Wednesday, September 21, 2016
TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: Volume 57
01 - HORSE CAVE TRIO - Everybody
02 - DEADSTRING BROTHERS - Blindfolded
03 - MAJORS JUNCTION - Don't Go Missing Me Now
04 - BLACK SMOKERS - Used
05 - DUNCAN PHILLIPS & THE LONG STAND - At The Bottom
06 - COUNTRY LIPS - Friday's My Friday
07 - BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS - Sometimes It Comes Easy
08 - HAZY MALAZE - Connections
09 - WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH - Transfusion Blues
10 - CHARLIE DANIELS - Billy The Kid
11 - DAVID WADDELL - Waco Saturday Night
12 - THE NORTHBANK STRANGLERS - Faceless
13 - BUILT 4 SPEED - Trust
14 - THE SNOWDROPPERS - Fucked Up Blues
15 - JUSTIN JOHNSON - Cutting The Body Loose
16 - 100 DAMNED GUNS - Ain't That Bad Anymore
17 - THE CADILLAC THREE - Party Like You
18 - GUADALCANAL DIARY - Country Club Gun
19 - LAST CALL BRAWLERS - Nothing New
20 - JOHNNY PSYCHO AND THE SWITCHBLADE ROCKERS - Throw Down
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Various Artists - Black Hill Highway (2010)
STANLEY RECORDS PRESENTS… BLACK HILL HIGHWAY.....
Featuring Mo Trowell & The Delivery, Chuck's Wagon, Roland K Smith & The Sinners and The Dennis Boys Band.
Featuring Mo Trowell & The Delivery, Chuck's Wagon, Roland K Smith & The Sinners and The Dennis Boys Band.
The idea is simple. Take some of New South Wales' finest purveyors of alternative country music, get them to record a couple of new tracks. Put them together on a disc and send it out to the world. Black Hill Highway is not a “compilation” album but rather, a 4-way split release, showcasing the strengths that each of the four acts has to offer. Black Hill Highway features Mo Trowell & The Delivery, Chuck's Wagon, Roland K Smith & The Sinners, all hailing from Sydney, and The Dennis Boys Band. Whilst calling Musswellbrook home, The Dennis Boys Band are considered Newcastle locals and appear in that town every other weekend.
So where does the title come from? Black Hill Highway pays homage to the F3 Freeway, the road that takes you from Sydney to Newcastle, which starts in Sydney and finishes at Black Hill. Not only does it honour all of the musical warriors who spend half their lives on our nation's highways, it also sounded like a great title for legendary artist Ben Brown to come up with artwork for as well.
01 - CHUCK'S WAGON - Round & Round
02 - CHUCK'S WAGON - One More Time
03 - ROLAND K SMITH & THE SINNERS - Drinkin' Mama
04 - ROLAND K SMITH & THE SINNERS - A Lonesome Blue
05 - THE DENNIS BOYS BAND - Big Gun Hillbilly
06 - THE DENNIS BOYS BAND - Mr. Moon
07 - MO TROWEL & THE DELIVERY - All I Got (Paul's Song)
08 - MO TROWEL & THE DELIVERY - A Real Rut
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
SLACK BASTARDS [2016] Sin Alley (Promo Single)
The band has generously made this promo single available for free. Enjoy some old school punk!!
01. Sin Alley
02. If The Kids Are United
VBR
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https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dizn0c
Travis, the Slack Bastards' guitarist also runs Resisting Arrest AZ who organize DIY shows and is a DIY record label.
Resisting Arrest AZ is hosting a show 7:30pm October 11, 2016 at The Rat Trap, 3042 N Stone Ave, Tucson, AZ.
