On a glorious bright late winters day, this Penguin sat back and wondered what will Hagar The Womb sound like after twenty five years in the wilderness? The Mob were in the wilderness even longer and decided to perform the debut reformation gig at this very same venue in Bristol last April. From the Mob’s […]
Hagar The Womb – Increase The Pantomime – Adam And Eves Leeds 11/12/85 We Are Going To Eat You – Four Heads Feast – Side One We Are Going To Eat You – Four Heads Feast – Side Two The very last time that I witnessed a Hagar The Womb performance was in the middle […]
Truth / Polluted Ideals / Today’s Miss World / Dressed To Kill / Routine / Rabies / Silent Minority / Cardboard Theatre / Remalada / For The Ferryman / Armchair Observer / ? Rehearsal 1 inc ‘Dressed To Kill’ and ‘Rock And Roll’ Rehearsal 2 mainly JFB playing guitar Indebted to Jon From Bromley for the lend […]
One Bright Spark / Come Into My Soul / Armchair Observer Once Proud Now Dead / A Song Of Deep Hate The second release by those pesky Hagar’s, jollying up a normally depressing evening of Crass clone bands with their brand of more colourful compositions way back in the day. Originally an all girl band […]
Idolization / What’s Your Flag / Cardboard Theatre Dressed To Kill / True Love And Faith / Truth The classic line up of Hagar, that most people would have seen perform on stage and also the line up the layed down the tracks on this record. Alongside Ruth, Elaine, Karen on vocals and Janet […]
Polluted Ideals / Today’s Miss World / Dressed To Kill / Routine Babies / Cardboard Theatre / Silent Minority / For The Ferryman / Armchair Observer / By Force / Dressed To Kill / Rock ‘N’ Roll A recording from the crowd of the normally chaotic Hagar The Womb live experience, lent to me by […]
CEASE AND RESIST – SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK 1979 – 1986 – OPTIMO MUSIC Cease And Resist – Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 is compiled by JD Twich and Chris Low and released on the Optimo Music record label. Ten years in the making, this double […]
THIS POST HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTING DATE OF DECEMBER 2007 – IN REMBERENCE OF ALISTAIR I found a diary I kept through 1983. Here are some edited highlights. Of interest is the movement on from punk (anarcho / goth) towards first Psychic TV and second Stonehenge, but also the politics – […]
Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths Legend has it that when Tony D first saw Jeremy Gluck of The Barracudas, he was carrying a surfboard down an escalator at Holborn tube station in 1978. The Barracudas were a surf-punk band, celebrating early sixties California in late seventies London. They even had a hit in (?) with ‘I Want […]
Our friend and fellow ‘Puppy’, Alistair Livingston passed on after a short illness on the 3rd November 2018. I am in shock. In the 1980’s, AL was a leading light in the Puppy Collective, Black Sheep Housing Co-op and All The Madmen Records. From 2007 through his Green Galloway blog, Alistair battled to bring attention […]
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