Psychic TV – Papacy / Unclean / God’s Blood / New Will La Loora – 14th Is Next / Ref / In The Light / Swing / Quiet Song Psychic TV (Andrew Rawlings collection) La Loora Min with Zos Kia (Mins collection) Zos Kia (Mins collection) The Berlin Atonal Festival December 2nd – 4th 1983, […]
All Night Party The Thin Boys Manchester, 1978. In the beginning there were four: Jeremy Kerr (bass), Martin Moscrop (guitar/trumpet), Peter Terrel (guitar/effects) and Simon Topping (vocals/trumpet). Four thin boys with a name borrowed from a Brian Eno record, the intense, drummerless quartet initially drew influence from Wire, Eno, the Velvets and Kraftwerk, and gained […]
Fear / Did He Jump / My Mummys Gone / Little Bit More / This Land New Band / Dirty Squatters / Loads Of Noise / Target (Mr Disney – The War Goes On) In my opinion the material on this LP is of the highest standard, the music and lyrics are still a decent listen […]
Occupied Territory Skill Two lo-fi tracks of sublime beauty are on the fourth record released by The Desperate Bicycles. Got to be one of my favorite 7″s that I own, seriously love the A side ‘Occupied Territory’…all six minutes of it! A near perfect pop record for the old folk browsing the site. Text below ripped from punk77.co.uk site in […]
Crying Sun Gotta Keep Moving A post remembering Ron Asheton who died today. Text from allmusic.com and the Chicago Tribune. An interesting one-time-only band, New Race was proof that good music can occur when “teachers” and “students” get together. In this instance, the “teachers” were ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who […]
The Black Cat / Middle Of The Road Man Message Distortion / Disco Romance Crunchingly fine single by UK Decay, who later on in the early 1980’s were to improve even more, with each successive release culminating in a fine 12″ release on Corpus Christi Records in 1982. Text below via wicked pee dear, and […]
20 Eyes / I Turned Into A Martian / All Hell Breaks Loose / Vampira / Nike A Go Go / Hate Breeders / Mommy Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight Night Of The Living Dead / Skulls / Violent World / Devils Whorehouse / Astro Zombies / Braineaters Clocking in at around 24 minutes, […]
Just Want To Be Myself Bone Idol Second 7″ single from this Manchester band, first release on Valer Records though, text below courtesy of allmusic.com. The Drones were a British punk band from Manchester, comprised of guitarist Gus “Gangrene” Callendar, bassist Steve “Whisper” Cundall, vocalist/guitarist M.J. Drone (Mike Howells), and drummer Peter “Perfect” Howells. They […]
Silent Night Jingle Bells Not Rico’s best moment by far, but still a nice slice of christmas spirit 1967 reggae style. Text from geocities.com. Rico attended the Alpha Boys Cottage School in Kingston where he learned to play trombone. His tutor was another pupil of that school, two years older than Rico, the now legendary Don […]
Academy Fight Song Max Ernst Punchy debut 7″ single by the godfathers of ‘Grunge’ Mission Of Burma, bands like Dinosaur Jnr, Volcano Suns and Buffalo Tom would follow in the demise of this band in 1983. Text below, a christmas gift to KYPP from allmusic.com. Of all the punk-inspired bands that came out of Boston in […]