Tickets are $8.50 USD or more from here or here, which gets you admission for 1 to see: Millions of Dead Cops / Wartorn / Blueprints For Destruction / Pop Gestapo / Slack Bastards
BRING PROOF OF ID
Not only that, but you also get the MDC sampler which comes free with purchase of Ticket to MDC. Includes songs from Slack Bastards and bonus tracks from Freedom Assault, the FIST., Anarchist Autonomous.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Elmo Karjalainen's Unintelligent Designs Now Available As A Signed CD
Elmo's first solo album, "Unintelligent Designs", turned 4 years old this past week, and he thought that since the album is that old, he'd start offering the physical version for the same price as the digital version. This means it's now available for 5 euros, plus shipping, on Bandcamp. He'll sign it before it's sent. Check it out here. You also get the digital download instantly, which means you don't have to wait around for the CD to arrive to hear this great album.
In other news, the forthcoming new album is behind schedule a bit. It's still not mastered, but it should be out later this year, and an update will be posted when there's something happening.
And in even more other news, Seagrave, a band Elmo plays in, recently uploaded a few videos of a live show to YouTube. The newest one, "Immortal", features some silly behind-the-neck playing by yours truly. You can check out those videos here.
A DAY WITHOUT LOVE Releases Great New Album 'SOLACE'
A Day Without Love has existed in many forms. Started as a solo act by frontman Brian Walker during his college years, the music took on the shape of a full-band when Walker collaborated with Philadelphia producer Jake Detwiler in 2013. The resulting debut EP, "Island", was a sharp contrast from the mellow acoustic musings that Walker had leaned on in the past - it was aggressive, grungy, and energetic.
This new 13-song LP though, covers Walker’s experience coming to terms “with things I no longer tolerate,” he says.
There’s a point in life where you decide what you can take with you, and what you should leave behind; Solace is about that point. “It’s about things I’m growing comfortable with, about finding comfort in your suffering,” he says.
The album is stripped down and raw, Walker punctuating jangling guitars with darkly honest musings on the nature of suffering and the feeling of walking away. “I want to find my capacity to take it all and spit it out,” he belts out on Capacity.
The Philly-based artist covers topics like loneliness and racism (his grandmother’s take on racism in America is featured on “I Hope It Ends”), but also redemption, of turning away to find strength and comfort in himself: “Then I started to face my fears,” he sings on Green. “That’s when things got real weird.”
01. Joseph
02. Green
03. Solace
04. Heart
05. Cruel
06. It Hurts
07. Constantly Ignored
08. I Hope It Ends One Day
09. Capacity
10. Too Fast
11. Never Judge
12. They Don't Want Us To Live
13. Persistence
This is a great album folks with well crafted tunes that ensure repeat listens and is indeed a worthy addition to your music collection, you will not be disappointed, I know I wasn't, and you can purchase 'Solace' either as Digital Album or Compact Disc from here or here.
http://www.adaywithoutlove.com/
https://www.facebook.com/adaywithoutlovemusic
https://twitter.com/adaywithoutlove
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuVH5t8u_Xx-uLofN0wysw
https://soundcloud.com/adaywithoutlove
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/a-day-without-love/id572413818
http://adaywithoutlove.bandcamp.com/
This new 13-song LP though, covers Walker’s experience coming to terms “with things I no longer tolerate,” he says.
There’s a point in life where you decide what you can take with you, and what you should leave behind; Solace is about that point. “It’s about things I’m growing comfortable with, about finding comfort in your suffering,” he says.
The album is stripped down and raw, Walker punctuating jangling guitars with darkly honest musings on the nature of suffering and the feeling of walking away. “I want to find my capacity to take it all and spit it out,” he belts out on Capacity.
The Philly-based artist covers topics like loneliness and racism (his grandmother’s take on racism in America is featured on “I Hope It Ends”), but also redemption, of turning away to find strength and comfort in himself: “Then I started to face my fears,” he sings on Green. “That’s when things got real weird.”
