Macc Lads - News Broadcast

[@lynseyjones3376]

I met a couple of them, the one that died lived near me and was very quiet , and well spoken middle class . muttley the lead singer seemed like a gentle sweetie , it was all a hilarious act which gave them a fun way of life for a while , and the songs piss takes of course but God sooo funny

[@Pbirv]

There should be a movie made about the Macc Lads.

[@meganoikz]

@BestCanKeanRob2 They did for Anvil, and it was a cult docu.

[@danielcharlton5159]

im from macc, They are class

[@numba2bvi]

I'm.from the states & they were one of the first bands from UK I F* love!

[@danielcharlton5159]

@Eliza Coleman sorry im not sure

[@danielcharlton5159]

@Eliza Coleman I was only born in 1985 so was still a relatively young pup in terms of Macc lads years but have just sort of become more famliar with them over the last decade or so learning my herotage as a macclesfield degenerate. Love them all the same.

[@numba2bvi]

From the states & heard these guys in ‘92 when I was sixteen . Love em!!!

[@miketaylor74]

you will never see a better band , clever , talented and a complete piss take. Still love it - they entertained and found there niche ! Long live the lads .

[@salomey5]

Never had the chance to see them live, but I find their songs absolutely hilarious... And I'm a woman. Gotta laugh at oneself sometimes!

[@sam1983fish]

I'm from Macclesfield,Ian Curtis and Muttley Mclad, brilliant

[@juveale29]

The most honest band since the Pistols. Viz summed up as a band. No room for them in these P.C. times...

[@kirkmunro8807]

juveale29 finally someone who agrees with me

[@rc5759]

I'm a total bleeding-heart liberal but, in the eighties, that meant joining picket lines and gobbing on Tories. Getting offended by just about anything was for blue-rinse cemetery-dodgers on the South coast, not lefties. I think these lads are the best thing since a pie between sliced bread - and so does me splitarse, Fluffy Pup.

[@D1MCV]

I bought the "Beer and sex and chips and gravy" album when it was first released and fell in love with them.....PS I'm a cop from Scotland......

[@jayrichardson2332]

Best band ever fucking love em

[@johnnyechoecho]

They were the best bloody thing that ever came outta the North ! Where are they now when we need them more than ever??

[@Survivethejive]

it wasnt the swearing that got them banned. it was just the fact they were pure english jokers

[@Amandapwbean]

we luuuuuuuuuuuurve the Macc lads , and you could get more macc than us! They are full on petes chippy pie and chips with graaaaaavy! Bring em back .........Up yours Altrincham!!

[@hopeyxxx]

i wasn't alive then!!! look at the shops!!! wow......i love macc too!!!

[@captstephen]

I did sound for this band a couple of times, in the Greyhound in the Fulham Palace Road, London, Not only were they a fantastic act, they sounded good, great musicians, great prescence on stage !, and they gave 100%. A cross between Chas N DAve, VIZ, and the Sex Pistols !!! Why NOt ? Off stage, nice Lads, all the best fellas !!!

[@TheChooch1964]

Seen the Macc lads 4 times , been to bears head , only wish i knew these guys yrs ago ...

[@danswon]

i like that their singer is actually quite posh in his speaking voice

[@madscally1]

a band before their time. need a new album guys, missing you loads :)

[@mathewbayley]

Thats Quality. you get to see some old video footage of macclesfield. Oh and i think the Macc Lads are great and as they point out in the video, you hear swaring everywere.

[@andyott1]

i love the macc lads seen them in portsmouth in the 90s fantastic ,they make me laugh i have got lots of friends into them to. some of the song are really clever

[@csparrer07]

EXCELLENT band! love every song ever made!

[@stashyjon]

Some people have no sence of humour, I love the Macc Lads

[@jakamneziak]

the macc lads were one of the few bands with a sense of humour. Music nowadays is contrived, humourless and banal. The macc lads, judge dread and bad manners all had humour about them. Now what do we have?.......*tumbleweed*

[@domhunt]

eh up were the Macc lads!REUNION!CMON LADS!!

[@Hellwyck]

there is, this year.

[@truthsearcher596]

Oh please take me back to those times 🙏🍻.

[@shootingstar666666]

I'm gutted i missed em in Preston back in the day being too young to attend. My dad went and said it was awesome. Would love to see a reunion tour and i'm sure it would be massive! 'Depends on what mind ya got'

[@DJScoots71]

You think you hate media enough, you don't! Macc Lads rocked

[@antinowhereman]

They should tour in the US....Macc Lads are stictly just a good punk rock band...love it

[@sintaufai]

Happy happy days ... seen em loadsa times mates band (slopdosh bobbar and ivan crump) supported em ...some of the best yrs of my life ,dont fear the sweeper and apprentice dentist still amongst my fav all time tracks along with budgie bill and dobermanns are puffs (slopdosh)... Russ

[@Prattincole]

"Pertinent points about society" - priceless!

