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Band News: Sham69 - The Kids Are DividedThe Kids are no longer united!!! Read two statments by Dave Parsons about the spilt with Jimmy Pursey. The first shown on the BBC web site, the second statement was in answer to Jimmy's reply. -------------------------------------------------------- 1st statement Sham69 have left Jimmy Pursey on the eve of they're 30th anniversary. The band had become increasingly fed up with Jimmys lack of interest in playing live and continually letting down both promoters and fans by pulling out of gigs at the last moment. Original guitarist and co-songwriter Dave Parsons and Ian Whitewood, drummer with Sham for the last 20 years are continuing as Sham69. They have just recruted a new bass player and will shortly be auditioning singers. Dave said " it's good to finally have a bit of controll over our own destiny - being in Sham had become like working in a dictatorship". Former Bassist Mat Sargent is now playing with Honest John and will play no part in any line up of Sham69. " There's quite a lot of tension between us at the moment, the last thing I want is to get vindictive or for us to end up in some kind of public slagging match. After all I've been in Sham for 30 years now, and some of the best times I've ever had have been with Jimmy. For a while now Jimmys been toying with the idea of calling the band "Jimmy Pursey and Sham69" - well his now free to go and be Jimmy Pursey, the band is mine and I intend to get out there and for the first time in 20 years do some serious live work, something we could never do with Jimmy. I just hope he can let go, so we can all move on, I wish him all the best for the future." -------------------------------------------------------- 2nd statement ( basically answering what Jimmy said about statement No.1 ) The end came in the dressing room after our gig at the Shepherds Bush Empire after Jimmy informed the band he was only paying us a tiny proportion of the gig money, and the £6000 gig money from our previous Palais gig he was paying us nothing - interesting considering he claims not to be interested in the money, and also that the Empire gig was an all day Punk event which he claims he doesn't do. If you check with the musicians union you'll find that he is blacklisted for not paying his musicians. I would have liked nothing more than to have sat down with Jimmy and talked this over like adults, which I tried to do at the Empire gig, but unfortunately as soon as he hears something he doesn't like he starts screaming and shouting. That night he said "if I carried on, he would pay us nothing from the gig." It was also at this point that I informed him of my intentions to carry on playing without him. Jimmy left the band the first time round to make a super group with Steve Jones and Paul Cook; they couldn't work with him saying, "he was more of a pain than Rotten." I meanwhile had recorded a new Sham single without him titled, "He who dares wins." Jimmy came back and changed the words to "Unite and Win." When we reformed the band in 1986 it was me who put the band back together bringing in musicians I had worked with in the previous couple of years. Sham 69 is my life's work as a musician and songwriter and no matter what Jimmy says or does, we will be continuing as SHAM69. Sham were supposed to play on the 'Hurry up England' track: the next thing the band knew was that he'd gone in the studio and recorded it without us knowing, using Graham Coxon's Band. (Jimmy claims that he never wanted to do that England track. We all know if he really hadn't want to do it he wouldn't have done). During this period a whole load of gigs were cancelled at the last moment leaving the band high and dry while Jimmy concentrated on being a star again. Apart from these gigs, I could give you a list as long as your arm of gigs that he not only pulled out of at the last moment, but also took a large amount of money up front which went into his own pocket - just ask the fans who have been let down and all the angry promoters over the world from Japan to Scotland. |
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