Alternative TV – Deptford Fun City Records – 1977

How Much Longer You Bastard How Much Longer Alternative Version You Bastard Alternative Version    Two versions of the debut hard vinyl  7″ single by Alternative TV, that makes four gloriously great songs in all. Go on count them! It was the old, old story. Bored bank clerk falls in love with punk rock, writes […]

Wah Heat – Inevitable Records – 1979

Better Scream Joe Decent and critically aclaimed debut 7″ single by Liverpool’s Wah Heat. I fancied something a little more melodic tonight. Back to the normal noisy stuff tomorrow. Wah!, and its number of incarnations, was a vehicle for Liverpool post-punk enigma Pete Wylie. Whether viewed as a prolific genius or as a blowhard lunatic with no […]

Cabaret Voltaire – Rough Trade Records – 1981

Eddies Out Walls Of Jericho Awesome 12″ from Cabaret Voltaire, my personal favorite record that the group released. Very tired tonight after the football and seeing Lugworm and Drayton in Leytonstone. So do not fancy writing anything so you will have to do with some info from brainwasheddotcom site instead… “Initially a three piece, Richard […]

Tom Robinson Band – E.M.I. Records – 1978

Up Against The Wall I’m Alright Jack Absolutely thumping third 7″single from T.R.B. both sides that could have been written for the state of society and the labour goverment in 2008, let alone the state of society and the labour goverment in 1978, exactly thirty years ago. Tom Robinson jettisonned his band Cafe Society after he attended […]

The Disrupters – Radical Change Records – 1981

Young Offender U.K. Soldier / No Place For You From Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week…Oh sorry, got a little confused there, I mean’t from Norwich, The Disrupters, plucking a bass, twanging a guitar, banging a drum and shouting in a style similar to that great band Crisis. Debut E.P. from this band, which at the […]

Hellbastard – Ripper Crust Cassette – 1986

Intro / Nazis Killed / Massacre / Deceiver / Insanity / Death From Above / Life For Who? / Kill Or Be Killed / Outside Claustrophobia / Skag Kill Drug Pushers / And Now… Gateshead based crust punk-metal band led by Stephen Lewty A.K.A Scruff (also at one time, an Apostle), grinding out 11 tracks of […]