Part 1 – Autonomy Centre, Wapping, London, E1 – 03/01/82

Graveyard Song / Tomb / Death Is In The Eye Of The Beholder / Black Mass / Pictures Of Pain / Ghost / Incest / Claws / The Corpse / Possessed

Salem

The ghouls from Milton Keynes, playing at the Wapping Autonomy Centre alongside Rudimentary Peni and What Is Oil? and other bands.

Indebted to Chris Low for the cassette, which is a very good quality ‘crowd’ recording. Part 1 were linked to Rudimentary Peni, and indeed the two bands played together on a few occasions. Both bands were interested in the macabre and were also quite near to each other geographically. Both bands would become far more popular several years later, guess they were ahead of their time! The Part 1 E.P. is uploaded onto this site somewhere and is well worth searching out.

Photos from the Autonomy Centre performance courtesy of Jon From Bromley. Thank you Jon.

54 comments
  1. chris
    chris
    May 10, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    hey pengy, anything wrong with this link? it’s not letting me download. never encountered any problems here before.

  2. Penguin
    Penguin • Post Author •
    May 10, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    All good with the download on this site here Chris, just tried it out.

  3. jon (ex-from bromley)
    jon (ex-from bromley)
    May 11, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Only just picked up on this thread….
    I have a tape of Part1 recorded at Wapping that is dated 3/1/82 and the track list is the same as above. I know they played a show there with Rudimentary Peni and What Is Oil? were on that bill as well…. I also found some photos from the night, only of Dunc and Part1, no RP. I still have the What Is Oil? EP somewhere but not played it for many years. I remember when Dunc first left Hornchurch, some of us went to visit him and he gave us boxes of copies of the single which we were giving out to people on the tube.
    These photos and tapes etc. are going on loan to Penguin tomorrow so expect to see some appearing here soon – also includes the Part1 ‘In The Shadow Of the Cross’ studio tape (some of which I think is on Pictures of Pain).

  4. Graham Burnett
    Graham Burnett
    May 11, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Look forward to seeing the photos. I also have the What Is Oil? ‘Musical Talent’ EP somewhere, as I recall my copy was given to me on Penarth seafront by Duncan Dung. We (Autumn Poison) had travelled all the way to Penarth for what was to have been our first gig, a ‘punk festival’ organised by Dean ‘Great Name In Tape Cassettes’ Poole in the local Scout Hall. However when we got to Penarth we knocked on his door, he opened it wearing his pyjammas and eating a bowl of cornflakes and informed us that the gig had been cancelled. We stayed with him for a few days anyway. At the time I was going out with Sheena who was Autumn Poison’s female vocalist, but Dean Poole’s mum made us sleep in seperate bedrooms! (although I do recall some noctural creeping down corridors and avoiding creaky floorboards ala some 1970s Carry On film…)
    The next day we met What Is Oil? and some other assorted London Punk rockers from the Autonomy Centre scene, including some drunk punk rocker they had come across in the pub before setting off and bundled him into the back of the van with them. They too had travelled right across the country only to discover that their gig had been cancelled. What a great little holiday that was, thanks again Dean if you are reading this…

    Any chance of that classic EP being uploaded here sometime? As I say I do have the record somewhere but no way of digitising it even if I could find it

  5. alistairliv
    alistairliv
    May 12, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Got to ask you Graham – was Sheena a punk rocker?

  6. Penguin
    Penguin • Post Author •
    May 13, 2009 at 12:11 am

    Just come back from Jon’s gig in Dalston and he handed me a package of photos and tapes which are incredibly fine and I can not wait to get the stuff up on here. At least two of the tapes / parts of tapes have been requested privately for me to find by individuals who will be named when I get the recording done and post finished on those specific cassettes.

    Listening to a live gig at the Wapping Autonomy Centre right now and the quality is absolutely perfect (on what I am listening to right now)…The Mob / Zounds / Apostles / Null And Void / Hagar The Womb / Luzy Fuerza 06/12/81. Those two tapes recorded by Jon himself will be represented on one post with a chunk of Jon’s photos of the venue and folk around it.

