Side PRE Side POST The debut album by Negativland from 1980 is a strange listen indeed and some parts are quite scary if you are happy to sit in a quiet dark room! Synths, radio cut ups, random noises (drills / hoovers etc) the odd primitive drum machine (Think Throbbing Gristle), clarinets, along with a […]
Om / The Power Of Love Emabs Byos Y’Rra / See Woman See Human / 1 Vortex Rosemary’s Baby was the musical arm of Ricerche Studi Babalon (RSB), the Italian ‘access point’ of the Temple Ov Psychick Youth (T.O.P.Y.), which issued tapes, booklets, bulletins and videos. Rosemary’s Baby’s main man was Pierre Luigi Zoccatelli. His […]
Psychic T.V – Orchids Psychic T.V – Finale Psychic T.V – White Nights Psychic T.V – Ancient Lights This must be the rarest record that I own. There couldn’t of been many acetates of Psychic T.V handed out by C.B.S / Some Bizarre, and shelved in record collections. This 7″ acetate contains four songs from […]
Anarka And Poppy – The lost All The Madmen recordings – 1984 In January 2015, Louise from the band Hysteria Ward contacted me to ask if I was interested in a load of stuff in a box. A mysterious question to which I answered “Yes I was”. On visiting I found that the box contained […]
Esthetics Conspiracy Of Silence Exit-Stance, not the Milton Keynes punk band that released records on Mortahate and supported Conflict from time to time. The Exit-Stance that recorded these tracks, releasing them on this record via the bands own label, were from Bristol and had a sound reminiscent (actually pretty much a carbon copy) of UK […]
Rubella Ballet performance After receiving a cassette of a Rubella Ballet performance at the Centro Iberico in 1982 from Peck, originally from Colchester but now a long time Ipswich resident along with getting a large box of paperwork and photographs from Tony D to scan in for a possible project in the future, I can […]
Valley Of The Dead Schoolgirl Junkie / Lilith For this years Beltane I am placing up the debut Screaming Dead 7″single up on KYPP. Screaming Dead were a band I first read about in a copy of Rising Free fanzine, written, edited, printed and distributed in and around the Welwyn, Hitchin and Stevenage areas. The […]
Jah Army / Flabba Is Wild / Some Dub / Whip Them / Fighting Radics Kill The Devils Wife / Jah Is Love / Wa Di Is Free / Best Dub On Ya / Forward Dis Ya Dub Here is a scratchy old record that I have pulled out for today. I actually wanted to […]
14th February, 2015 I write this on a significant date. No, not St. Valentine’s day (3id l-7ubb, ‘The Festival of Love’ in the Arabic-speaking world), but the fourth anniversary of Bahrain’s 14th February revolution, a revolution that was suppressed by a lethal combination of Saudi tanks and British political and diplomatic cover. I lived in […]
Not Just Bits Of Paper – Greg Bull / Mickey ‘Penguin’ ISBN: 9781505703382 “We have our own words, scrawled on bits of paper smudged with some grimy hope. Angry chords waver out from the broken cassette players – and every now and again a curious prisoner comes out for a look and never returns.” Tony […]