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Keeping in Touch with Old New Wave Friends

PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:22 pm
by Quite Life
Since the New Wave(NW) scene has long gone away, do you guys still keep in touch with your old new wake/punk rock friends from way back when during the new wave days when you where between 14-21 these days some 20 years later? Do you even run into old NW friends from time to time? Are there old NW friends that you absolutly miss and some that you care not to see again?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:41 am
by nowhere girl
Yes, I still keep in touch with my best friend from the new wave scene. We saw Duran Duran, the Fixx, the Cure, and so many other bands back then. We are both married now, and I have kids, so it is harder to get out to concerts anymore. She has no kids

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:58 am
by phillyidol
I still have one new wave time freind. We met at spit and then someone at 007 said they had a freind I should meet. Who turns around? Same girl. I had an instant crush on her but unfortunatly we became "FREINDS" and nothing romantic ever happened. I staye

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:46 am
by ExRat
My best friend from when I was seventeen is still my very best friend and we talk on the phone once a day and see each other several times a week. We were both sort of outcasts even in the punk scene - neither of us slavishly emulated everyone else or fel

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:27 am
by Ollie Stench
I've had the same best friend since I was 6. That's 30 years now. We both got into the New Wave scene in about 1979, 1980. Round about 1984 I was heavily involved with the punk scene and he had gotten into the early industrial scene. He's more of a bro

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:53 pm
by EchoBeachBunnyBoy
I met my best new wave friend while working my first job at a local supermarket in 1984. I had on an "Echo & The Bunnymen" shirt & that was what got us first talking. In fact, SHE was the one who gave me the nickname ECHOBEACHBUNNYBOY back in 84, because

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:28 pm
by phillyidol
Hey echo, did you used to live on L.I.? I see you went to spit.

I met my best freind there(also a girl) and we are still close to this day. Small world![:D]

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:44 pm
by EchoBeachBunnyBoy
No, philly- the SPIT I'm talking about was a punk/new wave Boston nightclub from 1979-1988. It's now called AXIS, located right behind Fenway Park.

Never knew there was another club called Spit in L.I.[:0]
I'm assuming that it too has either closed, o

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:13 am
by marie3
[quote]Originally posted by EchoBeachBunnyBoy
[br]No, philly- the SPIT I'm talking about was a punk/new wave Boston nightclub from 1

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:37 am
by phillyidol
Hey Marie3, if I remember right, Reds was across from spit. Do you know whats there? Did you ever go to spit on a Saturday? I made that mistake. I was always there on friday when it was spit. Then one day I went when it was uncle sams. I didn't recognise

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:57 am
by marie3
Hi Phillyidol,
Reds is still there as a club but not called Reds. It has been so many different names over the years. Last I heard it still had a new wave night on Fridays.
Saturday nights at Spit were not good. I actually liked Wednesday nights be

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:14 am
by phillyidol
Marie, I love talking(sorta) to you! This is so funny. We are so much alike. I have 2 kids now and my idea of a saturday night is to be left alone! I remember I was working 2 jobs. I would go to 007 on thursday night. Stay till 3, drive home to brooklyn,

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:25 am
by marie3
Likewise Phillyidol, I like hearing from you to. Isn't it amazing what we could do then?? I always say we should live our lives backwords. That way would we appriciate things so much more! I don't remember where Thrush was but I do remember it. God, th

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 1:16 pm
by phillyidol
Thats so funny. I have a 5 year old girl and a 2 year old girl. They both love to sing. In fact I burned them a cd for the car. It has songs that are sung by female artists. They love it. My older one likes all types of music. She sings to these up tempo

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:36 pm
by marie3
Not to get off the subject, my daughter is 9 now but used to LOVE the powerpuff girls and I had a powerpuff cd from the t.v. show and wwe use to listen to it all the time in the car! I a litte embarassed to say but it was good! It actually had a new wav