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“I knew that Segs played a bit of guitar - he liked his funk and he was a great dancer with a good sense of rhythm - so we gave him a two pronged audition the first one involved a case of beer, a bottle of blue label vodka, a ball of Afghan hash and a couple of grams of premium flake. Dave, feeling that he was never going to be a bass player, switched to drums with the Ruts. Paul Mattocks was drumming with both bands but the time had come to choose sides. The other was ‘yes, it’s three chords but aren’t three chords good when you go back to the roots of rock ‘n’ roll?’” “Like the Ramones separated my clients in the shop, punk separated Hit & Run. It was a rough old place, in Ruislip, out Hayes way.” We did a Ruts performance at a Hit & Run gig in the Target pub, which is now McDonalds at the Target Roundabout. It was like I was waiting for my opportunity…I was waiting for punk rock to happen.we wrote a few songs (later to be released as the Stepping Bondage demos). I was in my early 20s but as a movement it was the whole, ‘yes you can do it’ that inspired me to believe I could do it and change my life. “We started the Ruts while that was going on. Malcolm Owen, “being a bit of a DJ”, was on the sidelines. Paul Fox (guitar) and Gary Barnacle (sax) were also members. Future Ruts bass player Segs (a friend made through the shop) became a roadie with the band. Dave spent so much of his spare time frequenting record shops that he ended up working for a small chain, James Asman’s, which had stores in Camomile Street, Cannon Street and in New Row (off St Martins Lane).ĭave Ruffy continued to play music, drumming with a group called Hit & Run. Initially, his wages came from a factory job followed by a stint as a messenger in the City.

He was playing music but unable to make a living from it. In the early ‘70s, Dave was living in the East End of London with his wife and young daughter. The background begins with a head spinning journey back to a time when record retailers thrived and vinyl junkies weren’t constantly answering the two inseparable questions, ‘can you still get records/record players?’ He admits to digressing a lot, “just to give you extra background”. Primarily a drummer, Dave’s credits also include song writing, production and Midi drum programming.ĭave Ruffy is a teller of vivid stories recreating dialogue in the present tense, mimicking voices and inflections, and frequently ending the reported conversation with a question to give extra resonance. It includes the Ruts, Prefab Sprout, Aztec Camera, Waterboys, Sinead O’Connor and Kirsty MacColl. Dave Ruffy’s ‘CV’ reads like a ‘who’s who’ of left field pop over the past 30 years.

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