воскресенье, 30 октября 2016 г.
Starshooter - Starshooter (1978)
In the late french seventies, disco music and popular french singers ruled the airwaves : it was a challenge for french rock bands to get an audience ; only three french singing rock bands have succeed in the conquest of a national audience : Téléphone, Trust and to a less extent, Starshooter.
Starshooter had started as a punk band in Lyon under the name "Les scooters". They signed with a major in 1977, exceptional point for a french rock band. The first album was welcomed by radio stations (there was only 4 large band frequencies stations at this time, free FM radio stations didn't exist yet). On the two following LPs, Starshooter's powerful and catchy pop songs gave a general feeling of optimism .
The fourth LP with CBS, produced in the UK by Mick Glossop (The Ruts, The Skids) on the idea to reach fans beyond french speaking community, have brought a darker vision of the world. Anyway during live acts in France, the public stilled always at a low level, and Starshooter disbanded in 1982, tired of the bad recognition.
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Rondos - Red Attack (1980)
Formed in 1978, in Rotterdam, and ending in 1980 the Rondos all too short career left far too few releases. They're often grouped in the same model as Crass, which isn't a stretch from a political stand point, but musically they're more akin to Wire.
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среда, 26 октября 2016 г.
Tina Peel - Pajama Party (2003, compilation)
Compilation of all works of US Garage Rock/New Wave band active in the late 70s
Tina Peel formed in 1976 and they was heavily influenced by The Monkees, Cryan’ Shames, 1910 Fruitgum Company and Dave Clark 5.
It's Rudi Protrudi's first band, where he performed as frontman. When Tina Peel broke up members Rudi Protrudi and Deb O’Nair went on to form The Fuzztones in 1980.
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The Pigs - 1977 (1977, issue 2010)
Heres the only album from the most underrated 1977 era uk punk bands ever, Bristols The Pigs, they only released one great 7" in their time, this album over 30 years on brings together the 4 tracks from that 7" and all the other tracks recorded at that session finally released for the first time, this album is only available on vinyl.
The Pigs are a Bristol-based punk rock band formed in 1977. They recorded an EP, Youthanasia, for independent label New Bristol Records in August of that year. Following renewed interest in the band after their original recordings were re-released by Bristol Archive Records in 2009, the Pigs reformed and are currently recording again.
The band first got together at Henbury School. They launched themselves as a punk band after seeing the Cortinas, the Damned, the Jam and other early punk gigs in Bristol. After just a few gigs these ‘aggressive, confrontational upstarts’ were spotted by punk impresario Miles Copeland who ran Step Forward Records with Mark P. Copeland saw the Pigs supporting Generation X at Chutes on Bristol’s Park Street and arranged for them to record at Sound Conception studios. Four tracks were released as an EP on a new label, New Bristol Records. The record was a success in Bristol and received repeated plays (at various speeds; the label misstated 33rpm) from John Peel, foremost champion of new music on UK radio at that time.
The Pigs featured on bills with bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and their high-energy live shows generated positive reviews in the UK's influential weekly music press with Simon Kinnersley in the Melody Maker citing the 'verve and aggression of the Who in their heyday' while jazz authority Ian Carr emphasised their 'wired momentum'. Unfortunately the chance to open for the Sex Pistols went up in smoke when the venue mysteriously burned down the night before the gig. Nevertheless, the EP enabled the Pigs to play further afield, at the Marquee in London and at the famous Roxy Club. They supported the Cortinas on a number of dates. However disillusionment set in at the increasingly mainstream direction of the punk movement and early in 1978 they split up.
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понедельник, 24 октября 2016 г.
Minimal Compact - One By One (1982)
Minimal Compact was an Israeli rock band associated with the post-punk and indie rock movement of the 1980s. Here is their art-rock/avantgarde post-punk debut LP.
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Satan's Rats - What A Bunch Of Rodents (compilation)
Twenty tracks compilation including their three classic singles, 13 unreleased tracks and one demo version from one of Britain's most under-rated punk bands.
Satan’s Rats formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in January 1977, with an average age of just seventeen.
Songs like the anthemic ‘Year Of The Rats’ about the demise of the old fart groups, their appearance at the Birmingham Punk Festival and support to the Sex Pistols at the Roxy soon saw the band build a large following and inevitably drew them to the attention of record labels.
