Monday, 28 November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
These Animal Men / S*M*A*S*H: The New Wave Of New Wave Box Set
These Animal Men / S*M*A*S*H: New Wave Of New Wave (6CD)
Charting the rise & fall of the scene that lit the blue touchpaper for the Britpop explosion!
Including sleevenotes by Paul Moody
Archival photos & rare recordings
6CD box set
BRITAIN in 1993 now seems like another time, another place. Paralysed into a state of torpor by 14 years of Tory government and cowed by England's failure to qualify for the World Cup, the national mood was one of escapism.
Pop music was also short-circuiting, the charts full of manufactured boy bands (Take That, East 17), inane electro-pop (2 Unlimited's'No Limits', Culture Beat's 'Mr Vain') and novelty records (Mr Blobby). The independent sector, too, was entering its darkest hour. With Seattle’s nihilistic grunge scene —headed by Nirvana — championed as the cure for rock’s ills. This lack of self-belief was reflected in a cover story in rock bible NME on 30th October 1993 titled “21st Century Joy”, which suggested that the music scene in 2003 would be entirely electronic.
Within a month, however, it was obvious to keen observers that a new sound and attitude was emerging from Britain’s satellite towns like the proverbial bat out of hell. At the inaugural ‘In The City’ event in Manchester in November 1993 — a music industry showcase organised by Factory Records boss Tony Wilson — a crop of spiky young bands shared a radical, back-to-basics approach. Two in particular stood out — S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men. Angry, articulate and caustically tuneful, both bands would — over the course of 18 glorious months — light up the British music scene as spectacularly as a distress flare.
Backed by electrifying live performances both bands would go to be heralded by the NME in January 1994 as part of the ‘New Wave Of New Wave’. Both signing record deals with Virgin off-shoot Hi-Rise Recordings, the bands would go onto to releases a string of EPs such as You’re Not My Babylon, Spring 1994, Too Sussed? & I Want To Kill Somebody. Before debut albumsSelf-Abused and (Come On, Join) The High Society came out to respectable chart positions of 59 and 62.
However, with both Blur and Oasis enjoying unprecedented chart success — Oasis’ Definitely Maybe, released in August 1994, sold 100,000 in four days — both were seen as disappointing. Internal divisions, too, were pushing both bands to breaking point. SMASH imploded and TAM would go onto release the criminally overlooked second album Accident & Emergency.
This unique 6CD collection brings together both bands output from this short lived scene. All of the EPs and albums are here and ordered chronologically to give the listener the best possible perspective of the how the scene unfolded.
Accompanying the 6CDs is a 32 page booklet featuring former NME journalist Paul Moody’s (the man responsible for coining the phrase the New Wave of New Wave) in-depth essay depicting the rise and fall of the scene, along with interviews with members of both bands. The booklet also includes previously unseen photos by photographers Martyn Goodacre and Andy Wilshere and short essay’s from both Ed Borrie(S*M*A*S*H) and members of These Animal Men.
As the music and photographs compiled here illustrate, the look and sound of both bands remains timeless. Turn up the volume. S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men will see you in the speakers.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 Speed King (Demo)
2 You're Not My Babylon (Demo)
3 Ambulance (Demo)
4 Drugs Again
5 Lady Love Your Cunt
6 Revisited No.3
7 Shame
8 Real Surreal
Disc: 2
1 Too Sussed? (Live)
2 Speeed King
3 Jobs for the Boys
4 Who's the Daddy Now?
5 You're Not My Babylon
6 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Topper Mix)
7 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Keith Le Blanc Mix)
8 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Gunshot
9 Headhunter Mix)
10 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Bragg Reshuffle)
