A few months later the Ramones the Ramones played Leeds Poly. A whole bunch of us went along. Me, my brother, Pete, Matt, Tym. We started the evening in the Eldon. A Tetley's pub, like most others in Leeds. Several pints of Tetley Mild got us nicely warmed up for the evenings fun. They might have played just 50 minutes, but they crammed in almost as many songs.
Over the next 10 months I saw most of the punk greats - The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Jam - and culled my record collection. I've never looked back. Never returned to the pretension of progressive rock. And what was the beery accompaniment to all things punk? Mild. Tetley Mild.
Mild: beer for punks.
The arrow marks the spot where the iced Mild was drunk:
surely you mean super hopped, barrel aged, American imperial mild is for punks?
ReplyDeleteVelky Al, er, no. I thought I'd made my point clearly.
ReplyDeleteRon - what on earth is iced Mild? Please don't tell me Mild with ice cubes in it..........
ReplyDeleteOne cannot mention "Leeds" and "rock" in the breath without making me think of The Who's Live At Leeds, recorded live February 14, 1970 at Leeds Uni refectory, then as now a rock haven. (The 40th anniversary of that recording has just past, unheralded as far as I know). The Ramones and other punk groups were heavily indebted to The Who, so it all ties together.
ReplyDeleteI saw the Who in 1996 in West London (the big arena in Earl's Court), when they performed Quadrophenia in toto. The beers I associate with that show are pints of Young's Ordinary and Special in a small pub along one of the big streets northerly from Earl's Court tube, a small place with a fireplace, on the east side of the road.
Gary
Rod, iced Mild is . . . Mild with ice cubes in it.
ReplyDeleteIt was a boiling hot summer and the beer was sitting in a plastic barrel in the kitchen where the temperature was at least 25 C. A couple of ice cubes got the beer down to a reasonable temperature.
For the homebrewers: it was a full mash dark Mild, from a mild malt base, coloured with chocolate malt, OG about 1040, around 4% ABV. Served from a 5 gallon plastic pressure barrel, the type down-market offies sold dodgy sherry from.
By "punks", I assume you mean the people who did to music what geeks are doing to beer.
ReplyDeleteMike, revitalising it?
ReplyDeleteThis was it!
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The Brittania Tap! Really good Young's beer, we're going back 15 years now but it is still going strong, I remember it like yesterday. I came out the west entrance of Earl's Court tube, found Warwick Road, and then turned north past Cromwell Road, on the right side. Wish I was there now.
Gary
Or playing the same three chords faster and louder. I think that analogy works quite well.
ReplyDeleteStill available is Tetetley Mild, in both original and dark forms. The dark one started out in Warrington and was transferred to Leeds when Dallam closed.
ReplyDeleteBarm, you're forgetting the shouting.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you should write about music and beer, I was just watching a DVD of 'Supershow'. It's an impromptu gig featuring Buddy Guy, Roland Kirk, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton filmed in a disused linoleum factory in West London in 1969 in front of an audience of spliffed out hippies and other cool types. I'm not sure where exactly but I was thinking the experience would have been complete if Fullers had set up a temporary bar...
ReplyDeleteJust like drinking/making great beer, punk is a state of mind, not a particular style.
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