There surely can't be any compilation of Punk/New Wave that doesn't include Spizzenergi's 1979 seminal 'Where's Captain Kirk?'
Despite topping the Indie chart for seven consecutive weeks and selling well over half a million copies eventually, the band failed to crack the national chart with the single, later voted among the UK's best punk rock singles of all time.
Despite various name changes, Spizzoil, The Spizzers and the utterly wonderful Athletico Spizz 80, major chart success has sadly eluded the band, but it's not stopped them continuing as a live act till this day.
'Christmas in Denmark Street' was a 2020 release and the associated blurb claimed the song was a 'lament to the loss of the cultural and musical landscape of London, currently at risk of being lost forever under the weight of infrastructure projects like Crossrail'.
As a retired punk, I gott say say personally that, as you can now get from Stratford to Bond Street in 16 minutes, that infrastructure project was something of a godsend.
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