The Dyaks - Gutter Kids demo

"Gutter Kids" (1977, Bonaparte Records) fairly rocked the house, as we all know, and cos we're just kinda that way inclined it's always nice to hear blueprints and sketches, right? Here's the original Pathway Studios "Gutter Kids" demo, recorded three months earlier than the single version in July '77. The development from this chug to the later, er, chug, is fascinating - it's like hearing the 'Smile' out-takes, and quite how Brian pieced together "Good Vibrations".

The image above is taken from an A4 glossy promo folder, with a nice o.g. Dyaks badge on top.

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Homosexuals -isksp piggybag post

The very nice isksp blog just posted a Homosexuals record. Not just any Homosexuals record, but one of my favourites. And just to show that I haven't completely melted into a heatwave puddle and seeped through the floorboards causing a big stain the colour of one of those 'cowboy' Postcard sleeves on the living room ceiling below (yeah, thanks for all the mails and cards of concern), I thought I'd just quickly chime in with a reminder that I have this one for sale:

Homosexuals - Bigger Than The Number… 7" Black Noise ex-/ex 60
1981 UK new wave

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The Vacants - Punk Rock

Came out pretty much everywhere except Blighty, I know. LPs all over the shop, but this is the only cassette release I've found so far. Now, I know... cassettes, right? But this is The Vacants: original London punk rock group. Can't say no to that. Plus, it's in Dobly. German release, Teldec label.

I don't have one of these (or even the 'normal' LPs) for sale, but I do have one of these:


Vacants - Television Viewer 7" Low Down Kids ex/ex 30
lathe-cut special of 1977 UK punk album track

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The Escorts - Bingo

An eBay sale for this one was spotted and highlighted by Rupert over at the Turntable Revolution blog. There's good info on the band at the boredteenagers site, but for them as who might want to actually hear the fucker click here.

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The Colours - Dierdre Is An Artist

Colours - Dierdre Is An Artist 7" See Saw ex/ex 60
Great 1980 UK post-punk; like the TVPs mixed with Dislocation Dance and Joy Division

This is one the records listed in the old Small Wonder catalogue helpfully/sadistically posted here, on the Worthless Trash blogspot. In May 1983, the family Stennet would've insisted you fork a whopping 50p for it.

One of the comment-ers on the posting says "I too bought many of these back in the day, so looking at the list doesn't cause a great deal of pain!". Which is all well and good. Happy for you, Tom, and I'm not really complaining cos it was in Small Wonder that I forked the princely quid for my first copy of the Voice Of The Puppets single, but still... you know? 50p for the 'Shish' EP... it's not fucking helpful, James, is it??!?

(By the way - apologies for the no-post since Thursday. I was out, having one of them 'lives' I've heard people talk about. And since then I've been having one of those 'hangovers' of which I've heard mention. Plus, it's like the black hole of Calcultta in the record/computer room right now, and I can barely be in here long enough to type to the end of a sentence.)

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SA55 - Compromised

Hmmm, nice SA55 p/s.
But wait:

SA55- COMPROMISED- 7" 1982 VERY RARE UK POWERPOP

Item number: 160342192733

Listing says "never released in p/s"... but hang about, let's see that again:

I hope the buyer's not going to be too unhappy.

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Left Hand Drive - Jailbait

I found this gig poster in a cupboard. Nice, isn't it? So then I dragged this one hot-foot to the turntable:

Left Hand Drive - Jailbait 7" Bancrupt -/vg+
1977 rare punk/rock; never in p/s

from 45 Revolutions:
1- JAILBAIT
2- MOTORWAY CROW
11/77- Bancrupt Rec. BECK-611 no ps - 7”
Note: A-side and B-side labels are reversed on some copies.

Martin Harney (v), Jack Swann (gtr), John
Brassett (b/v, ex-Leather Jerkins/Tarsus/Windlord)
and Tommy Kerr (d), hailing from the
Milton Keynes/Stevenage area, began performing
as Left Hand Drive in 1975. The band –
in a completely different line-up fronted by
Garry Tyla (v, later with the Tyla Gang) – were
active a few months earlier: it’s likely that Jack
Swann was the only surviving member of the
original incarnation. After three years of live
performances, Left Hand Drive made their
vinyl debut in November 1977 on their own
label Bancrupt Records. The A-side JAILBAIT
is a surprisingly strong offering in an Eddie
and The Hot Rods vein, although the tune is
reminiscent of Golden Earring’s Hard Rock
hit RADAR LOVE and there are some slight
pre-NWOBHM overtones. The flip, MOTORWAY
CROW, starts with a riff à la Steve Jones
riff and has a catchy chorus which is Punk
enough to make the 7” worthy of interest to
Punk/New Wave collectors. Although pressed
in an edition of 1,000 copies, the single was
sparsely distributed and nowadays rarely turns
up.

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