Tuesday, January 5, 2010

APB - Shoot You Down

In the late 1970s/early 1980s there were a handful of British bands that had their roots in the post-punk scene but seemed to take as much inspiration from funk as from punk. APB were one of those bands, Medium Medium were another and I'm sure there were more I can't remember right now.

I'm not a huge funk fan, and this particular subgenre of post-punk isn't one of my favourites. But inevitably it produced a few classic tracks and "Shoot You Down" (this version is from a 1986 New York gig) is definitely one of them. What an amazing bassline.

Iain Slater, incidentally, went out with one of my flatmates when I was living in London. A very nice fella who I had absolutely no idea who he was at the time.

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