tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13852175.post1481985812851846977..comments2024-01-07T09:25:28.592-08:00Comments on Heavy Metal Time Machine: Forgotten Gems:Rox-Violent BreedMetal Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18400759786407810475noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13852175.post-53503139024050324722013-07-18T09:02:01.239-07:002013-07-18T09:02:01.239-07:00It's always cool to hear from people/fans that...It's always cool to hear from people/fans that were around these bands back in the day.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15260014541945644481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13852175.post-89796204476906012862013-07-11T17:52:04.675-07:002013-07-11T17:52:04.675-07:00Just seen this page and it took me back to my yout...Just seen this page and it took me back to my youth. Say hello to Red Hot Red. I remember Ian well and his wife, always lovely. I used to date Kevin and remember the gigs as having some 'interesting' reactions lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13852175.post-48005867868005498292012-05-17T16:04:15.446-07:002012-05-17T16:04:15.446-07:00Haha, just read the above comment, really made me ...Haha, just read the above comment, really made me laugh, My dad is Red Hot Red, and he has NEVER told me any of those stories... i shall have to ask him! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13852175.post-37417762521967504112012-01-15T08:54:43.942-08:002012-01-15T08:54:43.942-08:00Rox used to call themselves Venom.
The story goes ...Rox used to call themselves Venom.<br />The story goes ( cannot account if this 100% true )but it was well known that the real Venom a Black Metal outfit from Newcastle drove down to Manchester in a beaten up van and grabbed hold of Rox aka Venom and told them to change the name of the band otherwise they would get a good kicking to the head thus Manchester Venom became known as Rox.<br />Now this I can account for as 100% true for I was there. Rox going by the name of Venom did a gig at the Manchester UMIST in the early 80's in support of some overrated band called Diamond Head.<br />Well Rox came on in a blaze of strobe lights and dry ice the immediate reaction of the crowd was jeering "fuckin puff", "fuckin shit", "get the fuck off" and "fuck off you queer bastards" and the women in the crowd where making signals like putting their fingers down their throats mimicking the act of being sick and vomiting.<br />So Rox were very entertaining for all the wrong reasons.<br />Eventually the singer had all he could take with the heckling and growls down his microphone "fuck off" trying to look Badass with it, somehow it just did not have the desired effect he would have liked as soon as he said it a hail of beer bottles and pint glasses came flying over in the bands direction at which Rox fled the stage and sneaked out the back as not to get themselves beat up.<br />Now I must say they did look like a bunch of Drag Queens the singer had a silver jump suit on with huge winged shoulder pads that should have belonged in a Flash Gordon movie.<br />Also he wore a pair of knee high gold platform boots had a silly bleached white haircut that could have been a wig and glitter with makeup on his face.<br />They thought they were the bollox the crowd thought otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com