Another Kill Your Pet Puppy favored band, this time a band that included Dave Roberts who was around several of the house’s that the Puppies resided in free of charge! Andi the vocalist I think was something to do with The Straps who were around the same scene in the late 1970’s as Crisis and The Pack (all the mentioned bands have material uploaded on this site). Featured in Vague and KYPP, and all the weekly music papers a fair amount, this first 7″ single sold well, and the band managed several TV performances. The LP ‘Song And Legend’ from 1983 is a must have, unfortunately it will not be uploaded here because of it’s current availability. Pretty intense live act to boot.
Nic
January 22, 2008 at 10:33 amNice one…
Only saw them once (with Play Dead in April 1983) unfortunately…
The story about the brown on the dusty floor from Bob Short’s article is rather bleak!
Do any of you ‘elder statesmen’ have the Panic Buttons ‘News of the Day’ 7″?
There’s some interesting ‘horses mouth’ information on The Straps here:
http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/straps.htm
An interesting nexus of characters (Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley indeed!)
I saw them play with The Damned (at Birmingham Odeon in 1980) and actually enjoyed them more than The Damned…
Tony Puppy
January 24, 2008 at 12:40 amIf you look in the downloads guide, found at the top right hand part of the menus on this site, you’ll find the Sex Gang Children’s first release, which was on cassette only. That is very good.
I saw Panic Button live once with andi on vocals. I also saw andi live solo before that (James St squat gig).
Most of Panic Button left to become Sex Gang, so who was left to make the Panic Button ‘News Of The Day’ 7″? Do you own this Nic?
There’s also Straps stuff on here, a band that Val Puppy liked very much.
With a bit of digging I’m sure Andi has a site explaining all of this…if I post it on here at Puppy Central there will be many to say Andi has got it wrong (like poor Kirk and his Pack memories).
I’ll see what I can do. This may involve phone calls, e-mails, drinking absinthe in Soho drinking dens till 5am. Or worse. But for truth, and you, I shall attempt it!
Corvus
December 21, 2009 at 4:40 pmgreat EP, i own a copy of this and the sebastiane/song and legend EP, as well as the S&L LP, the band will always be on my top band list
chas
December 22, 2009 at 10:59 amfantastic live band – upstairs at the clarendon summer 82, with a skeleton breathing fire. shame they split too soon.