[@CountingHouse]

The kid at 2:27 is the most sensible punter they talked to.

[@jamesmooney949]

I can't wait to see them in the states in a few months

[@timwether]

These gentlemen are artists, setting in song a portrait of an entire way of life that's rapidly being swept away by the tide of political correctness (and perhaps it's just as well). It isn't a laudable (posh word for good) way of life, but thousands of us grew up that way and it deserves to be commemorated and no one does it better than the lads. Dickens brought us Victorian England the way it really was and Muttley brings us late twentieth century northern England as it really was.

[@reelhausmuzik]

Wow, I didn't expect Mutley to be so well spoken, sounds like quite an intelligent guy

[@Simon72Victoria]

just got my compilation on the old ipod. Regardless of anything else - lyrics are just very very funny..

[@SP-mp9yi]

Saw em live in Limit Sheffield top night.

[@snow24372]

Failure with girls at 2:12

[@potter1s]

Me and us mates used to mimic them, I was vocals, not very good mind, being 18 my voice was nowhere near as rough as Mutley's. Favourite song? Fluffy Pup. Only time I've sang in front of (about a dozen) people - wouldn't do it again. Our drummer was good though.

[@isopdt]

Beer Beer Beer we want more Beer all the lads and cheering the fucking beer in .... NOW!!!

[@potter1s]

The newcaster is trying really hard not to piss himself laughing. Thats the effect this band had on most adolesent boys up and down the land.

[@deanmoncaster]

Love em!

[@scannaunderscore1]

Best band ever

[@majorsnag]

That was one funny day..riots outside..fuckin' mental inside, i was upstairs hangin' over the balcony chuckin' me plastic pint pots..haha

[@ellieash]

Agreed. ONE MORE TOUR!!!!!!

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Banned everywhere except the thatched house in stockport! Where up until it closed in 2010 there was even a tribute band to them called imaginitively "the thached lads!"

[@d2vmusic]

Fuck me, 2010 - was it really that long ago?

[@charmharmany4143]

@seaeagle47 met sum mates in wakey one day dec 87, one singing sum of there songs. turns out they playin leeds that nite. I went and quite a punk crowd. saw em mid 88 and suddenly full of football fans. went to notts to study(?) 88 and saw em at rock city. AWESOME. went to Manchester a few days later aswell. also saw em rock city in 90? one of the best ever!!! An iconic band and a shame the establishment closed ranks against em.

[@GriefTourist]

they should have done what fellow macc resident ian curtis did

[@stephenwalker3745]

Quality these guys

[@poyntonbass]

Now That's another example why change is not good!

[@swaycc]

Saw the band live in Brum back in the early 90s. Great concert in stiffling heat. Crowd was mixture of students, national front nutters..and me! Funniest thing was the support act; a guy called "Eddie Shit" who dressed in a pink jump suit and whose guitar squirted milk (I hope) into the crowd. He ended up covered in gob and bag burns - like everyone else as the ceiling was so low the ohlegn hit the roof and dripped down! All this very ironic as no one bats an eye at rude lyrics these days!

[@guidadiehl9176]

10 years on since this comment, and now people are losing their minds over rude lyrics and trying to ban everything in sight.

[@hoppinonabronzeleg]

they were fucking ace. Just the song feed your face was a bit tight. But it was tongue in cheek. Still could get rowdy at gigs, Muttley used to wind up the audiences, and tell foul jokes. Very very entertaining. Time for another tour methinks

[@stevo1878efc]

Too right mate, only problem is I don't think any venue/council would allow them to play in this PC age, they'd be too shit scared! They were barred enough times in the 80's + 90's!!!

[@leeparker5120]

Wouldn't it be great if we saw the beater on X factor.

[@williambowman5197]

Eggs fuckter?

[@seistan]

Hail Mutley - come on lads one more tour!

[@heftyalan1152]

Never barred from Shelley's which is where I saw them

[@crunterstamps]

Keep on Offending Macc Lads.I went to Kings School as well,as did Ian Curtis and John Mayall...My Dad was a Methodist minister and I write Filthy songs as well!

[@williambowman5197]

Yes, Shirtenly unusual oorlrite!

[@reggiebhorrorbaker1650]

Lov the macc lads

[@bollockowithalob]

Is the chap in sunglasses the singer on Failure with Girls?

[@davortex]

yep :D join the macc lads group everyone!

[@Redline748]

i love them

[@LukeRD95]

mutley is a chairman of a football club called mary dendy!

