The Pop Rivets

The Pop Rivets (AKA TV 21) played their first show in 1977 at Detling Village Hall, Kent. Famous for their renditions of “Stingray” and “Hippy Hippy Shake”, The Pop Rivets recorded the first truly independent punk LP in 1978/9, pipping Swell Maps to the post (who’s LP was actually funded by Rough Trade). The Pop Rivets, on the other hand, borrowed £300 from AKA, a friend, who had just received a year’s Social Security back pay. AKA was a type of fan who hated Childish and dismissed the Pop Rivets as a bunch of art school wafters. The mystified Pop Rivets took the money anyway and set about recording the “Greatest Hits” LP in the front room of a bungalow in Herne Bay. (They had to stop recording for the engineers mother to watch the 6 o’clock news). The resulting LP was described in the NME as “The youngsters as the future of rock ‘n’ roll” and then nothing happened.

The Pop Rivets (AKA TV 21) played their first show in 1977 at Detling Village Hall, Kent. Famous for their renditions of “Stingray” and “Hippy Hippy Shake”, The Pop Rivets recorded the first truly independent punk LP in 1978/9, pipping Swell Maps to the post (who’s LP was actually funded by Rough Trade). The Pop Rivets, on the other hand, borrowed £300 from AKA, a friend, who had just received a year’s Social Security back pay. AKA was a type of fan who hated Childish and dismissed the Pop Rivets as a bunch of art school wafters. The mystified Pop Rivets took the money anyway and set about recording the “Greatest Hits” LP in the front room of a bungalow in Herne Bay. (They had to stop recording for the engineers mother to watch the 6 o’clock news). The resulting LP was described in the NME as “The youngsters as the future of rock ‘n’ roll” and then nothing happened.