Indebted to Steve Corr of Idiot Strength, one of my favourite bands on the mid 1980’s, who jotted down some notes for me to place onto this KYPP post – Revised March 2016. Wasting Your Time Caroline These two songs are the first things I ever recorded and I’m told ‘Wasting Your Time’ was played […]
Sometimes, just sometimes, placing rare records, cassettes and live performance audio along with writing interesting articles relevant to that particular post on Kill Your Pet Puppy can be a bit of a chore! Not on this post though… All the work on this post has been done by various kindly souls to give this particular […]
The long awaited All The Madmen records launch gig promises performances by The Mob, Hagar The Womb, The Astronauts, Andy T and Kill Pretty at the Boston Arms, Tufnell Park, London on Friday 30th November starting at 7 pm. Entry free of charge to All The Madmen records co op members. Possibly a co op […]
Toms Midnight Garden – Estella Toms Midnight Garden – Nightmare Toms Midnight Garden – Roads Toms Midnight Garden – My Faithful Friend Toms Midnight Garden – To Kill A Klown Uploaded tonight are five tracks taken off a thirteen track CD release by the ‘blink and you missed them’ Toms Midnight Garden. These five tracks […]
Situation Boys In Black John Peel Session September 1980 – Two Sides One Story / Stand Alone / Situation / Transformed John Peel Session April 1981 – Roses To Reno / Party Games / Claudines Ex members of the original 1977 Adam And The Ants formed the Monochrome Set in 1978 and then later on in 1980 the second […]
The Mob – Meanwhile Gardens 1983 – photograph by Mark Palmer In about 24 hours and 300 miles away the Mob will be taking to the stage at the Fleece in Bristol. Zounds, Rubella Ballet, Insurrection, Andy T and Steve Corr will be playing as well – altogether it will be quite an event for […]
The Mob formed in a village near Yeovil in Somerset, England, around the beginning of 1978. The band at this time consisted of Mark (guitar, vocals and songwriter), Graham (drums), and Curtis (bass and backing vocals). All of the members of The Mob had previously been in a band called Magnum Force while at school together… The Mob played […]
Bard Buster Chuggin In The Ruggin / Steppenwolf Look Mummy Clowns emerged early on in 1982 from the members of The Eratics. Stringy continued to play the bass and Snout continued to play the guitar. Roper, The Eratics drummer, moved over to vocal duties and the vacant drumming position was filled by ex-Apostle drummer Dan MacIntyre. The band performed with […]
No Place To Go / Moonlight Love Machine / The Sandman Never Sleeps Chris on a recent comment, reminded me that for a short time in the mid 1980’s there seemed to be a fashion sweeping the land that included donning a black roll-neck, black levi 501’s and a pair of pointy pixie boots. The […]
Another One / Girl Casablanca / Daddy The last great All The Madmen band in my opinion, a roster of artists that had included The Mob, The Astronauts, Blyth Power and Flowers In The Dustbin amongst others. This recording got them on the label, just before the record company moved from Brougham Road, Hackney to Crucial Corner, Caledonian Road, […]
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