Their first demo (included on this CD) earned them a deal with DJM Records. Hardly a punk label, it was home to Elton John and Johnny Guitar Watson and also the enigmatic Rikki Sylvan (from Rikki & The Last Days Of Earth) who would produce their first two singles.
The first single ‘In My Love For You’ was released in 1977. Bob Geldof reviewed in the NME and slagged it off. The second single ‘Year Of The Rats’ released early in 1978 fared no better, sinking without a trace despite being regarded as something of a classic these days.
For their third single ‘You Make Me Sick’ they had Vic Maile (Dr Feelgood/Fruit Eating Bears) as producer. He managed to capture the anger of the band perfectly and this single, released in 1978 was undoubtedly their finest moment. Julie Burchill reviewed it in the NME, she hated it.
Later that year Paul Rencher quit, the band recruited vocalist Wendy Wu, changed their name to The Photos, signed to Epic and had a hit album.
All three Satan’s Rats singles are highly prized collectors’ items and have been heavily bootlegged on punk compilations, one series even naming itself ‘Year Of The Rats’.
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Controllers - Another Sunny Day (Demos-Live)
Great punk band formed on July 4th 1977, with a lineup of Johnny Stingray (guitar), his girlfriend (drums), his girlfriend's little brother Kid Spike (vocals), and bass player D.O.A. Dan ("an acne-scarred lunatic with more than a few loose screws"). They rehearsed under the Pussycat Theater on Hollywood Blvd, which was run by Brendan Mullen, an entrepreneurial Scotsman who transformed the rehearsal spot into The Masque.
By the time they recorded the Neutron Bomb 7" in late '77 Charlie Trash was behind the drum kit, but by the time the single was released in 1978 "a lame power grab on part of the rhythm section" reduced the band to just Stingray and Spike, who soldiered on nonetheless.
Paul Roessler (The Screamers) and Bruce Barf (pre-Wall of Voodoo) were enlisted to help out with shows, before Stingray and Spikesettled on being a power trio, with a girl called Maddog on drums. This lineup recorded the Slow Boy 7" in 1978 and three songs for the Tooth And Nail compilation in 1979.
The band folded in Spring '79, with Spike joining The Gears, Maddog drifting into even greater obscurity and Stingray forming KAOS.
1977 Studio Demo (pre-What? Records)
01. Neutron Bomb
02. Killer Queers
03. Hot Stumps
February 1982 Masque Reunion, Cathay De Grande, Hollywood, CA
04. Hot Stumps
05. Suburban Suicide
06. Jezebel
07. She's Not In Love
08. Do The Uganda
Another Sunny Day.......1996 Studio Demo
09. Jezebel
10. Fallin' Down
You're Gonna Miss Me....2002 Studio Demo
12. Suffocation
13. We Don't Believe
14. Nuke Beach
15. You're Gonna Miss Me
1977 Studio Demo
Controllers - The Controllers (1977-92)
Though the Controllers were a second-division L.A. punk band ('77-'79) like the Zeros, Plugz, Eyes, Skulls, and Rhino 39, they were still totally great, and totally better than 99 percent of what's come since in the genre.
Theirs was a low-down, dirty, trash rock type of post-Thunders punk that sometimes coalesced into era classics.
Since this LP smartly collects all eight tracks they barely managed to release (five on their two 7" singles, three on the seminal Tooth and Nail comp), you get their three remarkable tracks: the cool, super groove 4/4 of "Killer Queers," the sardonic, anti-televangelist heavy riff slammer "Electric Church" and, most of all, their totally awesome cover of that old crooner saw "Jezebel."
And the rest are the sort of good fun you'd get at a drunken pillow fight where no one cares about all the beer that's getting spilled and the stains and rips on everyone's clothes. Bacchus tacks on one track from the trio's brief 96-'97 reunion (oh, to have seen it! they sound marvelous here!), two from the 1992 Skull Control incarnation (Spike and Maddog, but no Stingray), and one from Stingray's short-lived, excellent post-Controllers band, Kaos.
These six extra selections all emanate from the old days, so this is a succinct and appropriate way for us to piece together what we missed decades ago.
The banging, lost killers "Hot Stumps" and "Beat on the Brat" nod "White Trash Christ" in particular show that there was much more here than the tiny trickle they managed to get out in their glory days.
