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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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A MAN OF FEW WORDS, BUT HIS BASS-PLAYING STYLE CHANGED EVERYTHING.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Royston "Rainy" Wainwright in his prime as bass player and co-founder of English nuke wave/hardcore punk band, DISCHARGE, c. early '80s. 📸: ❓

Anyway, I've never seen either of these shots of Rains before, and I don't think they've made it onto Tumblr yet, so, here they are now in all their vintage glory. Posted the cropped ones, too, just for the hell of it, and more retro Rainy is always a beautiful thing, isn't it? Best apocalypse punk band ever.

Dis nightmare still @$!#*&% continues!!

Source: https://twitter.com/BillyBurp/status/1161646115328057345/photo/1.

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maaaaalfunction · 5 years

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DISCHARGE - Live at Lepakko, Helsinki, Finland 1983

#discharge #Kelvin Cal Morris #Roy Rainy Wainwright #lepakko #hardcore punk

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 days

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CRASS TEE SPOTTED IN THE '80s NUKE WAVE SCENE -- "I AM NO FEEBLE CHRIST."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Royston/Roy “Rainy” Wainwright of English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, playing what looks to be a precision Fender bass guitar and rocking a CRASS tee, c. early ‘80s, possibly 1980.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Source: www.picuki.com/media/2770286513153296897.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 2 months

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PEAK APOCALYPSE PUNK RHYTHM SECTION -- ETERNAL D-BEAT MASTERS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on peak '80s hardcore punk/apocalypse punk bass guitar & drums -- Roy "Rainy" Wainwright & Dave "Bambi" Ellesmere of the mighty DISCHARGE, during the band's cataclysmic "Apocalypse Now" UK Tour/"WHY" era, c. 1981.

Dis nightmare still @$!#*&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2603395324941689447 (Picuki 2x).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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NAPALM KILLS BASTARDS -- THIS IS TOTAL NUKE WAVE OVER NORFOLK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Kelvin "Cal" Morris and Royston "Rainy" Wainwright of English nuke wave/hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, performing live at the former West Runton Pavilion in Norfolk, UK, c. 1980-'81. 📸: Andrew Gibson.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: https://punkintheeast.co.uk/unknown-band-6 & Picuki (via @theydeclareit fan page).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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HARDCORE '81 -- RAINY -- BASS BEAST.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on "Rainy" Wainwright, bassist and co-founder of the mighty DISCHARGE, c. "WHY" era, early 1981, from a feature in the UK's then existing musical publication "SOUNDS."

"We are the only punk band, forget the Upstarts and all that crap. We are the only reasonably well-known band who're making stuff for punks, and not stuff for football fans."

-- ROY "RAINY" WAINWRIGHT dumping on "lesser" punk & Oi! bands, c. early 1981

Source: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/536209899353970702.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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"IT'S PERFECT AND IT'S APPALLING. DISCHARGE ARE ABSOLUTE PUNK FROM STOKE..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a somewhat backhandedly positive review of the "WHY" mini-LP/12" EP by English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE (published by "Sounds," I think), and released on Clay Records in May/June? 1981 to mostly positive reviews and an even better charting position -- #1, in fact.

"WHY" REVIEW: "Okay, people. Did you ever wonder what the best album of 1981 was? Well, I'll tell you, 1981 brought us a new form of music. It's been called hardcore since 1979 I guess, but DOA, when they put out hardcore 81, they exemplified a new form of music. And uh, well I'll tell you this is beyond hardcore, this album, holy shit man. To call this album hardcore would be like putting frilly pink on it and spraying it with perfurme. Because this is DISCHARGE and this is the eleventh best record in the history of the human being.

Holy shit now what else can we say about this now because this is serious that we're talking about here. The fuckers. When Phil Sutcliffe reviewed this album in New Music Express or Sounds? he said that this album he never wants to listen to again, and it's putrefaction perfected, but he gave it a five star review. Which I find interesting. Um, the horrors of war. Pure hell. It's funny, everything I thought about saying last night I forgot. 'Cause I guess that's what this album does to you. It kinda just makes you speechless and stuff like that.

Discharge, when I got into DISCHARGE was June 1981, the month that this came out. And I started with "Decontrol." And I thought I could handle it. But I'll tell you Discharge was the first band that made me go pale. And to have this even heavier than "Decontrol" was like just, I couldn't believe it. So, considering I forgot everything I was gonna say about this album because it's all in the daytime and I haven't got high yet. We'll just have to go with the incidentally's.

Incidentally, this album was used as a retort from Lou Barlow to J. Mascis on a SEBADOH record.

Incidentally, this album includes the best bass player in the world, Roy Wainright. Who, at the time that this album came out I thought Stanley Clarke was the best bass player in the world, but once you hear this album you know what I mean. And also, "Is This to Be," which is on this album, is the forty-eighth song in the history of the human being. And "Ain't No Feeble Bastard" is the forty-ninth best song in the history of the human being.

So, I think this is the third line-up on this album. It's friggin' Roy Wainright the bass player, friggin' Tony Roberts on guitar, Kelvin "Cal" Morris on vocals and they had Dave "Bambi" Ellesmere of THE INSANE on drums."

