A nice cover version of the most famous Ugly Ducklings song: "Nothin'", by The Sick Rose, an 80's garage rock band from Turin, Italy.
March 25, 2020 9:20 AM CDT
A nice cover version of the most famous Ugly Ducklings song: "Nothin'", by The Sick Rose, an 80's garage rock band from Turin, Italy.
March 25, 2020 9:14 AM CDT
March 25, 2020 9:02 AM CDT
The Sick Rose, an 80's garage rock band from Turin.
March 15, 2020 1:46 PM CDT
Label: Overground Records
12-track LP OVER 172LP Barcode: 0720355546076
12-track CD OVER 172CD Barcode: 5060114368118
Release Date: 13th March 2020
'You feel that when the music stops you're always left without a chair' - Hoorahland
We all inhabit Hoorahland.
It's the great bemusement park in your head and what Walt would have wanted. We never leave. Trapped by its turnstiles, looping the loop of uncertainty for eternity or, at least, until the Chessington World of Dementia kicks in and brings blissful release.
Oh, and Jello Biafra duets with The Shend on Now The Magic Has Gone, a song about two ageing theatre queens whose everlasting love has tragically fragmented into a thousand shards of bitter hate. It's a tango.
You what?
After 43 years, Hoorahland is The Cravats totally in control of where they want to be sonically. A polished progression from 2017's critically aclaimed Dustbin of Sound album.
Twelve Carollian compositions chronicling the view from Shend's brain laid like a sumptious set of doilies upon the sax-riddled, bass-laden engine that Biscuits, 91, Garstang and Naan have whittled.
It's an intricate Dada Vinci design for the dysfunctional dodgems in which we nervously perch as they bounce off the buffers and each other while we fumble frantically for the imaginary steering wheel.
Without employing too many cliched Theme Park music metaphors such as 'white knuckle roller coaster ride' and 'spinning teacups of terror' what do we get?
Apart from last year's single Shy and Good For You which were championed on the wireless by Gideon Coe, Marc Riley and Henry Rollins amongst others, there are ten other opuses covering everything from the lack of god, Austin Allegros and granny's faded jeans to tight fitting jar lids, grouted portholes in Cartel submersibles and Bryan May's shirt.
Plus, of course, that duet with Jello.
As I said we all inhabit Hoorahland but it's not about the rides, it's more about the view from the queue.
And no, it's not a ruddy concept album . . . although the definition of 'concept' is 'an abstract idea' and as The Cravats have been as abstract as fuck for 43 years then maybe it is.
Whenever I start to feel important, I think 'well, I never did much for The Cravats and I didn't stop Toyah.' - JOHN PEEL
Great to hear a saxophonist playing riffs . . . This group are vicious in their intent, yet relaxed taste abounds. - MARK E. SMITH
One of the greatest bands in the history of music. - HENRY ROLLINS
A listening experience akin to being hit over the head with a saxophone while an incredibly clever anarchist autodidact shouts in your face - STEWART LEE
The Cravats are: The Shend – Vocals, Svor Naan – Saxophone & Clarinet, Joe 91 – Bass, Rampton Garstang – Drums, Viscount Biscuits – Guitar
www.thecravats.comwww.facebook.com/TheCravats @thecravats
August 10, 2019 11:39 AM CDT
Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life
‘Don’t Turn Away
Overground Records
OVER171CD: 5051565221282
OVER171LP: 0720355546021
Release date: 16th August 2019
Steve Ignorant’s Slice Of Life follow their 2014 debut ‘Love And A Lamp-post’ with a new collection of eleven songs titled ‘Don’t Turn Away’.
Ignorant has excelled himself with this album, his passion of creating music and fighting injustice is clear in every single song. This album is about the highs and lows of life, getting older and the struggle to survive.
Ignorant highlights some of the songs:
The lines from Your Day Will Come “Something you should know bully-boys and ‘ladies’” speaks for itself.
S.A.D. is a song about depression, despair and loss.
Steve: “We need to keep talking about this and hopefully by sharing our experiences people will know that they are not alone”
Diffrability celebrates our individualities.
“I’m proud that I’m different. Glad I’m not so uniform. Proud that I’m Ignorant. Glad that I’m not of your norm.”
Musically, the band is built on an acoustic arrangement of piano, guitar and bass. Having shed the punk noise that defined Crass, Slice of Life retains the emotional impact and compassion that has long distinguished Steve’s work.
To sum it up: a poignant, emotional album of 11 tracks that stays with you long after the final note has been played.
