I promised him I would – which meant going through a years worth of tips and compile something…. Methinks you should do a LTW article on the Bands That Punk Forgot Ged…. He started sending me recommendations in 2017: Yeti wrote how he spoke, using ‘me’ as his pronoun… On Facebook he set up a popular Sunday Punk Club – crap jokes, typically Yeti memes and a YouTube track by an obscure punk band. A fixture at local gigs he was ‘Always there, always pissed and will always be remembered’ ( Pinky). He existed on a diet of Special Brew for as long as many of us can remember but once you’d met him, you didn’t forget him. A character, a nutter, but a hilarious, kind, warm, loyal friend to many punks and misfits. Well-known in the Gosport and Portsmouth punk scene as well as the Traveller community, Yeti was one of ‘natures anarchists’, born to be a punk. He died in November and here Ged Babey invites his contemporaries to pay tribute and keeps a promise he made a few years back. By his own description, Yeti was the Self-confessed Peter Pan of Punk, Big ‘n’ Clever Drunk – and Twelve Times Winner of Pompey’s Loveable Cunt of the Year Show.
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