Too many to choose from She had seamen on her chest, and Morecambe on her side 😂 Next she married an ale baron, who come from Lancashire, but he wasn’t posh, he were just another Wigan Peer
@@colinmurphy2127 Helen of Fowey: The face that lunched on a thousand chips... also, "there's half a pint of gravy on the chip on me shoulder", always loved that one 😃
They were prosecuted for displaying a plastic dog turd in their shop window. Upon being found not guilty the singer emerged from court to announce that it was a victory for plastic dogs everywhere
As a working class, council estate lad growing up in Sheffield during the 80’s, like it or lump it, The Macc Lads represented our outlook and humour, more than any other band. We had a great fkn time!!
so your saying working class people are racism Sexism scum that should be deported. im working class, im none of those things, your saying horrible things about our people. Also your back round is an excuse for nothing, its about what happens today. it is never ok to use the n word in your songs
AIDS and herpees he’s got em !! Words that the 16 year old me found hilarious, the 49 year old me still laughs quality punk and lyrics that shaped many a teenagers life.
I fumbled past the boils, dug out a rusty coil, I could have been scarred for life It lay there rusting, I said it smelled disgusting, She said: 'Its Chanel No 5.' This poetic masterpiece was scribbled on a sanger wall in belfast,1990/91...still in my memory 34 yrs on
If you listen to Muttley (lead singer) talking in interviews he's actually very well spoken. The Macc Lads were always meant to be a complete pisstake but unfortunately nowhere near enough people were in on the joke
Yh his names Triston and he sounds nothing like he sings..they have been accused of making the whole thing up just to make funny music..Tristan denies this..haha
I remember the Mansfield gig being cancelled in 1989, so they came over to Sutton and did two nights at the New Cross pub. I was there both nights, the Macc Lads were a great laugh and decent musicians in their genre. At the time pub culture was still alive and we could relate to a lot of the songs, not necessarily personally but through people we knew. They were good times, the humour was satirical, like 1970’s TV comedy and people weren’t offended so easily back then.
Fuckin brilliant banned in Mansfield but could play in Sutton about half a mile down the road fantastic memory nice one mate had me pissing myself when I read that. 😂
That first night was mental, the pub was well over capacity and I saw one bloke pass out with the heat. It was a proper punk gig but in the back function room of a pub and there were scuffles with Ben Nevis and the crowd 😅 The place got closed soon afterwards, not sure if it was because they put the gig on or not.
no we dont. last thing the mordern world is racism & Sexism. i say let the dated racist joke die. its like none of you have hear feed your face which uses the N word, and if you have i am truly disgusted
@ZowieBBowie what on earth are you talking about? They only recently did a successful tour of bigger venues than their prime. Back then, they were playing out of the back of a truck.
Bootlegs of "Live at Leeds" used to be handed around my school in the mid-eighties, absolute gold, and the songs were memorised and repeated for years after.
buddy, people didn't become more sensitive. people have always been sensitive. it's just that jokes age when they're told too much. if you find that you're laughing at the same jokes you did when you were 16, it just means you're simple.
The Macc Lads are the band I've seen the most times, I've met them a few times and even sang on stage with them when a bloke I used to know hired them to play at his daughters 21st birthday party at the bank hall miners in Burnley...also I was banned from playing thier CDS on the landing when I was in Preston prison, apparently the admin staff had been moaning about it 😜 🍺 🍻
So it's ok for rappers to talk about guns , crime ,and doing not nice things to women but when a white working class band sing about drinking , fighting and general working class life they don't like it ?
Makes you think, doesn't it? Protect white kids from stuff like that but they don't give a shit about black kids, after all the narrative says that they're all criminals anyway...
@@TesterAnimal1 the music press, and press in general, aren't a collective hive mind 🤣 pretty sure the early 80s UK press were completely different people to the USA mid 90s press 🙄 and "they" tried to ban rap, for exactly the reasons you've written. It was quite a hit topic
Were you around in the 80s? Or are you a little younger? I was first exposed to them in the 80s and they used to gig relentlessly with a hardcore audience who would follow their tours. They were quite the cult phenomenon for a while not really fitting in anywhere. Their lyrics were vulgar celebrations of alcoholism and the grimiest sexual behaviour. This subject matter made a lot of the anarcho-punk bands of the 80s not want to collaborate with them. They still had a loyal fanbase especially from their home town.
@@Wulfyr A lot of those "Anarcho-Punk" bands were quite po faced and had the charm of a dirty dish cloth in all honesty. These lads added a bit of levity with their vulgarism!! ..Is that even a word?
Saw them twice in the 80s. Once at Wigan Transport Club and then at Manchester International 1. Both gigs were 'lively', the manchester one was good humoured but the Wigan one had an air of 'it can go off any minute'. They had a massive bouncer with them called Ben Nevis, who stood in front of them, arms folded, facing the crowd. Legend has it that Muttley once got hit in the face with a full pint glass, and yelled to the chucker 'You f**kin p*ff! There was lime in that!'
I went to both those gigs, it would've been 1986/87. Don't think Transport Club knew what they'd let themselves in for, they were serving beer in real glasses, instead of the plastic ones used at every other Macc Lads gig.
@@FrankSkinbone agree on the date mate , I was at the Manc gig ,,it was magnificent.. I had a live video of the beer and sex and chips and gravy tour it went mouldy due to the damp ,freezing central heatingless house I was living in at the time ..absolutely gutted …happy days though , not like the bonkers world we live in now eh? …
@@Sandylaner63 I went to several other gigs on that same tour, Warrington, Bolton and Blackburn come to mind, maybe Oldham. I think the International 1 gig was where folk were throwing Newkie Brown bottles from the top balcony into the crowd, fuckin mental. Saw them 6 or 7 times in 18 months then never again until they reformed for a tour in 2018.
