Book launch for my novel Malayn Swing
Wednesday 24th June 2009 at 6.30 pm
Edgar Wallace Public House, 40 Essex Street
London, WC2R 3JE
(Nearest tube - Temple)
About Me
- Pete Haynes
- Uxbridge, Gtr. London, United Kingdom
- I come from the West London area, out in the suburbs towards the end of the tube line. It was, and is no place of great imagination and activity but is on the underground and that gave easy access to getting into the centre of London, which was something I started to do at an early age. We went to see groups play down at the Marquee Club, when it was down Wardour Street. We were about fifteen years old I suppose and it started a desire to wanting to be in a group, a liking for Soho and to get away from all the mainstream accepted stuff that fills a lot of people’s lives and minds. Leaving school before I was fifteen I worked on building sites and at seventeen bought myself a drum kit. The early signs of punk music were showing themselves at the end of nineteen seventy five and a few friends and myself got a group together. Hardly being able to play wasn’t an obstruction to us because it was about having the feel and attitude; being lovers of the New York Dolls and hearing the Ramones we were on our way; being one of the first of the punk groups we were called The Lurkers.