Talk:Sham 69

message: "After being the first punk band with a Top 10 UK single, "If The Kids Are United",...."
Oh really? What about that (admittedly otherwise-forgotten) punk band known as Sex Pistols? Didn't they do a tiny wee bit of chart-bothering prior to 1978?
Some serious fantasising going on in this article as it stands...--DaveG12345 14:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  On Sham 69's pioneering chart successes, ahem... 

message: I don't believe the Macdonald's story too. But i don't really know what Pursey's doing now...After going in their website, i just think that he continues to sing in Sham 69 and they are giging somewhere in England... I have a book that gives informations about Sham 69 an Pursey's story but it's old...(date from the 80's yeah!), so i don't know much more about him. :-( But this is not a wikipedien's misheard. I saw that rumour in few other sites too...But this wikipedien did another mistake... this page isn't alright: it's a copy from another text that i saw on internet. But i don't know how to put the advertise! So, if someone can do something to correct this article, do it please. Bobby Disgracious 14:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  re-Macdonald 

message: This phraseology comes from the existing text of the main article. It will certainly bring forth laughter from English readers of the text, if not others too.  Presumably we are talking about a lavatory wall here.  Probably best to say so, otherwise half the world will think we call such things 'bathroom stall walls'.
Derek R Bullamore 23:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "bathroom stall wall" 

message: Were they skinheads or were in support of the Skinhead movement?      In the aticle it said that the the members were skinheads which led to influence oi & street punk. I have also heard they were skinheads from several people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by John)nobody 768 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They were very thin, if that's what you mean. -Ashley Pomeroy 22:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They were a punk band that happened to attract followers that included skinheads. There's a YouTube original 1979 video of them performing "Hersham Boys" - with one of the greatest intros to any pop song ever - here:  - note the few bars of The Sweeney theme tune at the end.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 20:55, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were Sham 69 Skinheads? 

message: For the record, breakup and lineup are real words in the English language. I'm not sure if there is a geographic variation in the way they are spelled, but according to dictionary.com they can be spelled that way, or as break-up and line-up. My preference is to use the spellings without the hyphen, and that's the way I usually see those words spelled on Wikipedia Spylab 10:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Breakup & lineup

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message: Does this event still recquire to be classified as discussing a current event?Hammard 00:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Current Event?

message: I remember the opening chords/intro for "Borstal Breakout" being used in a TV ad campaign for Hormel Foods Corporation's Spam luncheon meat a few years ago. I sent an eMail to Pursey and Sham to inform them but received no reply.  BigMeanie (talk) 18:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam 69 

message: Hi, I just been to a Sham69 gig in Porto, Portugal.  What is this story about a breakup, or did I just see fake members on the stage? :-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.196.214.231 (talk) 10:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breakup, really? 

message: It would appear that there have been numerous POV-pushing edits to this article over the past month or so in relation to the recent breakup of Sham69 and subsequent reformation of one or more lineup(s) of the band, composed of various configurations of current/former Sham69 members. Looks to me as though people who either represent (or are) the various post-split factions are trying to have their version/opinion of the Truth as to who is the legitimate continuation of the band and what exactly happened with the breakup represented as the only one. 
Could I just remind these fellows of WP:COI and WP:NPOV and suggest that they discuss this issue on here and attempt to come to a consensus as to how the article should read, instead of this slow, silent edit-warring? I'm talking to users such as , , ,  and whomsoever is editing using IPs in particular here. Thanks. 
(For what it's worth, I have no particular opinion on who is right here - I don't even own any Sham albums that were released after 1980...) --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 23:03, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. BTW, don't you guys think that the one who had most personal issues with Pursey was Ian Whitewood, not Dave Parsons? See, if Pursey & Parsons had actually become enemies due to Pursey's negligence of the band's duties, would they play together in 2012 and even in their 1977 configuration? Compare the 2 line-ups: it's Ian Whitewood who is missing on drums in the first (original) line-up, so it seems he will never ever play together with Pursey. It's these two guys who had the most personal misunderstandings, so the BBC NEWS (on Jan 26th 2007) was not quite on the spot saying there was a "bitter fallout between Parsons and Pursey". -andy 77.190.21.70 (talk) 17:46, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems to be speculation or original research, a published source would be needed for it to be included in the article. Peter E. James (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent post-breakup (2011) edits... 

message: 'Kings & Queens' album is not a compilation as such, but rerecordings of the old songs........Faren Short  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.243.54 (talk) 14:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Refactored comment from 2009

message: See the comment I posted re Dave Parsons in the article and correct it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.180.153.98 (talk) 15:34, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Refactored comment from 2014

message: What is crochet punk ? Crochet links to the knitting method, punk links to punk music. So what is crochet punk?
Brian  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.233.112.93 (talk) 13:49, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crochetpunk ? 

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