S.A.D. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3eVyxFQE9Y
Track listing:
Don’t Turn Away/ Your Day Will Come The Right Way/ S.A.D./ Slaughterhouse/ The Story Continues/ Song For Myself/ Diffrability/ Stretford Blue (new mix)/ Good Intentions/ Whistle Down The Wind
Overground Records: www.overgroundrecords.co.uk
May 14, 2019 1:54 PM CDT
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May 14, 2019 1:50 PM CDT
Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), Richard Jobson (The Skids) and Pauline Murray (Penetration) will be making guest vocal appearances with Buzzcocks at Royal Albert Hall on Friday 21st June, the evening will be compered by Paul Morley.
They will be joining Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian from The Damned, Peter Perrett (Only Ones), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), as well as 'classic' Buzzcocks’ members John Maher and Steve Garvey. Further guests will be announced soon.
January 27, 2019 6:32 AM CST
V2
12-track LP • 500 only
Label: Overground Records
Cat. No: OVER 167LP • Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
V2 formed in March 1977 evolving from the early Manchester punk scene
based around the legendary Electric Circus venue. Of the four Manchester punk bands around at the time - The Fall, Buzzcocks, V2 and Warsaw - V2 were the ones who fell to earth: 'as subtle as flying buzz-bombs' and destined for the same early grave.
V2 gigs were chaotic, but this was where they really made their mark.
Audiences were treated to a white-faced, black-eyed, bad-skinned young band wearing Frankenstein boots, who attacked the crowd with guitars hacked into cricket bats, bombed them with flour bags and once, set them on fire with cheap flash-bombs thrown by a drunken 'helper'. You either loved 'em or you fuckin' hated em!
Faced with a constant lack of money/motivation and bad management the
band fell to bits. Underachievement has given the band a cult status
that some 'more successful bands' can only dream of...
This LP compiles both of their classic singles 'Man In The Box' and 'Speed Freak', their withdrawn third single ‘Is Anyone Out There?’ and various studio recordings that never saw the light of day, packed in a full colour cover with insert detailing the band’s history.
Track Listing:
Nothing To Do/ Speed Freak/ That’s It/ Man In The Box/ City Creatures/ Is Anyone Out There?/ I’m A Dancer/ Zero Hour/ Silent Exchanges/ Out On The Corner/ Prayer For The New Born/ Encounter With The X-Men
September 30, 2018 7:08 AM CDT
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NEW RELEASE NEWS!!
Art Attacks
‘Chickens in Funland’ b/w ‘Rat City’
2-track 7” limited to 500
Label: Overground Cat. No: OVER 163
Formed by Edwin Pouncey in the Spring of 1977 “because there was a talent night at the Royal College Of Art”, their first gig ended (like so many of their other gigs) in a fight, to disguise their lack of material. Someone there offered them a gig for money so a set of 10 songs was quickly cobbled together.
Sometime during 1977 the band decided to go and records some tracks for a possible release. They settled on Pathway Studiosd in London where The Damned had recorded “New Rose” and two tracks “Chickens in Funland” and “Rat City” were recorded. Just one acetate was made and soon after the line-up changed, Ricky Slaughter left to join The Motors, Robert Gotobed went to Wire and the line-up stabilised to include the nucleus of Edwin Pouncey, Steve Spear and Marion Fudger. The idea got scrapped.
A hippie guy and his stripper girlfriend who ran a record shop in the basement of Kensington Market decided to start a label and approached the Art Attacks. They released the 7,500 selling "I Am A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" single, but the relationship terminated when the stripper appeared on stage semi-naked and decided to whip an unamused Edwin.
Their next foray into the studio was to record the classic "Arabs In ‘Arrads" for the first ever punk rock compilation album, "Streets" on Beggars Banquet.
Suffering from stage fright, Edwin would only appear on-stage when inebriated. Each performance was unpredictable. Aside from the frequent fights, there was one occasion when Edwin climbed inside the kick drum and refused to perform, and once when he invited a tramp to ramble meaninglessly into the microphone, rather than sing himself.
Tours with The Lurkers, Generation X, The Motors and Rock Against Racism followed, as did two live tracks "Animal Bondage" and "Frankenstein’s Heartbeat" on the "Live At The Vortex" album. The pressures of finishing their degrees terminated the band and the posthumous "Punk Rock Stars" b/w "Rat City" single was released.
Sadly, in 2017 Steve Spear died in a road traffic accident and Edwin felt it would be a great tribute if the long lost single could be released. Following some detective work, it was discovered that the acetate had been bought on eBay by an Italian collector who kindly taped it. Edwin still had his original 1977 artwork and wrote a band history and tribute to Steve which is included as an insert within the release.