11 Revisited No 5
12 Barrabas
13 Oh Ovary
14 Altruism
15 Reflections of You (Remember Me)
16 Self Abused
17 Intermission (Instrumental) ['Silence Scream']
18 Another Love
19 Another Shark in My Swimming Pool
20 Real Surreal
21 Dear Lou
22 Bang Bang Bang (Granta 25)
23 Time
24 A*L*L*Y*C (Bonus)
25 Trainspotter (Bonus)
Disc: 3
1 Soul Around the World
2 Hooligan's Progress
3 Sharp Kid
4 Empire Building
5 Ambulance
6 This Year's Model
7 You're Always Right
8 Flawed Is Beautiful (Edit)
9 This Is the Sound of Youth
10 Sitting Tenant
11 Too Sussed?
12 (Come on, Join) the High Society
13 We Are Living
14 High Society (Return)
Disc: 4
1 Another Love (Bobb It Mix)
2 Another Love (Uncut)
3 Petal Buzz
4 You've Got a Friend Who's a Friend of Mine
5 Reflections of You (Remember Me) (Live)
6 Time (Live)
7 Self Abused (Live)
8 You're Always Right
9 Nowhere Faces
10 My Human Remains
11 False Identification
12 Wait for It
13 You're Always Right [Extended Version]
Disc: 5
1 Hammond Heavy (Emptyheads)
2 (My) Magazine
3 Wichita Lineman
4 Life Support Machine (Bentley Rhythm Ace Go to Town)
5 Life Support Machine (Freebie and the Bean Blip Mix)
6 Every Bullet ('s Got My Name on It)
7 Louis Louis
8 Seaman's Mission Lament
9 Sister Anne
10 Light Emitting Electrical Wave (Mandy's Mix)
11 Light Emitting Electrical Wave (Mutronic Mix)
12 Life Support Machine
13 Emitting Electrical Wave
14 Riverboat Captain
15 Monumental Money Maker
16 24 Hours to Live
17 Sophisticated
18 New Wave Girl
19 Going Native
20 April 7th
21 When Your Hands Are Tied
22 Ambulance Man (Picking Up the Pieces)
Disc: 6
1 Renumerator
2 Motorway Fast
3 Cleaning the System
4 Don't Get in My Way
5 Louie Loui (Origins)
6 Arthur Kane
7 When Your Hands Are Tied (Blues)
8 Hammond Heavy (Alternate Mix)
9 I Now Pronounce You
10 (This Is the) Sound of Youth (Fierce Panda Version)
11 Bang Bang Bang Granta 25 (Fierce Panda Version)
12 Shame [Demo]
13 Llyc [Demo]
14 Dear Lou [Demo]
15 Self Abused [Demo]
16 (I Want to) Kill Somebody [Demo]
17 Drugs Again [Demo]
18 Real Surreal [Demo]
19 Another Love [Demo]
The Who Are Headlining This Christmas Carol Concert In Chelsea
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend from The Who will headline a charity carol concert this December, raising money for music therapy charity, Nordoff Robbins.
The greenfingered Brexiter frontman and no-longer-tends-to-smash-up-his-guitar guitarist will perform at St Luke's Church in Chelsea on Tuesday 13 December, although don't hold out for a deafening axe solo mid-Bleak Midwinter — this'll be an acoustic performance.
If you're wondering if The Who ever did a Christmas song themselves, yes they did — it appears on the 1969 album Tommy, and is called... Christmas.
While the two Who legends are headlining, the Nordoff Robbins Carol Service promises a lineup of various celebrity readings, peppered in-between traditional Christmas carols. There'll also be mulled wine and mince pies.
The Nordoff Robbins Carol Service, St Luke's Church, Chelsea, 13 December, tickets £55+booking
Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years
Curated by Acid Jazz Records and Modcast founder Eddie Piller, “British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years” is the follow up to the hugely successful “British Mod Sounds of The 1960s”, featuring 95 original tracks across a 4CD set - a deep dive into the post-Mod scene in '60s Britain. Featuring a selection of classic and rare tracks, tracing the scene from early '65 to the dawn of a new decade.
Even before Demon's well received 2022 box set 'British Mod Sounds of The 1960s' was released conversations were being had around a follow-up, though rather than just offering a straight if slightly diluted second volume, compiler Eddie Piller decided to put together a collection exploring "What the Mods did next". Once again, long conversations (and the occasional heated debate) were had to ensure the quality of music and attention to detail were second to none. Anything less just wouldn't be the Mod way.
