Nazcs / 59 To 1 / Fifth Column / Tritone / Loneliness / James Whale What Use / Volo Vivace / 7 Years / KM / Seeding The Clouds Tuxedomoon from San Francisco, emerged in 1977 but released no material until signing to the Resident’s record label Ralph in 1979. This interesting debut LP, full of beautiful soundscapes, was […]
To Mark Wilson of The Mob. The Mirror Breaks – The Mob To Penguin boy child, as yet unnamed…born at 21.55 on 06/04/08 weighing in at a healthy enough 7lbs. The Mirror Breaks – The Close Lobsters Round of applause to Bobbly Jax Bird for a labour lasting from 01.00 until 21.55 on 06/04/08. […]
Right To Work The Loner Fine band, a band that actually got much better with age, a statement that anyone who has owned or heard the material from 1979-80 would no doubt agree with. The first LP simply called ‘Chelsea’ also on Step Forward is a magnificent peice of plastic and well worth getting hold off […]
Live In Pankow / Spara Jurij Punk Islam Originally formed in Berlin in 1982, C.C.C.P. Faithful To The Line (in English), had relocated to Italy by the time of this recording on Attack Punk Records. This debut release came on proletariat red vinyl, which sat nicely with the communist sleeve style and booklet held within. Sitting […]
Awara – Love / The Hour Of Battle The Ex – Enough Is Enough The most inspiring band from the Netherlands, The Ex, bringing along Awara to the party. Awara were a Iraqi / Kurdistan outfit that had escaped the clutches of the then favoured dictator of the U.S. and Europe, Saddam Hussein. Mr Hussein […]
How significant/ important/ influential were The Mob? The internet is like a time machine. Within the vast echoing vaults of cyber space the forgotten is remembered, recalled to life. It is a theatre of memory. A digital camp fire around which the scattered remnants of lost tribes gather. Here are shared fragments of forgotten histories, […]