Party Day - Glasshouse (1985)

Party Day were a goth/indie rock band formed in 1982 in Wombwell near to Barnsley, originally a four-piece consisting of guitarists Martin Steele, Greg Firth, bassist Carl Firth and drummer, Mick Baker. Their sound was described as being "hard knuckleduster goth with post-punk overtones".

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The Professionals - What In The World (2017)

35 years later, the band formed from the ashes of the Sex Pistols by Paul Cook and Steve Jones is back. The band proudly release their new album What In The World on October 27th 2017, on Automaton Records.

The album is authentic and solid throughout and, as the band state: “We’re not breaking any musical boundaries – we’re doing what we do best. From the heart with energy and integrity.”

The Professionals are joined by a stellar cast of guest guitar players including original member Steve Jones (who plays on three tracks). Duff McKagen (Guns ‘n’ Roses), Mick Jones (The Clash), Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Marco Pirroni (Adam & The Ants), Chris McCormack (3 Colours Red) and Billy Duffy (The Cult) also join the party.

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The Micronotz - 40 Fingers (1986)

It seemed like I had been hearing of the Micronotz (formally the Mortal Micronotz) for decades before actually encountering any of their records. That changed a few months ago when a used copy of 40 Fingers materialized at a price I couldn't refuse. By the time this Lawrence, KS tribe got around to recording the album in question, original mouthpiece Dean Lubensky was out of the picture, and in his stead arrived one Jay Hauptli whose gruff and tumble vocal aplomb takes some getting used to (if at all). 40 Fingers is steeped in period Midwest punk and hardcore, searing and vigorous at best and a bit routine at worst. The Micronotz were regulars at Husker Du's Zen Arcade, dropping more than a few tokens into tuneful, riveting slots like "Black and White" and "Fall Down." Elsewhere the quartet veers in the vicinity of Naked Raygun, Rifle Sport, and to a lesser extent White Flag. Several records preceded 40 Fingers, and in 1995 two posthumous digital collections preserved the bands work, though I'll be damned if I can find them.

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Rexy - Running out of time (1981)

Originally released in 1981 and long since out of print, the singular LP from London based pop duo Rexy entitled ‘Running Out of Time’ for a long time now has been the holy grail for fans of British New Romantic leftfield pop.

Meeting in the heady milieu amongst London’s ‘Blitz Kids’ scene, which in 1979 brought a dash of much needed colour to another wise grim and gray capital – hot on the heels of the election of Margaret Thatcher and sanitation strikes – fashion student ‘Rex’ Nayman and Eurythmics band member Vic Martin formed Rexy after bonding over a shared affinity for maverick pop music and creatively flamboyant DIY clothing fashions.

Running Out of Time (ROOT), was a ten-song LP of idiosyncratic, catchy synth-pop, which was released in 1981. Whilst songs like the title track explore the same territory marked out by the band’s first single, the album isn’t just confined to an intimacy of subdued post-punk. Pieces like the almost instrumental, Nervoso, and Alien display the band’s proficiency at creating propulsive, large-scale pop productions, the songs’ swirls of glistening keyboards and fast-paced hi-hat hits coming across like ‘70s disco outfit Space produced by French pop guru Jean-Claude Vannier.

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Fashion - Product Perfect (1979)

There are two versions of Fashion. This is the first version with singer/guitarist Luke James. The music at this time is a kind of scarce art rock. A synthesizer is used, but not to create a wall of sound as the later Fashion did. Luke's voice is unique.

And there are two versions of this lp. The second version included the single Steady Eddie/Killing Time, but is without Burning Down. And some titles were in French (v?r? stylish). I made a combination of the two and added a song from the I.R.S. greatest hits vols.2 +3 sampler I had on a cassette tape.

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Jo Broadbery & The Standouts - 1980 - S/T

Technically, Jo Broadbery and the Standouts was originally released in 1980 on Virgin Records, and was labeled and credited to an entirely different music entity, Local Operator.  Under that original guise, the album had a proper title, Pushing Out the Poets, which didn't carry over when it was reissued with thoroughly new sleeve art.  I don't have the scoop on why such a drastic alteration was called for, but my guess is that the label wasn't satisfied with the "optics" of the Local Operator version of the record, and thought that they could better market the group with Jo posing on the album jacket. 

In a nutshell, this adeptly penned power pop album delivers in spades.  It's heavy Elvis Costello slant serves not so much as the end, rather a durable means for Broadbery and Co. to build on.  Super tight arrangements and the hooks are nothing to sneeze at either.  The aforementioned sophomore record, House of Love proved to be the group's final offering, and tragically, Jo would pass away in 1987 at a relatively tender age.

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Wild Billy Childish And CTMF - Brand New Cage (2017)

Brand new album from Billy Childish’s CTMF!

“The punk was in me and it had to come out, You mite try to dismiss me as dockyard lout, but I never sort fame – I came to glory by a different rout”
Billy Childish – ‘The Punk Was In Me (And It Had Come Out)’

“We’re like a cherry tree in the garden that nobody can be bothered to scrump cos it has slightly undersized fruit which has not been standardised for a supermarket. But we’re the real thing and the jays and the crows like us.”

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back with their fifth album in five years. Brand New Cage follows the critically acclaimed SQ1 album from 2016. It features 10 new Billy Childish songs along with two written and sung by the band’s bassist Nurse Julie. Subjects include lost landmarks of ’70s Chatham, the true revolution of punk, spirituality, lost loves and the sidelining of Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones.

Some of the tracks have already been featured in the first double session on BBC 6Music, this was a track a night on the Marc Riley & Gideon Coe shows in July 2017 (Now released on a 10” LP – catalogue number DAMGOOD485). The sleeve art features a photo of an 18-year old Billy taken in a King’s Cross photo booth in September 1978. – “I used to cut these tribal marks into my cheeks every few weeks with a razor blade. I was really interested in African tribal scars, and I knew they had ash in there so I would rub cigarette ash in – very painful! I’m actually dressed there the most dangerous way you could be, as a punk rock teddy boy. The teds didn’t like you wearing any ted gear.I’ve got a leopardskin waistcoat, bootlace tie and my hair flat. You had 40 year old men that would glass you. We’d go see Bo Diddley in ’70s and we’d dress a little bit ted. I was on a few death lists locally with teddy boys.”

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Raxola - Guts Out (2017)

A new album by belgian punk legend Raxola, recorded their debut in 1978, when split up in 1980, and reformed in 2003.

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Pere Ubu - 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo (2017)

Fronted as ever by David Thomas, Pere Ubu unveil their new album, 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo, which opens the doors of the avant-garage to reveal the hardworking mechanics hammering away at the fundamentals of blue-collar rock. 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo will be released on Cherry Red Records on Friday 29th September 2017.

A three-guitar revision sees Keith Moliné, Gary Siperko and Kristof Hahn (The Swans) expand the established orchestra of analog and digital synths (Wheeler, Gagarin), clarinet (Boon), drums (Mehlman) and Thomas’ unique vocals.

20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo follows their 2015 release Carnival of Souls, which was widely praised by the media and used by cult series ‘American Horror Story’ in Season 4.

David Thomas: “The new album is The James Gang teaming up with Tangerine Dream. The Chinese Whispers methodology we worked on the last two albums has been replaced by the Dark Room. Put musicians in a lightless room and by feeling one small section of an unknown object have them figure what it must be.”

The album was recorded and mixed at Suma, Painesville Ohio. Engineer Paul Hamann, and his father before him, have been part of almost every Pere Ubu album since 1976.

Pere Ubu will be on tour with the new album later this year in the USA, with a full European tour and further USA dates in 2018.

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