Wasted Youth – Bridgehouse Records 1980

Jealousy Baby Wasted Youth were a popular post-punk band between 1979-1982, playing a dark psychedelic bohemian rock. Wearing all black clothes and some in shades and make-up but pre-dating goths, they embodied cool whilst paying homage to their numerous influences from the Velvet Underground to trash-garage bands. In that fertile early post-punk era, Wasted Youth […]

Wasted Youth – Bridgehouse Records 1980

I’ll Remember You My Friends Are Dead Another great release from Wasted Youth (search this site for other Wasted Youth material). This session produced by Only One, Peter Perrett just after a tour with The Only Ones had been completed. A slight 1960’s feel to the tracks released on this record, which gives the band a little more […]

Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night – Richard Cabut & Andrew Gallix / No Future: Punk, Politics And British Youth Culture 1976 – 1984 – Matthew Worley

PUNK IS DEAD: MODERNITY KILLED EVERY NIGHT Co-edited and including essays written by Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix, this original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret – back in the garage, when the cult still had no […]

Various – Something Stirs (The Dead Mourn The Living) LP – Adventure In Reality Recordings 1984

Attrition – Something Stirs / Pain / The Beginning Of The End – The Furious Apples– Ajmer / Almost The Truth / Girl On Fire Bourbonese Qualk – Stop The City / Sunset Sex / Invocation – The Legendary Pink Dots – Jungle Vinyl release on a mainly cassette format label, four chunks of dark-wave from some […]

RICHARD CABUT – THE ‘LOOKING FOR A KISS’ NOVEL AND OTHER LITERARY WORKS

  Looking For A Kiss – PC-PRESS.   A story of two lovers, Robert, and Marlene, who’s love has long faded. The story is mostly based in the early eighties, in and around the London of that period, a London that is now largely gentrified. The story seems to float around in a dream-like state […]

Flowers In The Dustbin – Cold Harbour Records – 1986 / Kansanturvamusiikkikomissio – Barabbas Records – 1985 / Rod Taylor & Prince Hammer – Little Luke Records – 1979 / Four Came Home – Passion Of Ice – Wounded Knee Records – 1986 / Satta Massagana – Abyssinians / Dillinger / Bongo Herman / Prince Far I / Diatribe – Criminal Damage Records – 1984

Flowers In The Dustbin Single Flowers In The Dustbin Single Flowers In The Dustbin Album Flowers In The Dustbin Album  In the early to mid-1980’s, Flowers In The Dustbin, were one of my favourite bands and I would go out and witness performances whenever I possibly could. The All The Madmen Records 12″ single ‘Freaks […]