Strate Jacket - Punk Bashing LP (w/ CD)

Bin Liner RecordsStrate Jacket; THE first, and some might argue the best Southampton punk band. Formed early in 1977 by Gordon and Terry O’Brien, John Russell and Nick Petford.Twenty-seven years after they formed in 2004, the Southern Daily Echo referred to the band as ‘the legendary Strate Jacket.’ The same newspaper in 1977 was less enthusiastic about the group. Persons unknown, spray painted STRATE JACKET in Bright red paint on the pristine white stone walled Echo office building one dark night, along with the front of Virgin Records and many other popular institutions in Southampton. The day after this “punk” marketing, everyone in the city knew the band’s name.Ged Babey, Journalist and punk historian says “I wrote a piece for the Suspect Device punkzine, about Strate Jacket, I said “You won’t find anything about them in Jon Savages England’s Dreaming, or on any of the 1977 punk websites, because they came from Southampton – a city that has never been ‘cool’.It is finally released!