One Bright Spark / Come Into My Soul / Armchair Observer
Once Proud Now Dead / A Song Of Deep Hate
The second release by those pesky Hagar’s, jollying up a normally depressing evening of Crass clone bands with their brand of more colourful compositions way back in the day.
Originally an all girl band formed, as legend has it, in the toilets of the Wapping Autonomy Centre sometime in 1980, the band started to get more recognition after they drafting in members that could actually play at least a minimal amount on any given instrument!
The strongest line up of Hagar The Womb had a rhythm section of Mitch (Flack) and Chris (Cold War), with Paul (Cold War) and Janet Spagetti (or Ravioli) on guitars, Karen and Ruth concentrated on wailing away.
This was also the line up that released the only available two 12″ singles. This one uploaded tonight and ‘Word Of The Womb’ the debut 12″ released on Mortarhate Records, which is on this site somewhere if you care to search for it.
Photo of Raymond with the girls, courtesy of Mark Palmer, the black and white photograph courtesy of Ruth Hagar.
Graham Burnett
October 13, 2008 at 12:25 amRaymond! Now he was star. First time i encountered him at a gig someone told me he was Penny Rimbaud’s dad, which I suspect to be untrue….
andus
October 13, 2008 at 9:46 amI stayed at his flat once with Daz Russell, great chap, He had some serious record collection. Me and Daz had gone down to London to see Here and Now at some place by the Oval, this was about 1987. I met some squatters from Finsbury Park at the gig, Went back down to see them few weeks later.
smith3000
October 13, 2008 at 10:14 amDaz Russell from Scunny? Fuck me, it’s like Punk Rock Friends Reunited!
andus
October 13, 2008 at 10:17 amScunny !!
alistairliv
October 13, 2008 at 7:33 pmI missed this record when it came out, but am loving it.
Now that’s what I call anarcho-punk! Not that thrash stuff.
The Hagars did get together at the Wapping A Centre, but that would have been late 1981 not 1980.
I remember having a discussion with the (future?) group about Mary Daly’s book Gyn/Ecology – which I had borrowed from Val and there was something about the biblical Hagar in it.