Bite The Bullet \/ The Beat Goes On \/ Money And Suss \/ Time And Motion \/ Background Noises \/ Dachau<\/a><\/p>\nQuirky LP by The Transmitters, with all the text below lifted from the bands myspace site.<\/p>\n
Despite their dull name, the Transmitters promised much when they bent a number of influential ears on their journey through the eternaly fascinating late 70’s, it was a promise that fizzled to an inglorious halt, however, although their infectious racket makes a welcome return on this curiously captivating compilation.
\nWhereas many similar outfits have faded with time, The Transmitters managed to secure an individuality that has led them to a cultish longevity. Perhaps it’s the bands frenetic attack that has so endured. Far from bland thrash, they managed to weave an almost jazz-tinged experimentalism into short, sweet songs, Two steps ahead of the equally beguiling Fire Engines, perhaps one behind The Pop Group, they clearly understood the possibility of an expansive approach in a manner that seems positively courageous by today’s tempered standards.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/KYPP568.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
I Fear No One CD (Elsewhen \/ Voiceprint) reviews<\/strong> by:<\/strong><\/p>\nEverett True in Plan B
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Transmitters were scary even for their times (1978-79): their music was full of dark mutterings and moping, jazz-inflected rhythms that had few peers, perhaps This Heat and Glaxo Babies and some of Manchesters’s more morbid leanings. Fractured, taut, rebellious, paranoid. but with too dissolute an image to connect with the trend-conscious London crowds, ‘I Fear No-One…’ CD (Elsewhen\/Voiceprint) collects together the early singles, outtakes and Peel Session and sounds even more disturbing through the distorted vacuum of time – great, but hold on for the next volume (’81-’82) when The Transmitters were incredible, the live equivalent to the Birthday Party and Blurt.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/KYPP569.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Cream Of The Crop fanzine website 2007<\/strong><\/p>\nRaw but intriguing collection by Ealing outfit whose arty and scratchy post punk (The Fall\/PiL) stylings from 1977 to the ’80’s remained resolutely perverse, ahead and undersung from start to finish.<\/p>\n
Finally out after numerous set backs, comes the best of album from one of London’s historic, fuck let’s be honest UK’s Iconic messiah new wave punks.<\/p>\n
Punk was seemingly starting to die, THE SEX PISTOLS had died, and only the real vision was coming from the likes of John Lydon and P.I.L., plus the inventiveness of many others who were going to evolve and take the scene plus the attitude on further. Like many of the new breed of don’t care souls were THE TRANSMITTERS. They were rubbing head, shoulders and even don’t give a fuck smiles with the likes of THE SLITS, THE FALL, HUMAN LEAGUE, BLURT, THE POLICE, plus plying their scare trade sound tactics at many a riotous gig. The music press and onlookers were pencilling down their particulars, because, what they were doing, shook heads, shook minds, shook the shock.
\nRadio including John Peel took a liking to their potent imaginative approach and got them into the studio for a session in 1979, plus following up with a second and final session.<\/p>\n
So the best of is out, and out on Elsewhen Records, the label that Sam Dodson, member of the band actually set up. It’s a compelling piece of music history and a worthy long tale of 22 selected tracks. What brings this home is the John Peel sessions being given the go ahead to be featured. Like many a Peel session, where the bbc always seemed to catch the rawness, and the essence of what a band was doing in their prime. Peel knew the power, wave length and the appeal that THE TRANSMITTERS were on, this compilation will break new and fresh ears, even break new minds.
\nYou get a blistering and totally on fire with intensity version of “Blankety Blank”, which comes from the Peel session, on here, it’s got the bleeps and fuzz guitar breaking every few seconds. The intensity just shatters ya. But must here from the same session is “I Fear No-One But My Friends”, again coming from the same session, Like a dirty Depeche Mode that’s had petrol poured on and lit. It burns with a new wave buzz, not many other bands at the time had the balls to create this don’t give a fuck sound.<\/p>\n
“We supported the Slits in Acton early 1978 and all the Sex Pistols were there and the Clash, Sid Vicious was carried in and laid down ceremoniously at the back at the end of the gig he was dutifully carried out and thrown into the back of a black cab So he WAS there – but he wasn’t so to speak”<\/p>\n
The innovation of sound they created, if you want to try to describe it could be like a cross with XTC for the sheer different tangent creation, and sheer fright of Gang Of Four, but let’s face it was just sheer indifference to others that made them stand out. “Ugly Man”, like a funk punk fusion bomb blasting out, spitting out the vile dust on tongue taste of ugly ugly mannnnn.
\n“Dead Siamese Sister” gives a glimpse of the similarity and connection they have been talked about over the years with THE FALL, who were also one time Record Label sharing mates. It sucks into deep south sounding guitar, played in echo hall practise rooms, it’s ever swirling and whirling into transmit frenzy. All in all 22 tracks spanning career from one of the outstanding real hopes that were the new wave scene of the 80’s many have tried to follow suit since, but hey they just can’t make the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lovers Not Corpes \/ Equation \/ The Purges \/ Paul Is Dead \/ Venus Dread Bite The Bullet \/ The Beat Goes On \/ Money And Suss \/ Time And Motion \/ Background Noises \/ Dachau Quirky LP by The Transmitters, with all the text below lifted from the bands myspace site. Despite their dull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_3875.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_3877.jpg\")
<\/p>\n