@@FrankSkinbone great stuff mate ..God bless RUclips for the reminder of better days ,,,gonna save this video and return to it whenever I feel the sh*tsh*w that is modern Britain creeping up on me…all the best pal
I live in Blackpool. Guess which Macc Ladds song I heard first. You guessed it. Beer and sex and chips and gravy. They should have written a song about our town, they could have called it Blackpool :p
"Banned ..... and Norwich", or "police threatened to arrest them for breach of the peace if they heard swearing in the their songs". Its kind of pythonesque as well. One can only imagine the response to being banned from Norwich or told not to swear. Its just comedy and pre-internet trolling at its best.
So the authorities couldn't handle songs about beer and fights but now it's apparently ok for drill rappers to rap about blasting rival gang members to bits.
@@AG-gr4yx Free speech is all well and good in a society that doesn't have savages running around shooting each other or sickos telling people it's ok to do inappropriate things to children, thus ruining it for everyone else. If you had thought your comment through, you'd find that free speech absolutism isn't all it's cracked up to be. So not wanting gangs of feral Africans in one's country is being a snowflake now? Ok then.
The Macc Lads are fookin awesome!! Been a fan since the 80's....never fail to make me smile. It's just adult fun and people need to get over themselves and get a life.
Offensive or not, they were bloody genius at the time Embodied a real regional vibe to punk and didn’t give a crap about the political correctness that swept the nation. That and they just had fun People make a choice to be offended
Mutley McLadd is a lyrical genius, seen them in concert many times….General Wolfe pub in Coventry, Princess Charlotte pub in Leicester. Didn’t matter what got chucked on stage at them, they would just keep banging it out. 👌🏻
Seen the Macc Lads on numerous occassions and I can honestly say they are the best group I have ever seen live . Fantastic memories from the 80s and they are just as good nowadays .
Remember being introduced to The Macc Lads by a Geordie squaddie whilst serving at Bessbrook Mill in The British Army. Must have been 1988-1989 and still listening to them!! 👍🙂
Back in the late 70s, I headed a similar band called Dead Boar. This was during the Thatcher days, when folks were just as pissed off as they are today. We had a total ball with local gigs, recording sessions in studios, Judging by our audiences reaction, we were well received. I really miss those care free days as a teenager, which today’s kids will never experience. 45 years on, I still have the mic I used, and I don’t play anymore, but still work as a guitar tech. Some people don’t understand the spitting at the performers it’s called, “liquid appreciation”.
Init, I used to love local punk shows. Growing up in the 2000's the local punk shows which was mainly full of bands in their 40's 50's had such a better vibe than going to big shows. Gettin up stage with a pint, belting out a chorus with the band, who were generally chuffed anyone knew their lyrics, then diving back into the pit.
It's crazy the amount of "people are too sensitive and 'woke' today. They just don't understand the joke" in the comments; this group was literally banned across a good chunk of the entire country back in the 80's...
They were banned from playing in a lot of places, not due to their music or lyrics, but due to the fact their fans used to caused a huge amount of damage to the venue. I had a friend who went to see them once and he said that at one point during the concert some fans ripped the condom machine off the wall of the toilets and threw it on stage. There were numerous fights between the punk fans and the rock fans in the audience. Doors were smashed and broken etc.
Saw these so many times in the mid to late 80's including the chip shop tour when they hired a lorry and had some lass in a bikini wearing a miss Macclesfield sash handing out free gravy from a giant tub
They are the MOST important band to ever come out of Macc ! Their lyrics are a true and precious documentation of life in macclesfield in the 70s and 80s. Quite simply a national treasure.
The Macc Lads are, at their core, the musical embodiment of a particular sector of society. They represent, with unapologetic vigor, the essence of lad culture-crude, irreverent, and defiantly unpolished. In a world where music often strives for emotional resonance or transformative power, the Macc Lads stand as a brazen contrast. Are they an invaluable, groundbreaking talent that reshaped the landscape of music and profoundly moved their audience? Hardly. They don’t aim to inspire; rather, they exist in the same realm as insult comedy, where shock and provocation are the act. They are like a late-night spectacle-a drunken man getting in a fight or someone noisily losing their dinner in the back of a taxi. The Macc Lads are exactly what they present themselves to be: blunt, and loud try hards. The Macc Lads unapologetically carve out a space for those who find humor in the unrefined, repetitive, and mindlessly crass-reveling in a world that many scoff at but some find oddly freeing
Now He's a Poof and Dan's Pants!😂 Back when shock comedy was all the rage and people laughed at those who were 'offended'. Along with acts like Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, the lads from Mac, were a staple of the UK, heavy metal scene in the mid eighties.
"So he opened the window, wiped his arse, and threw the offending bags on the grass". "He shouts Everybody come and look at this, they're streaked with shit and they're stained with piss. But don't look at me, they're not fookin mine! But his loving mum had sewn his fookin name inside!"
Back in the day, me and my housemates in Brighton had the pleasure of playing 'Ay Up We're the Macc Lads' to Ami Dolenz, Mickey Dolenz' daughter. She fucking loved it.
My big bro went to see them back in the day, took an LP for them to sign, when he got it back it turns out one of them had SHAT in the vinyl cover hahaha. Legends.
