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Saturday, 3 June 2017

X-Ray Spex - "Peel Sessions" (1978)

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Alright, no Lora Logic on these sessions, but we do have 7 classic major chord pop-punk thrashes featuring the dearly departed Polly Sty...
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Friday, 2 June 2017

X-Ray Spex - "Live at the Roxy 1977"

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Of course to round up the career of Susan Whitby,aka Lora Logic,the sax playing Buddhist. Here's one of the few recordings of her pl...
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Wednesday, 31 May 2017

The Red Crayola ‎– "Soldier-Talk" (Radar Records RAD 18) 1979

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Mayo Thompson's  revitalised avant-psyche outfit Red Crayola, or Krayola, featured the very fashionable Lora Logic on sax; among va...
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Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Lora Logic - "Pedigree Charm" (Rough Trade ROUGH 28) 1982

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To all intents and purposes this is 'Essential Logic' after they lost direction, with a splash of 'Camberwell Now', goin...
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Monday, 29 May 2017

Essential Logic - "All The Singles 1978-81"

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Aerosol Burns (1978) (Cells Records SELL ONE)   1/ Aerosol Burns; 2/ World Friction(get this on the Beat Rhythm News Download) Wake ...
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Sunday, 28 May 2017

Essential Logic - "Peel Session 06-02-1979"

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Early Essential Logic as recorded for posterity by the British propaganda broadcasting corporation;but this is the kind of propaganda th...
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Saturday, 27 May 2017

Essential Logic - "Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) (Rough Trade ROUGH 5) 1979

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Oh look, its the album my brother bought me for xmas 1979!....what a classic, and one of the few albums i know all the words to. Very...
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Punishment Of Luxury - "Live at the Hope and Anchor 21/07/1978"

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More bootlegged Punilux captured at the home of Pub rock, complete with those familiar 'small room' acoustic's. Sounds like...
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Friday, 26 May 2017

Punishment Of Luxury - "Peel Session 22-05-1979"

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The potential disaster of Actors forming bands and pop stars becoming actors,has thankfully met with only limited success.  Alas, one h...
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Thursday, 25 May 2017

Punishment Of Luxury- "Peel Session 22-08-1978"

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I never started listening to the John Peel show until around the summer of '78 on our annual family 'holiday' in the bracing...
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Punishment Of Luxury - "Live @ Reading Festival 24-08-1979"

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"Do you like cold Chips David?", and "I'll facking 'ave ya!", are just two of the tasty morsels of dialogue ...
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Punishment Of Luxury ‎– "Laughing Academy" (United Artists ‎– UAG 30258)

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'Post-punk' was in fact Prog's triumphant return after a forced tactical withdrawal during Punk Rock's 'Khmer Rou...
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Monday, 22 May 2017

Camberwell Now - "Live @ Tegan Tonen Frestival, Amsterdam 08/05/1986"

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At last a high quality live recording of post This Heat avant-prog combo Camberwell Now. As captured by VPRO Radio at the Tegen Tonen F...
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Sunday, 21 May 2017

This Is Not This Heat - "Live @u Cent Quatre, Paris- 15/03/2017"

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I often complain about groups reforming to earn a bit of dough,and in the process tarnishing a legend that was best left unblemished. T...
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Saturday, 20 May 2017

Young Marble Giants - "Live @ Les Bains Douches, Paris 17/06/1980"

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To round up our brief sojourn through Welsh DIY/Post Punk, here's proof that you could actually escape from Wales. No doubt hailed ...
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Friday, 19 May 2017

Young Marble Giants ‎– "Colossal Youth" (Rough Trade ‎– ROUGH 8) 1980

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If there is a chance nobody here has heard this classic record, then here it is for download. The best thing to come out of Wales along...
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Thursday, 18 May 2017

Scritti Politti ‎– "4 'A Sides' " (Rough Trade ‎– RT 027, St. Pancras Records ‎– SCRIT 2) 1979

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Is it me or were there two EP's with the same catalog number? SCRIT 2? Here's the last post from Scritti politti's golden y...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Scritti Politti ‎– "Work In Progress 2nd Peel Session" (Rough Trade ‎– RT 034, St. Pancras Records ‎– SCRIT 2) 1979

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So here's Scritti's excellent second peel session, released as an EP on Rough Trade, although I doubt the production costs pr...
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Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Scritti Politti - "First Peel Session 05/12/1978"

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Here's the unreleased First Peel Session from when dey wuz gud (note clever Slade style phonetics ;-), and Green hadn't 'dis...
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Scritti Politti - "Skank Bloc Bologna" (St. Pancras Records ‎– SCRIT 1) 1978

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As i mentioned before the best thing to come out of Wales is the M4, and a young Green Gartside used that portal to escape to Lon...
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Monday, 15 May 2017

Reptile Ranch ‎– "Don’t Give The Lifeguard A Second Chance" (Z Block Records ‎– Z1) 1979

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Spike of bland indie soft jazzers Weekend, was in Reptile Ranch. And as well as opening side two on Cardiff compilation “Is The ...
Saturday, 13 May 2017

Weekend ‎– "The '81 Demos" (Vinyl Japan ‎– TASKCD 47) 1995/1981

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Cravats, Ray Bans, beige slacks, stools.....the sitting on variety, not the specimens one provides to a doctor. Who do these Weekenders ...
Friday, 12 May 2017

Weekend ‎– "La Varieté" (Rough Trade ‎– ROUGH 39) 1982

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If Young Marble Giants flirted with Testcard music, then Alison Strattons' post-YMG group, Weekend, actually made Testcard mu...
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Thursday, 11 May 2017

The Gist ‎– "Embrace The Herd" (Rough Trade ‎– ROUGH 25) 1982

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Stuart Moxham's first post 'Young Marble Giants' album is a mixed experience. First up we have an instrumental that sounds ...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

The Gist ‎– "This Is Love" (Rough Trade ‎– RT 058) 1980

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To be in The Gist, it seems you had to have a sir name that begins with 'M'. Stuart Moxham's post Young Marble Giants alm...
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