SIDE A
01. (The Original) Neutron Bomb
02. Killer Queers
03. Slow Boy
04. Do The Uganda
05. Another Day
06. Electric Church
07. Jezebel
08. Suburban Suicide
SIDE B
09. Barnacle Bill The Sailor
10. Top Secret
11. Your World
12. Hot Stumps
13. White Trash Christ
14. Tail-Lights To Texas
Tracks 1&2 from What Records 04, released 1977
Tracks 3, 4, & 8 from Siamese Records SM 003, released 1978
The above tracks mastered from vinyl
Tracks 5, 6 & 7 from The TOOTH AND NAIL compilation
Track 10 by KAOS, from Product Of A Sick Mind promo 7" and
12" EP, released 1980
Tracks 11-12 by SKULL CONTROL, from 'Radio Danger'
released CD only on Iloki Records, '93. Recorded at Westworld, '92.
Everything except the vinyl tracks come from 1/4"
master tapes, with the exception of tracks 9 and 14, which come off a cassette
whichJohnny was lucky enough to find.
ate way for us to piece together what we missed decades
ago.The banging, lost killers "Hot Stumps" and "Beat on the Brat" nod "White Trash Christ" in particular show that there was much more here than the tiny trickle they managed to get out in their glory days.
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The Unwanted - Secret Past (1985, compilation)
Some great early UK punk here. This compiles two Unwanted singles on Raw Records plus five demos they did all circa 1977, 1978. 1984 has long been a favorite since I heard it on MMR radio in 1985 (oh no a year to late!) and that song drew me in to buy this a few years later. The End is Nigh is also a highlight, where they are already commenting on the tendency of punk conformity in 1977. Secret Police see's them trying on some dub reggae, which was a common thread for many of the UK bands of the day. Bleak Outlook, I'm Not Me, and Withdrawal are cool punk blasts. Whilst Fraulin appears as their nervy take on a love song. Also you get a punky cover of These Boots Are Made for Walking.
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пятница, 21 октября 2016 г.
Kaos - Komplete Kaos (2003)
A collection of demos and rehearsal tracks from Johnny Stingray’s post-Controllers outfit that, prior to this, only managed to release the Product of a Sick Mind 7” on What? Records back in the early 1980s. As evidenced here, these guys had the chops and the tunes to put out what would’ve been one hell of a classic album, yet never got the chance. Also included here is a pretty funny interview with the band from KPFK circa 1980 with El Duce making a phone-in appearance. A consistently good listen here and a nice retrospective of one of LA’s more obscure bands.
Kaos was the second straight co-ed trio formed by Johnny Stingray after his previous punk band, the Controllers, split up. And their sole 12" single was one of the few releases on the original What? label (along with the Controllers' first single, the Dils' first single, and theControllers/Eyes/Skulls 7" EP). Now, more than two decades later, Artifix once again serves up a retrospective to give us an idea of what one of those band's LPs might have entailed. (Again, very few of those incredible L.A. first wave bands made any LPs, so it's this or nothing!) Perhaps Komplete Kaos should have opened with what little the band released (the 12"), rather than leading with the way rougher-edged demos and rehearsal tapes that makes up the other 17 tracks unearthed here. But it's a good thing to get any kind of document of even a somewhat later, lesser band on the scene (anything pre-hardcore 1981 is of the principal interest, since the 1981-to-present scene was properly documented in their time).
The trio steams and burps along on such raw and ready tracks as the opening "Cone of Silence" (yup, a Get Smart reference, what taste!), the rapid-fire "Roses on My Grave," and the hottest, quickest, fattest, loudest, and best two cuts (where they come off sounding like a newAvengers!!! No kidding!), "I Don't Want To" and an instrumental cover of the Germs' "Forming" -- to go with the familiar "Top Secret" and "Alcoholiday." More covers, including the Velvet Underground's "White Light, White Heat" (which here sounds a lot more like a version of the Misfits' then-new single B-side, "Teenagers from Mars."), the Chantays' immortal 1963 surf hit "Pipeline" (a staple of Johnny Thunders'Heartbreakers and solo sets of that era), and Chuck Berry's ubiquitous "Memphis" are actually less interesting than the better originals, but give the reader an indication of what you get here. And it's really interesting to hear the give and take in the full interview with those snide, smart and hilarious people from the influential L.A. cable program New Wave Theater (remember the national syndication via Night Flight?). It's all another fine Artifix artifact, of a time when punk was all for the art and the fun, 'cause you weren't going to get signed, put out records, or tour, that's for sure; so you really had to just love the thrill of rock & roll in its purest state.