The British Mod bands that had made the first half of the decade so exciting were still around but inevitably their influences had changed. No longer content with re-hashing American R&B, the scene split in multiple directions, not all of it forward looking - some hardened their up-tempo sound and gradually evolved into what we would come to know as Freakbeat. Others bought in psychedelic, esoteric or Eastern influences. A third strand explored a more pastoral or Folk based route. Simply put, songs and hair got longer.
Before the decade was out the choices for the discerning listener included Jazz-Rock, Proto-Prog, Whimsy, Heavy Rock, and Psychedelic Soul - even sounds derived from Cockney music-hall made an appearance.
'Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years' tracks the development of the original Mod mainstays (the Small Faces, The Who, The Action, The Kinks), with a generous selection of future superstars (David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Steve Howe of Yes are all represented here), alongside a few artists so obscure, so rare, that they never got to release a record in the '60s, but Eddie has tracked down the tapes nonetheless.
Stylishly packaged (of course) and including a new sleeve note by Richard Norris, author, musician, producer and DJ, who worked at pioneering psychedelic reissue label Bam Caruso in the '80s, produced Joe Strummer's Mescaleros, but is perhaps best known as one half of Techno duo The Grid and the critically acclaimed group Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 The Fairies - Get Yourself Home
2 The Birds - No Good Without You Baby
3 The Poets - Call Again
4 The Sorrows - You've Got What I Want
5 The Eyes - When the Night Falls
6 The New Breed - Unto Us
7 The Riot Squad - I Take It We're Through
8 Jan Panter - Scratch My Back
9 Wimple Winch - Save My Soul
10 Loose Ends - Taxman
11 The Ivy League - My World Fell Down
12 Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
13 Fleur de Lys - Mud in Your Eye
14 The Truth - Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)
15 Scots of St James - Tic Toc
16 The Flies - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
17 The Move - Disturbance
18 The Craig - I Must Be Mad
19 The Drag Set - Day and Night
20 Apostolic Intervention - Tell Me (Have You Ever Seen Me)
21 David Bowie - the Gospel According to Tony Day
22 Tomorrow - My White Bicycle
23 John's Children - Midsummer Night's Scene
24 Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad
25 The Attack - Created By Clive
26 The Gods - Come on Down to My Boat Baby
27 Alex Harvey - the Sunday Song
28 Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera
Disc: 2
1 Our Plastic Dream - Encapsulated Marigold
2 The Action - in My Dream
3 Dantalian's Chariot - Madman Running Through the Fields
4 Kaleidoscope - Flight from Ashiya
5 Sands - Listen to the Sky
6 Scott Walker - Montagu Terrace (In Blue)*
7 The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo
8 The Fairytale - Listen to Mary Cry
9 Felius Andromeda - Meditations
10 Ice - Anniversary of Love
11 Rupert's People - Dream on My Mind
12 The Accent - Red Sky at Night
13 The Creation - Life Is Just Beginning
14 The Who - I Can See for Miles
15 Fleetwood Mac - Rambling Pony
16 The Cymbaline - Matrimonial Fears
17 Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner
18 Traffic - Coloured Rain
19 Andy Ellison - It's Been a Long Time
20 The Micky Finn - Garden of My Mind
21 Warm Sounds - Nite Is a Comin'
22 Mike Stuart Span - Children of Tomorrow
23 Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser
24 Mark Wirtz - (He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman
Disc: 3
1 Spencer Davis Group - Moonshine
2 The End - Shades of Orange
3 The Fire - Father's Name Is Dad
4 Turquoise - Tales of Flossie Fillett
5 Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree
6 Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box
7 Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men
8 The Idle Race - the Morning Sunshine
9 The Montanas - a Step in the Right Direction
10 July - Dandelion Seeds
11 Family - See Through Windows
12 Icarus - the Devil Rides Out
13 Plastic Penny - Your Way to Tell Me Go
