The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 – 1987 / Blood And Roses – Kamera Records – 1983 / Tribesman – Boa Records – 1979 / Peter Tosh – Intel HIM Diplo Records – 1973 / Crass – Aklam Hall – 1979

The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 1 The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 2 ‘It’s All Done By Mirrors’ released on All The Madmen Records was the first album by The Astronauts that I bought. I retrospectively bought the debut album ‘Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs’ shortly […]

Flowers In The Dustbin – Freaks – 1983 / The Mob – Greek radio interview – 2012 / Getting The Fear – demo cassette – 1984 / Blood And Roses – Remastered cassette – 1982 / Zos Kia & Coil – Berlin Atonal – 1983 / Attack Punk Records – 1982 – 1984

A KYPP catch up on recent You Tube posts that have been published recently. Folk that know me, know of my fondness for Flowers In The Dustbin, at one point in time my favourite band from that scene! Shambolic performances and some wonderful vinyl released. Indebted to Gerard for the informative text below from the […]

Blood And Roses – Life After Death Cassette – 96 Tapes – tracks remastered by Bob Short

A new post and a KYPP exclusive. Blood And Roses, personally one of my favourite bands from the early 1980’s. Bob Short is currently working on a new Blood And Roses album with Lisa. Hopefully it’ll come together but it involves passing recordings from Bob to Lisa across continents. Part of the process has been […]

The Apostles / Faction / Blood And Roses – Scum Tapes – 1982

The Apostles – The Silent Truth / The Young Ones / Absolution Of Guilt / The Stoke Newington Eight / Hyde Park – Faction – Fuck Faction / Hello Mark / Tomorrow Belongs To Mark / Nazi Baby / Subversive Mark / Substandard / Realisation – The Apostles – Some Men Are Born / A Social Disease […]

Blood And Roses – 96 Tapes – 1983

Side One (Tracklisting on sheet above) Side Two (Tracklisting on sheet above) This cassette only release from 96 Tapes, based at 96 Brougham Road in Hackney was amongst my favorite cassettes of the time. I played this cassette over and over and over on a cheap hand held mono tape player, carried it around with me everywhere. It has survived quite well considering…. […]

Blood And Roses / Blyth Power – Ambulance Station, London SE1 06/04/85

BLOOD AND ROSES – Assault On Precinct 13 / Your Sin Is Your Salvation / Breakdown / Some Like It Hot / Possesion / Tomorrow / The Tower Falls / Roles / Louie Louie / Strychnine / Search And Destroy / Spit On Your Grave / Wanna Be Your Dog / Love Under Will BLYTH […]