So I've been on a punk history rabbit hole lately and I just said that this was posted yesterday and like I don't know how I got here but thank you I did
Remember playing the Macc Lads in school common room in the 80s. Teachers were most impressed 😂
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I saw them at the Marquee (1990). While we queued up, the poll tax riots were taking place all around us. The queue cheered the looting going on around us, everytime a window was smashed, particularly a tiny woman running off with a huge keyboard, and we were left alone by the rioters to go into the gig. We could see rioters down the road cross the junction of Chraing Cross Road and Shaftsbury Avenue. 30 seconds later, they all ran the other way, pursued by the fuzz with helmets and shields. Then we saw the Macc Lads, supported by Eddie Shit. It was a bif of a remarkable evening.
I remember that day as a kid, there was a live TV show being filmed in a theatre somewhere in central london and the presenters kept stopping and looking fearfully off camera for a few seconds. Then one said, sorry, there's a bit of trouble outside. They were $hitting bricks
I was at that gig as well. We were in the queue outside singing (if that's what you can call it) Macc Lads songs alternately to the police or the rioters depending on who was charging past us at that particular moment. And the atmosphere inside was incredible. It was indeed one hell of a night!
I ran the only venue in Sheffield - the council and student's union booking committee being rapidly PC - which would pur them on. They played the Saturday and Sundaay nights of a Bank Holiday weekend. They found our that the Sunday was my birthday and when I got to work they and their 2 roadies/security guys presented me with a birthday card, fabulous bouquet and huge box of REALLY good choccies. And this was before Sunday shopping laws were substantially changed or the Meadowhall shopping mall was opened so I've no idea where they got it all from. Off stage they were one of the nicest bunch of musos I ever had the pleasure of working with.
your great video has helped introduced hundreds if not thousands of people into the awareness of this band. Much needed right now to know! i will admit they are one of them well kept secrets amongst the genre
I went for a job interview and as I took my jacket off in the waiting room the woman who was interviewing me saw a couple of badges on the arm..in the interview she said I noticed a Macc lads badge...the woman interviewing me was the mum of muttleys girlfriend...job was mine🙂
A few of us persuaded the landlord of a country pub we played pool in to put a new version of an old Monkee's hit on the jukebox , you know the one, when we put it on at Sunday lunchtime the local patrons almost choked on their roast beef, the landlord had a shock as well.
Saw them many times in their heyday & caught a couple of their more recent mini revival gigs. Tongue so firmly in cheek it would take surgery to remove it. & all the people that don't get it? It just says more about them than it does the Macc Lads or those of us who bought their albums & went along to their gigs. "You think you're one of the Macc Lads? You look a fookin' sight! I've spilt more Ale down me waistcoat than you've supped tha' night!"
I was too young to see them in their day, got to see them twice on their return a few years ago and they didn't disappoint. Drinks flying everywhere, happy people and they were great. I even landed a beer on mutleys head just as the last song finished. Got a big cheer from everyone 😂
Loved the Macc Lads ever since I heard them for the first time when my mate in the Army started playing one of their cassettes in our room at our barracks in Driffield in 1988 The lyrics to their songs are absolute genius. Apprentice Dentist has always been my favourite song Superb stuff!
I was at school with Muttley in Macclesfield back in the 70s. He seemed like such a nice lad at the time! They produced iconic songs though - who can forget 'Beer an' sex an' chips an' gravy' or 'Sweaty Betty' 🙂
Saw them in Bristol.When they walked out on stage Mutley got hit with a plastic pint of lager.Without missing a beat his response "You f***ING queer that had lime in it."😂
Dicko [aka Neil Dickinson] was tour manager for the lads for some time. He taught me to play guitar after which I and some mates formed local [Southport] punk band, Mayhem. Most memorable Macc Lads lyric "Can I rattle me tatties against your dirt box"
As a 50something white male Mancunian (who's long since fled to the countryside) I fucking love the Macc Lads. A hilarious exercise in outright offensiveness. "Watching Live Aid while eating my dinner, sit up straight you lazy..." You'd probably go to prison for saying that in 2024 Britain.
The band I was in opened for them in Nottingham in about 1987 in front of about 50 people. Great night. Much of the archive footage in this piece is from the Macc Lads VHS I've got in my loft.
If you see a sweet and kind looking old grandad walking around Macclesfield just remember he was probably in the audience jumping around to these guys when he was younger.
They were brilliant, I sang for a mates band once who were based on The Macc Lads, less offensive with songs which were just very silly, one was about a $6m Scalextric set, we entered a battle of the bands and won a support slot for Napalm Death! 🤣
Back in the early ninties just as me and my friends were getting our first cars and driving to footie games, someone always had a Macc Lads tape. Great times.
"You are what you drink and I'm a bitter man". The most profound lyric ever written!
Wetherspoons' mantra right there.
Too many to choose from
She had seamen on her chest, and Morecambe on her side 😂
Next she married an ale baron, who come from Lancashire, but he wasn’t posh, he were just another Wigan Peer
Ohh, I so wanted to give your comment a thumbs up, but it's on 69 so i simply can't 😅
@@colinmurphy2127 Helen of Fowey: The face that lunched on a thousand chips...
also, "there's half a pint of gravy on the chip on me shoulder", always loved that one 😃
@@colinmurphy2127 She had massive tits and a massive bum she used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum
They were prosecuted for displaying a plastic dog turd in their shop window. Upon being found not guilty the singer emerged from court to announce that it was a victory for plastic dogs everywhere
"Well she wore big knickers and worked on t' sewage farm" Gotta be one of the best opening lines ever. Top band, I had all the albums back in the day.
put me hand down her jeans and nearly lost half my arm!
I couldn't believe the size of her bum!
She used to play for wigan at the back of the scrum 🤣 Has there ever been 2 funnier lines ??@@thetruthwillout3347
@@michaelj3282 Yeeeeee Aaarrssse Bandeeeeet! Was a quality opener too.
