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Closedown - Live at The Cliff - 28.12.85
Closedown + Armless Teddies - Live at The Cliff - 28.12.85
...The Story...

Closedown - Live at The Cliff - 28.12.85 - Photograph courtesy of The Johnny Anderson ArchiveClosedown were from Southend, and existed between 1984 -1985, and consisted of Wayne Stallard (Johnny Anderson), Tony Quinn, Oz, Gary Lewis, Jo Doors, Rick Prevost (sp), Blaine Phillips and with Pigeon from the Armless Teddies helping out at times. Speaking to Johnny Anderson in 2005, he said: "We did a few gigs but the most memorable was Saturday 28-12-1985 above the Cliff pub with the Armless Teddies. As my book puts it Steve, it was really the last time we were all together as punx. From that night on it all started to fizzle."

During their time together, the band managed to write quite a lot of original material, including such songs as 'In For The Kill' and 'Twentieth Century Vision'. Unfortunately they never made it into a recording studio, although a cassette is known to exist of the aforementioned Cliff gig.

Closedown - Live at The Cliff - 28.12.85 - Photograph courtesy of The Johnny Anderson ArchiveSpeaking to Johnny about what became of the various Closedown members though, he said: "Closedown later became Threshold and I was not part of that. Within a few years Tony traveled around the UK and later settled in London. Jo was in Southend in the 80's but moved away and I have no idea where. Gary Lewis did various things musically but geographically I don't know where he went. Blaine traveled to many parts of the world and is now in Southend. Oz died in a fire in London many years ago. Pigeon died on Friday November 10th 1995 in Southend, Essex. I left the UK on Sunday 12th of July 1987 and traveled the world for ten years, hitchhiking over 64,000 miles through 15 countries. I now reside in Arizona, U.S.A. and after 15 years I completed my book which is on line as an e-book. The Southend punk scene is part of that book also.'

Links to Johnny's e-book and web site can be found on the links page of this site.

 

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