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ARC078 - Release date March 2009
Track 1 …….‘P.L.H. euro terra 11’
Track 2…… ‘ Dig A Hole’
Track 3……’ Johnny Pulled On His Motorcycle Boots’
Track 4……’ I Am The King’
Track 5……‘ O.K.Brutus Sta-pressed Power’
Track 6……’ Peggy Lee Sups Scarlets Wine’
Track 7……’ Faster Pussycat Blues’
Track 8……’ Spank Spank’
Track 9……’ Twitchin For What The Nighttime Brings’
Track10…..’ Can’t Stop’
Track 11….’ Young Man Afraid Of His Horses’
Y … Bristol was ripe for a plucking … but refused to listen until
now!
And only now because the Massive Attack road crew are willing to
sponsor
THE HEAD STORY ON ICEGareth Sager nee (Hank Sinclair) was first seen pouncing about,
strumming,blowing … and plonking with Bristol’s …very own
’Out of bounders’ The Pop group and quickly put all that behind
him only to pop up again, half way down the M4 doing very much the same
thing with the free-forming Rip Rig and Panic.
Nicky (noodle) Shephard nee (Candy Horsebreath) was first sighted in
proto-punk vehicle The Cortinas,frightening the beards, beads and loon pants off of the piss poor bands that were “Making the scene” in 1976 …
Where as Rich Beale nee (Clevedon Pier) washed up into the
harbour, to make his first stage appearance with the little known . little talked
about but of no little interest 4P1V, they had a female bass player,
henceforth theV.
Mark Taylor nee SMT, was found wandering in a daisychain, deep in
darkest Blaize Castle . hoping to catch sight of a young left winger Jamie Hill
(Plastic Bag) crossing deep balls into the box … for legendary downs league team, The Cotham Globetrotters …
Mr Sager amassed the troops at a public telephone box … in Stokes Croft
to rehearse … and with much ado about nothing HEAD (formally On Me
Head Jim) …Came out kicking against the shambling anorak pop and ‘The Face’ all
trousers and no talent stuff . that was poisoning the airwaves in 1986…
They walked a thin line of happy slap electrical guitar tunes with near
hysterical singing about as far ranging subjects as the barber in Clevedon, ‘Raymonde’,
to preparing sandwiches for their rock n roll picnics.
All anyone could say was “Are they serious?… ‘Is this cool?; ‘Should we be doing this sort of thing?²’…” Where¹s my mum ? I want to go home.
For their sins they released three albums:
SNOG ON THE ROCKS
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS
INTOXICATER
None of which are remotely available now …
For the second of these albums they were joined by Will Ng nee (6 Pack o
Chicken) … as Jamie went in search of help…and on Intoxicator they were joined by Cheese Jackson … to this day the only member who is still a professional musician playing cruise ships in the Caribbean.
This collection of tracks have been amassed from found demo tapes of previously unreleased material, hidden behind radiators down the sides of sofas etc.
“We find the boys in fine form before they were to quote Mr Pier,
A ‘underworked, and overpaid.”
DIG IT !!
Line Up:
Clevedon Pier aka Rich Beale vocal
Hank Sinclair aka Gareth Sager guitar and keyboards
Candy Horsebreath aka Nick Shephard guitar and backing vocal
S.M.T aka Mark Taylor bass
PLASTIC BAG aka Jamie Hill drums
Production by HEAD
thanks also to WILL NG…..JONATHAN SEAL….AND SOOTY
THE STINGRAYS
‘The Stingrays Live At The Dugout ’77: The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping’
ARC077 – Release date March 2009
Track 1…….’Can’t Stop’
Track 2…….’ Domination’
Track 3…….’ Lobotomy’
Track 4…….’ Empty Room’
Track 5…….’ Assassin Of Youth’
Track 6…….’ Unfair Distribution’
THE PIGS
‘1977’ – ARC079 – Release date to be confirmed
Track listing:
Track 1…….’Psycopath’
Track 2…….’ Youthanasia’
Track 3…….’ Ran Me In’
Track 4…….’ National Front’
Track 5…….’ They Say’
Track 6…….’ Exploitation’
Track 7…….’ General Election’
Track 8…….’ Nuclear Disarmament’
Track 9…….’ Personality Change’
Track 10……’ Give It Ball’
Track 11……’ They Shoot Horse Don’t They’
All songs written by Kit Gould except Track 11 by Racing Cars
Recorded at Sound Conception Studios, Bristol, August 12th 1977
Eamonn McAndrew Vocals
Kit Gould Guitar, Vocals
Nigel Robinson Bass
Ricky Galli Drums
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