You should have seen the size of her bum, she used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum still brings a smile to my face.
As a working class, council estate lad growing up in Sheffield during the 80’s, like it or lump it, The Macc Lads represented our outlook and humour, more than any other band. We had a great fkn time!!
They represented the ideas of the ruling class because they lacked the confidence to challenge their brainwashing.
so your saying working class people are racism Sexism scum that should be deported. im working class, im none of those things, your saying horrible things about our people. Also your back round is an excuse for nothing, its about what happens
today. it is never ok to use the n word in your songs
You really mean you’re an insult to the working class! so too were the crap lads , insulting and an embarrassment to Macclesfield too.
@mayhem492
Tell @ZowieBBowie To get fooked.
@@ZowieBBowie state of you lot . Up yours!
If the cops and the music press don't hate you, if the prudes aren't offended, you're not punk. You're Green Day. 🤷♂
Green day?
Really?
Daddy and accountant?
Mom on the church PTA?
I like green day...Mac lads...stink. 😂
@@glennlilley8608 Green Day - pop punk fascists
@@beckiebuist803 Green Day suck the corporate c##k
@@beckiebuist803so, pop music then 🥴 it’s ok punk rock ain’t for everyone
As a Gen X woman, I have fond memories of this band. They are fun, simple as that. And I still know the words to Fluffy Pup, quality song!
Nice one Kath, my fav song too!!!
Me and the ex used to sing that to each other
You’re a sad woman more like.
A superb piece of song writing. Over the top and ridiculous. "she's got a seven foot dad, well just about and he was gonna rip me liver out..."
- Shut your fcking grid !
'He's A Puff' should be the Christmas number one for 2024
You not heard Jingle Bells?!! It's a Christmas classic 😂
Have you not heard Jingle Bells?! It's a Christmas classic 😂
@@thetruthwillout3347over played and crap. He’s a Puff would liven up any Chrimbo Dinner🎉
Should be what the council play on the phone when they put you on hold lmfao
AIDS and herpees he’s got em !! Words that the 16 year old me found hilarious, the 49 year old me still laughs quality punk and lyrics that shaped many a teenagers life.
If Viz comic was a band, it would be the Macc Lads.
Shite these days is viz !
With the fat slags as roadies 😂😂
They should do their album covers.
@@themightytitan4157 I love Viz! We got that in Australia too. A day without laughing is a day without living.
@@timwitham4199 Ben Nevis mungo has transitioned to Sandra
i bet australians would love this band
Definitely mate!!
They remind me of the cosmic psychos
@@Delowist
Actually they do a bit!!
Sorta remind me of l Spit On Your Gravy..
But full of Boddingtons, instead of Carlton Draught and Serapax!
When I was fourteen, yeah. Then again I was listening to a lot of Kevin "Bloody" Wilson and Rodney Rude as well...because I was fourteen.
@Delowist The toy dolls aswell.
I fumbled past the boils, dug out a rusty coil,
I could have been scarred for life
It lay there rusting, I said it smelled disgusting,
She said: 'Its Chanel No 5.'
This poetic masterpiece was scribbled on a sanger wall in belfast,1990/91...still in my memory 34 yrs on
I don't get it. Is the 'rusty coil' supposed to be a shit?
@@intensecutn pregnancy coil
@@intensecutnwomen have a coil fitted by their GP to stop pregnancy back in the day,before the monthly injection came about
😂
Guess me weight!
My best mate had most of the Macc Lads releases on vinyl. We laughed our arses off. It was great being twelve.
spinal tap vibes
If you listen to Muttley (lead singer) talking in interviews he's actually very well spoken. The Macc Lads were always meant to be a complete pisstake but unfortunately nowhere near enough people were in on the joke
Public school boy now an accountant..... Apparently
@@54RKYand he unearthed a long lost film that was shot in Macclesfield in 1947 called “so well remembered”
Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Yh his names Triston and he sounds nothing like he sings..they have been accused of making the whole thing up just to make funny music..Tristan denies this..haha
@@ZowieBBowie It's satire. May be a bit deep for you.
Sweaty Betty is a brilliant track if you are offended by the Macc Lads it doesn't mean you're right just switch off so those who want to listen can
I remember the Mansfield gig being cancelled in 1989, so they came over to Sutton and did two nights at the New Cross pub. I was there both nights, the Macc Lads were a great laugh and decent musicians in their genre. At the time pub culture was still alive and we could relate to a lot of the songs, not necessarily personally but through people we knew. They were good times, the humour was satirical, like 1970’s TV comedy and people weren’t offended so easily back then.
Fuckin brilliant banned in Mansfield but could play in Sutton about half a mile down the road fantastic memory nice one mate had me pissing myself when I read that. 😂
That first night was mental, the pub was well over capacity and I saw one bloke pass out with the heat. It was a proper punk gig but in the back function room of a pub and there were scuffles with Ben Nevis and the crowd 😅
The place got closed soon afterwards, not sure if it was because they put the gig on or not.
@FrancoDX
I could imagine it was, not had many sessions in Sutton, but they always were a bit lively.
New cross is the best pub in sutton. Not that there's many left now
@@357jvxrh i was there to, we all waited outside the toilets really noisy till ben nevis came in, you could have heard a pin drop!
Start touring again lads, we need you more than ever!
no we dont. last thing the mordern world is racism & Sexism. i say let the dated racist joke die. its like none of you have hear feed your face which uses the N word, and if you have i am truly disgusted
They still are ….well they were a couple of years ago . I saw them in Lincoln university of all places 😂 still bloody brilliant too 😎🤘
@@hybridcypher8995 They can do the USA tour now. We still have freedom of speech here.
