Dead Kennedys – Optional Music – 1979

  California Uber Alles Man With The Dogs The awesome debut 7″ single by the Dead Kennedys on the US based Optional Music label. This was a record that was so good that I also had to have a copy of the UK released 7″ single on the Fast Product label which hit the UK stores sometime in 1980 – It had a […]

Cold War – Namedrop Records – 1983 + Live + Demos – 1981 / 1982

7″ SINGLE TRACKS Machinist Illusion DEMO TRACKS The Machinist / Suffering By Fire / Cold World / Illusion Irrational / Opening Doors / Life On A Wire / Pride / Brother Murder / Confrontation LIVE TRACKS Images / Cold World / Brother Murder / Cosmetics / House Of No Escape / 10,000 / Mr Undertaker / […]

Kill Your Pet Puppy Spring Picnic May 3rd 2009

Title: Kill Your Pet Puppy Spring Picnic Location: North Millfields Recreation Ground near the River Lea Description: Going ahead as planned at Middlesex Filter Beds, Hackney on Sunday 3rd May (it’s a bank holiday next day). Will meet up from 1.30 p.m in North Millfields Recreation Ground near the River Lea/Lea Bridge Road junction before […]

Mark Stewart And the Mafia – ONU Sound Records – 1982

Jerusalem / High Ideals And Crazy Dreams Liberty City A three pronged attack for St Georges Day this year as opposed to the slightly one dimensional 4 Skins post from last year! Firstly William Blake’s popular singalong ‘Jerusalem’ dubbed up by Mark Stewart And The Mafia, and squeezed out the speakers via the hand of Adrian Sherwood […]

The Monochrome Set – Dindisc Records – 1980

The Monochrome Set / The Lighter Side Of Dating / Expresso / The Puerto Rican Fence Climber / Tomorrow Will Be Too Long / Martians Go Home Love Goes Down The Drain / Ici Les Enfants / The Etcetera Stroll / Goodbye Joe / The Strange Boutique Decent debut LP by psychedelic art rockers The Monochrome […]

Angelic Upstarts – Small Wonder / Rough Trade Records – 1978

The Murder Of Liddle Towers Police Oppression Debut 7″ single by Angelic Upstarts re-released by London based Small Wonder and Rough Trade Records (working in partnership) a few months after the original North East based Dead Records release had sold out and several months before the band were riding high in the Top 40 with the second 7″ single ‘I’m An Upstart’ . This track was […]

Blood And Roses – Kamera Records – 1983

Necromatra / Spit Upon Your Grave Love Under Will / Necromantra version 2 The absolutely majestic 12″ by Blood And Roses, the only vinyl release from the classic line up, the band split up soon after the record was released, to resurface in 1985 with a slightly different line up, releasing a further 12″ and […]

Zos Kia – All The Madmen Records – 1984 / 1986

Original 7″ version 1984 Rape Thank You 12″ re-release version 1986 Rape / Thank You Black Action / The Absolute Originally released as a 7″ single in 1984 by KYPP’s very own Alistair, who was running All The Madmen Records in those days. The re-release was organised by the new man in charge at All […]

Twelve Cubic Feet – Namedrop Records – 1982

Blob / Evercare / The Almhouse Mary’s Got The Bug / Escaping Again / Hello Howard / Tuesday Afternoon Indebted to the adorable Stewart for sending me this 10″  mini LP release by Twelve Cubic Feet for keepsies. I did not own this record before, and after a bit of a clean and a spin, I enjoyed […]

Purple Hearts – Fiction Records – 1979

Millions Like Us Beat That Debut 7″ single from Purple Hearts, three minutes of perfect pop on each side. Lovely stuff. Text courtesy of the wikkie, black and white photographs from the Steve Butler collection.   The mod revivalists, the Purple Hearts started in 1977, when teenagers Jeff Shadbolt, Simon Stebbing, Bob Manton, and Nick […]