The Monochrome Set – Dindisc Records – 1980

The Monochrome Set / The Lighter Side Of Dating / Expresso / The Puerto Rican Fence Climber / Tomorrow Will Be Too Long / Martians Go Home Love Goes Down The Drain / Ici Les Enfants / The Etcetera Stroll / Goodbye Joe / The Strange Boutique Decent debut LP by psychedelic art rockers The Monochrome […]

Angelic Upstarts – Small Wonder / Rough Trade Records – 1978

The Murder Of Liddle Towers Police Oppression Debut 7″ single by Angelic Upstarts re-released by London based Small Wonder and Rough Trade Records (working in partnership) a few months after the original North East based Dead Records release had sold out and several months before the band were riding high in the Top 40 with the second 7″ single ‘I’m An Upstart’ . This track was […]

Blood And Roses – Kamera Records – 1983

Necromatra / Spit Upon Your Grave Love Under Will / Necromantra version 2 The absolutely majestic 12″ by Blood And Roses, the only vinyl release from the classic line up, the band split up soon after the record was released, to resurface in 1985 with a slightly different line up, releasing a further 12″ and […]

Zos Kia – All The Madmen Records – 1984 / 1986

Original 7″ version 1984 Rape Thank You 12″ re-release version 1986 Rape / Thank You Black Action / The Absolute Originally released as a 7″ single in 1984 by KYPP’s very own Alistair, who was running All The Madmen Records in those days. The re-release was organised by the new man in charge at All […]

Twelve Cubic Feet – Namedrop Records – 1982

Blob / Evercare / The Almhouse Mary’s Got The Bug / Escaping Again / Hello Howard / Tuesday Afternoon Indebted to the adorable Stewart for sending me this 10″  mini LP release by Twelve Cubic Feet for keepsies. I did not own this record before, and after a bit of a clean and a spin, I enjoyed […]

Purple Hearts – Fiction Records – 1979

Millions Like Us Beat That Debut 7″ single from Purple Hearts, three minutes of perfect pop on each side. Lovely stuff. Text courtesy of the wikkie, black and white photographs from the Steve Butler collection.   The mod revivalists, the Purple Hearts started in 1977, when teenagers Jeff Shadbolt, Simon Stebbing, Bob Manton, and Nick […]

Nervous Gender / Beelzebub Youth – Subterranean Records – 1981

Nervous Gender – Monsters / Alien Point Of View / Cardinal Newman / Fat Cow / Nothing To Hide / People Like You / Regress For You Beelzebub Youth – Christian Lovers / Exorcism / Bathroom Sluts / Pie On A Ledge / Push, Push, Push / Alice’s Song Music From Hell – Dark Wave […]

Alternative TV – Deptford City Fun Records – 1978

Release The Natives / Serpentine Gallery / Poor Association / The Radio Story / Facing Up To The Facts  The Good Missionary / Graves Of Delux Green / Smile In The Day Uploaded today is Alternative TV’s moody and atmospheric second LP, which I think is rather wonderful and is dedicated to Mark Wilson, late of The Mob whose birthday it […]

The Fall – Live In London 1980 – Chaos Cassette – 1981

Crap Rap (actually Middle Mass) / English Scheme / New Face In Hell / That Man / Older Lover / Male Slags (actually Slates) / Gramme Friday (actully Prole Art Threat) / Container Drivers Jawbone And Air Rifle / In The Park / Sex / Leave The Capital / Spectre Verses Rector / Pay Your […]

G20 Protest 2009 – Barry McGuire – RCA Victor Records – 1965

Eve Of Destruction What Exactly Is The Matter With Me Thanks to Chris Low for the photographs of the G20 protests which occurred in the City of London yesterday, and to those folk that participated throughout that day in the largely peaceful protest for a  safer, cleaner and fairer global society. Reports below lifted from various media. Protesters have stormed the […]