70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Am

Amazing Space Frogs/ Amazoblades/ Anal Surgeons/ Barry Andrews/ Angel/ Angelic Upstarts/ Animals & Men/

Another Pretty Face/ Anti Social/ Any Trouble/ Apartment/ Art Attacks/ Art Failure/ Arthur Comics/ Andy Arthurs/

Arthur 2 Stroke/ Atoms/ Attempted Moustache/ Attic/ Attrix/ Autographs/ Automatics/ Avant Gardner


AMAZING SPACE FROGS

RIB-1 Dirty Habits: (I'm Into) Necrophilia/ Norman And Jeremy/ Nuns Of Destruction (Ribbett 1979) -only 500 copies.

1 on BT1.

 

From Middlesbrough. Punk.

 

AMAZOBLADES

NS-20 Common Truth/ Messaround (Chiswick 11/77)

comp.)

11.Common Truth on 'Long Shots, Dead Certs....'

 

Power pop.

 

ANAL SURGEONS

comp.)

9.Wide Boy on 'Aylesbury Goes Flaccid'

 

Punk featuring sax.

 

BARRY ANDREWS

VS-260 Town And Country: Me And My Mate Can Sing/

Bring On The Alligators// Mousetrap/ Sargasso Bar (Virgin 6/79)

 

Ex.XTC keyboard player. Later joined Iggy Pop's LP '79 and Robert Fripp's League Of Gentlemen '80.

Left two more singles in '80 and '81.

 

ANGEL

Already Gone (Angel 1977) -listed as power pop.

 

ANGELIC UPSTARTS

IS/AU-1024 The Murder Of Liddle Towers/ Police Oppression

(Angelic Upstarts 8/78)

-re-issued on Rough Trade/Small Wonder RT/SW-001 11/78.

K-17345 Flashback/ ---- (WEA 1979)

K-17354 I'm An Upstart/ Leave Me Alone (WEA 1979)

K-17426 Teenage Warning/ The Young Ones (WEA 1979)

K-17476 Never'ad Nothin'/ Nowhere Left To Hide (WEA 1979)

LP)

K-56717 Teenage Warning (WEA 1979)

1.Teenage Warning 2.Student Power 3.The Young Ones 4.Never Again 5.We Are The People 6.Liddle Towers//

7.I'm An Upstart 8.Small Town Small Mind 9.Youth Leader 10.Do Anything 11.Let's Speed 12.Leave Me Alone

-prod. by Jimmy Pursey.

 

v-Mensi g-Mond b-Steve d-Decca

Punk. 2nd LP= 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' (WEA 1980).

 

ANIMALS & MEN

HIT-101 Don't Misbehave In The New Age/ Machines (TW 1979)

Described as Banshees sound. 2nd single= 'The Terraplane Fixation/ Shell Shock'

(Strange Days 1980).

 

ANOTHER PRETTY FACE

Z-1 All The Boys Love Carrie/ That's Not Enough

(New Pleasures 5/79) -rec. 25/3/79

 

v, g-Mike Scott g-John Caldwell b-Jim Geddes d-Crigg

From Edinburgh. Punk/Power pop. 2nd single= 'Whatever Happened To The West/ Goodbye 1970's' (Virgin VS-320 2/80).

 

ANTI SOCIAL

DRO-1 Traffic Lights/ Teacher Teacher (Dynamite 1/78)

From Birmingham. Punk.

 

ANY TROUBLE

PSS-7-165 Where Are All The Nice Girls?/ Yesterday's Love (Pennine 11/79) -reissued on Stiff (BUY-74 2/80).

 

v, g, k-Clive Gregson g-Chris Parks v, b-Phil Barnes d-Mel Harley

From Stokes. Power pop.

 

APARTMENT

comp.)

11.The Alternative on 'Avon Calling'

 

From Bath. Punk. Single= 'The Car/ Winter' (Heartbeat PULSE-7 3/80).

