Hmmm a classic example of the 'difficult' second album, up there with The Adverts and The Damned,whose follow up albums destroye...

I may have mentioned that I reckon these are probably the greatest couple of records to come out of New Zealand. Somehow The Gordons ...

IT'S JANDEK MONDAY MOANDAY........☺ You should be on the stage......the next stage outta here! Or, you could take the Train? But, ...

The Dead C are Dead good ain't dey? On their second C-30 of 1987, each member seems to be playing in isolation inside their own ca...

Comfortably the best band from New Zealand are, obviously, The Dead C . Roundly disliked by musicians everywhere, they perfected the art...

Another AK:79 band, The Terrorways, were a kind of Pub Rock/Punk Covers Band hybrid. Heavily reliant on Chuck Berry riffs, and covers ...

Also from the AK:79 album comes this posthumous album from The Scavengers, recorded in 1978. Its that pubrock/original Punk Rock templ...

One of the better New Zealander New Wave groups was Toy Love(as featured on AK:79 ); Uk equivalents are possibly The Flys(?) I suppose,...

When we think of 'Punk Rock', one doesn't immeadiatly think of New Zealand does one? The 'punk' on the cover loo...

(Said in the voice of Marvin the paranoid Android ): "Oh Goody, Its Jandek Monday Again. Life? Don't talk to me about life!...O...

From Dundee to Dunddin one goes effortlessy. New Zealand was made for this kind of Proto-Indie music.Everyone looks and dresses like th...

For those of you who don't know, The Scrotum Poles claim to fame was their self-financed ep from 1980, which contained five ...

With the state of crumbling modern Britain, and the rise of this Xenophobic Brexiteer nonsense which has permanently split the UK,the ope...

Sorry, No Deacon Blue here. It's the Messthetics Scotland compilation innit? Its got all the classics on here, The Fakes, The Exil...

"Sad Day We Left The Croft" is a compilation of punk and new wave pwer pop combo's from,of all places, the Scottish Hebrid...

To herald the return of 'Jandek Monday' ,here's the ginger bard torturing a detuned Bass for forty minutes. Naturally, overl...

The follow up to 'Mint sauce For The Masses' was/is called "Backlash!". More Edinburgh also-rans making up the Pos...

Scotland has produced atrocities of Treblinka-equaling proportions in the world of Pop Music; but for every Deacon Blue or Hue and Cr...

Yes,so I went on an extended Holiday. Got a problem with that? I'll talk about my excursion after I tap out a short synopsis of ...

We're takin' a bit of a detour as I'm Goin' on Vacation; so appropriatly Flipper's least popular album "Gone Fi...

One stopped off in Carlisle on the way to Glasgow, and I can recall the place captured in the picture featured on the cover as if it was...

Lets take that Ferry 'cross the Mersey to Birkenhead. Only been there a cople of times, to see Leicester City play Tranmere Rover...

Many a Ceramic Hobs record was released on a completly disinterested world by Pumf Records.Mainly because pStan of said group, ran it...

NO....Jandek Monday hasn't ended....yet.The wait for the resumption has well and truly ....er.... Gone? A poignant cover photo of ...

Classic UK DIY madness from Blackpools 'Ceramic Hobs'.One of the few,if not the only,original perps of cassette based affronts ...

So who was/is the 'best band from Blackpool'?........Tempted to say Section 25 , but they went disco......therefore it's obv...

Blimey, there was a second 'Blackpool Rox EP"????....the space of three years between the two EPs illustrates the difference be...

George Formby once sang,suggestively, about his 'little stick of Blackpool Rock' ...then...nothing, until John Robb sorted out th...