They are too fucking old now thank God!
@ZowieBBowie what on earth are you talking about? They only recently did a successful tour of bigger venues than their prime. Back then, they were playing out of the back of a truck.
Bootlegs of "Live at Leeds" used to be handed around my school in the mid-eighties, absolute gold, and the songs were memorised and repeated for years after.
In a time when The Macc Lads and Viz magazine reigned supreme - before everyone got so sensitive
They were a spoof
Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles. F'nark F'nark.
No idea what you're talking about.......
buddy, people didn't become more sensitive. people have always been sensitive. it's just that jokes age when they're told too much. if you find that you're laughing at the same jokes you did when you were 16, it just means you're simple.
Mary Whitehouse and the professional outrage brigade were a thing back then.
The difference is we have the internet now.
People were sensitive then too. If they weren't there would have been absolutely no fucking point in the Macc Lads at all.
As a child of the 80s I fully endorse this...happy memories
Me too 😁
Endorse it, we freaking lived it ;)
@@baldvale5418 back of a coach on a school trip. Singing sweety Betty...them wer't days
The Macc Lads are the band I've seen the most times, I've met them a few times and even sang on stage with them when a bloke I used to know hired them to play at his daughters 21st birthday party at the bank hall miners in Burnley...also I was banned from playing thier CDS on the landing when I was in Preston prison, apparently the admin staff had been moaning about it 😜 🍺 🍻
same, my mate at primary school pinched an album off his dad and taped it for us all. Pissed ourselves laughing for a long time
Loved them when I was at school, had all of their tapes. Now I’m older and should know better, I saw them when they reformed. Bloody brilliant.
So it's ok for rappers to talk about guns , crime ,and doing not nice things to women but when a white working class band sing about drinking , fighting and general working class life they don't like it ?
iz it coz they iz not blk innit?
Makes you think, doesn't it? Protect white kids from stuff like that but they don't give a shit about black kids, after all the narrative says that they're all criminals anyway...
Who is "they"?
@@davidwagstaff47the music press and the press in general.
@@TesterAnimal1 the music press, and press in general, aren't a collective hive mind 🤣 pretty sure the early 80s UK press were completely different people to the USA mid 90s press 🙄 and "they" tried to ban rap, for exactly the reasons you've written. It was quite a hit topic
How have I never heard of these guys. This is amazing. Thanks so much.
The Mac lads
Were you around in the 80s? Or are you a little younger? I was first exposed to them in the 80s and they used to gig relentlessly with a hardcore audience who would follow their tours.
They were quite the cult phenomenon for a while not really fitting in anywhere. Their lyrics were vulgar celebrations of alcoholism and the grimiest sexual behaviour. This subject matter made a lot of the anarcho-punk bands of the 80s not want to collaborate with them.
They still had a loyal fanbase especially from their home town.
same like you never heard of Chrome
@@Wulfyr
A lot of those "Anarcho-Punk" bands were quite po faced and had the charm of a dirty dish cloth in all honesty. These lads added a bit of levity with their vulgarism!! ..Is that even a word?
They were crude , outrages, well over the top !!! They didn't give a fuck . Give em a listen, just don't take em to seriously, just a good laugh.😂
The Macc Lads. The unthinking man's Half Man Half Biscuit.
¡Scorchio! 👍
Great description.
they were a spoof band
SO true...!
your mum's a puff
Saw them twice in the 80s. Once at Wigan Transport Club and then at Manchester International 1. Both gigs were 'lively', the manchester one was good humoured but the Wigan one had an air of 'it can go off any minute'. They had a massive bouncer with them called Ben Nevis, who stood in front of them, arms folded, facing the crowd. Legend has it that Muttley once got hit in the face with a full pint glass, and yelled to the chucker 'You f**kin p*ff! There was lime in that!'
I went to both those gigs, it would've been 1986/87. Don't think Transport Club knew what they'd let themselves in for, they were serving beer in real glasses, instead of the plastic ones used at every other Macc Lads gig.
@@FrankSkinbone agree on the date mate , I was at the Manc gig ,,it was magnificent.. I had a live video of the beer and sex and chips and gravy tour it went mouldy due to the damp ,freezing central heatingless house I was living in at the time ..absolutely gutted …happy days though , not like the bonkers world we live in now eh? …
@@Sandylaner63 I went to several other gigs on that same tour, Warrington, Bolton and Blackburn come to mind, maybe Oldham. I think the International 1 gig was where folk were throwing Newkie Brown bottles from the top balcony into the crowd, fuckin mental. Saw them 6 or 7 times in 18 months then never again until they reformed for a tour in 2018.
@@FrankSkinbone great stuff mate ..God bless RUclips for the reminder of better days ,,,gonna save this video and return to it whenever I feel the sh*tsh*w that is modern Britain creeping up on me…all the best pal
Did anyone go the gig above a chippy in Stockport ?, where we had to leave our shoes at the door….😂
Back in the day I picked up a Macc Lads CD based purely on the song titles. I wasn't disappointed 😆
I live in Blackpool. Guess which Macc Ladds song I heard first. You guessed it. Beer and sex and chips and gravy. They should have written a song about our town, they could have called it Blackpool :p
You should probably look up Anal Cunt.
What cd was it
This comes across as an elaborate Chris Morris sketch.
What I wouldn't give to go back to those days and take some cake at one of their live shows
"Banned ..... and Norwich", or "police threatened to arrest them for breach of the peace if they heard swearing in the their songs". Its kind of pythonesque as well. One can only imagine the response to being banned from Norwich or told not to swear. Its just comedy and pre-internet trolling at its best.
