Plant Up / Back Weh / The Conquest / Final Chapter Shake The Nation / Homeward Bound / Low Gravity / Mansion Of Invention This beautiful water colour painted and displayed on wwwcarolinebinch.co.uk – go and have a look at this amazing artist’s other work on that site . 25 years ago in September 1983 Prince […]
Never Been In A Riot 32 Weeks / Heart And Soul Where Were You I’ll Have To Dance On My Own Inspired by punk, The Mekons formed in late 1976 around a core of fine art students from Leeds University including Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh. Fired up by the DIY aesthetics of punk they […]
Now Right Now / I Don’t Like / Uganda / War / I Love African Swing / 13 Dead / Fantasy Poem / Riot In Progress Dis poetry / Mandella / Blood City / No Rights Red / In De Station / Cut De Crap / Us An Dem / Black Red Dread / Black […]
Alone At Midnight / Little Mr Minor Carassment / No One Wants To Know My Name / Crawlin Rebels / Lets Go / One Day Soon / Provisionally Dogs / So What! / Even on A Sunday Night All The Heroes / The Cold Begins To Bite / Such Delicate Things / Rather B Crazy […]
Walk Away / Top Secret / My Streets Of Fire / Games / Do It Yourself / Semi-Detatched Love / Today’s Kids Spectacular Times / The Stranger / It’s Alright / Every Schoolboys Dream / Never Never Man / White Rabbit Released on Armageddon Records in 1980, straight after the LP ‘Underwater Moonlight’, the second […]
Psychological Overture / Floatin’ Anarchy / Stone Innoc Frankenstein / New Age Transformation Try: No More Sages Opium For The People / Allez Ali Baba Black Sheep Have You Any Bullshit: Mama Maya Mantrum Marvelous LP by Here And Now, this time joined by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth of Gong. More Here And Now […]
Lisa The Passion / Prostitute I / The Burden Of Mules / Complete And Utter / Prostitute II / Slow As A Child Journalists / Give It Back / On The Hill This band supported Xmal Deutschland at The Venue, Victoria, London in November 1983 and immediatly I thought the sound was inspired by P.I.L (around the […]
The British Way Of Life The Way It’s Got To Be I liked The Chords very much, as a younger Penguin, this is the fourth single, and the one I prefer out of the handful the band released. Supported The Undertones a bit, and mixed it up with East London’s Purple Hearts in the 1979 Mod […]
Too Many Creeps Snakes Crawl / You Taste Like The Tropics New York’s Bush Tetras had a no wave link, via guitarist Pat Place’s association with James Chance, but the band’s sound was neither frantic nor disjointed enough to be properly categorized with those bands. They played scrappy post-punk, with fellow Americans Pylon and Konk […]
I Don’t Want To Live With Monkeys Insect Love The Lost And The Lonely It Goes Waap On a day of great sadness for the site (T.H.F.C. lost at White Hart Lane, and all the rest of the rubbish going on) I have gathered my two Higsons 7″ singles to prove that there can still […]