Another band due a CD release, a retrospective compilation would be good, but until then this will have to surfice.
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Saturday 30 August 2014
SCARS - Sessions/Demos/Live (*MPfree DOWNLOAD*)
DEADCUTS - Dark is The Night (*A Review*)
If the end really is the beginning,
then deadcuts are finished, because their debut album Dark Is The
Night is where it starts. Four musicians who have travelled through
the Rock'n'Roll cities ripped back sides before in various bands, are
now going down further dark entries and between them they have
produced the best music of their careers on this album. Their past
has shaped their present. Dark Is The Night is an alluring aural
sculpture, as close to art as Rock'n'Roll gets. This is the sound of
eighties post punk being dragged kicking and screaming back to the
future, a pure and primeval sonic assault on the senses.
Fourteen fragile yet self assured
howls from the heart, a gallery of intense insights into the human
psyche. The words are spat and slurred out by a voice that could
strip paint. Vicious guitars slash, strum and scrape, over a
pounding and pumping rhythm section, which leaves the listener
battered and bruised, but wanting more. This is addictive stuff,
mean, moody and menacing, mellow and manic in equal doses. Pray For
Jail, is a claustrophobic and cacophonic crescendo of a song. The
pulsating and tuneful wall of sound that is Mary Disorder has added
barbed wire thanks to additional keyboards by former Attraction Steve
Nieve. Floods is a dark dirge of a duet between deadcuts singer Mark
Keds and Beatrice Brown, which sounds like Charles Manson having a
row with Shirley Manson. Beatrice makes another appearance, on her
own this time and sounding more Kate Bush meets Patti Smith on the
glamorously gothic and ghostly Ragged Star, a stripped to the bone
acoustic number where the guitars pick and poke at scabs and
scars....let 'it bleed!
Deadcuts are a dirty, dangerous,
discordant, distorted and disturbing beast; The bastard son of The
Psychedelic Furs and Killing Joke with added Rock'n'Roll swagger.
Dark is The Night is a spellbinding and sublime masterpiece. Ignore
at your peril. Available from: Speedowax Records
Sunday 24 August 2014
We're all going on a summer holiday!
Thursday 21 August 2014
FS1E - Once Upon a Time in Silkingrad (*A Review*)
Following on from their self titled
debut single comes FS1E's debut album Once Upon A Time in Silkingrad.
A 'concept album' (my words not theirs) of sorts, a record of
reflection. The 10 tracks are poems, prose and raps from the
past that have grown into the present. Tales of love and loss,
lyrical journeys of lives lived and lives still being lived. Reflective but not regretful, emotive and uplifting, music that moves
yer and takes you on a journey of discovery to different places.
FS1E are beyond Reggae, beyond Punk, beyond Prog Rock, and
certainly not middle of the road, they are riding their own musical
path down the rock'n'roll highway, which takes you to nowhere you've
been before. Vocals are sung and spoken as mournful bass lines
meander along with solid and sound drums, acoustic guitars chime
while the keyboards float in and out, leaving the listener engulfed
and enveloped by the sound and songs. This album is beautiful, it is haunting
and harmonious, it skanks and rocks while swinging with traces of
soul and jazz, it is quirky and poppy, but most of all it is
brilliant. FS1E are camping outside the left field with a melting
pot of musical influences bubbling and boiling on the fire. Join the
gathering because “Divided we are weak, together we are strong.”
Chill out music for people that should be angry instead of just
chasing pound notes. You can find out more about FS1E and where to
get the album here at their web site.
Wednesday 20 August 2014
sCUM OF tOYTOWN & mARK aSTRONAUT - "bEHAVE yOURSELF" (Live @ Klub 85, Hitchin 1996)
bREak OUt anD TAke thE toWN!
Sunday 17 August 2014
Tuesday 12 August 2014
THE FOLK DEVILS - Goodnight Irony.(*MPfree DOWNLOAD*)
This is the Third time I've posted this, about time someone got it together and issued it on CD, until then it's available here! |
UK SUBS - Rarities Reissued and Reviewed.
It's been a productive past few months
for Captain Oi's UK Subs releases, what with Stolen Property, Charlie
Harper's solo album and the second Urban Dogs album No Pedigree, now
they've gone and released another couple, more on them later but
first up we've got the latest little gem from Time and Matter
Recordings.
The UK Subs The Revolutions Here EP,
was originally released in 2000, It's centrepiece is their
Reggaeified version of Thunderclap Newman’s ode to revolution;
Something in The Air, which contrasts beautifully with the in
yer face punk rock anthems to revolution; Reclaim The Streets and The
Revolutions Here, both these and the other tracks, Go Home, Metro,
Party in Paris and Works have been re-mastered for this re-release,
a gloriously coloured splattered yellow and red vinyl 10”, which
also features sleeve notes by Nicky Garrett and a drawing by Charlie
Harper. Be quick if you want a copy cos it's a limited pressing of
500, and is sure to sell out fast! Available from Time and MatterRecordings.
Now on to the latest Captain Oi
releases, which are also limited to 500 copies. The Demonstration
Tapes AKA Raw Material, is a what it says on the tin, demos and raw
material, some real work in progress culled from Charlie Harpers
collection of Subs recordings. Top quality embryonic stuff from the
first couple of classic UK Subs line ups, circa 1980-82. This
re-issue includes 4 bonus demos for their Endangered Species album,
which didn't appear on either of the previous releases.
Live Kicks rewinds the UK Subs clock
back further to The Roxy in London on New Years Eve 1977, where Live
Kicks was recorded. Originally released by Stiff Records in 1980 by
mail order only, its been re- released many times over the years, but
this CD is the definitive version, including the encore, and as a
bonus there are 4 tracks from their 1977 demo tape.
Both The Demonstration Tapes and Live
Kicks are lovingly packaged and contain extensive sleeve notes by the
Time and Matter lads, and some words of introduction by Charlie
Harper. Both are available from Captain Oi. Fast forward to the future and we find
the Subs have started work on their Y album, and there's a new Urban
Dogs single in the pipeline.
Sunday 10 August 2014
EAR WE GO....MOUTHING OFF AGAIN.
People have two ears and one mouth, so
why then do some people talk twice as much as they listen?
I'll tell you why! It's because they
don't wanna hear what you've got to say, they think they are right
and you are wrong and that their opinions are more important than
yours, they have no empathy, they are arrogant, self obsessed and
egotistical. I've got a word for these sort of people....C**ts! The
world is so fucked up because the people with the power (Politicians,
Bosses etc) are C**T’s. One thing they seem to forget (if they
ever even thought about it anyway) is, that.... without us they
would be nothing. It's time for people to shout twice as loud in the
work place or on the streets. Together we have the power to fuck
the c**ts! Listen to what I'm saying and then tell me I'm wrong!?
Sunday 3 August 2014
It's only a game.
The Commonwealth
Games.....WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT! Worse than The Olympics! They are a
competition for losers. England only does so well because the other
nations are even shiter, well not exactly, it's just that the
majority of the commonwealth have no wealth, Britain saw to that
during the days of the Great British Empire, when it colonised and
exploited nations across the world and imposed it's rule upon them
and then took everything that belonged to the local indigenous
peoples and made its self rich from them. Commonwealth, no....
Britishwealth, and then we have the bare faced check to rub their
faces in it hundreds of years later by beating them at some pointless
sports. What a bunch of losers!
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