They’ve got a last name, but the world knows them simply as Tish and Snooky.
Snooky and Tish in front of 33 St. Marks Place, where they had their retail shop from 1977 until 1989
“Of course,” she admits, “it might have something to do with the fact that our band’s name was ‘The Sic F*cks!'” That’s one thing that hasn’t changed over the years, as evidenced by their willingness to be nice to the folks who stopped to chat in the middle of our photo shoot.Besides that musical venture, their performing history includes a stint in an early version of Blondie and has continued over the years with gigs with Squeeze, Ronnie Spector, Patti Smith, Robert Gordon, the Blues Brothers, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders, Lenny Kaye and more.
Tish Bellomo’s son Orion was on guitar and harmonica while Snooky Bellomo’s husband played bass and, in a tender moment, stepped up to the mic for a bit of a romantic reminiscence about his wife. But like all those late-night CBGB gigs, that’s all a memory now. “I would put my kids in their little leather jackets, carry them in with the carriers and leave them on the bar while we did the gig,” Tish Bellomo recounts.
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