CRASH? BANG! WALLOP£

Pronounced: '/Puh-nk/

Function: Noun (amirite?)

So for this episode of the show we wanted to get one of my favorite bands, Pre, to go bowling with Scotch egg. Appearing on TV and earning lots of money are the sorts of things Old punk bands used to do all the time. Bowling was fun although unfortunately Scotch egg couldn't show up. As our palms were crossed with silver (in return for five thousand words from the band) we took five pictures with a Sony t-5 instead and hoped we could call it even (pics related, they're from the shoot)

Even though the feature was the first DP TV recording and of course very important I was secretly hoping the guys would start being assholes and fuck everything up. Hey, it's punk! The guys were really cool though, even when people started massively taking the piss with the 'free drinks' tab (always a bad idea) all we had to do was bring it up politely with Kev who covered his and the bands extra drinks just like that. It's strange how the scuzziest, punkiest, filth bands are always the coolest and most considerate people and it's the 'bleached-teeth and stylist-on-call pop-wannabe's' who end up being the biggest meanies.


The band were so colourful and everything was so manic I felt like we were on an MTV set from back at the tail end of the 90's, just before the everything went to total, total shit.

Skinny jeans and bowling shoes look ridiculous but are just ridiculous enough to maybe catch on with the Hoxton-kids and start a whole new cult of wearing-bowling-shoes-even-if-you're-not-going-bowling. The fashion industry is so in need of a new 'big thing' that if we don't force something soon people like Carrie Mundane could end up being in charge again (arg). Ideas on the back of a postcard - stat!

Spending time with the guys and Akiko or 'Keex' as I am now allowed to call her (you can't, you weren't given permission) was a lifelong dream fulfilled. J had a really cool t-shirt on, he had ripped the sleeves off and it had 'Fuck you up and get high' printed across the back.

Words: His name is Robert Paulson

Photography: Shorrn x

This program was for Don't Paniv TV and appears on their site.