The Mob – Meanwhile Gardens, Westbourne Park, London W11 – 25/06/83

Another Day Another Death / Dance On / Raised In A Prison / Our Life Our World / Witch Hunt / Stay / I Hear You Laughing / Gates Of Hell / No Doves Fly Here / Slayed / What’s Going On / I Wish / Youth Shuffling Souls / Witch Hunt Thirty five years […]

Psychic TV / La Loora – Atonal Records – 1984

Psychic TV – Papacy / Unclean / God’s Blood / New Will La Loora – 14th Is Next / Ref / In The Light / Swing / Quiet Song Psychic TV (Andrew Rawlings collection) La Loora Min with Zos Kia (Mins collection) Zos Kia (Mins collection) The Berlin Atonal Festival December 2nd – 4th 1983, […]

A Certain Ratio – Factory Records – 1979

All Night Party The Thin Boys Manchester, 1978. In the beginning there were four: Jeremy Kerr (bass), Martin Moscrop (guitar/trumpet), Peter Terrel (guitar/effects) and Simon Topping (vocals/trumpet). Four thin boys with a name borrowed from a Brian Eno record, the intense, drummerless quartet initially drew influence from Wire, Eno, the Velvets and Kraftwerk, and gained […]

The Desperate Bicycles – Refill Records – 1978

Occupied Territory Skill Two lo-fi tracks of sublime beauty are on the fourth record released by The Desperate Bicycles. Got to be one of my favorite 7″s that I own, seriously love the A side ‘Occupied Territory’…all six minutes of it! A near perfect pop record for the old folk browsing the site. Text below ripped from punk77.co.uk site in […]

New Race – Citadel Records – 1983

Crying Sun Gotta Keep Moving A post remembering Ron Asheton who died today. Text from allmusic.com and the Chicago Tribune. An interesting one-time-only band, New Race was proof that good music can occur when “teachers” and “students” get together. In this instance, the “teachers” were ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who […]

The Drones – Valer Records – 1977

Just Want To Be Myself Bone Idol Second 7″ single from this Manchester band, first release on Valer Records though, text below courtesy of allmusic.com. The Drones were a British punk band from Manchester, comprised of guitarist Gus “Gangrene” Callendar, bassist Steve “Whisper” Cundall, vocalist/guitarist M.J. Drone (Mike Howells), and drummer Peter “Perfect” Howells. They […]