Like-minded souls passionate about poetry, they strike up a musical partnership that rockets them to stardom with such punk-meets-folk hits as 'Yankee Doodle'.
In just under 20 minutes, nine songs — including two classics, the ranchera "Volver, Volver" and the corrido "La Cucaracha" — are dispatched with such punk-rock intensity that a mosh pit is likely to form at the hometown CD-release show.
While the Daddies are generally labeled as swing and/or ska, critics have conceived terms such as "punk swing", "power swing" and "big band punk rock" to describe the band's unique interpretation, mixing "the propulsion of swing beats and rabbit-punch bursts of brass with grimy rebel-rock guitars to give the jumpin' jive sound a much-needed facelift".
Any fewer, he thought at the time, "would be such a punk move".
SIMON STEPHENS is a British playwright, the cheery creator of an impressive roster of gritty dramas such as "Punk Rock", "Port" and "Wastwater".
Opposing all rock'n'roll, once the ethos of such important punk bands as Subway Sect, was central to Belle and Sebastian's appeal.
It is viewed as too girly and confected, the antithesis of rebellious sonic subcultures such as punk and reggae – light entertainment rather than art.
Over the last ten years, though, Tokyo has also witnessed a metastasis of street fashion: you see styles that originated in the West, often associated with a particular musical category such as punk, or rap, or hip-hop.
In a rare moment of same-faith bonding, NME writer Charles Shaar Murray told me that his grandmother had to scrub pavements for the Nazis in Vienna, which he felt drew him to the blues and all sufferers' music, such as punk.
