I never thought I'd ever hear anything else from the 'From Chorley demo taaape',as made famous on fast Product's "Earcom 3", with the DIY classic "Tablecloth".Behold!There's another track on this fanzine compilation tape,and they stick faithfully to the kitchen theme with the very similar sounding, "Hate the Kitchen"; sung in that familiar Chorley accent,like a post punk Billy Casper (Kes). DIY gold!
From Chorley's appearance is worth the entrance fee alone, but we have others; the abstract musique concrete of Coventry ZZZ, the radio four play for today indie of Paul Cookson and Lerraine Hickey (absolutely love 'isn't it Strange', kinda like that Sudden Sway peel session,but without the humour); There's White Steel, who sound like a meatier From Chorley; The Manchester Mekon needs no introduction to followers of this blog; Restless Day were on the Camouflage Nebula tape,think northern krautrock tradition;Anthrax for the People and a couple of other half competent beat combo's make up the numbers nicely.
All this interspersed by sixth form poetry delivered in an monotonous apathetic Kevin the Teenager style,all designed to introduce the bands to the punters. A muffled splash of interviews complete the picture, making this a fascinating insight into the foggy world of DIY land in 1979.The monotone compare/sixth form poet,even alludes to Earcom 4 style ambitions,which isn't far off the mark.
NB :For those retro tech fans, there's even a computer programme for your C64 or ZX,so prime your play and record fingers,and get this onto a cassette and tell us all what the fuck it is!
Track Listing:
1- The Mysterons - Intro theme
2- Unknown - Intro
3- Mr Domestes & The Bok-Mystery Band
4- Mr Domestes & The Bok - Uri Geller Song
5- Mr Domestes & The Bok - Happy Birthday
6- Unknown - Manchester Mekon Intro
7- The Manchester Mekon - Ignorance of the Crunds
8- About the Manchester Mekon
9- The Manchester Mekon - Filmusic
10- More about the Manchester Mekon
11- The Manchester Mekon - The Idle Gnome Exhibition
12- Unknown - Blond Hair and Acne
13- The Manchester Mekon - Cadiz
14- Talking
15- The Manchester Mekon - the Impossible Air-Sea rescue
16- Restless Day Intro
17- Restless Day - Autopilot One
18- Restless Day - Zone
19- Anthrax for the People intro
20- Anthrax for the People - OK man ,its your world
21- Coventry ZZZ intro
22- Coventry ZZZ - Sub Lead
23- Coventry ZZZ - Rediscovered Idealism no.3
24- Les Weebs Intro
25- Les weebs - Hooray For Hollywood
26- Les weebs - Pratfall
27- The Mysterons Intro
28- The Mysterons - On The Beach
29- Bryan Talbot Intro
30- Bryan Talbot - Alternative comix
31- From Chorley Intro
32- From Chorley - Hate the Kitchen
33- Computer Programme
34- Paul Cookson and Lerraine Hickey intro
35- Paul Cookson and Lerraine Hickey - To Ashes
36- Paul Cookson and Lerraine Hickey - Isn't It strange?
37 - Paul Cookson and Lerraine Hickey -the Monk
38 - White Steel intro
39- White Steel - The little Green men have Landed
40- White steel - God's gift To mankind
41- Outro
DOWNLOAD a classic sliced up mp3 file HERE!
One of the classic DIY compilations of the original DIY Cassette Culture
era, from Fuck Off Records spin off label, Weird Noise Tapes. No less
than 10 Danny and the Dressmakers tracks on here! The 012, The Sell Outs, Good Missionaries, and ATV! A classic DIY Rant Poem from 'The Undertaker', Hippie Punk from Blank Space and The Androids of Mu,
an Ironic DIY punk classic from the Horrible Nurds, DIY prog excerpts
from Anthrax for the people with their concept album "The Grand Union
Canal Mystery", the list of greatness goes on; all this and an unknown
girl and an unknown band too!
You may recognise a few tracks from that seminal vinyl ep, "The Weird Noise Ep", but this is where they appeared first, with superbly inferior third generation copy cassette hiss.
The insert lists an Instant Automatons excerpt, but I'm damned if I can identify it!
What we do have instead is three tracks from Anthrax for the People, and the Hearing aids, and The magnificent Door and the Window.
(Yes, the ATV track listed as "the Force is Blind" is in fact "Release the Natives"; but that's all part of the charm innit?)
Track Listing:
a1 Opium for the people - An Unknown Girl
a2 Fish from Tahiti - The 012
a3 Dynamite - Danny and the Dressmakers
a4 Lennon's supermarket Tango - Danny and the Dressmakers
a5 The living Dead no 5 - The Understander
a6 Lets all sign to Virgin records - The Horrible Nurds
a7 - a9 Excerpts from the Grand Canal Mystery - Anthrax for the People.
a10 Little Green Pills - Blank Space
a11 Release The Natives - Alternative TV
a12 Mystery Reggae - Unknown Band
b1 Mystery reggae part 2 - Unknown Band
b2 The Good Missionary goes for a Piss - the Good Missionaries
b3 Kif Kif's Magic Hat - Danny and the Dressmakers
b4 Welcome to tape 3 (part one) - Danny and the Dressmakers
b5 Welcome to tape Three (part two) - Danny and the Dressmakers
b6 Money - The Sell Outs
b7 Random 5 Minute excerpt(from all I can hear is people talking) - The Hearing Aids
b8 The Wurst Band - The Door and the Window
b9 God puts a stop to the silver paper eating monster - Danny and the Dressmakers
b10 Hey Ho Hey Ho ,my Cholesterol Levels are Low
b11 The Truth about Unemployment - Danny and the Dressmakers
b12 Fast car - the Androids of Mu
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or
Weirdly, you can also download it HERE!