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The Thought - The Thought (1982)
The first LP from this Dutch post punk band. Finds them mining sounds in the same vein as The Sound, The Comsat Angels, or The Passage.
They released another self titled album a couple of years after this one, to a more pop direction. Listen this one!
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среда, 19 октября 2016 г.
Kneecappers - Urban Kill 1978 - 1980
Kneecappers, underrated or unjustly unheard Cleveland punk band that could appeal to the Pagans. Singer Chris Yarmock's next band Easter Monkeys.
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Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons - Best Off 1980-81 (2007)
Kitchen And The Plastic Spoons formed at a basement rehearsal studio in Stockholm, Sweden during the spring of 1980. The band consisted of Anne Taivan (vocals), Helena Lönnqvist (synthesizer), Iggo Karlsson (synthesizer), Jackie Pazda (bass), and Mats Wigerdal (drums). After a few concerts, Kitchen booked some free studio time and recorded their first single “Serve You!” in two days. Six months later Patrik Lindvall (guitar) joined the group and the band recorded their second single “Ice Cream To God” in early 1981. Kitchen’s sound was getting darker and heavier and so was the mood in the band. Anne shortly left and was replaced by Iodine Jupiter on vocals. This new line up recorded a few songs for local compilations. The band broke up in November 1981 before recording their debut LP.
This is compilation of all their works in between Punk, New Wave, Goth Rock, Synth-pop etc.
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Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions of the Dream (1983)
Jerky Versions of the Dream is the only solo album recorded by Howard Devoto, the original singer of Buzzcocks and Magazine. It was his only studio album, which was released at the time with two singles, "Cold Imagination" and "Rainy Season", being a short-lived solo career for Devoto, who in 1986, went to form a band alongside guitarist Noko, which later was named Luxuria.
The process of Devoto's solo album began, shortly after the demise of Magazine. Already frustrated by an unsatisfactory string of replacements for guitarist John McGeoch, Devoto left the group after the pre-album single to Magic, Murder and the Weather had failed to chart. Devoto started to write songs during 1982, later making a demo with guitarist Alan St Clair and a drum machine. He also started working with his former Magazine bandmate Barry Adamson. Eventually, Devoto decided to combine the two projects and record a solo album, instead.The album was released in United States on the I.R.S. label, on 26 July 1983.
The first single to be released from the album was "Rainy Season", which was considered by many to be a stand-out track. The song's video was heavily rotated on MTV. On the release of the album it peaked at #57, on the UK album chart. It was eagerly anticipated and widely received by amazing reviews. A subsequent tour in Europe, the United States, and Canada was full of sold out crowds. However, the album's second single, "Cold Imagination", failed to chart as well, and Devoto's solo career was put on hold.
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суббота, 15 октября 2016 г.
The Beat - Bounce (2016)
New album by English legend of ska/pop/soul/reggae/punk music.
Featuring original vocalist Ranking Roger.
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пятница, 14 октября 2016 г.
Stiff Little Fingers - Rockers (Live) (2016)
New live album recorded during the Hope Street tour in 2003 featuring Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton, Steve Grantley and Ian McCallum.
Tracklist:
01. Hope Street (03:30)
02. Straw Dogs (02:56)
03. Wasted Life (02:49)
04. At the Edge (03:02)
05. Barbed Wire Love (04:10)
06. Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae (03:52)
07. Last Train from the Wasteland (04:36)
08. She Grew Up (03:26)
09. Drinkin' again (02:44)
10. Doesn't Make It Right (05:25)
11. Fly the Flag (03:52)
12. All the Rest (02:56)
13. Suspect Device (02:40)
14. Alternative Ulster (03:35)
15. Johnny Was (07:42)
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Rotjoch - Bad boy (1981)
Only LP by great unknown Netherlands power pop band. You must hear it!!!
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четверг, 13 октября 2016 г.
The Punks - 1974-76
“This buch of long-haired youngsters played a loud and powerfull rock’n’roll strongly influenced by Iggy and the Stooges. This album contains the best selection of their rare recordings. KILLER STUFF!!! “A band out to blow your head off; The Punks play in such a gut grabbing manner that your ear bones feel like there getting socked in the jaw and cunnilinguisized at the same time.” (Air-Wreck Genheimer Creem Magazine, september 1976)
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Manual Scan - All Night Stand (compilation)
Forming in San Diego during the late ’70s, Manual Scan was at the forefront of the just emerging mod/garage revival. In that mode, they saw several releases on various labels over the next 12 years that included some great mod/garage/pop originals as well as a few superb remakes of ‘60s classics. This 21-track release compiles a large portion of their recorded output complete with their story, stunning photos and detailed notes on each track. A must for the mod-fan!
