Pic of Hall class GWR loco from 1979 – part of secret strategic steam engine reserve Is it just me, or is this totally surreal? Apparently, as part of the UK’s top secret nuclear war survival strategy, 160 steam (and a few diesel) engines were kept in working order in an underground depot up until […]
Television Personalities – A Day In Heaven / Jasmine Minks – Seven And Seven Is / June Brides – I Fall / The Legend – Arrogant Bastards / Three Johns – A.W.O.L. / The Loft– Your Doors Shimes Like Gold The Pastels – Hurricane Fighter Plane / Mekons – Rock And Roll Shoes / The […]
Nervous System / Turn To Red Are You Receiving The mighty force that is the debut single from Killing Joke. This 10″ raised a few eyebrows when released, clean clinical choppy guitar with some nice dubby bass lines. Some of the imagery used on Killing Joke records and shirts were second only to Gee Vouchers collages for […]
Memphis / Love Lies Limp / My Hand Was Still Wet / Sleep In Bed / Life / How Much Longer Alternatives To N.A.T.O. / You Bastard / Why Don’t You Do Me Right? / Total Switch Off Due to popular demand…well a couple of people anyway, cheers Steve and Martin C, here in all […]
Weapon Training / EHH AHHOOOH Convincing People / Chat Up Hamburger Lady / Day Song Persuasion / Five Knuckle Shuffle Thought it was time to upload some Throbbers onto the site, can not really get away with putting the obvious material up, as Mute Records re-released all the works recently. I do not think this […]
Born To Sing The Blues / Beale Street Blues / Wabash Blues / Basin Street Blues Birth Of The Blues / Careless Love Blues / Blues In The Night / The St Louis Blues Fifty years ago this week a boy was born. The boy was born in a year that produced the debut recording by […]
As readers of Kill Your Pet Puppy the fanzine will know, our Dear Leader (aka Tony D.) in his previous incarnation as editor of the classic punk fanzine Ripped and Torn [founded 1976] did a fair bit to promote Adam and the Ants in their original and unexpurgated form. Sadly, by the time (late 1979) […]
Graves Of Duluxe Green / Alternatives To Normal Eating Habits Knights Of The Future (Fellow Sufferer) Inspired by a comment by Nic recently about the rising cost of D.I.Y. records, here is one record of the genre which is as rare as Arsenal Football Club winning trophies in a season. This record, which I hope will be […]
The Good Missionary 1 The Good Missionary 2 / Kif Kif’s Free Freakout The first release on Hasting’s Unnormality imprint, two tracks from the Good Missionaries recorded live at Manchester University and St Andrew’s University during The Pop Groups ‘Animal Instincts’ tour middle of 1979. Keep Going Backwards Attitudes Studio recordings for the second […]
This Angry Silence / The Glittering Prizes / World Of Pauline Lewis / A Family Affair / Silly Girl / Dairy Of A Young Man / Geoffrey Ingram I Know Where Syd Barret Lives / Jackonory Stories / Parties In Chelsea / La Grande Illusion / A Picture Of Dorian Gray / The Crying Room […]