There Is No Shame In Death Dolphins / These Frayed Edges Excellent debut 12″ record by Danse Society, recorded in 1980 and released on Pax Records in 1981. Nice and gloomy, the A side clocks in at over 12 minutes playing time. A seriously epic dark dirge. The B side, also recorded during the same sessions in Manchester are […]
Screaming Babies Kill Your Pet Puppy’s Mick Lugworm with Fred Previous of Screaming Babies Jon From Bromley, Rob and Fred before Screaming Babies gig at Centro Iberico Rob and Jon From Bromley before Screaming Babies gig at Centro Iberico Screaming Babies PRACTICE Screaming Babies DEMO Paralysis Laughing At Me / Far Cry / So Prententious / […]
I Wish I Knew / Let’s Fly Fine Day / Let’s Fly Greedy Mix Heart In Hand / Just Another One What Have Flowers Got To Do With It? / Cut Pure pop lives in the luscious textures of this north London quartet. Despite the silly name which is ripped off from a 1980 kung fu […]
Theme From Assault On Precinct 13 / Possession / Spit Upon Your Grave / Curse On You Loved this band to fuckery, so here you have the ever helpful John Peel sticking them into Maida Vale for a goulish afternoon to create some really nice tracks. A very good day’s work indeed. Great stuff, loads more […]
Sanctuary / It’s No Crime World In Action / Relative Sadness First release on Fight Back Records, a record label run by Conflict. Heaps of UK Decay and a slight pinch of Killing Joke are among the ingredients for creating Vex. Serve loud. This is the only release I believe that was released by the band. All […]
Mind Disease Nine Brides / Conscript Questioning The Shadow Goth (Positive) punk band Ritual started in 1979 and were one of the first goth punk bands but never got the same recognition as Sex Gang Children or Southern Death Cult. Many compare them to Theatre of Hate as the band also had a sax player. Prior […]
Tomorrow I will be heading off in search of medieval bank and ditch enclosures, but tonight I’m listening to Bauhaus : Bela Lugosi’s Dead, in a ‘most haunted ‘style search of the goth skeleton lurking somewhere here in the virtual Puppy Mansions. Note: I first heard Bela Lugosi played summer 1979 at series of gigs […]
Hoddesdon performance Insight / Play The Game / Lonely / Winter Children / Listen / Never Understood / Sometimes Forever / Celebrate Not to be confused with The City Indians from Derby who were around later on in the decade, this band included my little brother Rob, him with the longish black crimped hair, on […]
Out near (what seemed like) the wilds of Old Street, we moved into a new squat. The Fire Station on Tabernacle Street was a five story building enclosing a central courtyard. Most of the upper levels were coated in a snowy white covering of petrified pigeon droppings. Downstairs was a very large basement where some […]
The text below was written in 2010 for the sleeve notes for the re-release of ‘Let The Tribe Increase’ album that was released on Overground Records. Catalogue number – OVER122LP / CD TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY ‘PENGUIN’ IN 2019 “We are not afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. […]
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