14 The Elastic Band - 8 1/2 Hours of Paradise
15 Vamp - Floatin'
16 Paul West & Compass - Hey You
17 Sam Gopal - Escalator
18 Sound Barrier - Groovin' Slow
19 Apple - Buffalo Billycan
20 Timebox - Gone Is the Sad Man
21 Locomotive - Mr Armageddon
22 Ossie Layne Show - Rock My Plimsoul
23 The Californians - the Cooks of Cake and Kindness
Disc: 4
1 The Koobas - Barricades
2 The Troggs - Evil Woman
3 Graham Bond - Love Is the Law
4 The Misunderstood - Children of the Sun
5 Small Faces - Me, You and Us Too
6 The Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today
7 Brian Auger Feat. Julie Driscoll - Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine in)
8 Terry Reid - Superlungs My Supergirl
9 Jason Crest - Black Mass
10 The Open Mind - Magic Potion
11 Quiet Melon - Diamond Joe
12 Humble Pie - Wrist Job
13 Mighty Baby - Same Way from the Sun
14 Colosseum - Elegy
15 Blonde on Blonde - Castles in the Sky*
16 Peter Wyngarde - Neville Thumbcatch*
17 The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow
18 Satisfaction - My Fixation (Edit)
19 Nucleus - Song for the Bearded Lady
20 Graham Dee - Car Chase
Monday, 7 November 2022
An Evening With Rick Buckler In Conversation With Eddie Piller comes to Gillingham and Birmingham
AGMP presents an evening with
RICK BUCKLER
in conversation with EDDIE PILLER
Rick Buckler was the drummer for The Jam throughout the band's entire existence. He performed every concert and played on every record the band ever made.
We are thrilled to welcome Rick Buckler to a special evening where we will discuss his time with one of the UK's finest band's with Eddie Piller (Acid Jazz Records/The Modcast).
Friday, 4 November 2022
New Untouchables 25th Birthday Party on Saturday 26th November
NOT LONG NOW!
Join us for a fun night in the Capital celebrating 25 years at Orleans/ Limited tickets here www.newuntouchables.com/tickets
171 Club at The Highbury, Birmingham, this Saturday 5th November
Nine Below Zero re-release 'Third Degree' LP on white vinyl (Heavy Soul)
NINE BELOW ZERO
THIRD DEGREE White Vinyl LP
ROR150
What a way to see in the 150th release on Heavy Soul Records than with one of my personal favourites from my youth. Memories of blasting out 1982's "Third Degree" come flooding back from the opening bars of "Eleven Plus Eleven" and the other singles "Wipe Away Your Kiss" and Sugar Beat".
Fully licensed reissue on WHITE vinyl with the following too:
Limited postcard celebrating the release
Original promo sheet announcing the '82 tour to promote the album
4 page bio of the band
The last two were included in original promo copies of "Third Degree"
Strictly limited to 400 copies
Billy Sullivan (ex-Spitfires) to release 'Paper Dreams' album on 10 March
We’re pleased to announce that Billy Sullivan’s solo debut album ‘Paper Dreams’ will be released 10th March 2023 on Kickstart Recordings. Including singles ‘Overcome’, ‘I Will Follow’ and the blistering ‘Running Out Of Time’.
Recorded over just three days in Coastal Sound recording studios in Liverpool, ‘Paper Dreams’ is Sullivan’s first collection of songs since the demise of former band The Spitfires.
“I can only really compare each album to the previous one” Sullivan says regarding the new album. “The last Spitfires record ‘Play For Today’ was so thought out. From the sound concept to the subject matters of the lyrics. Every tiny detail was planned and poured over and then of course debated. However ‘Paper Dreams’ was completely natural - a collection of songs that me and Simon Dine just wrote for fun without it being an album or us particularly working towards anything at first."
Thursday, 3 November 2022
Cover artwork revealed for Detail Magazine issue 7
Here it is..the new cover of Detail #7 our Winter issue with stunning artwork from the famous 5:15 train scene in Quadrophenia from the brilliant @jaymokidart full interview with Jay about his art work in the mag
The Selecter to release 'Celebrate The Bullet' Deluxe Edition Box Set on 11 November
Product description
The Selecters's second album, Celebrate The Bullet was released in February 1981 as the follow up to the successful 2 Tone debut album Too Much Pressure, along with the hit singles On My Radio, Three Minute Hero and Missing Words.
