Shaving My Neck / Sun And Insanity Machismo / Glad To Be Alive Screaming For Emmalene So Young / No Voodoo Dollies A decent couple of 12″ singles from Gene Loves Jezebel. When hearing these records I thought they were quite similar to the Virgin Prunes but without the ‘theatre’. This was no bad comparison as […]
Side One Side Two Tracklisting below courtesy of Andy from A.P.F. Brigade 1. The resistance statement 2. Sick society 3. Don’t vote 4. Scared to die 5. Jesus who 6. I’ve got a nice daddy 7. Free slave 8. I’m dying for a fag 9. Pig song […]
Taste Your Own Medicine / Danger Zone Hippy Posed Engrosement / Hooked On A Trend / Negative Nights Obscure second release on Rather Records, Swell Map’s record label from out of the west midlands. A fair few of the Swell Maps appear on this 7″ single, and you can hear the influence throughout most of […]
Dead Man’s Shadow – Police Force / Danger UXB Action Pact – London Bouncers / All Purpose Action Footwear Two bands hailing from Stanwell, (very) west London, on a split single together. Not really sure why I stuck this up, just did really… Dead Man’s Shadow is the pick of the EP, although the 15 year old singer […]
Playing Golf With My Flesh Crawling My Baby Takes Valium Mad as a bag of frogs, Family Fodder’s debut 7″ single gives a nod to all things Zappa. Also noteworthy is that this release was the first product unleased by Fresh Records, who seemed to have swapped some acts with Small Wonder Records. The Wall and […]
Side One Side Two I have not uploaded The Apostles for a little while, so here is another collection of obscure sounds from this band, lent to me by Chris Low who was sent it in 1981 by Andee Martian of the band. There are no indications of what year, what line up, what track-listing […]
Nobody’s Scared Dont Split It Ambition A Different Story Still buzzing (vibe-wise not chemicals) from the weekend’s Subway Sect performance round the back of The Plough pub in Walthamstow, London E17. I was inspired, by Vic Goddard’s incredibly pleasant demeanour on the night, to chuck these gems up from 1978, the only two singles released in the […]
Bigger text here Bigger text here Thanks to Mike Clarke for these cut outs of Portobello Road Punks from The Observer from 1979. If anyone knows some of the faces then please leave comments. The bottom photo shows The Heretics, Phil Richie and other Cambpell Buildings survivors.
Bela Lugosi’s Dead Boys / Dark Entries (part of) Absolutely majestic nine and a half minutes of choppy guitars and moody basslines smother the debut release by Bauhaus on the Small Wonder imprint from 1979, also released on a very limited edition picture disc. The band had only been active for several weeks before the recording session […]
Production Look Out / Sylvia Clarke ? A rare record from Chris Lows collection from 1979. I believe Chris used to live next door to one of the members of this band in Stirling, Scotland. I think I would be correct in saying that the older ‘Fakes’ members took Chris under their collective wing and supplied some […]