By day, Trudi Harvey is a healthy normal wife and mother. If you saw her in the supermarket you would assume that she was a pillar of society. But by night, she is the dreaded Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. With her suspenders, pince-nez, and "Don't fuck with Germans" badge, she terrorises defaint RAF captives and bends them to her will. She is seen here ordering a beer at a Finchley bierkeller. The waiter didn't bring it fast enough. The state of the remains that were later hauled out of the Thames shocked even hardened pathologists.

THE ALEX HARVEY BUND

- PUTSCHING TOO HARD?

It is by now well known that famous Glaswegian nutter Alex Harvey, 6, is a man totally bereft of what we normal decent God fearing folk think of as "the finer sensibilities." It is the deranged world view that led the appalling Harvey to hold, a couple of weeks back, what he described as a "Nazi party."

When our reporters arrived at this disgusting event, they were shocked to find Harvey's luxurious Finchley mansion, 43, bedecked with hastily contrived Third Reich regala.

Not nearly so bedecked, etc, as the members of Harvey's pop group, 4, the Sensational Alex Harvey Bund - not to mention their wives, chattels and personal effects. Harvey's attractive red-headed wife Trudi, 17, wore badges inscribed "Don't Fuck With Germans" and "Hitler Rools O.K.", while the groups principal guitarist Zal "Zal" Cleminson, 20, attended dressed as a woman. An extraordinarly ugly woman, true, but a woman nonetheless.

Harvey himself wore a Kaiser Wilhelm helmet and tunic, khaki shorts, platform shoes and the exceedingly unpleasant combination of a Charles Boyer moustache and a Frank Zappa beard. Bassist Chris Glen resembled a Storm trooper with a severe body odour problem, pianist Hugh McKenna declined to wear fancy dress and just looked appallingly debauched, and photographer Joe Stevens (the man responsible for the photographic outrages on this page) showed up wearing a tie.

The assembled company amused themselves by performing spontaneous pastiches of interrogation scenes from various bad movies made about the recent unpleasantness with the stinking lager slurping, sauerkraut-guzzling Teutons from across the water.


Tyro, Trudy and Alex Harvey


Zal Cleminson is a healthy normal boy with all kinds of normal urges. One of these is the urge to dress up in drag at parties.


Alex Harvey and his bassist Chris Glen threaten to do unspeakable things to someone called Abraham who they picked up in a leather bar the night before. Leni Riefenstahl was played by Joe Stevens.


This article appeared originally in the New Music Express; photos and original HTML provided courtesy Peter Ball.


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