67]

An electrician and a boxer, two of the most honest professions...rest in peace. Its songs like these that keep someone like me so faithful to punk rock long into my career and adulthood. Oi!

[@tom360063]

I take it you’re not from Chester or Birtley. Because everyone I drink with knows what Liddle was like.

[@andysandel9325]

MENSI WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, WILL BE FOREVER REMEMBERED, REST ASSURED WE WILL REMEMBER YOU ✊️

[@Busybee65]

Great song & great band, It was`nt just the North East old bill who were like this in the 70`s, Mate of mine got a pasting in the back of a meat wagon from Thames Valley`s finest in 77, his crime ? He was pissed

[@SpaztallicA]

Mate they're playing at newcastle in September along with loads of other class acts, North east calling!

[@Busybee65]

SpaztallicA Saw them play in Manchester, (moston miners club) last year, and i will be up in Newcastle in September. seen them live, about 20 times over the years. Massive fan of them

[@josullivan8729]

Made the hairs on my arms stand up…..

[@bluemakem459]

The old 29 on a saturday afternoon in Sunderland. Menz and the lads used to come on, and we got to kick a p.i.g.s head around with a rozzers hat on. We were 14........... Happy days....

[@sinclairjames5117]

Wow - the Old 29 - happy days...x

[@xelexpunx]

Descanza en paz mensi marx, una parte de mi adolescencia muere el dia de hoy junto a tu deceso. Angelic upstarts por siempre. 🏴

[@Insaneronald]

Oh my, what a band !

[@atae7185]

I went to see the upstarts as a young punk in the late 70s early 80, (can’t remember when exactly) the room was pitch black, then on came a blue light and Mensi appeared on stage in a coppers uniform, carrying an actual pigs head that he threw in to the crowd and the first song was police oppression! I was shitting myself as all the skinheads went berserk!

[@gordy3714]

Who saw the Liddle Towers documentary on Tyne Tees Television around 1977,1st time I heard swearing on the TV.

[@malcolmlawton9235]

Great band used go to old 29 Sunderland glass all over floor and pigs head flying about happy days

[@alexjimenez9178]

Hope someone covers this in the USA, sadly too relevant in this day and age

[@superpatje]

today a 13 year old kid got killed by the police. Immediately remembered this song............ it still happens, nothing changed..........

[@TheGwimWeaper]

I think at worst he should be doing time, but he's dead!

[@Readey14]

❤

[@scottvomit3]

great song!

[@jakeburns7331]

One of the greatest punk songs ever made.

[@anthonykennedy1392]

Oi oi Mr slf yep totally agree at the edge loved that also

[@pinkydash8543]

A mate of mine got arrested for singing this song walking down Chester le street front Street.

[@BigAndyK]

I got a kicking for singing it in a cell in Torphicen Street Police Station in 1984. Not the brightest thing a drunk Me has done.

[@Happyheart146]

I sing it to them every time they arrest me. The meat wagon rides are getting rougher and rougher. Takes weeks for the bruising to go. ACAC

[@simoncurl4504]

For all injustice. For Lucy ❤

[@izonmusic]

top tune total class

[@RockNRollrules]

Classic Punk tune. My favourite...

[@dextervella]

I would like to dedicate this track to the liers at limehouse police station.

[@antstead2329]

Coppers could be nasty bastards back in the day but so could arseholes, I was one of 'em. It really was a mad time in the 70's into the 80's/90's.

[@supergas3612]

What a disturbed young man i used to be i remember in my teenage years screaming this through police station cell doors drunk and sniffing glue. On my way to dc or yc what a dickhead i was..

[@maartenantipopeclaessen3439]

It would've been an even bigger story if he had a twin brother: "who killed liddle twin towers". Great band, grew up with it. Their live album is a monument of the punk era. Will never be forgotten. Punk rules Ok

[@blondearyanmohawkhairdoski9086]

LOVE OI MUSIC

[@TheWayofWyrd]

In Huddersfield we used to smash the pub up to this tune and the punks back then had loads of scraps with the pigs. Some of the crew had serious history of assaulting police officers. It made them pigs give us a wide berth and they went after easier targets for their oppression.

[@colinaitken3605]

Remember the good old days well when the old bill would dish out a kicking at the drop of a hat. They didn't half squeal when you dished it back to them...

[@eugenespeed]

RIP Mensi

[@seanclark2085]

Rip Mensi .....

[@LeeG777G]

I like the bit where Mensi sings 'Tell he how and tell miaow'. ;-)

[@TS50ER]

For continued listening pleasure I suggest: Partisans: 'Police Story' Action Pact: 'Suicide Bag' AK47: 'The Badge Means You Suck'

[@gillianmcconnachie1327]

RIP Mensi.

[@tapsahtip]

RIP MENSI !

[@jamiecouanis7236]

Fucking loved this back on the day .police need to be told

[@MrBumat]

Mensi RIP

[@nasrinabdia181]

rip mensi

[@unclemort1960]

They started before `Oi` but Sounds journo Garry Bushell (who gave the Oi scene its name/publicity) wrote favourable articles on the band, he once said they were the most important punk since The Clash.I vaguely remember an article he wrote on the AUs in NYC where had to restrain Mensi from fighting with NY cops who had called the band `faggots ` because of their short hair which was considered very gay in NY at the time

[@DavidHarrison-js3ji]

SPG ,our favourite Friday night fun target . Bone heads in transit vans looking for trouble .

[@HINKLEY81]

Since when has Brockley Whins Estate been in Sunderland ?, Boldon Colliery actually, which is in South Tyneside.

[@lennonkennedy4358]

Paul Soulsby nope

[@JakeFath]

R.I.P to a true legend!

[@danielscissorhands]

I didn't kill him. Mind you, I don't have an alibi for that day, but I was only 2 years old.

[@Happyheart146]

I wasn't. I remember.

[@roymeadows1708]

RIP Mensi...x

[@verity617]

I was only 12!!! song, But its a great shame no one ever had to account for his death, a bit like Kevin Nightingale, all Geordies will remember.....I do.....

[@boris1873]

R.I.P. Mensi.

[@melthebell33]

R.I.P Mensi

[@davros59]

Seen them play a few times at the "Old 29" pub in Sunderland. What a pub that was!.....glass carpet and all!! Mensi.....top bloke.....used to get in the roker end at the old Roker Park!

[@jag278]

Fuckin Incredible band.

[@aggyuvf]

God bless ye Mensi

[@davidmcconnell3895]

All life matters ALM