{"id":2763,"date":"2009-08-21T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2012-02-11T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:54:38","slug":"the-dead-rest-in-peace-cassette-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/the-dead-rest-in-peace-cassette-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead – Rest In Peace Cassette – 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dead Rest In Peace Cassette<\/a><\/p>\n

Some information and photographs on The Dead courtesy of Trunt originally from the killfromtheheart site:<\/p>\n

Part of the Howgil Contingent in Cumbria, The Dead were formed around 1982. They were the original garage band, practicing in Reg\u2019s garage and producing some great songs such as \u201cIt\u2019s No Joke,\u201d \u201cBand Stand Boys\u201d about sniffing glue, and the classic \u201cCome to the Place.\u201d The Dead had a rare assortment of members \u2013 Damian a bit of a mod and a Smiths fan, Claire a big Blondie fan, Leecey the anarcho-punk, and Greeny, who knows what. All came together to form a brilliant form of punk sound.<\/p>\n

The Dead soon became very active in the punk scene, organising gigs, producing demos and releasing the Echos of Hirosima fanzine which Reg edited.<\/p>\n

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Reggy, a great guitarist who used to throw in the odd guitar solo which was not often heard in punk songs of the time, wrote most of the songs as well as the lyrics. The band had songs on the punk compilations Contaminated Cassettes and the Scrobe label\u2019s Return From the Grave. They then released their second demo Rest In Peace which was the first time they used a studio and the first time Claire sang lead vocals. She added a fresh sound and delivered some great tracks like \u201cPrince of Darkness\u201d and \u201cScreaming\u201d \u2013 a live favorite.<\/p>\n

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The demo brought great interest from Trunt, producer of the fanzine and tape label Scrobe, who asked The Dead if they wanted to release a split 7\u2033 with the Newcastle band the Famous Imposters. They went into the studio again and recorded \u201cDuty Calls\u201d and \u201cBurke and Hare.\u201d The latter was about the two bodysnatchers who dug up corpses for experimentation.<\/p>\n

The split was released to great reviews and it got them a gig with the A-Heads and Psycho Faction. All this and still at school! Looking back the whole experience was amazing and if the band hadn\u2019t split due to members going to university (art and teaching), they would have gone on to better things. Damian went on to join The Green, Leecey joined Seven Deadly Sins, and disaster struck Reg who had had M.E. for many a year\u2026 Someday The Dead will rise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dead Rest In Peace Cassette Some information and photographs on The Dead courtesy of Trunt originally from the killfromtheheart site: Part of the Howgil Contingent in Cumbria, The Dead were formed around 1982. They were the original garage band, practicing in Reg\u2019s garage and producing some great songs such as \u201cIt\u2019s No Joke,\u201d \u201cBand […]<\/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-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}