(c’86-87) Ade Street (co-lead vocal), Max ? (co-lead vocal), Tim Eagles (drums), Glenn Blackman (bass), Gary Blackman (guitar) and ? “JJ” ? (guitar).
This Aldershot band aimed for a James Chance / Beastie Boys contortion and were included in The Buzz Club‘s local band night, at the West End Centre, Aldershot, on 26 November ’87 along with The Aurbisons, The Gathering, The Caretaker, and The Dead Beats. Hugh Shipman was there, reporting that he “saw Drink Britain Dry, the most entertaining show by anybody that I ever attended. “Golden rain, from Chernobyl”. Wonderful. They were huge but they should also have been famous.”
This wasn’t the bands only appearance at the West End Centre, we know that they were once supported by Rising Signs, that band’s debut, at the venue.
The Aurbisons’ Dave Driscoll recalls, in an interview for Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V.3: “A small group of skinheads would come to our gigs & shout “Woahhhhhhh you’re sh*t!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!” after every song. I later found most of them were in a band called Drink Britain Dry. They were fantastic & ahead of their time. They were funk-punk with white boy rapping over the top, the basic opus of their songs, being the glorification of getting completely munted. At the end of their set the band would throw down their instruments, grab the singer & carry him on their shoulders & lay him on the bar.”
Prior to Drink Britain Dry, Street had been in Rebels Without Mercy, and The Plague.
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