Crass – Glasshouse – May 1984 / Alternative TV – Deptford Fun City Records – 1977 / Demob – Round Ear Records – 1981 – 1982 / The Astronauts – Bugle Records – 1979 / Exit Stance – E.S Records – 1984 / Screaming Dead – Dead Records – 1982

Crass – Glasshouse – May 1984 Indebted to Nick Comfylux for supplying me with this audio that he recorded at the back of the hall of Crass performing their last ever concert in London, and indeed one of the last performances. Below are snippets of memories for two gigs from Tristian ‘Stringy’ Carter. Crass at […]

Alternative TV – Deptford Fun City Records – 1977 / 1978 / 1979 / 1980

For the last two or three days several kindly folks have reminded me of Alternative TV. I have uploaded a fair chunk of Alternative TV material onto KYPP already over the years, as well as just about all the material that was released and available on both the vinyl and cassette formats that Mark Perry […]

Alternative TV – Deptford City Fun Records – 1978

Release The Natives / Serpentine Gallery / Poor Association / The Radio Story / Facing Up To The Facts  The Good Missionary / Graves Of Delux Green / Smile In The Day Uploaded today is Alternative TV’s moody and atmospheric second LP, which I think is rather wonderful and is dedicated to Mark Wilson, late of The Mob whose birthday it […]

Alternative TV – Deptford Fun City Records – 1977

How Much Longer You Bastard How Much Longer Alternative Version You Bastard Alternative Version    Two versions of the debut hard vinyl  7″ single by Alternative TV, that makes four gloriously great songs in all. Go on count them! It was the old, old story. Bored bank clerk falls in love with punk rock, writes […]

Alternative TV – (Red Ronnie’s Bazar) Nice Records – 1978

Graves Of Duluxe Green / Alternatives To Normal Eating Habits Knights Of The Future (Fellow Sufferer) Inspired by a comment by Nic recently about the rising cost of D.I.Y. records, here is one record of the genre which is as rare as Arsenal Football Club winning trophies in a season. This record, which I hope will be […]

Toxic Graffity, Throbbing Gristle, Alternative TV

Alternative TV, Throbbing Gristle, Toxic Graffity(Sue Catwoman and Psychic TV) In the spring of 1980 Mike Dibbol of Toxic Graffity fanzine journeyed from Tunbridge Wells to London Fields in search of Throbbing Gristle. After drawing a blank at their Martello Street ‘Death Factory’ studio, he met up with the group on Beck Road. Sadly for […]

Here And Now / Alternative TV – Deptford Fun City Records – 1978

Here And Now – What You See Is What You Are / Dog In Hell / Addicted Alternative TV – Action Time Lemon / Going Round In Circles / Fellow Sufferer / Splitting In Two A little snippet of the ‘free tour’ by ATV and Here And Now, with many different support acts around the […]

Alternative TV / The Good Missionaries – Scars On Sunday – Fuck Off Tapes – 1979

ALTERNATIVE TV – Nasty Little Lonely / Release The Natives / The Radio Story / Lost In Room / Fellow Sufferer / The Force Is Blind / The Good Missionary / Total Disregard For The Greenwich Theatre GOOD MISSIONARIES – Bottom Of The World / The Good Missionary Goes For A Walk / The Morning They […]