No way did No Way ever get to record at the esteemed BBC?
Yeah, BBC Radio Cleveland, not Maida Vale studios for Radio One.
It's now 1979 and one can't imagine local radio had a wealth of Post-Punk talent to choose from, I think Basczax were the only Post-Punk group on the block,but too ambitious to stay. Unlike No Way, who not only stuck rigidly to the 1978 template, had no ambition also. Remarkably this session was fossilized on the shelves of Radio Cleveland for 30-odd years.Luckily there was still some viable DNA left inside the dormant magnetic waves frozen within.Like a punk rock jurassic park, these tunes have been resurected to titilate the inner ears of the modern generation.
There is some unfortunate photographic evidence on the rear cover that No Way reformed,playing to half full venues of sweaty shaven headed ruddy cheeked middle aged 'Punx'.Something that shouldn't be encouraged,but if they enjoyed it so what.Just waiting for 'No Way', 'the musical' next.
Tracklisting:
A1 Breaking Point
A2 Crazy Carol Carter
A3 30 Seconds
A4 Senile Delinquents
A5 Jeopardy
A6 Possessions
B1 TV Pox
B2 No Reality
B3 Jealous Girl
B4 Idiots Delight
B5 Crazy Carol Carter #2
B6 Destiny
They came from Middlesbrough, and had a lead singer called 'Matey'!?...Perfect Outsider Punk material if ever such a thing existed?
As a yoof, I had many a short break in the Middlesbrough area,as my Father's family were inmates of this very grim urban sprawl.
Dominated by the city sized ICI chemical plant at Billingham, Middlesbrough's main claims to fame, were, The worlds longest Advertising Hoarding, which sat atop one of the stands at Ayresome Park,home of Middlesbrough Football Club;and the fact that it was rarely out of the top two in the annual worst places to live in England list,jostling for the number one spot with Coventry.
Ayresome Park has been replaced now by a posh new stadium and most of the extra-awful bits have been gentrified,as is the fashion; but the Chemical Plant still sxists,pumping out whatever garbage into the ecosystem to form the minds of young men like 'Matey'(Marty Powell),the now deceased front man of 'No Way'.
Of course, Middlesbrough had 'The Rock Garden', where punk groups from all over the UK played, including an early gig by Warsaw aka Joy Division in 1977, which i'd like to think 'No Way' witnessed,or even supported?
These tracks were all recorded in 1978, and includes the three tracks from No Way's self-financed, and impossibly rare single “Breaking Point” backed with the equally glorious “30 Seconds” and the immortal ,“TV Pox”.
Great no-nonsense, finely honed, Original UK Punk rock from the provinces.
Tracklisting:
1 Breaking Point 3:10
2 TV Pox 1:48
3 30 Seconds 0:59
4 Destiny 3:57
5 Crazy Carolcarter 2:49
6 Jeopardy 2:44
7 Senile Delinquents 2:37
8 No Reality 2:16
9 Idiots Delight 3:10
Keeping on the christmas theme, here's another mixtape featuring a
legion of crap punks moaning about TV.(check out crap punk mixtape one here!)
Watching television is the dominant pastime for the festive season, and a
very popular subject for useless punk groups everywhere.
I'd do one about chocolate too, but i can only find one Danny and the
Dressmakers song. Alcohol may be a possibilty, but we got Television,
and you're gonna like it!.
It's a perfect word for punk songs, with its four syllable, sentence filling poetry.
The modern Folk connotations of the subject of TV are immense; so as
punk is modern folk music, its as important to crap punk as "Hey Nonny
Noh" was to trad folk.
Listening to the classic "TV Stars" by The Skids, one is disturbed to
realise that the only surviving person mentioned in the lyrics, is one
Kenny Dalglish! Even the Skids Guitarist hung himself! Is this song
cursed?
On the subject of Ken Nordine, i was listening to an old John Peel Show
from 1979 the other day,as you do; and he played a track from what he
described as "The worst Record he'd ever heard". It was Ken Nordine's
"Colors" album, which is in fact fantastic! As important a figure as
Peel was, he certainly had dodgy taste in Reggae, schoolgirls, and what
was or wasn't "bad"! Although "Colors" isn't as good as "Word Jazz 1"(1957), from which we introduce this splendid compilation, with the profound "The Vidiot".
So turn off your TV this midwinter Festival time, and listen to why you
shouldn't be watching the evil messages transmitted by the new world
order. Resist, resiiiiiiist!.........and enjoy resisting.
"TELEVISION'S OVER (CRAP PUNKS ON TV)"
Track Listing:
1 - "The Vidiot" - Ken Nordine
2 - "Television's Over (demo version" - The Adverts
3 - "TV Scream" - Pseudo Existors
4 - "Television Addict" - The Victims
5 - "New religion" - Some Chicken
6 - "Television Viewer" - The Vacants
7 - "Television Families" - The Cortinas
8 - "Television Generation" - Kursaal Flyers
9 - "Television Screen" - Radiators From Space
10-"TV Land" - Ground Zero
11-"Television Romeo" - The DP's
12-"Television Operator" - Alternative TV
13-"T.V.T.V." - The Cardiacs
14-"Idiot Box" - The Damned
15-"TV ME" - The Distributors
16-"T.V. Programmed T.V. Set" - The Poptronix
17-"T.V. Lady" - The Carpettes
18-"T.V. Woman" - The Citizens
19-"T.V. Set" - The Cramps
20-"T.V. Set" - The Prats
21-"T.V. Screen Existence" - Disco Zombies
22-"Too Much TV" - Hitler SS
23-"T.V. Boredom on the Dole" - Danny and the Dressmakers
24-"T.V. Stars" - The Skids"
25-"T.V. Kids" - The Media
26-"T.V.O.D." - The Normal
27-"T.V. Treated" - The Neon Judgement
28-"T.V. Freak" - The Victims
29-"T.V. Pox" - No Way
30-"Television,Television" - The Ripchords
31-"625 Lines" - The Prefects
32-"Television Sect" - The Sods
33-"T.V. Eye (Take 9)" - The Stooges
34-"T.V." - Wire
35-"O Bleak TV" - The Thought Criminals
36-"I Said, I Wanna Watch Cartoons!" - The Happy Flowers
37-"Television's Over(peel session Version)" - The Adverts
38-"Television Off" - Gus Coma
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