 

ART ATTACKS

TIT-1 I Am A Dalek/ Neutron Bomb (Albatross 3/78)
FRESH-3 Punk Rock Stars/ Rat City (Fresh 1979)

-rec. A-side: 1/3/78 Ricky Slaughter (Motors) on d/

B-side: 18/5/77 Rob Gotobed (later Wire) on d

comp.)

5.Arabs In 'Arrads on 'Street'

6.Animal Bondage 8.Frankenstein's Heartbeat on 'Live At The Vortex'

 

most regular lineup)

v-Edwin Pouncey g-Steve Spear b-M.S. d-J.D.Haney (later Monochrome Set)

Punk. Lasted 4/77-3/78. Pouncey and Spear later formed the Tagmemics.

 

ART FAILURE

VOG-1 Scream Of Pain/ In Vogue (Vague 1979) -rec. 28/5/79.

inside of the fold sleeve.

 

v, g-William Redfern g-Graham Lees b-Tim Fenton Ward v, k-Pat Allen d-Rob Dakin

Punk/Alternative punk.

 

ARTHUR COMICS

comp.)

4.isgodaman? on 'Streets'

 

= the Snivelling Shits.

 

ANDY ARTHURS

TDS-3 I Can Detect You For 1,000,000 Miles/ I Am A Machine (TDS 1978)

 

A producer. Listed as power pop.

 

ARTHUR 2 STROKE

AP-1 The Wundersea World Of Jacques Cousteau/ ('Pocket Money' by the NOISE TOYS)

(Anti-Pop 1979) - w/ WM7.

 

Punk. Later turned to pop w/ R&B outfit, the Chart Commandos, issued two singles (on Satellite 1980 and on Logo 1981)

and one live LP='Arthur 2 Stroke & the Chart Commandos' (A2SCC 1983).

 

ATOMS

R-23 Max Bygraves Killed My Mother/ Beetlejacket (Rinka 1979)

v, piano-Keith Allen g-Keith James g-Photios Demtriov g, b, syn-John Studholme

syn-Sue Gogan d-Roy Dodds

Punk.

 

ATTEMPTED MOUSTACHE

comp.)

4.You're The One on 'The Blank Tapes Volume 1'

 

Alternative punk. Single= 'Superman/ No Way Out' (Skelton SKL-003 1980).

 

ATTIC

ATT-1 Yes I Want To/ We're At War (Attic 1979) -re-issued on Brain Booster BBO-3 1979.

 

Listed as new wave pop. 2nd single= 'All Plans Exist' EP (Brain Booster BB-003 1980).

 

ATTRIX

RB-01 Hard Times/ Lost Lenoré (Attrix 1978)

From Brighton. Punk. (The back cover is same as the front cover.)

 

AUTOGRAPHS

RAK-281 While I'm Still Young/ Fabulous (RAK 1978) -1 on TT7.

 

v, sax-Chris Gent g-Raggy Lewis (ex.Stukas) g-Jim Ward b-Dave Spicer d-Paul Tulley

Power pop.

acetate version of 'While I'm Still Young' on LDK34.

 

AUTOMATICS

WIP-6439 When The Tanks Roll Over Poland Again/

Watch Her Now (Island 1978) -1 on EBM3.

 

v-David Philp g-Wally Hacon b-Bobby Collins d-Ricky Rocket

Punk/Power pop. 'Walking With The Radio/ Watch Her Now' (WIP-6433 4/78) is listed, maybe never released.

 

AVANT GARDNER

VEP-1003 Gotta Turn Back/ Strange Gurl In Clothes//

Back Door/ Bloodclad Boogie (Virgin 8/77)

comp.)

4.Strange Gurl In Clothes on 'Guillotine'

 

v, g-Russel Murch g-Martin Sanders b-Nigel Rae d-Mike Kelly back v-The Griffettes

Weird punk.