Switching labels to Chrysalis Records, the band returned to On My Radio producer Roger Lomas, moving into a more melodic slower pace, whilst keeping their lyrical commentary on racial and social issues. Original members Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson departed before the recording began, with Lomas and Norman Watt-Ray (Ian Dury) helping on bass before new members James Mackie and Adam Williams joined to complete the recording.
Due to unfortunate timing, upon release the title of this album was misunderstood due to the recent murder of John Lennon and an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Regan meant radio stations didn't support the single or album and the release was largely ignored.
This forgotten classic from the 2 Tone era is a timely reissue and will give time for a re-evaluation in the same way the 2021's reissue of too Much Pressure showed the band as relevant.
Pauline Black, who was recently awarded an OBE in 2022, and the band will be touring in November 2022 and into 2023 performing the album in full along with selections of their previous album.
Format: a 3CD deluxe clamshell box set with 20 page booklet featring bands notes. Remastered by Alchemy Mastering At AIR from the original production tapes.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 (Who Likes) Facing Situations
2 Deep Water
3 Red Reflections
4 Tell Me What's Wrong
5 Bombscare
6 Washed Up and Left For Dead
7 Celebrate The Bullet
8 Selling Out Your Future
9 Cool Blue Lady
10 Dream Goes On
11 Bristol And Miami
Disc: 2
1 Celebrate The Bullet [Single Version]
2 Last Tango In Dub
3 Deepwater [Single Version]
4 Deepwater [Version] (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)
5 Selling Out Your Future (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)
6 Tell Me What's Wrong (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)
7 Washed Up and Left For Dead (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)
8 Deep Water (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)
9 Bombscare (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)
10 (Who Likes) Facing Situations (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)
11 Cool Blue Lady (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)
12 Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
Disc: 3
1 Out On the Streets (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
2 Danger (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
3 Deepwater (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
4 Missing Words (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
5 Washed Up And Left For Dead (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
6 On My Radio (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
7 Celebrate The Bullet (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
8 Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
9 Street Feeling (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
10 They Make Me Mad (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
11 Bristol and Miami (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
12 (Who Likes) Facing Situation (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
13 Bombscare (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
14 Too Much Pressure (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)
The Bristol Modernist & Sixties Weekender 2023
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The Exits limited edition Power Pop Pack available from Blaamm Records now!
Limited Edition Pack! NEW 12” ALBUM ON GOLD VINYL: ‘THE LEGENDARY LOST ALBUM’ THE EXITS.PRINTED INNER BAG, FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPED.
......PLUS 7” A COPY OF 4 TRACK VINYL E.P. 'FOUR BY FOUR' ALL TOGETHER IN ONE PACK.
Available now from diane@blaammrecords.com
Pack Price: £25.00 plus £5.50 post and packing
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Foxton & Hastings new album, 'The Butterfly Effect', out now!
Product description
Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings team up once again to release their third album together 'The Butterfly Effect'. Serving as the lead single from the album, the addictive 'Lula' is described by Hastings as 'A catchy pop song about a spoilt woman who seemingly has everything yet has nothing'. This standout track succeeds in capturing a summer vibe, thanks in part to a blistering saxophone solo from Tony 'Rico' Richardson. This vigour is apparent also on 'Two Of Us', which Hastings labels 'a nod to Quadrophenia'. The 'sha-la-la' repeats and loud, ringing guitars instantly takes you back to a time of mods vs rockers and heady sunny days in Brighton. The duo both name The Beatles as a huge influence on their work - no more is this apparent on the lively closing track 'Anything You Want' with its bouncy rhythm and psychedelic ending. Recording the vocals for this track unknowingly with covid, Hastings' voice nevertheless shines and brings the album to a rousing end.
Track Listing
1 Electronic Lover
2 Feet Off the Ground
3 Lula
4 She Said
5 Wanted
6 Circles
7 Time On Your Side
8 Two of Us
9 Rain
10 Too Old to Cry, Too Young to Die
11 Walking With Me
12 Anything You Want
Ed Ball 3-CD Anthology 'It's Kinda Lonely Where I Am' out on Cherry Red Records now!
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