70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing
DAMNED
BUY-10 Neat Neat Neat// Stab Your Back/ Singalong Scabies (Stiff 2/77)
DAMNED-1 Stretcher Case Baby/ Sick Of Being Sick (Stiff 7/77) -freebie at gigs
BUY-24 Don't Cry Wolf/ One Way Love (Stiff 12/77)
SGS-105 Love Song/ Burglar (Dodgy Demo 1979)
CHIS-112 Love Song// Suicide/ Noise Noise Noise (Chiswick 1979) -re-issued as NS-75
CHIS-116 Smash It Up/ Burglar (Chiswick 1979) -re-issued as NS-76
CHIS-120 I Just Can't Be Happy Today/ Ballroom Blitz (Chiswick 1979)
LP)
SEEZ-1 Damned Damned Damned (Stiff 18/2/77)
1.Neat Neat Neat 2.Fan Club 3.I Fall 4.Born To Kill 5.Stab Your Back 6.Feel The Pain// 7.New Rose 8.Fish
9.See Her Tonite 10.One Of The Two 11.So Messed Up 12.I Feel Alright -prod. by Nick Lowe
SEEZ-5 Music For Pleasure (Stiff 11/77)
1.Problem Child 2.Don't Cry Wolf 3.One Way Love 4.Politics 5.Stretcher Case 6.Idiot Box// 7.You Take My Money
8.Alone 9.Your Eyes 10.Creep (You Can't Fool Me) 11.You Know -prod. by Nick Mason
CWK-3011 Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick 11/79)
1.Love Song 2.Machine Gun Etiquette 3.I Just Can't Be Happy Today 4.Melody Lee 5.Antipope 6.These Hands//
7.Plan 9 Channel 7 8.Noise Noise Noise 9.Looking At You 10.Liar 11.Smash It Up (Part 1) 12.Smash It Up
comp.)
11.New Rose on 'New Wave'
6.Help on 'Hits Greatest Stiffs'
4.Help 9.New Rose on 'Heroes & Cowards'
1st gig at 100 Club 6/7/76. Added g-Lou Edmonds 7/77. Rat replaced by Dave Berk (Johnny Moped Band) 10/77,
then by John Moss (London) 1/78. James left and disbanded 2/78.
Captain formed the King, Rat formed Rat Scabies Band w/ Eddie Cox (ex.Chelsea), Lou and Moss formed the Edge.
v-Dave, g-Captain, d-Rat + b-Remmy (Motorhead) played some gigs as Les Punks 9/78.
Reformed as the Doomed 1/79, w/ b-Henry Badowski (ex.Chelsea, later Good Missionaries), soon replaced by
Algy Ward (ex.Saints). 4th LP= 'The Black Album' (CWK-3015 10/80).
Captain Sensible & the Softies released a single:
POS-15077 Jet Boy, Jet Girl/ Children Of The Damned (Poker 7/78) -Holland and Germany only
Magic Michael featuring Rat and Captain appeared on comp LP:
5.Little By Little on 'A Bunch Of Stiffs'. And released a single 'Millionaire/ My Friend' (Atomic 1980) w/ Algy.
There's a single by a band called the Tartan Horde, 'Bay City Rollers We Love You/ Rollers Theme'
(Liberty/UA UP-35891 1975). It is said that this was produced by Nick Lowe, and Rat Scabies played the drums.