    Will get on the photos and tapes sometime very soon.

    Very excited about uploading all these seventeen borrowed cassettes…it may just show!

  7. Graham Burnett
    Graham Burnett
    May 13, 2009 at 1:15 am

    # alistairliv Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Got to ask you Graham – was Sheena a punk rocker?

    Of course! and of course there was also the classic 1980 Stripey Zebras song ‘Sheena (Easton) Is A Punk Rocker’ sung by Sheena’s brother Martin on our ‘Live In Burnett’s Bedroom’ cassette album debut! And to take the connections even further, Ms Easton in her turn covered the classic Southend Anarchopunk band The Sinyx’s classic critique of workplace alienation and wage slavery ‘9 to 5’…

  8. joe p
    joe p
    February 15, 2010 at 3:32 am

    just checking in to see if we can expect any uploads of the What Is Oil? 7″ or the live tape Graham found! thanks for the blog. really enjoyable!

  9. DavidM
    DavidM
    February 16, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    Recall there being some mention of a planned Part 1 discography release in Ian Glasper’s The Day The Country Died. Any folks here have any news of said release?

  10. 0liver / Cultpunk.com
    0liver / Cultpunk.com
    February 16, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    I have heard rumblings and vague whisperings from the out of the darkened East of a planned 6 (!!) CD PART 1 discography package / box set, with Ferrelli, et. al.’s artwork – all the demos, Pictures of Pain, Funeral Parade, and live stuff, maybe some Pushead artwork,too, or even Blinko artwork – I am not sure. But, yeah, SIX – count’em, six – CDS.

    Again, tho, just vague and strange rumors whispered from strange corners of space

    -Oliver

  11. DavidM
    DavidM
    February 17, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Oh my. Thrilling news indeed.

  12. Nick Hydra
    Nick Hydra
    February 24, 2010 at 8:34 am

    Well it’s about time, I’ve downloaded everything I can find, and have got MP3s of all the officially released stuff + a live tape (mainly from this site) but I would still definately buy the CD.

  13. jhdsflkjah
    jhdsflkjah
    January 27, 2012 at 2:27 am

    who’s on the bottom picture?

  14. Sparky
    Sparky
    January 31, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Giant Haystacks.

  15. Penguin
    Penguin • Post Author •
    January 31, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    Mark F of Part 1 is the guitarist at the bottom of the post; although still just about performing around the same time Giant Haystacks is someone completely different.

  16. Igor
    Igor
    February 29, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    “rather a large beauty of a black box with knobs on one end, holes at other and, drew keenly at source, the suck of two nine volt batteries”

    MXR Flanger?

  17. Igor
    Igor
    February 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    “I have heard rumblings and vague whisperings from the out of the darkened East of a planned 6 (!!) CD PART 1 discography package / box set”

    I’d pick up a copy if it materializes. For the past year, I’ve been listening to mp3s of the Pictures of Pain mini-LP and the stuff that was posted here and I’ve got to say, Part 1 has really grown on me.

    I just hope that whoever releases it just does a straight transfer of the masters and doesn’t let a mastering engineer compress the thing to make it louder. CDs are so squashed nowadays that I’ve stopped buying them, even when it’s something I really like.

  18. Igor
    Igor
    February 29, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    Boy, these guys really smoked live! Much more intense than in their studio recordings.

  19. Chris Walsh
    Chris Walsh
    September 3, 2013 at 11:51 am

    I remember going to loads of Sunday night gigs here. I remember a band called ‘Faction’, with a female singer. I also remember arriving one night about 10 minutes after around 60 British Movement skinheads had attacked the place. Anyone remember that night?

  20. Chris L
    Chris L
    September 4, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    It may be of interest to some that this live recording of PART1 is due for vinyl release on Italian label Black Death Records shortly. Think the packaging will comprise loads of old and new Mark Ferelli artworks.

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