Openers for The Damned on this day in 1981 (see earlier post) here are Bristol's Vice Squad... still playing and Standing Strong and Proud!
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-QNDu6GVklX
Aural Sculptors - The Stranglers Live 1976 to the Present
Sunday, 5 July 2020
5 Years of Anarchy Chaos and Destruction The Damned The Lyceum London 5th July 1981
Thanks to the Second Time Around fansite for this anniversary gig. 39 years ago tonight and The Damned were marking the remarkable feat of being a band for five years. Strictly speaking this wasn't actually the case given the bands turbulent early years but you get the point. No members of the were anticipating such longevity given that the 'flash in the pan' punk fad was expected to last six months at best (and some say it did!). The fact that at a Damned gig today, you may well see T-shirts bearing the legend '40 years of Anarchy Chaos and Destruction' straining across the guts of aging punks is altogether another story!
Sound on this one is a little rough.... in keeping with the band, but it remains a classic gig from an irrepressible quartet!
Here's a review of the gig that appeared in the 25th July 1981 issue of Record Mirror. A favourable review although poor old Segs gets it in the neck again about his vocal abilities (always unfair I though even given the power of Malcolm's delivery).
MP3 (as received): https://we.tl/t-vrqboDZlVM
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-fc9IBm7MDu
01. Intro
02. I Fall
03. Wait For The Blackout
04. Lively Arts
05. I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
06. Plan 9 Channel 7
07. Smash It Up Parts 1 & 2
08. Shut Up You Tossers
09. Dr Jeckyl And Mr Hyde
10. Drinking About My Baby
11. Melody Lee
12. D’Ya Want Yer Money Back
13. Love Song
14. Neat Neat Neat
15. New Rose
16. Ballroom Blitz
17. I’m A Wanker
18. In A Rut
19. Love Song
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Zion Train & Ruts DC John Peel Session 5th March 1996
This one was a new one on me. A mid-90's Peel session no less from Zion Train backed by Segs, Paul Fox and Ruffy from Ruts DC. Bear in mind that this is 15 years before Ruts DC would tentatively tread the boards again, this tine with Molara, formerly of said Zion Train on vocal duties.
The second surprise for me with this is the cover of The Mob's 'Waiting For The Witch Hunt'. A brilliant song by anybody's reckoning methinks.
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-Bu3azjxgUH
No More Heroes/(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 'Hit Kwiss' German TV 1977/1978
'No More Heroes'
Hit Kwiss 3rd December 1977
German TV
Now this could be a nice find, Initial 'research' suggests that a version of 'Heroes' from this broadcast has previously been posted on YouTube as much lower quality from an unknown German TV source. I can clear that up by stating that this version of 'No More Heroes' was broadcast by the 'Hit Kwiss', (by the looks of it a German equivalent of TOTP/Cheggers Plays Pop), on 3rd December 1977.
Hit Kwiss was a short lived music program that broadcast from its broadcast from a studio in Stuttgart between '76 and '78. In this time The Stranglers appeared twice on 3rd December 1977 and 11th March 1978 - although both mimed performances were filmed at a same (earlier) date.
The quality if the 'Heroes' is great, far in excess of what I have seen online. The 'Grip' footage is a little more washed out colourwise but is possibly rarer.
'(Get A) Grip (On Your Self)'
Hit Kwiss 11th March 1978
German TV
Your opinions please!
I have shared the footage below in MPEG format
No More Heroes: https://we.tl/t-AcxGsHPG0Y
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself): https://we.tl/t-wb0BN2Fydj
and as a burnable, edited DVD with both tracks:
ISO Disc image: https://we.tl/t-rIbzTAvxcc
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
What's In A Name?
'Rattus Norvegicus' release advert
Sounds 30th April 1977
For me, the album that was never bettered. Agreed it is down to personal taste of course.
Rattus..... their most psychedelic?
Black and White.... their most 'punk'?
The Raven..... their creative zenith?
The Gospel According To The Meninblack...... their most avant garde?
I love 'em all but just imagine for a moment that 'Rattus Norvegicus' was forever consigned to the information plaques in the small mammal houses of zoos up and down the country rather than filling the racks of record shops!
'Dead On Arrival' or 'Rattus Norvegicus'?
Both New Musical Express and Record Mirror reported this change in name in their issues of 26th March 1977. A late editorial decision from the band relative to its release date in April!
NME 26th March 1977
Record Mirror 26th March 1977
To think, we could have been robbed of our most beloved critter!
Sunday, 28 June 2020
Attila The Stockbroker Manhatten Club Bradford 7th February 1983
And as promised here is Attila's set. Set-wise it is very similar to the live side of 'Ranting at the Nation' with a couple of additions that were new to me. There are also a couple of tracks in the set that appeared in his John Peel Session that was recorded the following month.
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-hk6DZQUth9
01. Radio Rap
02. Hands Off Our Halibut
03. Gentlemen Of The Wrist
04. Contributory Negligence
05. Nigel Wants To Go To C&A
06. Albanian Football
07. England Are Back
08. Spies And Small Animals
09. Love
10. Et Laxative
11. ‘Commutors’
12. Nigel Wants To Go And See Simple Minds
13. Fifth Column
14. Burn It Down
15. Flapping In The Wind
16. California Uber Alles
17. A Bang And A Wimpy
18. I Don’t Talk To Popstars
Newtown Neurotics Manhatten Club Bradford 7th February 1983
The following two posts are something rather special, for me at least. Two sets from a gig played in Bradford 37 years ago. The Newtown Neurotics and Attila The Stockbroker in a combined offensive (as was and still is so often the case) captured here with excellent sound early on, at around the time of each of their debut albums, 'Beggars Can Be Choosers' and 'Ranting At The Nation' respectively. 1983 was an election year and four months after this gig, Margaret Thatcher was re-elected, retaining control in a landslide victory over Labour, buoyed by success in the South Atlantic the previous summer.
The new strain of economics was already being felt in Britain's heavy industry sectors in the north. The Neurotics and Attila railed against this lurch to the right and the policies and schemes that did so much to widen the gulf between the rich and the poor in this country. But in February of 1983, the Miner's Strike, perhaps the biggest battle fought by these two acts, along with many other bands of the left, in a very long war was some way in the distance.
The songs speak for themselves.
So here it is for your listening pleasure, across two posts, I give you the authentic sound of Harlow Town 1983!
As a cultural aside, for those with an appreciation of modern British sculpture, The Neurotics are pictured here in the company of 'Harlow Family Group' a 1954-55 commissioned piece by Henry Moore (whose Perry Green residence is very close by to Harlow and Bishops Stortford). It represents the families who were relocated from bomb damaged East London to the newly created Newtown of Harlow and the baby boom that occured in the early post-war years. The spectacles were a later embellishment (probably not by Henry Moore!).
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-XR8yanWm8t
01. Warm Up
02. ‘Tetley Bitter Man’ Story
03. Wake Up
04. Hypocrite
05. Introduction To ‘Does Anyone Know Where The March Is?’
06. Does Anyone Know Where The March Is?
07. Fools
08. Equipment Problems
09. Mindless Violence
10. Agony
11. Newtown People
12. Get Up And Fight
13. The Mess
14. Kick Out The Tories
15. Living With Unemployment
16. Life In Their Hands
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