But the new lineup, which features Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley on drums and Cáit “Rocky” O’Riordan of the Pogues on bass, makes sense to them. “We didn’t even know if it was gonna be possible to replace him and keep it going as Bush Tetras,” says Place, who likens Pop to a brother. The band first reformed in 1995 and after numerous rotations of the rhythm section since, Bush Tetras have just marked their return with They Live in My Head, the first full-length recorded since the 1990s, and the first release without their original drummer Dee Pop, who died in 2021. “But I never thought it would really go anywhere.” Within months though, the group went from performing in front of 40 people to filling rowdy 1,000-cap venues, and that first single – its discordant groove and steely attitude bolstered by Cynthia Sley’s indifferent speak-sing delivery – even reached the Billboard club charts. “Downtown New York was a little rough, so the lyrics were definitely something people would relate to,” Place explains. Fed up with passersby harassing her or firing unsolicited comments about her outlandish appearance while selling tickets, she jotted down the refrain in a matter of minutes: “I just don’t wanna go out in the streets no more…” The resultant track released later that year became a “downtown anthem”, she says, and shuttled her band Bush Tetras toward cult acclaim in the city. In 1980, Pat Place was working in the box office of a cinema on New York’s Bleecker Street when she wrote the lyrics to Too Many Creeps – soon one of the funkiest numbers from the whole post-punk movement – amid a spell of procrastination.
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