No Nonsense
No Nonsense began as a gang of mates hanging out together from Oak
Park High School in Melbourne (Australia). At the time, Ska meant
dancing and comradeship, and their first shows were all about
dancing, sweating, getting drunk, throwing up . . . all the right
ingredients for having a good time!
But boys grow up, and somewhere along the line they started
listening to pop music and Ska became outdated for them. There was
a time when the first seven rows of their Melbourne shows were
filled with skinheads. At their first Sydney show there were 750
of them, Seig-heiling, shoving and grinning evilly. No Nonsense
outgrew them very fast.
"Why don't you fuck off - we don't want you here", Richard Bruce roared at the skinheads in the crowd
one night early in 1983 at the Central Club. "We'll give
you your money back, just don't bloody come back here!".
Crowds dropped off drastically for a while. Then the word got out
that you could go to a No Nonsense gig and not get hassled by a
coconut head and crowds swelled in hometown Melbourne until the
first seven rows at their shows were filled with suburban girls.
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