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среда, 12 октября 2016 г.
I'm So Hollow - Emotion/Sound/Motion.. (1981)
I'm So Hollow was a post-punk band from Sheffield, England, active from 1978 to 1981. They were part of the Sheffield scene in England, alongside such bands as Clock DVA, Comsat Angels and Vice Versa.
I'm So Hollow played their first gig opening for Clock DVA in Sheffield's Penthouse Club. Their highest profile gig was at the Leeds Futurama festival in 1980. They perform "Touch" in Eve Wood's documentary film Made in Sheffield (2001).
The band appeared on several compilations and recorded a John Peel session in 1980. They released their first and only single "Dreams to Fill the Vacuum" in 1980, and, feeling they had achieved their ambitions with the recording of the albumEmotion/Sound/Motion, split up shortly before its release in 1981.
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The Lambrettas - The Singles Collection. The Best Of The Lambrettas
Compilation of songs by English mod revival band, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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вторник, 11 октября 2016 г.
The Times - This Is London (1983)
The Times are a British indie band, the brainchild of Ed Ball, co-founder member of the Television Personalities, Teenage Filmstars and 'O' Level.
Great power pop/mod material on this LP.
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Fay Ray - Contact you (1982)
Bangor Wales' Fay Ray, named after photographer William Wegman's dog, debuted in 1980 with the 7" single "Family Affairs" (Surey Sound Records) and three live tracks on a 101 Live Letters compilation. They signed to Elektra/Warner Brothers and released "Contact You" in 1982. The record did not sell. A follow-up was recorded but the label pulled the plug and kept the masters. The record was not released and the band broke up. There is a rumor that "Contact You" will be released on CD next year along with bonus tracks. Download it!
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Breeding Ground - Tales of Adventure (1986)
First LP by Toronto band which subscribed to the cold wave mould of acts like New Order's school of rhythm.
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среда, 5 октября 2016 г.
VA - Cutting Edge (1985)
Great Power Pop & Mod compilation.
Tracklist:
1.Purple Hearts - Lets Get A Burger Man
2.The Risk - I Know A Girl
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Rikki and the last days of Earth - 4 minute warning (1978)
Rikki and the Last Days of Earth exploded out of Britain's punk underground in mid-1977, one of the most audaciously forward-looking bands of the entire era, and one whose output screams louder for re-evaluation with every passing year. Four Minute Warning, the band's one and only album, remains one of the most exciting, eccentric, and effervescent LPs of 1978, especially if your musical tastes take the same turning away from primal Diamond Doggerel as fueled the Doctors of Madness and powered the original Ultravox - the same turn, of course, that Gary Numan would develop into a minimalistic art form before the decade was over. In 1978, however, that was about as fashionable as the Twist. Like the Doctors and Ultravox, Rikki and the Last Days of Earth had caught a glimpse of the future. It wasn't their fault that nobody was ready for it.
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Neon Hearts - Popular Music - 1979
Neon Hearts were Wolverhampton's (England) first punk band that had a short lived existence from 1977 to 1981 at the height of the punk movement.
The band was founded in the summer of 1977 by Steve Heart when he quit Birmingham-based Suburban Studs after being told a sax player was inappropriate in a punk band. The initial line up included Steve, his cousin, a bass player called Paul Raven (later Killing Joke), a drummer friend of Paul's, Keith Allen, and Martin Ratcliffe, a guitarist friend of Keith's.
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TC Matic - TC Matic (1981)
Debut by Belgian new wave band. More post-punk like Public Image Limited here, with funky and avant-garde influences.
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Secret Affair - Time for Action... The Best of
Time for Action: The Very Best of Secret Affair lives up to it's title, offering 20 of the band's biggest hits and finest songs.
