Rotorvate with The Ramones

Because I’m a complete geek, I follow FansRamones on Instagram, who today posted this photograph of da brudders waffling about in front of a gazebo-styled bandstand that instantly struck a chord with me.

FansRamones didn’t post any credit or background, but I’m going to suggest that this is the same London bandstand that appears in both the video for “Typical Girls” by the Slits and, later, the one that appeared on the sleeve of the ominous industrial opus that is Horse Rotorvator by COIL. Here are both now.

and...

 

Fact Magazine (and they should know, one assumes) describes the location, in relation to the sleeve of Horse Rotorvator, thusly...

The cover features a seemingly innocent photo of the Regent’s Park bandstand,which had a few years earlier been the scene of an IRA bomb that killed three soldiers and their horses. A very dark joke from a very bleak and dark time and a portent of the music contained within.

Here's a taste of that album...

Finally, and slightly incongruously, here's the Ramones in London.