Mensi of The Upstarts - RIP



Cheesy Feet said:
Doesn’t matter mate..you can still get it.
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Had both jabs and still had covid. Just heard about this an hour ago. A relative was a promoter for toy dolls and angelic upstarts. I met olga a few times and mensi, pete zulu etc. Police Oppression still relevant now as well as the anti racism and fuck EDL stance. RIP MENSI
 
jcrossan said:
Where does the time go.

.saw them play their first gig in Jarrow....was working at the Shields Gazette's Jarrow office and got a call from their manager..Keith Bell, 'inviting' me to come and review them. Anyone who knew Bell, back in those days, can understand why i went. Suppose it must have been late 76 early 77...

(Oh and they were great, of course)
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Jarrow Civic Hall ?
 
Bert lee said:
Aye O2 got hit with bottle cos he had his lads top on, offered whoever done it to come on stage to sort it out , but there were no takers, massive lads fan and huge character RIP
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Aye, was there that night, shite behaviour. Bad cut by all accounts, came back out for a while but had to go off.
 
king of the road said:
Can’t remember that, was Bushell always a right wing prick? Intelligent bloke but sold out writing shit for The Sun.
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He was a half decent music writer to be fair - took the piss mercilessly out of Mensi and did the same with the Cockney Rejects. He was the early champion of Oi as a sub genre of Punk and was responsible for a few compilation albums promoting it which always prominently featured the Upstarts

A lot of journos used the music press as a springboard to the Nationals in those days - Parsons, Burchill, Baker - Bushell just went in a different direction as not many went to the right wing press like he did
 
Sam Handwich said:
Mensi was well in with WHU fans way before 82. I personally saw him in the Roker End with the West Ham boys around 1980. So I can't imagine him chasing them in 82.
In fact, there's quite a few of the old timers who wouldn't give him the time of day because of his alliance's with WHU.
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Might have been Arsenal then
 
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EcosseMackem said:
He was a half decent music writer to be fair - took the piss mercilessly out of Mensi and did the same with the Cockney Rejects. He was the early champion of Oi as a sub genre of Punk and was responsible for a few compilation albums promoting it which always prominently featured the Upstarts

A lot of journos used the music press as a springboard to the Nationals in those days - Parsons, Burchill, Baker - Bushell just went in a different direction as not many went to the right wing press like he did
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Paul Morley, Charles Shaa-Murray (sp?) and Danny Baker all around the same vintage as well.
 
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