01. Joseph
02. Green
03. Solace
04. Heart
05. Cruel
06. It Hurts
07. Constantly Ignored
08. I Hope It Ends One Day
09. Capacity
10. Too Fast
11. Never Judge
12. They Don't Want Us To Live
13. Persistence
This is a great album folks with well crafted tunes that ensure repeat listens and is indeed a worthy addition to your music collection, you will not be disappointed, I know I wasn't, and you can purchase 'Solace' either as Digital Album or Compact Disc from here or here.
http://www.adaywithoutlove.com/
https://www.facebook.com/adaywithoutlovemusic
https://twitter.com/adaywithoutlove
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuVH5t8u_Xx-uLofN0wysw
https://soundcloud.com/adaywithoutlove
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/a-day-without-love/id572413818
http://adaywithoutlove.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: Volume 56
01 - ROLAND KAY-SMITH - Someone Else
02 - BOO RAY - Like A Cigarette
03 - JAVA SKULL - Friendly Fire
04 - TRIGGERTOWN - Mortar And Pestle
05 - JB NELSON - Noise Upstairs
06 - HONKY TONK HUSTLAS - Blood Mountain
07 - THE DIRTY HANKS - The Wife Of Mason Kelly
08 - CODY JINKS - Loud And Heavy
09 - J. TEX & THE VOLUNTEERS - Look Up Look Down
10 - THE PISSMISTERS - I'm Never Gonna Be Rich
11 - CHAD COOKE BAND - Oil Man
12 - NOBODY'S HEROES - Moonshine
13 - MATT MULLINS & THE BRINGDOWNS - Whiskey Soaked
14 - THE MYSTIX - Let's Get Started
15 - THE DENNIS BOYS BAND - Late One Night
16 - I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. - Sexy Vacation
17 - ROLAND K SMITH & THE SINNERS - Stuck On You
18 - LUKE POWERS - Bushy
19 - UNION DUKE - Coffee/Whiskey
20 - UNCLE BEN'S REMEDY - Pedal To The Metal
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
DEATH ROOTS SYNDICATE: The End (2015)
Final Dirges To The End Times.
Spread this like the Scourge that it is...
"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief." - James Lovelock
Spread this like the Scourge that it is...
"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief." - James Lovelock
01 - Reverend Walker - Revelation
02 - Black Claw - Upon Their Greedy Demise
03 - Ghostwitch - Chains III
04 - Sons Of Perdition - The Tomb Of Daniel Parker
05 - Cyanna Mercury - The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child Cover)
06 - Jim Strange with The Proud And The Damned - No One
07 - Rotten Possum - Oh Dark Lord
08 - Dead Bronco - Dead Bronco
09 - Reverend Elvis And The Undead Syncopators - Darkworld
10 - Yuma Sun - They Are Gone
11 - Muleskinner Jones - Kathleen
12 - Seuora - Deep & Dark
13 - Hells Fire Sinners - Eye's Go Black
14 - Nomotion - Berlin After War
15 - The Giant Undertow - French Ambassador
16 - Devil's Holler - The Darkness
17 - Slackeye Slim - It Was A Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra Cover)
18 - Dead Soldiers - Ironclad
19 - Captain Catfeesh - Droning In The River
20 - Deadmen's Suit - Misery Train
21 - J. Kowalski & The Ghost Band - Come To Me
22 - Bishop and Atheist - The Altar Of Sleep
23 - Ghostwriter - Sailing (feat. Ralph White)
24 - OldBoy - Inaction Man
25 - Goatswamp Songs - Groundsong
26 - The Mussy Cluves - Funeral Pile
27 - Slate Dump - Disillusionment
28 - EvilMrSod - I'm Gonna Disappear
29 - Bansheerie - Daughters Of The Twilight
30 - Sleepy Eyes Nelson - Trouble Coming My Way
31 - Ages Olde - Arsenic River
