Mensi, Angelic Upstarts RiP.

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Mensi, Angelic Upstarts RiP.

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Just heard of the death of Mensi Lead Singer with the Angelic Upstarts, another victim of the Fucking Virus, sad news. Lt Kudu.
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He wrote some great songs. RIP - Another sad loss.
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Heard the news last night

Bloody shame

Good band the Upstarts

Had I'm An Upstart on green vinyl

Absolute humdinger of a tune as was Police Oppression
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RIP Mensi, I enjoyed quite a few Upstarts tracks, particularly "Woman In Disguise".
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You'd think that being from near enough the same area that I would have been into the Upstarts in some way or another, but unfortunately not - I thought they were uniformly terrible.

Still, COVID has cheated him out of at least another good decade or so on this planet and nobody deserves that - RIP.
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RIP Mensi good band the Upstarts my mate played bass for them for a while .
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One of punks great bands imo , some bloody good songs . Shame to hear about Mensi .
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RIP indeed

Got to admit The Upstarts have never been on my radar, always thought they were kind of OI! style of punk, which is something I don’t like, but at least of an Anti Fascist variety, which I commend them for.

I’m wondering if they had been gigging a lot? It’s certainly makes you wonder as the guy died of Covid complications, may this have been as a result of playing in small packed venues? Just speculation on my part obviously
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Jake wrote: 11 Dec 2021, 20:44 RIP indeed

Got to admit The Upstarts have never been on my radar, always thought they were kind of OI! style of punk, which is something I don’t like, but at least of an Anti Fascist variety, which I commend them for.

I’m wondering if they had been gigging a lot? It’s certainly makes you wonder as the guy died of Covid complications, may this have been as a result of playing in small packed venues? Just speculation on my part obviously
They were oi style but not oi , predated that by a few years . Oi was just a convenient tag for Gary Bushell to get his own bit of punk history imo , the likes of Sham , Rejects , Slaughter and a fair few being around before Bushell got this idea of punk and skin Street punk . The Upstarts were politically quite outspoken and Mensi has his views and was quite uncompromising , but he always stuck to them . I did like all the bands mentioned and some oi bands too. I also liked a lot of their polar opposites in the anarcho punk bands . I think on the whole I liked pretty much anything punk had to offer , maybe with the exception of The Slits , I never did get that at all .......maybe it was a bit too odd for me .
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Jon the Impaler wrote: 13 Dec 2021, 15:12 I think on the whole I liked pretty much anything punk had to offer , maybe with the exception of The Slits , I never did get that at all .......maybe it was a bit too odd for me .
I'm assuming you drew the line at Skrewdriver as well, right?
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The Upstarts from '83 or so have some tracks you would never guess were the Upstarts. Very different from the raucous 1979 TOTP days.

Mensi was a true man of the people. 'Solidarity' is a powerful track.
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StanInBlack wrote: 13 Dec 2021, 15:55
Jon the Impaler wrote: 13 Dec 2021, 15:12 I think on the whole I liked pretty much anything punk had to offer , maybe with the exception of The Slits , I never did get that at all .......maybe it was a bit too odd for me .
I'm assuming you drew the line at Skrewdriver as well, right?
I never really listened to them , like another of that ilk , Combat 84 ......didn't like their politics . Another I didn't listen to were The Killjoys , just didn't like Kevin Rowland , used to live opposite him and he was an arse .
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