LOUDER THAN WAR
Louder Than War is a music and culture website focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews, and features. The site is an editorially independent publication that was started by journalist John Robb in 2010 and is now run by a team of other journalists with a worldwide team of freelancers. The site is built around live reviews, album reviews and exclusive in-depth interviews with many key musicians including Mick Jones, Kurt Cobain, John Lydon, Peter Hook, The Stranglers, The Charlatans, The Damned, and The Happy Mondays. In 2012, Louder Than War launched a record label to promote and champion lesser known bands and artists. (More from Wikipedia)
In one of the sources for this post, the online magazine Louder than War, Paul Fischer describes the music by Lightning Strike as “an incendiary mix of Clash/B.A.D. and the Beastie Boys”. Big Audio Dynamite is the original punk/rap band, formed by Mick Jones in 1984 after he was thrown out of the Clash the year before. Most, though not all info on Lightning Strike lists them as a punk band or even a hardcore punk band.
Paul Fischer, in his interview with Eddie Auffray for Louder than War, gives this overview of the scene around Lightning Strike: “If you were a leather-jacket wearing teenager in London around that time you couldn’t miss them, they were the house band of the ‘Intrepid Fox’ and at the hub of a scene that has never really been documented, based around said boozer in Soho’s Wardour Street where everyone congregated before gigs at the Marquee which was over the other side of the road.”
(September 2016)