32 - The Grindstone Retribution - Crossroads
33 - Lucas Paine - Black Ram Shuffle
34 - The Victor Mourning - Patagonie (with Tim Kerr)
35 - JB Nelson - Beautiful Darkness
36 - The Division Men - Dying To Get By
37 - Uncle Sinner - Oh Death
38 - The Last Surrealist - In The All Consuming Fires Of Sodom And Gomorrah We Make Love
39 - stroszek - when i'm gone (Phil Ochs Cover)
40 - Jeremiah Crow's Insufferable One Man Show - Poor Old Devil
41 - M.M.S. Kaiser - Poison In The Well
42 - Jeremy Gilliland - On Our Way Back Home
43 - River Of Gennargentu - Fire Over The Hill
44 - t.k. bollinger - Till Exhaustion Or Collapse
45 - Jim Dead - Stealing A Mile
46 - Throw Me Off The Bridge - From The Top
47 - Leaked Period - Slide Piano
48 - ☢ - The End
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
HONKY TONK HUSTLAS
http://www.honkytonkhustlas.com
https://www.facebook.com/honkytonkhustlas/
High-Octane Honky-Tonk from the Heart of Dixie
https://www.facebook.com/honkytonkhustlas/
High-Octane Honky-Tonk from the Heart of Dixie
Founded in 2007, Honky Tonk Hustlas (HTH) is a Montgomery, Alabama-based string band, blending traditional Southern roots music with their own rowdy style of raw, outlaw country. They’ve got a down and dirty, old-school sound with a new, twisted philosophy and the skills to back it up.
HTH is led by T. Junior's gritty, high-lonesome vocals & solid rhythm guitar, accompanied by a rotating cast on electric guitar/mandolin/steel guitar/dobro/fiddle, and anchored by Stemp's slap-style upright bass. They write and perform in a traditional style with punk rock undertones, mixing elements of rockabilly and bluegrass to create their own hellbilly brand of high-octane honky tonk.
Steeped in the sins of the South, these guys are as hard-working as they come. Wrenching out pure country while taking cues from the harder edges of legends like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, HTH would make the perfect soundtrack to your next barroom brawl.
1. [2008] Hallways Of The Always
01 - Devil Let Me Be
02 - Livin My Life Alone
03 - Hallways Of The Always
04 - The Path I Tread
05 - Wastin My Time
06 - Fallen Once Again
07 - Torn Between Two
08 - You Ran Me Off
09 - Dark Lost Soul
10 - Stone Cold Heart
11 - Ed's On The Prowl
12 - Cheatin'
13 - Demoniac
14 - Blood Mountain
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2. [2011] South Of Nashville
01 - South Of Nashville
02 - Drinkin' With My Friends
03 - My Worst Enemy
04 - Long Lonely Road
05 - Buried Alive
06 - Don't Give A Damn
07 - You Were The One
08 - Down And Out
09 - After I'm Gone
10 - Never Gonna Quit
11 - You Can't Go Back
12 - Don't Hold Me Down
13 - Pray I Won't Wake Up
14 - Corporate Man
15 - Death's Cold Sting
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Crank County Daredevils On Tour With Punk Legend, Cheetah Chrome
Crank County Daredevils will be on tour in September with punk legend, Cheetah Chrome (The Dead Boys).
The tour kicks off with a hometown show in Asheville, NC at The Mothlight on Sunday, September 4, before joining up with Cheetah in Nashville, TN on September 6.
The tour kicks off with a hometown show in Asheville, NC at The Mothlight on Sunday, September 4, before joining up with Cheetah in Nashville, TN on September 6.
THE PISSMISTERS [2016] The Pissmisters
The Pissmisters are JB Nelson & The Mussy Cluves.
