Hard Skin, The Stupids, Shitty Limits

I am in SOUTH London! Blimey! and not the Windmill! I am at the Grosvenor which is a proper pub with hang-out crusties and dolies and stuff and a back room with a big fuck off pa that can be gert loud. It is a punk show. I'm helping on the door and can remember if people have paid or not by identifying their t-shirts (Restarts, Ramones, Misfits (two different types!) etc) rather than trying to figure out people's faces (cos everyone DOES look the same). Shitty Limits turn up about 20 minutes after they're due on but it's okay - they play a song which I think might be a half-remembered tune but I think it's actually a quick line-check cos the rest of their set is loads better. I saw them before and thought they were a bit slow and dirgey but this time I could hear them properly and i TAKE BACK WHAT I THOUGHT! they have some quite good pop songs played punker style. bless.
I used to see The Stupids when I was little. Skaters used to zoom up and down at the back. That was the best bit. At this gig there are no skaters which is sad. Apparently the drummer still skates. Cool. I wish there had been some skating tricks between songs. They are very good and fast and punk but they play too long (like most bands in the whole universe).
Hard Skin pack the room out with people trailing out of the door like a little tail of people that just had to get in one last drink before seeing the band. I hide behind the merch table and peer (somewhat in vain) over people's heads...All the lyrics are funny but sometimes real too and it's just funny watching people singing along with ACAC (all coppers are cunts) and a song called (i think) We're All Wankers which makes you want to be in that gang. All the songs are interspersed with piss-taking, goding the audience and generally slagging off crusties (quite a few in the audience). Ben guitarist LOVES his guitar! 'Listen to this' he says 'SPRANG!' he goes. 'Keith Richards' says Elvina. It's kinda If The Kids Were United but more like If The Middle Aged Punks Had A Couple Of Beers And Went To A Gig They'd Still Have Fun.
Afterwards I play some records. The audience floods out. I'm playing Buzzcocks and Undertones and Ramones and stuff. But apparently punks don't like punks. Some people come back when I play old rock'n'roll singles and Mud. Punks like rock'n'roll. And Elvis impersonators in white suits.
It takes me about 3 days to get home on a bus that someone has been sick in. I see a man sit in the sick and I almost go to tell him 'hey don't sit in the sick' but I think if he's drunk enough to sit in sick maybe I'll just leave him to it....I hope his mum doesn't still do his washing.