@@Thefan_Studio I saw these guys back in 82' off my bonce on clarky cat. great night
@@AYA-bs2ub bloody hell, bet you were on the jessop jessop jessop the next day weren't you?
hahha, exactly. talking positively about an insane thing
So the authorities couldn't handle songs about beer and fights but now it's apparently ok for drill rappers to rap about blasting rival gang members to bits.
Progress.
It was a lot easier to offend people in the 80s, most of the older generation grew up on Cliff F@@@@g Richard’s.
Freedom of expression. Don't be such a snowflake.
Enjoy the decline
@@AG-gr4yx Free speech is all well and good in a society that doesn't have savages running around shooting each other or sickos telling people it's ok to do inappropriate things to children, thus ruining it for everyone else. If you had thought your comment through, you'd find that free speech absolutism isn't all it's cracked up to be. So not wanting gangs of feral Africans in one's country is being a snowflake now? Ok then.
Heard them but never actually got to go to one of their gigs. "Sweaty Betty" what a classic
'Ey up! Macc Lads are legendary
They are like if chubby brown formed a punk band
Indeed, utterly pathetic.
& Sham meet Black Lace .
Pub Rock at its Finest 😃👍
They were a lot better than that arsehole
Except there's meaning and concern in what the Lads sing about. Brown is just an arse.
@@fritzdrybeam No, not really.
We, The Obscene Females, played our first gig with the Macc Lads in 1983 in Huddersfield! Good laugh!
alongside Criminal Justice and PP and the Pungent Smells.
That must have been an interesting first gig🤙🏼
I'm trying to find your first album 'A bit of chaos mate'!!!
@@PunaSquirrelha, I have a tape but that’s it, had a few tracks on comps, discogs turns up some interesting releases!
@@PunaSquirrelcertainly was for a bunch of 16 year olds 😂
The Macc Lads are fookin awesome!! Been a fan since the 80's....never fail to make me smile. It's just adult fun and people need to get over themselves and get a life.
awesome, so you must love saying the N word then, you like the song feed ya face?
Get a life yourself numbskull.
I still have my vinyl copy of Beer & Sex & Chips n Gravy. A classic of its time.
IT'S ALL A MACC LAD WAAAAANTS!
I could sing my way through that every day, I listened to it so much back then.
Love the Macc Lads was at their 6th birthday gig at Preston Guildhall in '89, still one of the most fun gigs I've ever been to.
I genuinely read that as being at the 6th birthday party of one of the members first time round 🤣
Driving around with their cassettes in the car in Canada going to work. Set the tone for the day.
I had "Live at Leeds" on one side of a tape and MacLaen & MacLean on the other side, Macclesfield's finest and Canada's finest, wore that tape out.
Offensive or not, they were bloody genius at the time
Embodied a real regional vibe to punk and didn’t give a crap about the political correctness that swept the nation.
That and they just had fun
People make a choice to be offended
Mutley McLadd is a lyrical genius, seen them in concert many times….General Wolfe pub in Coventry, Princess Charlotte pub in Leicester. Didn’t matter what got chucked on stage at them, they would just keep banging it out. 👌🏻
Ayyy, The Charlotte. Miss that gaff.
I saw them at the General Wolfe in Coventry, in the 80's. Great gig and had a good laugh😎
6:55 No sheep till Buxton is an absolute banger
Seen the Macc Lads on numerous occassions and I can honestly say they are the best group I have ever seen live . Fantastic memories from the 80s and they are just as good nowadays .
Remember being introduced to The Macc Lads by a Geordie squaddie whilst serving at Bessbrook Mill in The British Army.
Must have been 1988-1989 and still listening to them!! 👍🙂
You sure he was a Geordie? Do you know What Macc Lads _means?_
@robashton8606 He definately was from that way? Does it mean Maccum?
@@Spartacus45it means they are from Macclesfield, near manchester
I was in South Armagh 88-89 as well. Not at the Mill though.
Retired RUC here. We used to listen to The Macc Lads in the back of the truck when I was in the MSU.
A throwback to 1976 punk but with a sense of madness and fun. What's not to like!? 😭
Back in the late 70s, I headed a similar band called Dead Boar.
This was during the Thatcher days, when folks were just as pissed off as they are today.
We had a total ball with local gigs, recording sessions in studios,
Judging by our audiences reaction, we were well received.
I really miss those care free days as a teenager, which today’s kids will never experience.
45 years on, I still have the mic I used, and I don’t play anymore, but still work as a guitar tech.
Some people don’t understand the spitting at the performers
it’s called,
“liquid appreciation”.
Init, I used to love local punk shows. Growing up in the 2000's the local punk shows which was mainly full of bands in their 40's 50's had such a better vibe than going to big shows. Gettin up stage with a pint, belting out a chorus with the band, who were generally chuffed anyone knew their lyrics, then diving back into the pit.
Nah spitting is an assault you noddlehead.
It's crazy the amount of "people are too sensitive and 'woke' today. They just don't understand the joke" in the comments; this group was literally banned across a good chunk of the entire country back in the 80's...
lol - the comments are so like Viz letterbocks it's unreal.
Too right If ya ain’t getting banned then it ain’t punk rock 🫡
@@michaelwills1926 I think the point was that people were just as sensitive back then...
They were banned from playing in a lot of places, not due to their music or lyrics, but due to the fact their fans used to caused a huge amount of damage to the venue. I had a friend who went to see them once and he said that at one point during the concert some fans ripped the condom machine off the wall of the toilets and threw it on stage. There were numerous fights between the punk fans and the rock fans in the audience. Doors were smashed and broken etc.