Secret Affair were formed in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian Page (vocals, keyboards, trumpet), Dave Cairns (guitar), Seb Shelton (drums), Dennis Smith (bass). Page and Cairns had already worked together in the New Hearts and released two singles (Just Another Teenage Anthem and Plain Jane on CBS records in 1977 and 1978 respectively) without success. The New Hearts toured with The Jam but were eventually dropped. Page and Cairns licked their wounds, wrote songs and made plans for the Secret Affair. Shelton (ex-Young Bucks) and Smith were recruited via ads in the music press. During early gigs again supporting The Jam, Secret Affair found a direction in the mod revival which was already under way. They threw away the punk, new wave influences and embraced an updated Tamla Motown beat. If The Jam were accepted by the new mods, they were still essentially a punk band, Secret Affair were loved and adored. They became the spearhead band of the mod revival and surfed its success. The downside was that despite a strong discography and talented songwriters in Page and Cairns, Secret Affair faded and died with the mod revival after only three albums and a fistful of classic singles.
Time For Action, Secret Affair's debut single became mod's anthem and reached 13 in the UK charts. Always desperate not to be left out of any new trend the UK music press courted Secret Affair and numerous front cover features followed. However, already alienated from the music business after their New Hearts experience, much of their early press was abrasive and confrontational. They slagged punk and new wave, bit the hand that fed and became loved and loathed in unequal measures. No bad thing really, eh? Of course, when I say they I mean Ian Page. He became the mouth piece of the band, did most of the talking and gave good quote. The music press became obsessed with him. Whether he liked it or not (and I suspect he liked it quite a lot) Page became spokesman for the mod generation. Maybe because of the alignment to Mod subsequent singles never topped Time For Action's (mod)erate success. Let Your Heart Dance, a fantastic, vibrant, dance tune only reached no. 32 in the UK singles chart. Now with another ex-Young Buck, Dave Winthrop (sax) on board Secret Affair released their debut album, Glory Boys. That this album only made no. 42 in the UK album charts is astonishing. Mod had made more enemies than friends. All that Glory Boys did was herald the mod backlash that followed with venom. Two-tone was the new mod. The press and its sheep had moved on. Oh but what an album. Great songs, big tunes, fantastic, enthusiatic playing but it wasn't enough. Glory Boys is an all-time classic album. This is a fact you might not know. If you don't, just go out and buy it and listen without preconceptions. Don't take the narrow-minded idea that Secret Affair were only a mod band along with you.
So the Secret Affair tale becomes one of almost diminishing returns. The first single of 1980, My World returned them to the top 20 but the follow-up single Sound Of Confusion failed to make the top 40. The second album Behind Closed Doors is not as good as Glory Boys, also failed to set the tills kerchinging and only spent four weeks in the LP chart. Rumours of tension in the band were barely denied and while on tour Cairns was quoted as saying 'Ian Page is no longer spokesman for the band'. He's also quoted as saying he doesn't like the album much. Stories began to leak out that during the making of the album Page and Cairns recorded their parts separately and it later becomes clear that this way of working had continued as the band prepared to tour. Cairns would rehearse with the band in the morning and Page later in the day only meeting each other when on stage. Before the year was out Seb Shelton jumped ship and joined the fledgling Dexys Midnight Runners MkII. "He never drank or smoked and he was always very keen on keeping fit," said Ian Page, "so I'm sure he's very happy there." Paul Bultitude was recruited as Shelton's replacement and Secret Affair headed of to the USA.
On their return and apparently refreshed with much of the legendary tension behind them they began work on their third and final album Business As Usual. The preview single Do You Know crept into the chart at 57 in October 1981 and a second single from the album Lost In The Night released in January 1982 failed to chart at all. Business As Usual was deleted after only 11,000 copies. Barely three months later, unable to shake off the mod-revivalist tag, Secret Affair split, with Dave Cairns eventually re-emerging alongside The Bureau's Archie Brown in Flag.
Like Dexys and The Bureau the makers of passionate music for passionate people are never completely forgotten and in 2002 Secret Affair reformed for 3 reunion concerts. They enjoyed themselves so much that they haven't disappeared altogether and are planning further concerts for this year. A former sax player of theirs says that Page and Cairns are once again best friends, 'It's the rest of them that hate each other'. Oh well, you've got to laugh.
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Satellites - Here Is Today's News (1984)
Punk/new wave album by the UK(?) band Satellites. With producing by Rat Scabies (Damned)
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The Distractions - Nobody's Perfect (1980)
Debut and last album by UK new wave band The Distractions. Following the records's poor sales, the band split in 1981.
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