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Saturday, 28 January 2023

Jane And Barton – "Jane And Barton" (Cherry Red – MRED 53) 1983

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The Otway and Barrett of Twee has to be Jane (Lancaster) and Edward Barton who,like Otway and Willy scored a minor chart hit across severa...
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Friday, 27 January 2023

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett – "Live At The Roundhouse" (Official Bootleg) 1977

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Another who extolled the virtues of wood and its role in popular music,was one Wild Willy Barrett; whose work with the bard of Aylesbury ,Jo...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Edward Barton – "Here Is My Spoon" (Wooden Records – WOOD 10) 1990

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  Edward Barton looks and sounds like an artist,he may even be an Actor,for he once resembled a Drama student,or a member of Furniture (UK ...
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Friday, 20 January 2023

Rolo Tomassi – "Demo" (Mayday! – 001) 2005

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This is a CD-r....Remember CD-r's.....No?..,and remember how hardcore punk bands each self-released several tapes a month called 'De...
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Thursday, 19 January 2023

Rolo Tomassi – "4 Track Demo Cassette" (danger!laser!phaser!razor!) 2005

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Back to the long dead MySpace era for the first rebirth of DIY ethics,as continues with that Bandcamp,Soundcloud nonsense today,where the tr...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Skullflower – "Exquisite Fucking Boredom" (tUMULt – TM212) 2003

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Any of you cool kids out there like a bit of boredom going on?  As previously mentioned,in the Stanlow Crickets post, the Great Erasure is ...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Stanlow Crickets – "Navigation Of Loplop" (Sound Of Pig – SOP #144) 1988

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This bloke called Philip Seifert is responsible for this ,undoubtedly with the assistance of Al Margolis one would assume,it being on his So...
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Monday, 16 January 2023

Burden Of Friendship – "The Head Of Your Goat - The Son Of Your Dog, Vol. 2" (Self-Released) 1985

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One man's Friend is another man's Eric Burden; especially after he left the Animals and went a bit Funny,but still looked like an ex...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Jandek – "Diverseworks" (Corwood Industries – CORWOOD 0856) 2022

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After a lengthy series of stuff about recently deceased musicians,I will risk my life by returning,briefly, to the possibly Dead Jandek,with...
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Monday, 9 January 2023

The Associates - "Sulk (40th Anniversary Edition) 1982/2022

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I'm in a sulk.....there are no associates left.  Rankine died peacefully a few days previously, which is ironic as Sulk is one of the le...
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Thursday, 5 January 2023

Lemon Kittens - "Live 1980/81) (a Die Or DIY? product) 1980/81

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A prolonged absence may have been noted by your faithful scribe,but i have been an unwilling victim of a Co-Vid variant!Despite having been ...
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Friday, 23 December 2022

The Stranglers And Friends – "Live In Concert, Rainbow,London 1980"

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Oooh Look! A one-off collaboration for two 1980 live concerts by The Stranglers from the spring of 1980. Naughty Hugh Cornwell was in Penton...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Squad – "Red Alert" (Squad Records – SQS 1) 1978

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And now Terry Hall also, has succumbed to the 'thing' that makes life utterly fucking pointless.... Death. He did have a talent for ...
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Friday, 16 December 2022

Ashra – "New Age Of Earth" (Virgin – V 2080) 1977

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 Now that everybody has posted "E2-E4 as a tribute to the recently dead Krautrock guitar hero Manuel Gottsching ,and claimed it as the...
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Friday, 9 December 2022

The Stranglers - "Demo's 1974-76" (a Die or DIY? Compilation)

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This comes under the category of groups who were social suicide to admit you like back in the halcyon daze of the Punk Rock wars of 1977. Ba...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Fleetwood Mac – "Bare Trees" (Reprise Records – K 44181) 1972

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With a cover like it houses an Ambient Doom miesterwerk, this forgotten soft rock classic from a lost version of former UK Blues giants, Fle...
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Thursday, 24 November 2022

Andy Matthews - "Spring (or 'Bog​-​shed in lock​-​down')" (Ah! Records) 2020

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Here's a band that the recently 'Late' Anton Fier (Feer)definitely didn't play in, as did NOT Andy Matthews of, I am Inform...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2022

Mark Shreeve – "No Holes Barred" (Church Road Records - MCCR6) 1986

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  From the less precious end of the recent deaths in music trophy cabinet, comes one of the more 'successful' prime movers in the UK...
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