Easterhouse - Nineteen Sixty Nine

[@giuseppelabianca7075]

I've been chasing this song for years and years. I couldn't remember who sang it, I couldn't remember the name of the band. Only a few notes and that year resonated with me. And then tonight I finally listened to it again after 30+ years. A rediscovered friend

[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

Born in 1969, and this song was in my head throughout the 1980s. It was the one song that captured our history and our rage. What a powerful alternative to U2

[@infjard]

Derek Jarman is a spectacular artist.

[@whangie1]

Great band. Should have been recognised more than they were.

[@alexZZGuitar6447]

Great stuff really like the guitar playing too

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

great band still listen ti them now , strange name though , Easter house is a really grim part o Glasgow an ah mean grim folks , aye !

[@Canalboyable]

I bought the 12" of Whistling In The Dark in 1986. Great band, much better albeit less productive than another Irish Band I can think of.

[@mrnosebear7406]

Didn't Easterhouse come from near Manchester?

[@Canalboyable]

Yes; you're right; they were formed in Stretford. It can't have been a lot of fun growing up in the North of England in the seventies / eighties. They remind me a lot of The Chameleons.

[@alexmarcheschi]

Grandissimo pezzo.

[@Eamonnceannt]

Classic.

[@TheJoynesy]

Thanks again for this!

[@davesullivan4426]

Peter vanden on Bass is my cousin.

[@LongsightBlues]

Proper Manc Tory haters, loved them, shame about the dodgy VCR quality

[@LondonCelticPunks]

and Labour.

[@flachi32]

Proper militant bunch I wonder if they supported Hatton's behaviour in Liverpool mid 1980s

[@Frtbrffrtbrf]

Probably not, the RCP were intensely sectarian

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

ah did , Kinock was a traitor , aye !

[@pinkitypink6246]

@@Frtbrffrtbrf right bunch of weirdos looking for easy prey.

[@sayurivampire9484]

Who happened to the members of the band?

[@bobdylanger3022]

why did they call themselves easterhouse?

[@synappticuser5669]

Named after a socially deprived but rebellious housing estate in the East End of Glasgow? I was born and bred there. It had a reputation for violence in the 60's and 70's which followed me wherever I worked. Naw, cannae be....McIntyre.

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

@@synappticuser5669 aye !

[@synappticuser5669]

@@thomasw.glasgow7449 Pleased to make your aquantance Thomas. There is definitely something in these socially "deprived" areas like Easterhouse, Drumchapel and Castlemilk which I think exposed the thin veneer beneath the Glasgow personality which is basically "don't take shit,". Where formal education moulds you to conform to what 'society' needs it did nothing for me. We looked at "society", we measured "society" and we found "society" wanting. We shouldn't have been judged on postcodes. Society betrayed us and our parents who arrived in these places so full of hope. I'm proud of where I was born and bred and despite the discrimination I won't hold back when asked where I come from - Easterhouse.

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

@@synappticuser5669 well said ma friend ah totally agree wi yi , aye ! P S ah prefer Tam : )