Overground Records – www.overgroundrecords.co.uk
July 1, 2018 3:21 AM CDT
The Royal Albert Hall is delighted to present a one-off evening featuring three pioneering bands from the first generation of punk and new wave on Friday 21st June 2019: Buzzcocks, The Skids and Penetration.
Having hosted a highly successful sell-out concert by The Damned in 2016 which attracted a new audience to the venue, the Royal Albert Hall were enthusiastic to host other bands from what is now recognised as one of UK music’s halcyon periods.
Buzzcocks formed in Manchester in February 1976 and booked the Sex Pistols for their first northern gig in Manchester on 20th July 1976, later that year they became the first punk band to start their own label New Hormones and released the now legendary and seminal Spiral Scratch EP. In August 1977 they signed to United Artists and released the landmark single Orgasm Addict followed by many hit singles including: Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), What Do I Get? and Promises as well as touring extensively and releasing a trilogy of outstanding albums: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites and A Different Kind of Tension. Since leaving United Artists in 1981 the band have continued to release regular albums and tour internationally and remain one of the most name-checked and popular bands from the era.
The Skids were formed in Dunfermline in the summer of 1977 by the legendary guitarist Stuart Adamson who soon recruited the enigmatic frontman Richard Jobson. They took the unusual step of starting their own label and in February 1978 released the Charles EP on No-Bad and were quickly snapped up by Virgin Records. Numerous chart singles followed including Into The Valley, The Saints Are Coming and Working For The Yankee Dollar and they had two Top 20 albums: Scared To Dance and The Absolute Game. There were occasional reunions, but in 2017 they reformed, toured extensively and released the critically accalimed album Burning Cities which reached No. 28 in the national album charts.
Penetration formed in Ferryhill in County Durham 1976 and were unusual in not that they were the north-east’s first punk band, but that they were female-fronted. In 1977 they signed to Virgin Records and released the classic single Don’t Dictate and a year later their debut album Moving Targets which reached No. 22 in the national album charts. The band toured USA extensively before releasing in September 1979 their follow-up album Coming Up For Air. They split soon after but reformed in 2002 and in 2015 released the hugely successful Resolution album.
Each band will be performing something special for what promises to be a unique evening in a memorable setting.
June 27, 2018 3:03 AM CDT
June 27, 2018 3:03 AM CDT
May 10, 2018 2:43 PM CDT
Hi lads,
Enjoy our first EP totally free!!
https://toxicriders.bandcamp.com
If You like it , share with your friends!!!
https://www.facebook.com/toxicridersbcn
May 5, 2018 4:12 AM CDT
Gonna bump this up as Slovenly Recordings is releasing our second EP
https://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/morons-morons-indecent-exposure-ep
"Slovenly Recordings welcomes Poland’s prime purveyors of pierogi punk MORON’S MORONS to our putrid populace. This is their first release after 2017’s self-titled debut on the UK’s No Front Teeth Records. It’s called “Indecent Exposure” (no song title to match?), and it’s just the kind of hot mess we cream over: sloppy, unpolished shit rock, distorted to the max, and faster than lubed moose manure with barely intelligible vocals that we’re keen to judge based on song titles like “Vibrator Violator,” and the obvious FM radio smash hit of the bunch, “Devil Sucks My Cock and Swallows.” An artistic triumph in every sense that we aren’t likely to witness again, or at least until the release of the upcoming 7” by Puppy and the Hand Jobs!"
OUT JUNE 1ST
Some videos for your viewing pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cw4Pp-unOc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pFHETkVkQ
August 18, 2017 4:53 AM CDT
are you interested to be reviews on our ezine?
http://www.iyezine.com
send me an email info@iyezine.com
thanx!
Fats Terminal said:
Hi!
We are Moron's Morons. We hail from Warsaw, Poland and we play lo fi garage punk in style of Reatards, Dwarves, Teengenerate and the New Bomb Turks. We also take influences from '70s punk bands, such as the Dead Boys.
Some time ago we uploaded our demo on bandcamp. It's called Trash Can Glory and you can have a listen here: https://moronsmorons.bandcamp.com/album/trash-can-glory
But that's not everything!
Our songs are also available on vinyl. Our debut seven inch was released by No Front Teeth Records from London and this is how they describe us:
"Debut 72 from MORON’S MORONS who play raw, snotty punk rock in classic Rip Off style... think Loli and The Chones, The Lids, The Infections etc mixed with some Buck Biloxi and Achtungs. Yes, this is very necessary. DON’T SLEEP!!"
Our records are available at NFT and various record stores., including Deadbeat Records for those of you who live in the US. They are also available directly from us, and shipping from Poland is ridiculously cheap.
