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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979

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Cheap 'n' Nasty🧷🎸🥁🎤🎷Mixed-gender, Dutch, from Leiden. Covergirl EP bit.ly/2F6nylr Played with Crass, Vice Squad, Ruts DC, Mo-dettes, Zounds. Some call us post-punk; we: punk. Hiatus 1982: dire venue situation. Plan to play again if COVID permits

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Mar 6

Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band🧷🎸🥁🎤🎷Mixed-gender, founded 1979. Covergirl EP bit.ly/2F6nylr Some call us post-punk; we: punk. Hiatus 1982: dire venue situation. Plan to play again if COVID permits

Covergirl — Cheap 'N' Nasty | Last.fm

Listen free to Cheap 'N' Nasty – Covergirl (Covergirl, Unknown and more). 4 tracks (). All 4 songs on this EP, recorded in Dordrecht in 1981 in one day, self-produced by the band, were written by Chea...

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · 6d

MAVO='theoretisch' en 'lager'. HBO+TU='praktisch' en 'hoger'.

Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement

Once again emulating the propaganda tactics of Hitler and Goebbels, the Trump administration is portraying Kirk as a political martyr, an American version of the German Nazi Horst Wessel.

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Terry bass/vocals Cheap 'n' Nasty left on photo for #Stranglers Strange Little Girl video bit.ly/45OPJPo @mccookerybook.bsky.social @feministmusiclib.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @udkp.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social

Left: Terry, bass/vocals Cheap 'n' Nasty in 1982, during recording of Stranglers' Strange Little Girl video in London. To her right, Melissa Martin and Kat, both Rest In Punk.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · Sep 3

Music as a Weapon : The Contentious Symbiosis of Punk Rock and Anarchism ja.crimethinc.com/2018/10/22/m... — @crimethinc.com

Music as a Weapon

Punk played a pivotal role in the expansion of the anarchist movement between 1978 and 2010. Here's why, and what we can learn from it.

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Aug 29

7/9 Concerto #Amsterdam bit.ly/4oYtWw1 talk on early Dutch #punk with Terry of Cheap 'n' Nasty+Peter of The Bugs @feministmusiclib.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @egel.bsky.social

Nederpunk in Paradiso LP presentatie @ Concerto

Event in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Concerto Recordstore and Oscar Smit Music on Sunday, September 7 2025

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Egel @egel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kraken is back :D

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Amsterdam’s squatter wars are back – and wealthy Dutch homeowners have only themselves to blame | Senay Boztas

Those already on the property ladder are fuelling a shameful disparity. Until they wake up, the krakers will keep coming, says journalist Senay Boztas

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Aug 25

1st #Dutch all-♀️♀️#punk band PVC bit.ly/3JwEItp founded by Terry, later of Hideous and Cheap 'n' Nasty @feministmusiclib.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @punkrockscience.bsky.social

Maarten, drums and Terry, bass/vocals of Cheap 'n' Nasty in Voorschoten, March 1980, opening for Crass and Poison Girls

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Hang Youth Live @ Zuidas (Extinction Rebellion blokkade 18 september 2020)

YouTube video by Burning Fik

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Aug 20

@paradisoadam.bsky.social 31/8 #punk festival bit.ly/46ZJHwl new book+new compilation LP including No More Violence (On TV) by Cheap 'n' Nasty @mccookerybook.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @udkp.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social

Nederpunk Festival | Paradiso

Nederpunkfestival met live muziek in Paradiso op 31 augustus 2025. Tickets zijn hier verkrijgbaar.

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Jul 6

#PussyRiot #TheHague #Putin #punk bit.ly/4nzBNzr @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social @egel.bsky.social @udkp.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @punkfanzine74.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Jul 5

#PussyRiot Maria Alyokhina interview #Putin #punk bit.ly/3IeJgUI @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social @udkp.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @punkfanzine74.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social

Punk, Putin and Pussy Riot – Maria Alyokhina speaks out in The Hague

On 26th June 2025, Maria Alyokhina brought her Riot Days show to het Paard venue in The Hague, The Netherlands. Before the concert, Pussy Riot original member Maria was interviewed by Dutch journalist...

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Jun 19

#L7 live on #Trump bit.ly/40dTSZV #punk @schnitzel63.bsky.social @feministmusiclib.bsky.social @politepunk.bsky.social @udkp.bsky.social @punkademic.bsky.social @punkfanzine74.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social

L7 - Dispatch from Mar-A-Lago (ZooM, Frankfurt 2018)

Gesang, Bass: Jennifer Finch - Gitarre, Gesang: Suzi Gardner, Gitarre, Gesang: Donita Sparks Get official infos abolut L7 here: http://l7theband.com/

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Punk Studies, in the Netherlands @scholarspunk.bsky.social · Jun 17

#Punk+art schools 70s #Netherlands bit.ly/445PgWX @anarchizmo.bsky.social @punkacademic.bsky.social @drkpopupconvos.bsky.social @schnitzel63.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social @punkfanzine74.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @feministmusiclib.bsky.social

Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, both had an art school background

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Peter Kodde @peterpolder.bsky.social · Jun 13

Elke dag een protestlied.
Do they owe us a living.
Sunny War (Crass cover)

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Sunny War - Do They Owe Us A Living?

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · Jun 11

Ivy Green - I'm Sure We're Gonna Make It [Netherlands, Punk Rock] (1978) The first track on the debut album by one of the first Dutch punk bands from 1978
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Ivy Green - I'm Sure We're Gonna Make It [Netherlands, Punk Rock] (1978) The first track on the debut album by one of the first Dutch punk bands from 1978

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Cheap 'n' Nasty 1st wave punk band, founded 1979 @cheappunk.bsky.social · Jun 10

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'This Is an Emergency': Kathleen Hanna on Uniting to Fight Against ICE Raids and Fascism

The riot grrrl front woman of legendary punk outfits Bikini Kill and Le Tigre wants the world to know that ‘protest is for everybody.’

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Jun 10

An honor to talk with punk legend Kathleen Hanna on the different forms that dissent must take amid ICE raids and the Trump administration's military crackdown on activists.

"Protest is for everybody."
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