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Suicide
As the British punk scene reached a nihilistic, violent nadir in 1978, The Clash
took unknown, New York, experimental, synth rock pioneers Suicide with them on
tour in the north of England. It didn't go down well. They were spat at,
arrested and beaten up by raging gangs of skinheads. One time a bottle missed
front man Alan Vega by inches. Legend has it, he picked the bottle up and
smashed it over his own head in defiance. "Vega was one of the bravest men I've
ever seen on stage," said Joe Strummer, "no-one in England had ever seen
anything like Suicide." Originally formed by Veg...
