Crash Pad Chick / I Knew Sky / Name On The Bullet
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Second (mini) LP by The Golden Horde from Dublin. Sitting somewhere between The Cramps, Husker Du and The Darling Buds!
This long standing band who debuted on the Dublin music scene in 1982 has played quite a bit in London with the likes of The Headcoats, The Barracudas and The Prisoners who once upon a time had James Taylor (of J.T. Quartet) playing the hammond organ for them.
I saw them with Psychic TV once and that was certainly a mismatch of genres…!
The first side of this 12″ has the newer tracks and wins hands down with the inclusion of ‘The Name On The Bullet Was Mine’ which is an absolutely irresistable tune, to be played over and over, unless of course you are a KYPP browser that only listens to Throbbing Gristle and nothing else, in which case you would probably think the tunes shite.
The second side is from the first 7″ single released in 1984 on Hotwire / Crashed Records, all reasonable enough material on this side but it feels as though Stan Brennan (sometime Pogues Head Honcho) stuck it on as an after thought just for the rarity value. I would have preferred another three tracks from the 1985 session though if any more existed, which of course, they may not have.
Going out to Paul May (Final Curtain / Sowing Seeds fanzines) originally from Grays now residing in Seattle, cos I reckon he will like this one…
Chris
September 1, 2008 at 9:40 pmerrr…shouldn’t this, like, be in the post-’86 section? π
Penguin • Post Author •
September 1, 2008 at 9:44 pmBlimey, someone actually knows that there is a post 86 section!
Gold star to you sir…hardly any other fucker know’s its there!!!
Post 86 in effect means (on this site at least) material from Jan 1st 1987…so no, should not be over there… π
Nic
September 2, 2008 at 8:45 amNice one, Penguin – this is a bit of a rave from the grave…
Fantastic name, great psych…
taki
September 2, 2008 at 2:07 pmany idea what month this record came out? just putting records in chronological order, haha.
Nic
September 2, 2008 at 3:52 pmFebruary 1986, Taki…
π
Incidentally, Media Burn were the label which released classic records by The Vibes and the Purple Things (who went on to become Terminal Cheesecake who did a nice cover of Flipper’s ‘Sex Bomb’)…
Nuzz
September 2, 2008 at 8:53 pmDon’t forget the time they played with Johnny Thunders, grab a listen here:
http://proudtobeapirate.blogspot.com/ If yer curiosity gets the better of you.
Tony Puppy
September 3, 2008 at 5:34 pmThere was an album of the Golden Horde with Robert Anton Wilson intoning over the music.
I used to have it.
Was it this Golden Horde? and if so, maybe that was why they were playing with Psychic TV.
Penguin • Post Author •
September 3, 2008 at 6:09 pmYes same Golden Horde Tony, I do not own that LP, it was their debut one with R.A.W. on.
The PTV gig the band played at was the one at the Kilburn Ballroom (with Zodiac Mindwarp) in March 1986.
I think this was the gig with the ‘love in’ rooms (or it may have been Electric Ballroom with Spacemen 3 and Zoskia a year later – now my memory is hazy!) where you could get a bit naughty with the Doris’s. In other words if you entered that ‘special’ room it was an open invitation to get touched up, fiddled with and possibly more, all in the guise of celebrating 20 years of psychedelia.
Suffice to say I entered that room near on five times and got naff all in the way of free sex, cheap sex or even expensive sex. Whether it was Kilburn Ballroom or Electric Ballroom these rooms made it a rotten gig, very frustrating indeed. Urrgggghhhhh – sound of grinding teeth with remembering that night, although obviously not very well if I am confusing two venues and two seperate years!!!