Banned across a good chunk..they played pubs, and a few didn't let them in. It was more a case of not letting punks bands in.
Been waiting for someone to cover the lads for a long time, looking forward to this!
I remember in the early 90s at college a guy used to sing 'Uncle Nobby' and 'Sweaty Betty', you don't her those type of songs anymore.
Saw these so many times in the mid to late 80's including the chip shop tour when they hired a lorry and had some lass in a bikini wearing a miss Macclesfield sash handing out free gravy from a giant tub
Amazing. 😂 "Shout Cuπ" 😂
I remember the flyers for that in Halifax at school
They are the MOST important band to ever come out of Macc !
Their lyrics are a true and precious documentation of life in macclesfield in the 70s and 80s.
Quite simply a national treasure.
Ahh Macclesfield that den of iniquity 😂😂
The Macc Lads are, at their core, the musical embodiment of a particular sector of society. They represent, with unapologetic vigor, the essence of lad culture-crude, irreverent, and defiantly unpolished. In a world where music often strives for emotional resonance or transformative power, the Macc Lads stand as a brazen contrast.
Are they an invaluable, groundbreaking talent that reshaped the landscape of music and profoundly moved their audience? Hardly. They don’t aim to inspire; rather, they exist in the same realm as insult comedy, where shock and provocation are the act. They are like a late-night spectacle-a drunken man getting in a fight or someone noisily losing their dinner in the back of a taxi. The Macc Lads are exactly what they present themselves to be: blunt, and loud try hards. The Macc Lads unapologetically carve out a space for those who find humor in the unrefined, repetitive, and mindlessly crass-reveling in a world that many scoff at but some find oddly freeing
Never heard of them but I now like them. They sounds like a good time tbh
Now He's a Poof and Dan's Pants!😂
Back when shock comedy was all the rage and people laughed at those who were 'offended'.
Along with acts like Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, the lads from Mac, were a staple of the UK, heavy metal scene in the mid eighties.
Saw Dumpy's at the Tivoli in Buckley, Dumpy gave me a signed 12" because I had the same goggles on my arm as he wore. Excellent times.
@davidpowell6098 Wank Sandwich sir?
"So he opened the window, wiped his arse, and threw the offending bags on the grass". "He shouts Everybody come and look at this, they're streaked with shit and they're stained with piss. But don't look at me, they're not fookin mine! But his loving mum had sewn his fookin name inside!"
@@Si74l0rd You knew them off by heart, didn't you?🤣
@@gregsmith7821 Yeah lol, Dan's underpant is one of my favourites too.
Back in the day, me and my housemates in Brighton had the pleasure of playing 'Ay Up We're the Macc Lads' to Ami Dolenz, Mickey Dolenz' daughter. She fucking loved it.
I was 14 when I heard them. Best days of my teenage life back then...
Gods gift . Never has songs talked to me like this . ❤
god i fucking love macc lads, they were amazing
My big bro went to see them back in the day, took an LP for them to sign, when he got it back it turns out one of them had SHAT in the vinyl cover hahaha. Legends.
So I've been on a punk history rabbit hole lately and I just said that this was posted yesterday and like I don't know how I got here but thank you I did
The Macc Lads sit proudly among my metal collection of mp3's. In the late 80's/90's almost all of my mates had their albums.
Remember playing the Macc Lads in school common room in the 80s. Teachers were most impressed 😂
I saw them at the Marquee (1990). While we queued up, the poll tax riots were taking place all around us. The queue cheered the looting going on around us, everytime a window was smashed, particularly a tiny woman running off with a huge keyboard, and we were left alone by the rioters to go into the gig. We could see rioters down the road cross the junction of Chraing Cross Road and Shaftsbury Avenue. 30 seconds later, they all ran the other way, pursued by the fuzz with helmets and shields. Then we saw the Macc Lads, supported by Eddie Shit. It was a bif of a remarkable evening.
Yes great year that.🎉
I remember that day as a kid, there was a live TV show being filmed in a theatre somewhere in central london and the presenters kept stopping and looking fearfully off camera for a few seconds. Then one said, sorry, there's a bit of trouble outside. They were $hitting bricks
I was at that gig. Mutley told the crowd at the end that they wouldn't do an encore so they could go back to the rioting
I was at that gig as well. We were in the queue outside singing (if that's what you can call it) Macc Lads songs alternately to the police or the rioters depending on who was charging past us at that particular moment. And the atmosphere inside was incredible. It was indeed one hell of a night!
Charlotte is still the biggest slag in Macc. Quite how anyone could have been offended by these guys is absurd, they were awesome.
I ran the only venue in Sheffield - the council and student's union booking committee being rapidly PC - which would pur them on.
They played the Saturday and Sundaay nights of a Bank Holiday weekend.
They found our that the Sunday was my birthday and when I got to work they and their 2 roadies/security guys presented me with a birthday card, fabulous bouquet and huge box of REALLY good choccies.
And this was before Sunday shopping laws were substantially changed or the Meadowhall shopping mall was opened so I've no idea where they got it all from.
Off stage they were one of the nicest bunch of musos I ever had the pleasure of working with.
Being banned from Portsmouth is a blessing.
your great video has helped introduced hundreds if not thousands of people into the awareness of this band. Much needed right now to know! i will admit they are one of them well kept secrets amongst the genre
One of the best gigs ive ever been to, my 12th gig, 6th December Sheffield Take 2 with The Bland
Rhyming “Macclesfield” with “get your knackers feeled”, has always impressed me.
