70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =La-

Lambrettas/ Clive Langer & The Boxes/ Last Gang/ Last Words/ Laughing Gass/ Le Ritz/ Legendary Luton Kippers/

Legendary Throbs/ Lenny & The Lawbreakers/


LAMBRETTAS

XPRES-23 Go Steady// Cortinas/ Listen Listen Listen

(Rocket 11/79)

comp.)

2.Go Steady on '499 2139'

 

v, g-Jez Bird g-Doug Sanders b-Mark Ellis d-Steve Bray

Mods. Bray replaced by Paul Wincer after the first single. LP= 'Beat Boy In The Jet Age' (TRAIN-10 6/80).

 

CLIVE LANGER & THE BOXES

RDR-2 I Want The Whole World 1.The Whole World 2.Lovely Evening 3.I Know I// 4.Those Days 5.Simple Life

(Radar 1979) -7" & 12"

 

v, g-Clive Langer (ex.Big In Japan, also Illuminations) b-Steve Lindsey (ex.Big In Japan, Secrets 9/78, Planets '79)

k-Ben Barson (also Illuminations) d-Budgie (ex.Spitfire Boys, also Big In Japan, Secrets 9/78, later Slits, Banshees)

back v-Steve Allen (later Original Mirrors), Bette Bright (& the Illuminations)

 

Modern pop new wave. Langer, Lindsey, Allen and Bright are ex.Deaf School. LP= 'Splash' (F-Beat XXLP-2 1980)

w/ different personnel.

 

LAST GANG

GRAD-3 Spirit Of Youth/ Waste It All (Graduate 1979)

John, Rob, Mick

Punk.

 

LAST WORDS

RRCS-2439 Animal World/ Wondering Why (Remand 8/77)

ZS-196 Animal World/ Every Schoolboys Dream (Wizard 2/79)

RT-022 Animal World/ No Music In The World Today

(Rough Trade 10/79) -rec. 6/79

REMAND-2 Todays Kidz/ Theres Something Wrong

(Remand 1979) -rec. 11/79

 

v-Malcolm Baxter g-Andy Groome b-Leigh Kendall d-John Gunn

Hard punk. LP= 'The Last Words' (Armageddon 8/80).

 

LAUGHING GASS

New Tart/ Bandito (Wessex 1979) -2 on LDK33. pub punk.

 

LE RITZ

BS-2001 Punker/ What A Sucker (Breaker 12/77) -both on SSS.

 

v-Steve Midnight g-Chuck Key g-Buss White b-Dick Tater k-Bernie Bolt d-Lofty Brooks

From Birmingham. Punk.

 

LEGENDARY LUTON KIPPERS

Fulham Court EP: No Man's Land/ The Sun Says +2 (Fulham Court 1979)

-1 on PP3/ 2 on LDK22.

Power pop.

 

LEGENDARY THROBS

Dead Popes (Flobs 1979) -listed punk.

 

LENNY & THE LAWBREAKERS

Me And Bobby Magee/ Suzy 'D' (Rip Off 9/79) -1 on BSUK3

From Northern Ireland. Punk.