{"id":856,"date":"2008-08-15T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=856"},"modified":"2008-08-16T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T23:19:42","slug":"the-mothmen-onu-sound-records-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/the-mothmen-onu-sound-records-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mothmen &#8211; ONU Sound Records &#8211; 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"633\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_3561.jpg\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"638\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_3564.jpg\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?dwqshxzujzq\">Afghan\u00a0Farmer Driving Cattle \/ Animal Animaux \/ Not Moving \/ Factory &#8211; Teapot &#8211; Factory \/ Please Let Go<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?zisyl5hlmdi\">Tardis<\/a> \/ <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?dwdjdznfqzn\">Mothmen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This second release on the mighty fine ONU Sound Record label\u00a0was quietly snuck in between the first two New Age Steppers LP&#8217;s, New Age Steppers Vol 1 and Action Battlefield (both ONU Sound \/ Statik\u00a0joint releases)\u00a0way back in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Mothmen originated from the breakup of two\u00a0Manchester bands, The Durutti Column and the fun shock rock band Albertos Y Lost Trios Paranoias, and the band had previously issued a 7&#8243; single before ONU Sound released this product.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that Adrian Sherwood was not directly involved in any of the recording or mixing of this LP,\u00a0which is probably why it sometimes sounds a little like Stonehenge festival favorites Here And Now mixed up with\u00a023 Skidoo&#8217;s Culling Is Coming\u00a0period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"453\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/scan101.jpg\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some early ONU Sound history from 1983 that I found in my box\u00a0(above) which strangely does not mention The Mothmen at all, not sure why, perhaps the lack of Sherwood on this LP was the reason, as by 1983 he had gained a solid reputation with material he did work on such as Creation Rebel, Singers And Players and Mark Stewart And The Maffia.<\/p>\n<p>Great record none the less from the band\u00a0soon to\u00a0be called Simply Red later on in the 1980&#8217;s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan\u00a0Farmer Driving Cattle \/ Animal Animaux \/ Not Moving \/ Factory &#8211; Teapot &#8211; Factory \/ Please Let Go Tardis \/ Mothmen This second release on the mighty fine ONU Sound Record label\u00a0was quietly snuck in between the first two New Age Steppers LP&#8217;s, New Age Steppers Vol 1 and Action Battlefield (both ONU Sound [&hellip;]<\/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-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}