Inc Beg Your Pardon / Reality Whitewash / You Can be You – 30 minutes of practice tape A fine practice session by Crass working on tracks, getting them warmed up for the masterpiece that was the box set LP ‘Christ – The Album’. That material was eventually released early on the following year, a nice […]
45 Minutes Of Genesis P And Geoff Rushton 45 Minutes Of Genesis P, Geoff Rushton and Paula P As it says on the tin, 90 minutes of laid back chatter recorded from Psychic TV’s Beck Road base in Hackney that was edited into an article for UK’s early 80’s fashion magazine ‘The Face’. Interesting enough for those of […]
The Dead Rest In Peace Cassette Some information and photographs on The Dead courtesy of Trunt originally from the killfromtheheart site: Part of the Howgil Contingent in Cumbria, The Dead were formed around 1982. They were the original garage band, practicing in Reg’s garage and producing some great songs such as “It’s No Joke,” “Band […]
Andy T / Annie Anxiety performance Alternative performance * Flux Of Pink Indians performance Indebted to Martin Flux for the lend of this tape and for the photograph of the man himself pounding the skins (drums not skinheads) at the majestic Bowes Lyon House in Stevenage. Great quality cassettes of this performance way up on top of […]
Jealousy Baby Wasted Youth were a popular post-punk band between 1979-1982, playing a dark psychedelic bohemian rock. Wearing all black clothes and some in shades and make-up but pre-dating goths, they embodied cool whilst paying homage to their numerous influences from the Velvet Underground to trash-garage bands. In that fertile early post-punk era, Wasted Youth […]
Bad Brains performance Indebted to Grant Dow for sending me this performance by the mighty Bad Brains performing on the weekly Sunday night punk nights at Stevenage Bowes Lyon House back in the summer of 1983. A minority of the audience, as you might expect from a small town like Stevenage with the local boneheads that would […]
Iration Time / New Style / Satta Light / Revelation Dub C.T.U.F.B. / Free 1 / Holshe’s Dub / Dub Seal Part 3 Marvellous debut LP from Sound Iration (A.K.A. Nick Raphael from Manasseh Sound System) on the W.A.U. Mr Modo imprint that also brought the world the first Orb releases*. Manasseh Sound System nights […]
This is the International Times interview with the Clash from August 1977. The pic of Mick Jones from this and his quote “Whoever said PUNK IS DEAD is a cunt” was used as graphic by Crass for their ‘Punk is Dead’ on ‘Feeding the 5000’. In the interview Mick asks IT about their February 77 […]
STOP PRESS Thanks to Gerard (see comments below) we have Crass link. After the above IT cover came out in February 1977, IT did a brief interview with the Clash in August 1977 – from which came the Mick Jones quote “Whoever said punk is dead is a cunt” which was then recycled by Gee/Crass […]
Black And White / Mi Feel It / Mi Cyaan Believe It / Long Time / Trainer Picture Or Picture / Roots / It A Come / Give Me A Little Dub Music Absolutely awesome debut LP release from the late Michael Smith recorded in London and produced by Lintern Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell. A fine […]