Cravats – Penny Rimbaud Original Mixes – 1981
You Are Driving Me Dregs Photos of Southern Studios and text by Penny Rimbaud courtesy of thecravats.com
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Kleenex – Rough Trade Records – 1978
Ain’t You Hedi’s Head Fancied slapping this old chestnut up tonight. Marvellous debut (UK) single from this band that would soon become Liliput. Text ripped from killrockstars.com. The fact that punk rock could capture the imaginations of young people around Europe and America in the late ’70’s was embodied in the five-year output of Switzerland’s […]
Crass – Studio Rehearsal – 04/81
Inc Beg Your Pardon / Reality Whitewash / You Can be You – 30 minutes of practice tape A fine practice session by Crass working on tracks, getting them warmed up for the masterpiece that was the box set LP ‘Christ – The Album’. That material was eventually released early on the following year, a nice […]
Psychic TV – Interview with The Face magazine 01/83
45 Minutes Of Genesis P And Geoff Rushton 45 Minutes Of Genesis P, Geoff Rushton and Paula P As it says on the tin, 90 minutes of laid back chatter recorded from Psychic TV’s Beck Road base in Hackney that was edited into an article for UK’s early 80’s fashion magazine ‘The Face’. Interesting enough for those of […]
The Dead – Rest In Peace Cassette – 1984
The Dead Rest In Peace Cassette Some information and photographs on The Dead courtesy of Trunt originally from the killfromtheheart site: Part of the Howgil Contingent in Cumbria, The Dead were formed around 1982. They were the original garage band, practicing in Reg’s garage and producing some great songs such as “It’s No Joke,” “Band […]
Flux Of Pink Indians / Alternative / Andy T / Annie Anxiety – 62 Club, Aberdeen – 14/04/83
Andy T / Annie Anxiety performance Alternative performance * Flux Of Pink Indians performance Indebted to Martin Flux for the lend of this tape and for the photograph of the man himself pounding the skins (drums not skinheads) at the majestic Bowes Lyon House in Stevenage. Great quality cassettes of this performance way up on top of […]
Wasted Youth – Bridgehouse Records 1980
Jealousy Baby Wasted Youth were a popular post-punk band between 1979-1982, playing a dark psychedelic bohemian rock. Wearing all black clothes and some in shades and make-up but pre-dating goths, they embodied cool whilst paying homage to their numerous influences from the Velvet Underground to trash-garage bands. In that fertile early post-punk era, Wasted Youth […]
Bad Brains – Stevenage Bowes Lyon House – 08/05/83
Bad Brains performance Indebted to Grant Dow for sending me this performance by the mighty Bad Brains performing on the weekly Sunday night punk nights at Stevenage Bowes Lyon House back in the summer of 1983. A minority of the audience, as you might expect from a small town like Stevenage with the local boneheads that would […]
Sound Iration – W.A.U. Mr Modo Records – 1989
Iration Time / New Style / Satta Light / Revelation Dub C.T.U.F.B. / Free 1 / Holshe’s Dub / Dub Seal Part 3 Marvellous debut LP from Sound Iration (A.K.A. Nick Raphael from Manasseh Sound System) on the W.A.U. Mr Modo imprint that also brought the world the first Orb releases*. Manasseh Sound System nights […]
Michael Smith – Island Records – 1982 / Mutabaruka – High Times Records – 1982
Black And White / Mi Feel It / Mi Cyaan Believe It / Long Time / Trainer Picture Or Picture / Roots / It A Come / Give Me A Little Dub Music Absolutely awesome debut LP release from the late Michael Smith recorded in London and produced by Lintern Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell. A fine […]