Various Artists – F.O. Cassettes – 1980

Astronauts – Thats Where I Will Be / The Night / Midsummer Lullaby (live) – Danny And The DressMakers – Song Chocolate – Zoundz – I Made It Happen / Holland Park (live) – Bob Green – The Last Great Rolling Stone Lick – Daevid Allen – Zero (live) The Mob – Crying Again (live) / Frustration […]

Part 1 – Paraworm Records – 1982

Ghost / Salem / Funeral Parade Funeral Parade / Graveyard Song / Tomb Massively fine EP by Milton Keynes based ghouls Part 1 – A very rare slice of 1982 proto-goth at it’s best. Even more rare when you consider what happened to several hundred copies of this 7″ gem. For that small bit of inside information you […]

The Apostles / Faction / Blood And Roses – Scum Tapes – 1982

The Apostles – The Silent Truth / The Young Ones / Absolution Of Guilt / The Stoke Newington Eight / Hyde Park – Faction – Fuck Faction / Hello Mark / Tomorrow Belongs To Mark / Nazi Baby / Subversive Mark / Substandard / Realisation – The Apostles – Some Men Are Born / A Social Disease […]

Africa Corps – Independent Project Records – 1982

When All Else Fails / Attempted Coup: Madagascar / The Ivory Coast / Next To Nothing / Exodus Machinary / Zulu Zulu / Real Man / Kill The Fascists / Procession The Africa Corps (Savage Republic) debut LP, limited to 1000 hand printed copies, was released in 1982. Lots of great music to chew on […]

Blood And Roses – 96 Tapes – 1983

Side One (Tracklisting on sheet above) Side Two (Tracklisting on sheet above) This cassette only release from 96 Tapes, based at 96 Brougham Road in Hackney was amongst my favorite cassettes of the time. I played this cassette over and over and over on a cheap hand held mono tape player, carried it around with me everywhere. It has survived quite well considering…. […]

Dead Kennedys – Optional Music – 1979

  California Uber Alles Man With The Dogs The awesome debut 7″ single by the Dead Kennedys on the US based Optional Music label. This was a record that was so good that I also had to have a copy of the UK released 7″ single on the Fast Product label which hit the UK stores sometime in 1980 – It had a […]

Cold War – Namedrop Records – 1983 + Live + Demos – 1981 / 1982

7″ SINGLE TRACKS Machinist Illusion DEMO TRACKS The Machinist / Suffering By Fire / Cold World / Illusion Irrational / Opening Doors / Life On A Wire / Pride / Brother Murder / Confrontation LIVE TRACKS Images / Cold World / Brother Murder / Cosmetics / House Of No Escape / 10,000 / Mr Undertaker / […]

Mark Stewart And the Mafia – ONU Sound Records – 1982

Jerusalem / High Ideals And Crazy Dreams Liberty City A three pronged attack for St Georges Day this year as opposed to the slightly one dimensional 4 Skins post from last year! Firstly William Blake’s popular singalong ‘Jerusalem’ dubbed up by Mark Stewart And The Mafia, and squeezed out the speakers via the hand of Adrian Sherwood […]