The Krays (band)
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The Krays are a street punk
band from Brooklyn, New York who formed in 1994. John writes all the lyrics.
The Krays played one of the last shows at CBGB
. John was a member of The Devotchkas
, NY Rel-X, and Roger Miret and The Disasters
, and also played bass for The Casualties
for a couple years.
Street punk
Street punk is a working class-based genre of punk rock which took shape in the early 1980s, partly as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British punk. Street punk emerged from the Oi! style, performed by bands such as Sham 69, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney...
band from Brooklyn, New York who formed in 1994. John writes all the lyrics.
The Krays played one of the last shows at CBGB
CBGB
CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...
. John was a member of The Devotchkas
The Devotchkas
The Devotchkas were a four-piece American street punk band from Long Island, NY. Their name was derived from the popular film and novel A Clockwork Orange. Devotchka in Nadsat means "girl", which is itself derived from the Russian word of the same meaning.An all-girl group, the band was formed by...
, NY Rel-X, and Roger Miret and The Disasters
Roger Miret and the Disasters
Roger Miret and the Disasters are a street punk group formed by Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret. The band was formed in 1999. They released their first self-titled debut album in 2002 on Hellcat Records and "Give 'Em The Boot" was released as a single to promote the album. A second album, 1984,...
, and also played bass for The Casualties
The Casualties
The Casualties are an American street punk band from New York City, New York, formed in 1990.-Biography:The Casualties members aimed to return to what they viewed as the "golden era" of street punk, embodied by bands such as The Exploited, Charged GBH , which they believed had disappeared by...
for a couple years.
Discography
- 1998: Inside Warfare
- 2000: A Battle for the Truth
- 2002: A Time For Action (TKO Records)
- 2011: Sangre