Gallon Drunk – the last gang in town by the seaside, beside the sea…

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    I’ve loved this photo by Steve Gullick of Gallon Drunk from 1991 (?) for a long time.

    It seems to sum up the band, their world and early aesthetic in some way that I can’t quite put my finger on…

    James Johnston’s youthful bequiffed brooding menace is part of it as is a sense of them being, as Cathi Unsworth put it “the last gang in town”, despite them relaxing in deckchairs on the prom.

    Although not a direct transfer, it also tends to put me in mind of Scarface as some kind of source for their style.

    If you should not know the work of Gallon Drunk, their album From The Heart Of Town is a fine starting point and if I’m talking about summing up their world and aesthetic then this could well also do that; all West End/Camden swagger, suave and dissolution.

    Gallon Drunk and an ode to a certain gent around these parts at Day #17/365a.

    Peruse From The Heart Of Town at Terry Edward’s Sartorial Records here and its various other incarnations here,

     

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