{"id":2336,"date":"2009-04-28T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2010-03-21T11:45:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:45:59","slug":"cold-war-namedrop-records-1983-demos-1981-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/cold-war-namedrop-records-1983-demos-1981-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War – Namedrop Records – 1983 + Live + Demos – 1981 \/ 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"

7″ SINGLE TRACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Machinist<\/a><\/p>\n

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Illusion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

DEMO TRACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Machinist \/ Suffering By Fire \/ Cold World \/ Illusion<\/a><\/p>\n

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Irrational \/ Opening Doors \/ Life On A Wire \/ Pride \/ Brother Murder \/ Confrontation<\/a><\/p>\n

LIVE TRACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Images \/ Cold World \/ Brother Murder \/ Cosmetics \/ House Of No Escape\u00a0\/ 10,000 \/ Mr Undertaker \/ Suffering By Fire \/ Opening Doors<\/a><\/p>\n

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Uploaded for you tonight are\u00a0the first couple of demo tapes from Hornchurch’s Cold War, a live performance from the Autonomy Centre Wapping, plus for good measure the only 7″ single released by the band. Might as well keep all Cold War recorded output together!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cold War were formed around 1980 in Hornchurch, Essex \u2013 somewhere near the end of the District Line.\u00a0 <\/span>Chris Knowles (bass), Kev Bulmer (drums), Paul Harding (guitar) and Ian Smith (vocals) were all school friends.\u00a0 <\/span>Chris and Kev ran the Rasquap products tape label where they released most of their various bands including legends like What Is Oil? and the Boiled Eggs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Taking their influences from punk and post-punk, Cold War were a powerful but melodic band.\u00a0 <\/span>Their debut gig (if memory serves) was at the Cliffs pavilion in Southend where the Apostles also played.\u00a0 <\/span>This meeting led to an introduction to the Wapping A-Centre where the band played on a number of occasions.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Over a period of a year to 18 months, the band released a few cassettes, including \u2018Live At the Autonomy Centre 18-10-81\u2019 and the 6 tracks album \u2018Irrational\u2019.\u00a0 <\/span>These were followed by their only single \u2018the Machinist\u2019 on Namedrop records.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris, also a drummer, was invited to join Hagar The Womb in late 1980.\u00a0 <\/span>Cold War split around 1982 with Ian taking up sax and later joining his brothers band Seventh S\u00e9ance (ex-Orange Cardigan).\u00a0 <\/span>Paul was later to join Hagar The Womb after the departure of Jon From Bromley during the recording of their first 12\u201d single \u2018The Word Of The Womb\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris and Paul continued with Hagar The Womb for the rest of their career, later forming We Are Going To Eat You and subsequently Melt.\u00a0 <\/span>Chris and Paul later became interested in Techno and post Melt, Chris became DJ Chris Liberator and Paul\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ian vanished off the face of the earth (with his sax) and Kev recently emigrated to Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Graham Burnett for the photograph above of Cold War at Wapping Autonomy Centre and to Jon FB for the text on the band above and for the lend of the live cassette.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The photographs above are from Tod’s collection and shows Hagar The Womb members Ruth and Janet (both together) and Karen, all mucking about\u00a0in the Wapping Autonomy Centre toilets.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cold War performed at this venue on a few\u00a0occasions and\u00a0a few months\u00a0after these photographs would have been taken at the centre, Hagar The Womb managed to recruit the services of Chris and Paul on drum and guitar duties, both Chris and Paul were members of Cold War.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many more of Tod’s photographs of the Wapping Autonomy toilets can be viewed in the photo archive under the heading Wapping Autonomy Centre, quick link<\/strong>\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7″ SINGLE TRACKS Machinist Illusion DEMO TRACKS The Machinist \/ Suffering By Fire \/ Cold World \/ Illusion Irrational \/ Opening Doors \/ Life On A Wire \/ Pride \/ Brother Murder \/ Confrontation LIVE TRACKS Images \/ Cold World \/ Brother Murder \/ Cosmetics \/ House Of No Escape\u00a0\/ 10,000 \/ Mr Undertaker \/ […]<\/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-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}