SOME important and influential contributors to the rich history of radical punk rock get a bit more of the recognition they definitely deserve with the debut screening of the documentary Kick Out: The Newtown Neurotics Story on Saturday April 25 in Leytonstone, east London.  

I’ll lay my cards on the table. When it comes to the Neurotics — as they’ve inevitably been called over the decades — I’m biased. They charged out of the Essex new town of Harlow about the same time as Thatcher crawled out of the Finchley slime into Number 10 and were a constant thorn in her side through the great battles of the 1980s.

They were there for The Right to Work Campaign, the miners’ strike and the Wapping dispute, along with countless other worthy causes, and I was often right beside them. They were a truly dedicated bunch and singer Steve Drewett is my best mate.