Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Skinhead Hamlet is precisely what it sounds like: a telling of the classic tale transported into the idiom of British skinhead punk rockers of the late 1970s. The play opens with Hamlet (Dean Norris) spray painting the misspelled setting--"DENMAK"--on the wall. This Hamlet spends his time fighting, swilling beer and watching television, so, apropos of his offspring's habits, the Ghost (John Bottoms) grabs his attention by pre-empting an episode of Wheel of Fortune...
...came in the form of the "Hate Your Friends" show, headlined by Boston's Lemonheads and named after their forthcoming LP on Taang Records. The three bands featured here were certainly a mix-and-match assortment--jangly pop, metalloid hardcore and melodic punk all sharing time--but this juxtaposition proved to be the concert's strength. Between the three bands, there was something for all tastes...
Most of the songs on Hate mix pop and punk, sometimes inclining towards the sweet strains of the former, sometimes bashing around in the latter. And despite some obvious influences, everything from X to the Pagans to Raw Power, Lemonheads manage to breathe new life and youthful enthusiasm into some very recognizable forms...
From the Blake Babies' "quirky pop" music to the Bullet LaVolta's "melodic punk metal" and the Lemonheads' "melodic punk," the night was "a rousing success," said Clay B. Tarver '88, who plays guitar for Bullet LaVolta...
Jesse W. Peretz '90 started the one-year-old Lemonheads with friends he met in high school in Boston. The bass-playing Peretz said that, while 1977-78 British punk music has influenced his style, the band is turning more...