A real treat for all you record maniacs: there are 8 versions of the cover!
Here's us playing Noise Addiction by Pure Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R1u1FqMPHo
YES! We have a drop-dead gorgeous bass player.
Follow us on facebook for more live recordings and keeping up to date: https://www.facebook.com/moronsmoronspunk/
Cheers!
April 7, 2018 9:03 AM CDT
Out now, a limited edition 550 only repro of the of the first 7" from The Cravats 'Gordon', with numbered Cravfacts insert
January 7, 2018 1:22 PM CST
garage punk band with surf, post-punk, stoner influences.
rehearsal demo pzelenaya.bandcamp.com/album/rehearsal-tape
first EP pzelenaya.bandcamp.com/album/-
November 25, 2017 10:42 AM CST
September 29, 2017 3:23 AM CDT
Label: Overground Records
13-track LP OVER 157LP Barcode: 689492182915
13-track LP OVER 157CD Barcode: 689492182922
Release Date: 29th September 2017
Press releases are rubbish! The band who wrote the music don't write them, so some oik who didn't write the music is wheeled in and then, with a Thesaurus propped open on their lap, they attempt to describe sounds with words. As I said, rubbish! So I asked co-founder and frontman of The Cravats, The Shend, to describe 'Dustbin of Sound', their first new LP in 37 years.
"As always, it's unique" he said enigmatically.
The Thesaurus gave me, 'distinctive', 'individual', 'idiosyncratic', 'different', 'eccentric' and 'unusual' for unique (flipping writing itself this).
The Cravats have indeed always been all of those things, but 'unique' sums it up just fine.
Okay, you may prefer to be dragged along the motorway under a rusty Land Rover than have to listen to that sax-riddled, bass-laden Dadaist weirdness again but you can't deny they're unique.
And with 13 brand new slabs of peculiarity from these particularly peculiar people (even oscillator overlord, Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples pops up for a few seconds on 'Motorcycle Man'), DoS is still the Cravats that John Peel loved (4 sessions) back in 1978, but with an extra 35 years of life on Earth soaked into their bones.
The two critically acclaimed singles from last year, Blurred and Jingo Bells which Marc Riley, Gideon Coe and Henry Rollins amongst others, played a wad on the wireless are here, as well as songs involving buried cattle, hatcheting Toyotas, death ray vapourisation, the mud-soaked sibling of Neptune and, of course, atheist yacht-owning crocodiles.
Er, help me out here, Shend.
"Music should always be passionate, preposterous, atmospheric and above all entertaining. We fulfill the remit"
They do. It's like watching 13 magnificent mini-movies at your local multiplex but you're eyeballing them with your ears.
And talking of Thesauruses, who the hell uses words like, 'maliloquent' and 'predilection' in Pop songs?
If Shakespeare, Max Ernst and Beefheart had a radio show, this LP would probably be on heavy rotation.
The Cravats are: The Shend – Vocals, Svor Naan – Saxophone & Clarinet, Joe 91 – Bass, Rampton Garstang – Drums, Viscount Biscuits – Guitar
www.thecravats.comwww.facebook.com/TheCravats @thecravats
Track Listing:
King Of Walking Away/ Batterhouse/ Motorcycle Man/ 100 Percent/ Blurred/ Power Lines/ Jingo Bells/ Bury The Wild/ Bigband/ Whooping Sirens/ Hang Them/ Big Red Car/ All U Bish Dumpers
September 28, 2017 7:56 AM CDT
Bloody great stuff. Some things just get better with age!
September 18, 2017 7:32 AM CDT
Pre Order the new album by the Maharajas https://themaharajas.bandcamp.com/https://themaharajas.bandcamp.com/
September 14, 2017 3:42 AM CDT
Hello did you find places to play , if you had any tips it would help us, thanks
August 18, 2017 4:55 AM CDT
are you interested to be reviews on our ezine?
http://www.iyezine.com
send me an email info@iyezine.com
thanx!
August 14, 2017 3:17 AM CDT
Hi,
i will be in Paris on Wednesday. Any advice for records stores, venues, Bars?
It would be very much appreciated
Rockn Roll,
N
August 10, 2017 11:52 AM CDT
Hello!
We'll be kicking it into high gear and giving it up for free on the 15/09/17.
This what you need to know:
Who? Snakerattlers, Thee Dinnerladies, Numbskull Action & Good Mother Lizard.
What? Hot Slop, Punk & Roll
Why? Its Friday night!
When? 15/09/17 @theCavendish Arms StockWell, london, UK 8pm-11pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/235445446975494/
Action!
