New Way Suckers / Uniform The first single by The Wall on the wonderful Small Wonder Record label. Formed in Sunderland, in 1978 featuring Ian Lowery who left the band in 1980 to form Ski Patrol then the Folk Devils. The Wall without Ian managed to put out some decent singles and a fine LP […]
Banging And Shouting / Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart / Work Rest Play Reggae Set We Free / Optimism Here is Patrik’s debut single for Small Wonder Records. A little bit scratchy this single, compared to the other one uploaded on this site (use search function), hence the reason why I put the other one on…Due […]
Into The Abyss Deiche Another Kill Your Pet Puppy favored band, this time a band that included Dave Roberts who was around several of the house’s that the Puppies resided in free of charge! Andi the vocalist I think was something to do with The Straps who were around the same scene in the late 1970’s […]
Roman P B-Side groove 1 – Temple Of Psychic Youth spokesman B-Side groove 2 – Jim Jones / Charles Manson Psychic TV following Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle unto this most respected record label, Sordide Sentimental. 3003 copies made of this particular release. A rare release indeed and what do you get for your money? The best […]
P.P.B. / Got It All Wrong Exploitation / What Will Tomorrow Bring? As if by magick Anthrax appear…Originally from Gravesend in Kent, the line up included Fod and Rob Challice, editors / contibutors to the excellent Enigma fanzine. Both these members did not stay in the line up for long, Rob going to live in Brougham Road, […]
Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? Maybe it was a bit of both. No. Surely, it was just the worst of times. It was 1979, a year that never could have imagined itself eulogised by the Smashing Pumpkins fifteen years on. Punk maybe wasn’t so much dead as […]
WHEN A PUPPY IS BORN: Some notes on the beginning of creating Kill Your Pet Puppy, by Tony D. As the late summer of 1979 eviction and disintegration of the fire station squat in Old Street splintered into petty squabbling, fear and cliques we went our separate ways. Bob Short and his crew had discovered […]
J.G. Smile / J.G. Smiles A break away from the old Zos Kia style which was altogether darker, this single released on Psychic TV’s Temple Records label had a funkier approach. A lot of old TOPY and anarcho punks had begun to appreciate this genre a little more after 23 Skidoo, Cabaret Voltaire and the […]
More Than Fights / Daily Life You Gotta Be Someone Bristol’s Disorder release their second 7″ single, dripping with nihilism in every groove. The only real positive thought on this single is towards the end of ‘More Than Fights’ when the growler concerned tells us ‘This country is violent from bottom to top, everyone, they […]
Hounds Of The Night / Subway Sadist / Chron Gen / Rockabill / The Mindless Few / You’ll Never Change Me / Living Next Door To Alice Puppets Of War / Reality / LSD / Lies Recorded during the UK ‘Apocalypse Now’ tour which also included Anti Pasti, Exploited, Discharge and a band from Tunbridge […]