01. The King Of Chemical Valley
02. Don't Wake Me Up Before Noon
03. If I Can't Have You
04. I'm Gonna Hitchhike Down To Cincinnati And Kick The Shit Outta Your Drunk Daddy
05. I Like To Waste The Day Sleeping
06. I'm Never Gonna Be Rich
07. The Year Is Zero
08. Head In A Noose
09. The Creeping Horror
10. Something Bad Is Gonna Happen
Released June 20, 2016
Free Download
JB NELSON [2015] Plain In Appearance
01 Strange
02 Old Flaws
03 Screech To A Halt
04 Headless Body
05 The Dependent
06 Noise Upstairs
07 Gone Astray
08 Secret Meetings
09 Scared Little People
10 Seclusion
Released July 7, 2015
Name your price download
Elmo Karjalainen's Second Of Two Q&A; Videos... Finally!
A long time ago Elmo asked people to send him whatever questions they might have.
He answered a bunch of them quite soon in the first Q&A video and now has finally answered the rest.
So here it is, the Q&A video number 2, which deals with playing related things: https://youtu.be/POUu1B-OoGc
He answered a bunch of them quite soon in the first Q&A video and now has finally answered the rest.
So here it is, the Q&A video number 2, which deals with playing related things: https://youtu.be/POUu1B-OoGc
Monday, August 8, 2016
Pre-Order For Whiskey Myers New Album 'MUD' Is Available Now!
New album MUD is available everywhere September 9, 2016, but y'all can pre-order exclusive bundles including limited edition vinyls, Yeti Ramblers, and unlimited show passes on PledgeMusic!
Plus, if you pre-order now you'll receive "Lightning Bugs And Rain," "Some Of Your Love," and "Mud" tracks via AccessPass™ which is included with all items!
Whiskey Myers has pledged to fulfill all exclusives by 11 November, 2016 unless otherwise stated.
TRIGGERTOWN [2010] Triggertown
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Joe Salvati: Dobro, Ben Gotschall: Guitar, Andy "Ringo" Witkowski: Banjo, Brad Kindler: Washtub Bass, Terry McGinn: Fiddle |
Triggertown’s music is impossible to pigeonhole.
“People will say we’re a bluegrass band, which we’re not,” said Ringo, a former punk rocker who plays the banjo. “We’re not out there to outpick the pickers. We’ve had people call us a country band, and we’re not that either. It’s four people in an old-timey band and one guy playing washtub in a punk rock band.”
That’s getting close. But Triggertown doesn’t really fit into any category.
The dobro, a resonating acoustic slide guitar played on the lap, adds a twangy country dimension to the Triggertown sound. But it is a relatively new instrument, so Triggertown can’t be called an old-time string band.
There’s no mandolin or Bill Monroe songs, so Triggertown isn’t a bluegrass band.
Its old fiddle tunes, ancient Appalachian murder ballads and early 20th-century labor-organizing anthems have nothing whatsoever to do with the slick pop currently coming out of Nashville under the label of country music.
The band’s do-it-yourself philosophy and populist attitude comes out of ’80s/early ’90s punk rock. But nothing in the music comes from the Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll school of noise.
Ask the members of Triggertown to describe their music and no label emerges. Instead, it starts a discussion.
“It’s three chords and all heart,” said fiddle player Terry McGinn, who picked up the old fiddle tunes while at graduate school in Alabama. “It’s folk music that touches people. … People who don’t like loud music can tap into it. That’s why you see such a range of people at our shows.”
“Punk rock is three chords; it’s accessible music,” Ringo said. “The transition from punk rock to folk music is so fluid.”
“It’s comfort food for the ear,” said dobro player Joe Salvati.
“Lyrically, it’s very honest,” said Brad Kindler, who moved from punk rock drummer to the washtub bass. “It’s also very progressive. … People who are into punk rock can hear that.”
Triggertown got its start in October 2007 when McGinn was introduced to Ringo and Kindler, then Ben Gotschall was added on guitar. The band’s first show was in a house near 25th and Vine streets. The first paid engagement came at the Hungry Horse Saloon in Erickson, a small town northeast of Burwell.
“We played three hours unamplified,” said Gotschall, whose Sandhills connections got the band the gig. “We were yelling across the bar. … At one point, there was a fistfight. Everybody left the bar except one drunk guy who was passed out on the bar. Then they all came back in. We had people standing and watching us later with bloody towels on their faces.”
