| Formed in Great Yarmouth East Anglia in 1974 and known as Cosmic Love and then Teezer, The Crabs were vocalist/guitarist Tony Diggines, guitarist Ronny Rocka, drummer Ricci Titcombe and bassist William Strang.They reformed this year 2005 to play at the Morcombe Punk fest Wasted and will be playing at the next one in London Dec.2005. They supported the likes of X-Ray Spex,The Lurkers, Sham 69, The Jam & Siouxsie & The Banshees and many others and regularly played famous punk venues venues like The Roxy & Vortex. Also known as The Fulham Furies for a sideproject. After The Crabs members became the backing band for Gary Holton and played with Max Splodge. During the eighties Ronny Rocka played with The Angelic Upstarts and The Godfathers.
Its a sad fact but like so many bands at the time The Crabs never got the breaks nor the recordings out they deserved. Quality songs like Lullabies Lie show a tuneful quality while Victim shows them as punk rock as the next. Their sole recording output is a solitary live track Lullabies Lie on the mixed bag that was the Farewell To The Roxy album. They signed to Lightning in February 1978, home of the flotsam & jetsam of punk like The Mirrors, Cane & Horrorcomic who were going nowhere. Allegedly a single exists - Victim /Blue Unction/ My Skin - but probably was never released as noone has ever seen a copy. Tracks in their set at the time included Dull Kid, C.R.A.B.S,For Us & Wartime Memories. They got very little publicity except when Ricci was charged with intent to commit GBH in February 1978. Tired of beer glasses being thrown at him he threw one back and ... hit his girlfriend... and got arrested despite her not wanting to press charges!!!
Mind you their 'Catch The Crabs slogan' was catchy!
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