THE CORTINAS - Please Don't Hit Me

This ones for all you good people that enjoyed the live Cortinas post a while back. It's a collection of demos that got them signed to CBS many of the songs subsequently found their way on to their one and only album True Romances, but in a less stripped down and punky way, which was a bad thing, as the album doesn't really capture the band at their best, this on the other hand....well I'll let you be the judges of that. Here you go...catch!

THE CORTINAS - Live in 1977

Today’s musical offering is some vintage old skool punk rawk from the class of ‘77 and it’s The Cortinas recorded live in Plymouth in…1977. Often referred to by scenesters and journalists at the time rather unfairly as a “second division punk band”, no doubt because they came from Bristol and not London, plus they were a band playing R’n’B covers before punk broke, and they had middle class backgrounds, which in the eyes of some wasn’t in keeping with what punk was all about. What a load of bollocks! This is; classic, classless first rate punk rock! Enjoy it here!