-- RYM (RATE YOUR MUSIC), Mark Gaudet's 30 best albums in the history of the human being (A list by Mcormier), 1981's "WHY" (#11 of 30), undated

Sources: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/mcormier/mark-gaudets-best-albums-in-the-history-of-the-human-being, Pinterest, etc...

Dis nightmare still $#@*%!& continues!!

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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RECHARGING UK PUNK FOR A NEW DECADE -- A NEW GENERATION.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, performing live at the now demolished West Runton Pavilion, Norfolk, East Anglia, c. super-early 1980s, c. late 1980/ early '81 era. 📸: Steve Hansell & Andrew Gibson.

Anyway, I initially wanted to state that these were taken during the band's "Apocalypse Punk" Tour in the summer of '81, but I didn't see Norfolk listed in any of their tour dates. Still, this looks to have been a pretty massive gig because the crowd looks considerable.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Source: https://punkintheeast.co.uk/discharge-at-west-runton-pavilion.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 3 months

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BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL "CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL DESTRUCTION" BEGAN IN STOKE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Roy "Rainy" Wainright's invaluable contribution to the extreme music lexicon (his bass playing goes without saying), and these were his words in an interview with "SOUNDS," I believe, c. early 1981.

Dis nightmare still @$*#!&% continues!!

Source: www.picuki.com/media/1917094465777102585 (Picuki 2x).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 4 months

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A RESPITE FROM NUKING FURTHER LIVE MUSIC VENUES IN EUROPE -- THE LADS' FIRST TIME IN ITALY.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a shot of Royston "Rainy" Wainwright of DISCHARGE (with Cal in the background), plus other shots of the band), photographed during their time in Italy, on their first European tour of the continent in the winter of 1981.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2639372388888581404 (Picuki 4x).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 4 months

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WHEN IT RAINS -- IT RAINS DEATH, DEMISE, & DISTRUCTION.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on bassist/co-founder/graphic artist Royston "Rainy" Wainwright of English hardcore punk band, DISCHARGE, performing live at the Santa Monica Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA, on October 8, 1982, and at the Florentine Gardens in Hollywood, CA, on October 2, 1982. 📸: Alison Braun.

EXTRA INFO: The Santa Monica gig also featured CIRCLE JERKS, BAD RELIGION, and the BAD BRAINS, but the Dis-fathers didn't headline this gig as they had headlined the Florentine Gardens a week prior. Or was it all just decided on a flip of a coin who would headline Santa Monica?

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2687358303237270761 (Picuki 3x & one pic from Facebook).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 5 months

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MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION IN MANCHESTER -- NUKE WAVE '83.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the mighty DISCHARGE, playing a reportedly ripping set at the Gallery, Manchester, UK, on March 13, 1983. 📸: Laurence Prior & John (via Flickr).

"I was at this gig! It was manic fron start to finish! I couldn't find the floor with my feet!"

-- @john.p.fitzgerald.50, c. March 2023

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3057880414629922958 & Flickr.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 months

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THE "APOCALYPSE NOW" WAVE OF UK PUNK -- THRASHING RAGERS OF THE ATOM.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on 1981 era DISCHARGE, Cal, Rainy, & Bones' hand & guitar neck visible, possibly during their summer joint headlining "Apocalypse Now" UK tour with THE EXPLOITED.

Was supposed to post this shot witn issue #2 of "Suburban Voice," c. 1982, which reused this photograph for its cover art (lifted from a 1981 UK publication), but I don't think the zine has been uploaded onto the Internet yet. I came up with nothing for almost an hour, doing really deep searches, too!

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Source: www.picuki.com/media/1822200190293794998.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 months

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ROAD TO THE APOCALYPSE -- A MINI "RAINY" COLLECTION.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted shots of Royston "Rainy" Wainwright (age 20-21), bassist and co-founder of English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, c. summer 1981, all shots from their Apocalypse Now Tour.

First shot from Leicester, UK, East Midlands, second from Glasgow, Scotland, and the third (with teenage dis-punk fan) from an undisclosed location.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Source: www.picuki.com/profile/wainwright.roy (Picuki 3x).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 7 months

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CALMEST-LOOKING BASSIST IN THE ONCE "ANGRIEST BAND IN THE WORLD."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a blown-up pic (and the original shot) of Royston "Rainy" Wainwright. bassist and co-founder of English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, playing The Warehouse in Preston, UK, c. 1980, "Realities of War" era.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/tag/hearnothingseenothingsaynothing & @theydeclareit (Picuki).

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 9 months

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"NOBODY HAS TO GET YOU TO BUY IT NOW, THAT'S YOUR CONCERN AND I DON'T VOTE!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-dump of "Realities of War" era DISCHARGE, playing a local gig at Tunstall Town Hall, in their hometown of Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, UK, c. early 1980. 📸: ❓

Not the first time I post these, either, but this does mark the first time I've ever posted them vertically instead of two by two horizontally, something which I no longer do, I might add. Vertically is by far the better option, and allows for a richer look at each photo, illustration, what have you.

Dis nightmare still @$!#*&% continues!!

Source: https://twitter.com/krushfuck/status/945958607023046656 (my super-old account), Pinterest, Degenerik666, LastFM, Facebook (my FB), various, etc...

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