I went for a job interview and as I took my jacket off in the waiting room the woman who was interviewing me saw a couple of badges on the arm..in the interview she said I noticed a Macc lads badge...the woman interviewing me was the mum of muttleys girlfriend...job was mine🙂
I heard that Muttley had a psychology degree. You could never accuse the band of taking themselves too seriously.
was she also a massive racist? was the song feed your face?
A few of us persuaded the landlord of a country pub we played pool in to put a new version of an old Monkee's hit on the jukebox , you know the one, when we put it on at Sunday lunchtime the local patrons almost choked on their roast beef, the landlord had a shock as well.
I'm down with a horrible flu and this gave me the smile I really needed. Definitely going to look them up.
Your in for a treat!!! Always make me smile too!!!
Honestly, this didn't do them justice
Saw them in Portsmouth. It was nuts!!!! Everyone at the front was non-stop spitting at them! Sweaty Betty was my fave I think.
Outfuckingstanding. Tongue in cheek humour. Brings back so many good memories.
Saw them many times in their heyday & caught a couple of their more recent mini revival gigs. Tongue so firmly in cheek it would take surgery to remove it. & all the people that don't get it? It just says more about them than it does the Macc Lads or those of us who bought their albums & went along to their gigs.
"You think you're one of the Macc Lads? You look a fookin' sight!
I've spilt more Ale down me waistcoat than you've supped tha' night!"
i nearly lost half mi arm
Seen them twice. I bought Beer & sex on release back in '85. Always liked them and I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks.
Oooh, wow, you're so edgy 😂
Is that gob landing on the singer's shirt at around 0:25? Classy.
Cum.
I was too young to see them in their day, got to see them twice on their return a few years ago and they didn't disappoint.
Drinks flying everywhere, happy people and they were great.
I even landed a beer on mutleys head just as the last song finished.
Got a big cheer from everyone 😂
Wildest gig I've ever been to. Beer Necessities tour in '90.
Glasses of beer and piss going all over the place.
Fuckin cosmic night.
Loved the Macc Lads ever since I heard them for the first time when my mate in the Army started playing one of their cassettes in our room at our barracks in Driffield in 1988
The lyrics to their songs are absolute genius.
Apprentice Dentist has always been my favourite song
Superb stuff!
20 pints of Boddingtons then outside for a fight😂
Then down tet chippy for some chips n gravy ana couple o' pasties.
Av spilt more ale down me waistcoat... than you've supped tonite
I was at school with Muttley in Macclesfield back in the 70s. He seemed like such a nice lad at the time! They produced iconic songs though - who can forget 'Beer an' sex an' chips an' gravy' or 'Sweaty Betty' 🙂
I'm mainly a Soul music head but I love the attitude of Punk and the likes of the Macc Lads. Some call them leg ends, but I think they are legends!
I think you meant bellends😂
Saw them in Bristol.When they walked out on stage Mutley got hit with a plastic pint of lager.Without missing a beat his response "You f***ING queer that had lime in it."😂
Legend
I remember seeing them advertised in "Kerrang" in the 80's, I'd never heard them until this video, cheers!
-" I fought yer said yer luvved me"
-" I never fuckin' did!"
Fluffy Pup 😂
That’s our Eurovision entry sorted ….
I saw them in the Opera on the Green (Shepherd's Bush) in 1989. It was.......an experience!
Same stiffs who hated the Beatles then the pistols now anyone who doesn't march in the woke mob.
The woke mob suck ar*#holes but so the Macc Lads
Brilliant Band 🙂
The first time I heard Desperate Dan as a 12 year old I nearly pissed my pants laughing. Comedic Genius.
Great band, superb lyrics. Only a traitor to the species would think otherwise.
I’ve got to tell you man, your voice is like one of narrators from the beebs science school tv shows. And I love that.
Dicko [aka Neil Dickinson] was tour manager for the lads for some time. He taught me to play guitar after which I and some mates formed local [Southport] punk band, Mayhem. Most memorable Macc Lads lyric "Can I rattle me tatties against your dirt box"
Never hear of this band till today, I love this band :)
Brilliant video, brought back memories of 1990. Christ! I’d forgot about the Lads!
As a 50something white male Mancunian (who's long since fled to the countryside) I fucking love the Macc Lads. A hilarious exercise in outright offensiveness.
"Watching Live Aid while eating my dinner, sit up straight you lazy..."
You'd probably go to prison for saying that in 2024 Britain.
'Feed your face, dont give them a second thought!'
The band I was in opened for them in Nottingham in about 1987 in front of about 50 people. Great night. Much of the archive footage in this piece is from the Macc Lads VHS I've got in my loft.
I'd totally forgotten
about this lot!!
Wonder where they are now…
If you see a sweet and kind looking old grandad walking around Macclesfield just remember he was probably in the audience jumping around to these guys when he was younger.
They were brilliant, I sang for a mates band once who were based on The Macc Lads, less offensive with songs which were just very silly, one was about a $6m Scalextric set, we entered a battle of the bands and won a support slot for Napalm Death! 🤣
What was the band called?
ND are amazing
@@66velkaida The Booze
@@markjones127I saw a band called 'Call me Moses' who were similar to The Macc Lads and did some covers of their songs.
Back in the early ninties just as me and my friends were getting our first cars and driving to footie games, someone always had a Macc Lads tape. Great times.
Vauxhall Viva covered in rust, but you can't poke a bird on a 29 bus
Sweaty Betty was my favourite song 😅
She eats lots of pies.
@@professornuke7562 used to play for wigan at the back of the scrum ...
Same here👍
I saw them play "The Limelight" in Belfast during the early 90's. Brilliant night, one of my first ever gigs.