The Raincoats – Rough Trade Records – 1979

Fairytale In The Supermarket In Love / Adventures Close To Home Nice bit of kit from Rough Trade Records, the debut single from the wonderfully charming Raincoats. The Raincoats started off with several high ranking punk scenesters involved, Palm Olive and Kate Korus from The Slits at different times, also Richard Snake Hips Dudanski from 101ers and then […]

Blyth Power – Timebox, Bull And Gate, Kentish Town, London – 15.10.86

  Goodbye General To Lose / Stand Into Danger / Lady Politic Would Be / Bricklayers Arms / Coriolanus / Probably Wont Be Easy / Ixion Pinned / Father O Brien / Hurling Time / Cannonade / Probably Going To Rain / Caligula / Marius Moves Bind Their Kings In Chains / John O Gaunt […]

Various – Alive In The Living Room – Creation Records 1984

Television Personalities – A Day In Heaven / Jasmine Minks – Seven And Seven Is / June Brides – I Fall / The Legend – Arrogant Bastards / Three Johns – A.W.O.L. / The Loft– Your Doors Shimes Like Gold The Pastels – Hurricane Fighter Plane / Mekons – Rock And Roll Shoes / The […]

Killing Joke – Malicious Damage Records – 1979

Nervous System / Turn To Red Are You Receiving The mighty force that is the debut single from Killing Joke. This 10″ raised a few eyebrows when released, clean clinical choppy guitar with some nice dubby bass lines. Some of the imagery used on Killing Joke records and shirts were second only to Gee Vouchers collages for […]

Alternative TV – Live At The Rat Club 77 – Crystal Records 1979

Memphis / Love Lies Limp / My Hand Was Still Wet / Sleep In Bed / Life / How Much Longer Alternatives To N.A.T.O. / You Bastard / Why Don’t You Do Me Right? / Total Switch Off Due to popular demand…well a couple of people anyway, cheers Steve and Martin C, here in all […]

Throbbing Gristle – Karnage Records – 1982

Weapon Training / EHH AHHOOOH Convincing People / Chat Up Hamburger Lady / Day Song Persuasion / Five Knuckle Shuffle Thought it was time to upload some Throbbers onto the site, can not really get away with putting the obvious material up, as Mute Records re-released all the works recently. I do not think this […]

Rejoice Rejoice, Happy Birthday Tony Puppy for 12/04/08…oh and Shirley Bassey

Born To Sing The Blues / Beale Street Blues / Wabash Blues / Basin Street Blues Birth Of The Blues / Careless Love Blues / Blues In The Night / The St Louis Blues Fifty years ago this week a boy was born. The boy was born in a year that produced the debut recording by […]

Alternative TV – (Red Ronnie’s Bazar) Nice Records – 1978

Graves Of Duluxe Green / Alternatives To Normal Eating Habits Knights Of The Future (Fellow Sufferer) Inspired by a comment by Nic recently about the rising cost of D.I.Y. records, here is one record of the genre which is as rare as Arsenal Football Club winning trophies in a season. This record, which I hope will be […]