[@OrbvsTomarvm]

hahaha i punched the c.vnt out of one of them in newcastle when he tried to give it the bigun 😂

[@PhilipGwilliam]

legends 🏆

[@YourBandVideo]

It just so happens that there is an outfit just starting out in Sheffield as a Macc Lads Tribute band. They're called the Macc Dads. I'll post more when I know more :)

[@bunnypunk]

Thanks for putting this up; what year is it from? I remember seeing the Macc Lads in the early '80's at 'Uddersfirld poly and they were brilliant!

[@albertjenkins2615]

@reelhausmuzik Of course he is! Someone unintelligent could never be as funny as the Lads. They were genius.

[@CountingHouse]

You must be who Burnistoun modeled the Quality Polis' on....

[@aerotallica]

fucking too right mate were not moving anywere i now this is a old comment but i thought it was great MACC LADS FOREVER YEEEEEEAAAAAH

[@albertjenkins2615]

@aimdrummer Right on my southern friend, right fucking on!!

[@33Riff-Raff]

Very funny, the maccs were the best of a bad time.....happy days

[@razelma]

Time for a "Reunion Tour" i reckon

[@Eman_Puedama]

Geoffrey Dickinson: "Surely it must be illegal". Yeah, if you don't like something, make a law against it - makes a lot of sense.

[@razelma]

legend

[@sparky325]

it would be great if macc lads did one last gig at there local pub "nags head" think how packed it would be if they played there lol :P

[@pancakegeorge]

im a woman (pancake geos mother) i love the macc lads have done for 20 years yes, its good to laugh at oneself occasionally!! more than occasionally... did they make ANY money>? and where are they now???!!!! A Boddingtons rehab clinic or syphilitic and crazy?!

[@Eman_Puedama]

Correction: Dickens not Dickinson, well least I got the Dick bit right.

[@USDTHrONE2007]

and oneday i hope they will be the most infulencial band of a generatiion because they say whats going on without fucking about

[@VANHELSING433]

I WONDER WHAT THE TWO MPS WERE UP TO.

[@NigelJTaxis]

Macclesfield is missing the Macc Lads, lets have a reunion

[@tbc87]

You do all know this video is 10+ years old now don't don't you?

[@albertjenkins2615]

@madmanhaz Yep Ian wasn't the only genius from Macc! :)

[@GriefTourist]

Ian Curtis would've fitted into this band.

[@BlueDemon77]

Fair call... But I still don't understand why it should matter how they were supported. OR whether it was just a bit of a laugh for them while they were young. How many other small bands quit after a few years and go into regular work/careers? What do they do now as 'pre destined professional careers'?

[@naomihomfray3112]

Speaking as a woman I love the Macc Lads. Don't find thier songs offensive at all. My kids have been raised listening to them. I believe they were formed to show how the younger blokes etc viewed women/gays etc at the time. As a piss take basically but as always people took them seriously.

[@TheGrenfellRatio]

Crowdfund a movie

[@stevo1878efc]

The Lads have probably mellowed from the 80's/90's ,but one last tour now would be fucking awesome - just to piss the PC brigade off and show up the shite that is Scouting for Girls,Keane..etc

[@notanfningain]

best fucking band ever, they told it like it actually was and not the fucking fairytale shit most other bands feed you. Here's to the freedom of speech our grandfathers fought for.

[@lecrapauddejerri9]

anyone know what muttley's Sun t shirt says?

[@nmacog]

EH UP !!!! 'KIN MACC LADS ON KZbin !!! WHATEVER NEXT !!! HAHAHA - ACE !!!!!!!!!

[@crass1981]

ahahahaha muttley looks stoned! lol. Macc Lads are shit hot. I listen to em everyday get the withdrawl simptomsif i dont lol.

[@easylistening77]

the last good punk band out of england! i grew up on bands like the clash, the pistols, the ruts, the damned and the macc lads bested all of them by being not only talented but really fucking funny! we had a miserable time getting their records in the states as they'd been banned!

[@adebat13]

best band i never did see cos of em being banned from Rock and Blues at Pentrich

[@deanmoncaster]

"all their records sound the same.... And they're rooood!!"

[@albertjenkins2615]

@pisartist They're even worse now, what with political correctness. Now I think of it, maybe that's why the Lads haven't reformed! And now I think of it, that's why they need to reform right now. British society needs the Macc Lads more than ever!

[@TheKilnman]

bladman99.i saw the interview and was not surprised that muttley going by his eye expressions,he seemed really uncomfortable about being interviewed.I have always found the music very tongue in cheek and not to be taken seriously,unfortunately having been in the punk scene people did take it seriously because they were too political (sad!),life is too short ok most of the songs were offensive to women,but they had songs when the tables were turned too,i am the wife of the kilnman,Kilnman

[@aidensnacklad4178]

sweaty betty

[@TheTrueKailash]

you used t'bring us flowers, i said shut your fuckin GRID!

[@RECKANOWHERE]

I love em

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Incidently when's this report from?