Comments on: Oxy And The Morons – Music For The Deaf – 1981

By: Penguin

Penguin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:56:09 +0000

Thanks for all those snippets Stewey. It would be cool if one of your old muckers could join the dots a little bit to expand this post. PS I mentioned the band are from Hackney in the post, just also stated they were also talked about a lot in Northern Ireland! Hugs.

By: Stewart Jellyfish

Stewart Jellyfish — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:55:41 +0000

LAST PS They all lived in bloody Hackney, not Belfast!!!! And they also played with Blood and Roses, who I know you all love (*winks*). Bob has namechecked them in your blurb on The Peel Tapes: “We played with the Apostles, the Witches and Oxy and the Morons.”

By: Stewart Jellyfish

Stewart Jellyfish — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:41:51 +0000

Amazing what’s on the internet! Here’s the Managing Directors again, apparently: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Magnitizdat-The-Least-Worst-Of-Deleted-Records/release/2301030

I don’t remember that one – I’m in touch with the drummer and bass player so I’ve asked them for any info!

By: Stewart Jellyfish

Stewart Jellyfish — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:38:40 +0000

They’ve also got a track on this album, as have the Managing Directors. Only 80 quid plus shipping if you’re feeling flush. I remember this at the time and thought “I’m not fucking buying THAT!” Dammit…
http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Various-Hackney-Musicians-Collective/54424864?ev=bp_titl

By: Stewart Jellyfish

Stewart Jellyfish — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:34:09 +0000

Hi you! I have this, too! There was another single release as well: 7″ – Work / The Good Life (Music for the Deaf MFD2, UK 1982). Oxy used to play with the Managing Directors all the time. I think Dirty Harry is a great song. Their lead singer Rene used to squat off Stamford Hill somewhere. Bizarrely, four years ago I was surfing the net and came across some reasonably interesting site which mentioned Oxy – and it was by their original drummer. He’s a professor in the USA now. This is one of his emails:

Andrew Goodwin professorofpop@gmail.com
15/06/2008

to me
hey Stewart,

Thanks for this. Thanks so much. I was the (very str8) drummer who was in college at the pcl at the time, I played on the Anti-Nazi League rally gig on the back of a truck (lorry!), April 1978, and did Chat’s Palace and a few other things. Then I went on to play with Rob Vasey in Dry Rib and O&TM went on to put out a couple of records, but with another drummer.

That’s just FYI.

Chuck Warner at Hyped-2-Death is *very* interested in O&TM. I’ve sent him a cassette of 2 rehearsals, but there’s nothing on there that could be put out. He’s trying to track them done. So if you have any info. please send it along.

I enjoyed the YouTube clip. Did you see This Is England? I thought that was pretty decent.

Would you mind if I shared some of your email at the blog? I think a post on Oxy would be a good thing, and maybe it would help Chuck find some of the main guys.

Stay in touch. It’s things like this that make blogging worth it!

cheers,

Andrew

PS KYPP people – just Googled them and found this: http://www.boredteenagers.co.uk/oxyandthemorons.htm