“And the best part of it,” Kindler added, “is we ended up sleeping in a horse barn.”
Gotschall, who milks cows during the day and teaches writing at night at Nebraska Wesleyan University, is also the guy who brought the name to the band.
The moniker has nothing to do with guns, seemingly the obvious referent. Rather, it comes from “The Triggering Town” by Montana poet Richard Hugo, whose writing philosophy is to let observations become the basis for poems about something deeper and richer than simple description.
Salvati joined the band early this year and Triggertown gelled.
Live, the band is irresistible, with McGinn and Ringo swapping lead vocals like June Carter and Johnny Cash, Salvati’s dobro sliding in and out, Gotschall’s guitar keeping the rhythm and Kindler bouncing up and down working the single string on the washtub at center stage.
And they’re at home almost anywhere they can set up to play.
“We can play unamplified,” McGinn said. “That’s something a lot of bands can’t do. We can play anywhere. We don’t have to be tethered.”
To that end, Triggertown has played a show on the bank of the Platte River and opened for Tommy Ramone’s Uncle Monk in a farmhouse living room outside Ashland. And practice is no problem — just find a spot for Kindler’s washtub, grab a chair for Salvati and get to work.
Triggertown has a handful of original songs with titles like “Milk Pail,” “Georgia Girls” and, in Ringo’s words, “our piece de resistance” — “Drinkin’ Hard.”
Those tunes come together through what McGinn calls “the folk process,” a collaborative endeavor in which each band member has input regardless of who brings in the basics that start the song.
“People will come in with a song and the band will work on it,” Gotschall said. “Some of them become band songs, some of them stay solo. But they’re all Triggertown songs. Somebody will bring in lyrics and the music kind of follows.”
And, to add one more element to its influences, it’s taking some of its philosophy from Chuck D., the leader of Public Enemy, whom Triggertown members heard give a talk during 2007.
“He thinks it’s realistic for a band to play regionally and be successful and be happy,” McGinn said. “I definitely see we can be regional, be successful and be happy.” - sourced from here.
01. Heaven And Hell
02. Dill Twang
03. Distant Land To Roam
04. No Dick
05. Drinkin' Hard
06. Grace Ann
07. Home Before Dark
08. Mortar And Pestle
09. 40 Acres And A Mule
10. Pocket Full Of Peaches
11. Railroad Town
12. Let Me Fall
13. Single Girl
14. Old Buck
15. The Island
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
LIGHTNING RAIDERS [2013] Sweet Revenge
01 - Sweet Revenge
02 - Rowdies
03 - Addiction
04 - Soul Rescue
05 - Criminal World
06 - Citizens
07 - Disguises
08 - Made In Japan
09 - Psychedelic Musik
10 - Views
Tracks: 01-08 Produced by Will Reid Dick
Bonus Tracks: 09 & 10 Produced by Steve Jones
Vocals: Gass Wild (01-08), John Hodge (09), Andy Allan (10)
Remastered compilation album featuring unreleased debut album tracks (01-04,7,8) and previously released singles tracks (5,6,9,10).
Bonus tracks 09 & 10 digitalized from the 1980 7" single as no master tape could be found.
Lightning Raiders were an English Punk n Roll/Pub Rock Band, formed in August 1977 by John Hodge (aka Little John): Lead Guitar, Andy Allan: Rhythm Guitar/Lead Vocals (Ex Pink Fairies), Duncan Sanderson: Bass/Backing Vocals (ex-Pink Fairies), Jorge Panchito: Drums/Percussion, and Michael Wilding: Saxophone.
On 31 March 1980, a lineup including John Hodge: Lead Guitar, Andy Allan: Bass, Paul Cook: Drums, and Steve Jones: Guitar released a 7" single, "Psychedelic Musik b/w Views”", on Arista Records. The two members of the Sex Pistols were never official members of the band - they were repaying a debt to Andy Allan who played bass on the Sex Pistols single, "Silly Thing".
