With painted patterns on their draped forms, they resembled clothing or dishrags.
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Brad Lloyd, a personal trainer in New York City, has developed a workout technique using just two dishrags.
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The owners stood in the dark and heat, wiping their faces with dishrags and ringing up orders with a calculator.
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Actually, the video, which was posted online by a user named Big Daddy Dishrags, is almost just too perfect to be real.
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Clothed in dishrags and other found materials, they clutch everyday objects, like grocery store pineapples, that seem to possess some great spiritual significance.
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Keen royalists can, if they fancy, buy items from an officially approved (by Kensington Palace) line of royal-wedding-ware that includes cups, saucers, mugs and plates, along with biscuits, dishrags, Champagne and candles.
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Originally known as Dee Dee and the Dishrags, the band was formed in 1976 in Victoria, British Columbia, a city 60 miles from Vancouver, and included the trio of high school students Jade Blade (lead guitar, vocals), Carmen "Scout" Michuad (drums), and Dale Powers (bass guitar). Moving to Vancouver, with its burgeoning punk rock scene, the Dishrags opened for the city's first punk concert, sharing the bill with the Furies at the Japanese Hall on July 30, 1977. The band performed sporadically thereafter while also attending high school in Victoria, and inspired the formation of three other punk female groups, the Visitors, Devices, and Zellots. In 1978, the Dishrags returned to Vancouver where they gave many performances, including a concert at the Commodore Ballroom with the Clash in January 1979.
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By contributing the song "I Don't Love You", the band made its recording debut on the influential compilation album, Vancouver Complication, in 1979. Music critic Stewart Mason wrote of the song's merits: "If they had never made another recording, the Dishrags would remain beloved in punk-fanboy circles for the track 'I Don't Love You'. 103 seconds long and built on an insistent, scratchy guitar riff and a positively crazed drum part played primarily on the ride cymbal, 'I Don't Love You' is as clangorous and primitive as U.K. second-wavers like the Slits or the Desperate Bicycles". The Dishrags released their EP Past Is Past, containing three tracks, in 1980 on Modern Records.
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Prior to traveling to London to record their follow-up EP, Powers departed the group, and was replaced by bassist Kim Henriksen and guitarist Susan MacGillivray, both from Devices. Produced by musician Chris Spedding and titled Death in the Family, the EP was released in June 1980 and followed a more pop-based structure. The Dishrags disbanded soon after, but the original trio reunited as the Raisenettes, a Motown-inspired group. On January 28, 2006, Other People's Music distributed the compilation album Love/Hate, featuring all of the Dishrags' released material, as well as demo recordings, live tracks, and the previously-unreleased song, "Bullshit" (which also appears on the reissued version of Vancouver Complication).
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The band returned to Japan in August 2010 with support from a re-united Dishrags, their all female contemporaries from the original Vancouver Punk scene. Pointed Sticks participated in a Vancouver benefit concert for Japan earthquake relief on May 12, 2011. "Three Lefts Make a Right" was mixed by Vancouver's Mike Fraser. The complete Stiff Sessions recordings were released on CD in Japan in 2008, on the Base label.
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Bloodied but Unbowed was produced and directed by independent filmmaker Susanne Tabata. Between 2007 and 2010, Tabata combined archival film footage, audio recordings and photographs from the 1970s and early 1980s with interviews of people who had been involved with the Vancouver punk scene. Bands featured included D.O.A., Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, the Modernettes, the Braineaters, The Dishrags, and the Subhumans, as well as Rabid, U-J3RK5, and Active Dog. The 75 minute film premiered at the 2011 DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, and was screened at various other film festivals in the US and Canada.
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After announcing Marr's departure from the group on 11 April 2011, The Cribs started work on writing the follow up to Ignore the Ignorant, mooted for a spring 2012 release.Q magazine, EMAP publishing, February 2013 Issue – Albums of 2012 feature by Dan Stubbs During this time, they recorded a cover of original 70's Canadian punk band The Dishrags 'Death in the Family' for a Canadian Mint Records compilation. Over the summer they played several headlining slots at UK festivals in 2011, as well as a show at Le Zenith in Paris with The Strokes. In June 2011 they made their first trip to Brazil, playing two shows in São Paulo.
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It featured musicians also known as the Sick Ones, Chuck Biscuits, Brad Kent, Zippy Pinhead, and Benny Doro. Randy was a key figure in Susanne Tabata's documentary film Bloodied But UnBowed, a historical look at the birth of the Vancouver punk rock scene and the development of hardcore punk on the West coast of North America during the 1978–1983 timeframe. He appears in this film along with Art Bergmann, Jello Biafra, Joe Keithley, Duff McKagan, Henry Rollins, Ron Reyes (ex-Black Flag), Penelope Houston, Ginger Coyote, Buck Cherry (John Armstrong), Gerry Hannah, Jim Cummins AKA I, Braineater, Zippy Pinhead, Brad Kent, Keith Morris, Greg Hetson and many others. Bands featured include D.O.A., Subhumans (Canadian band), Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, The Dishrags, The Modernettes, among others.
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