Hysteria Ward – All The Madmen Records – 1987 / The Fall – Chaos Tapes – 1982 / John The Postman – Bent Records – 1979 / Getting The Fear – Demo – 1984 / Something Stirs – Adventures In Reality Recordings – 1984 / Rudimentary Peni – Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Hall – May 1982

Hysteria Ward flexi-disc For a full history of Hysteria Ward there is no better place to start than this special Kill Your Pet Puppy post HERE which is well worth reading through. Side 1 Side 2 This performance by The Fall was recorded on the 11th December 1980 and was the first in a two […]

Rudimentary Peni – London Musicians Collective Camden London NW1 – 20/05/82

Blind Dogs / Dead Living / B-Ward / Zero Again / Inside / Media Person / Sacrifice / Only Human / Teenage Time Killer / The Gardener / Hearse / Tower of Strength / Dutchmen Indebted to Nick Hydra for sending this material over to Penguin Towers, a Rudimentary Peni performance to go along with the […]

Rudimentary Peni – Ludwick Hall, Welwyn Garden City – 28/05/82

Inside / Teenage Time Killer / Sacrifice / B-Ward / Mice Race / Blind Dogs / Dead Living / Subdued Violence / The Gardener / Hearse / Only Human / Media Person / Farce / Cosmetic Plague / Tower Of Strength Dutchmen Another blast of vintage Peni for you to listen to, this time at […]

The Mob – Let the Tribe Increase: An essay by Al Puppy

The text below was written in 2010 for the sleeve notes for the re-release of ‘Let The Tribe Increase’ album that was released on Overground Records. Catalogue number – OVER122LP / CD TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY ‘PENGUIN’ IN 2019  “We are not afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. […]

Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths: An essay by Al Puppy

Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths Legend has it that when Tony D first saw Jeremy Gluck of The Barracudas, he was carrying a surfboard down an escalator at Holborn tube station in 1978. The Barracudas were a surf-punk band, celebrating early sixties California in late seventies London. They even had a hit in (?) with ‘I Want […]

Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Alternative Mixes – 1981 / Rema Rema – 1978 & 1979 – Inflammable Material Records – 2014 & 2015 / The Snipers – Crass Records – 1981 / Colin Conflict and Steve Ignorant Discuss The Brixton Academy Gig 1987 / Honey Bane – Sounds Weekly Music Paper Interview – 1983 / Nox Mortis – Demo Cassette Tape – 1987

Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Mix 1 Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Mix 2 Presenting two mixes of Annie Anxiety’s ‘Cyanide Tears’. Both mixes are from the original Southern Studio recordings. The song ‘Cyanide Tears’ is intense, and both mixes are altered enough to be worthy of inclusion on this YouTube post. The […]

The Cravats – Overground Records – 2016 – Penny Rimbaud Memories – 2016

Anyone who has had even a vague love of punk music over the last thirty five  years will know The Cravats or, at least, be aware of their existence. Championed by John Peel with four sessions, releases on Small Wonder and Crass; the sax-riddled, bass-laden weirdness, the humour, the love of Dada and the infamous […]