In the next line-up, formed in November 1980, by John Hodge and Duncan Sanderson they were joined by Gass Wild (Lead Vocals, who later drummed with Johnny Thunders and also the Chrissie Hynde Band), Bruce Irvine (Rhythm Guitar, later with Sean Tyla's Tyla Gang) and George Butler (Drums/Percussion, ex Kilburn & The High Roads).
This lineup was very popular on the club circuit, playing in various clubs such as Dingwalls, the Marquee Club, the Music Machine, The Venue, and many more, often with support from heavy rock trio Killerhertz consisting of Hugo Mallett (guitar) Doug McArthur (bass) and former Chelsea drummer Marc Rathbone. Another support act for the Raiders were long haired glam boys Kitsch (under the same management as the Raiders). Kitsch bass player Paul Raven went on to join London cult band, Killing Joke. The Lightning Raiders along with Killerhertz and former Raider Andy Allan, (Andy Allan's Future) performed at the 1981 Stonehenge Free Festival.
In 1981, this lineup, now signed with Island Records put out "Criminal World b/w Citizens" under the Revenge Records label. They then entered the Who's Ramport Studios and recorded tracks for the Will Reid Dick produced LP Sweet Revenge and Island Records (also under the Revenge label) released a four song 12" EP which included "Sweet Revenge", "Rowdies", "Addiction", and "Soul Rescue" from these sessions as a promotional preview of the forthcoming LP, only to find out during December 1981 and half way through the recording sessions that the direction of Island Records had changed and that they were no longer considered part of the plan and were dropped by the label, making the soon deleted Sweet Revenge EP very rare.
Little John Hodge left the band in February 1982, and went on to record briefly with Chelsea and play live with Lena Zavaroni in her fathers Kilburn pub. The remaining members continued for a time, but by the end of 1982, the Lightning Raiders had called it a day. Duncan Sanderson and George Butler played with Larry Wallis in a series of bands during the early '80s, until the reformation of the Pink Fairies and, later, The Deviants at which point George Butler was replaced by Russell Hunter (original Pink Fairy/Deviant). Little John Hodge recorded & performed with Bert Jansch for his final record 'Edge Of A Dream' which included the Hodge song 'La Luna' inspired by Aleister Crowley. Jansch repaid the favour by appearing on Hodge's solo CD 'La Luna' as 2nd guitarist on a number of tracks.
Johnny Hodge died at home in Camden Town in 2012 having visited New York to reunite with Gass Wild for two short 'Lightning Raiders' gigs, airing songs from a 2nd unheard LP, with guest American musicians filmed by old friend and ex Pink Fairies roadie Joly (founder of Better Badges) resident of NYC. Gass Wild fronts a NYC band called The Love Pirates, a name borrowed from the Larry Wallis band of the 80s. The visit was intended to promote forthcoming documentary Lost Rockers, in which Lemmy (of Motörhead) praises the Lightning Raiders (bassist Sandy recalls they were not always welcomed by Motörhead fans who threw spark plugs at the band mid-set, hitting the hapless Sandy in the testicles!). Andy Allan has been active playing with folk combo Hank Dogs, releasing two CDs and touring with the likes of Joan Baez. George Butler continues to drum with a number of bands, notably the Dirty Strangers, around the Ladbroke Grove area. Duncan Sanderson is currently playing with the re-born Deviants.
The 2013 release of a truncated version of the Lighting Raiders 'lost' album, Sweet Revenge, has given them a posthumous recognition which eluded them beyond a cult level during their lifespan. Often thought of as a 'poor mans Pink Fairies' due to the presence of bassist Duncan Sanderson, they were in fact a tight and original act in their own right, a fact only now being recognized by the wider public.
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Huge thanks to nekro for his original post and being cool with this re-post.
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