{"id":2268,"date":"2009-04-13T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2009-05-28T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:12:32","slug":"twelve-cubic-feet-namedrop-records-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/twelve-cubic-feet-namedrop-records-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Cubic Feet – Namedrop Records – 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blob \/ Evercare \/ The Almhouse<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s Got The Bug \/ Escaping Again \/ Hello Howard \/ Tuesday Afternoon<\/a><\/p>\n

Indebted to the adorable Stewart for sending me this 10\u2033\u00a0 mini LP release by Twelve Cubic Feet for keepsies. I did not own\u00a0this record\u00a0before, and after a bit of a clean and a spin, I enjoyed it very much.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stewart should be safe in the knowledge that this record will be looked after as well as all my other records have been, since starting off a collection in the late 1970\u2019s! Here at Penguin Towers nowadays,\u00a0there are around 6000\u00a0of the little (and not so little) spinning discs in the collection\u00a0to care for\u2026<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Stewart\u2026<\/p>\n

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After Exhibit A and a handful of interim projects Paul Platypus, Andrew and Matthew joined Fred, Sally and Glenna to form\u00a0Twelve Cubic Feet, who recorded the bands second 10\u2033 LP \u2018Straight Out The Fridge\u2019\u00a0on Namedrop Records. Included on this mini LP was the\u00a0popular track \u2018Evercare\u2019, also credited on the sleeve artwork is Mark Flunder, an ex TV Personalities member who has been mentioned on this site quite a few times on posts regarding The McTells, Hertford punk band Onslaught, as well as the Marine Girls and of course the\u00a0TVPs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Namedrop Records was a small struggling indie label who had<\/span>\u00a0managed, against all the odds, to release some pretty good material into the post punk public\u2019s grasp in the very early 1980\u2019s. <\/span><\/p>\n

NR1 DOOF \u2018Exist\u2019 A 10\u2033 mini-LP which, in its anarchic composition, displays the talents of Paul Platypus and Philip Johnson. <\/span><\/p>\n

NR2 TWELVE CUBIC FEET \u2018Straight Out Of The Fridge\u2019 \u2013 Another 10\u2033 mini-LP and again pretty anarchic, but the beauty of\u00a0Twelve Cubic Feet\u00a0is their ability to write good pop songs. <\/span><\/p>\n

NR3 PHILIP JOHNSON \u2018Youth In Morning\u2019 The first LP from Philip who, over the last few years, has released a selection of cassettes. Carrying on his highly individual reading of music it\u2019s an experimental high done on limited resources and the most challenging Namedrop release. <\/span><\/p>\n

NR4 COLD WAR \u2018The Machinist\u2019 The first and only 7\u2033 record by Cold War, a Hornchurch band that included various \u2018soon to be\u2019 Hager The Womb members, who then evolved in We Are Going To Eat You, and even later started the Stay Up Forever Record\u00a0label to release tracks by Paul and Chris under the guise of Liberator Sound System.\u00a0The Cold War release\u00a0is already uploaded onto this site. HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

After this Twelve Cubic Feet 10\u2033 and a cassette release they fell in with Alan McGee\u2019s Creation \/ Communication Club crowd, and met Dave Evans (Biff Bang Pow) who replaced Matthew on bass. The late Duncan Jack (What is Oil?) replaced Glenna on guitar, Dave Morgan (Take It, The Loft) came in on drums\u2026\u00a0shortly Twelve Cubic Feet cut a final Joe Foster-produced demo. Plans for a new band foundered, and Paul checked into a commune (temporarily); Fred went to university, Dave Morgan got famous, Dave Evans became a roadie for Jesus & Mary Chain, Shop Assistants and later, Belly; Sally sang in Khmer Rouge, and Matthew and Dan formed Solid Space\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blob \/ Evercare \/ The Almhouse Mary\u2019s Got The Bug \/ Escaping Again \/ Hello Howard \/ Tuesday Afternoon Indebted to the adorable Stewart for sending me this 10\u2033\u00a0 mini LP release by Twelve Cubic Feet for keepsies. I did not own\u00a0this record\u00a0before, and after a bit of a clean and a spin, I enjoyed […]<\/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-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}