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

Ken Liversausage/ Living Daylights/ Colin Lloyd Band/ Llygod Ffyrnig/ Local Operator/ Lockjaw/ London/ London SS/

London Zoo/ Longport Buzz/ Long Tall Shorty/ Lene Lovich/ Low Numbers/ Lucy/ Lurkers/ Luxury Item


KEN LIVERSAUSAGE

comp.)

12.Roll Me Up on 'Aylesbury Goes Flaccid

 

Pop new wave.

 

LIVING DAYLIGHTS

CUS-523 Heart Stop EP (E.S.R. 1979) -4 track EP. 'Personality Changes' on PP9.

 

From Exeter. Punk.

 

COLIN LLOYD BAND

comp.)

Badly Bruised, Slightly Stoned on 'Badly Bruised, Slightly Stoned' LP (De Wolfe 1978). -on LDK35.

Punk. The band was the Plain Characters.

 

LLYGOD FFYRNIG

PWDWR-1 N.C.B.// SAIS/ Caraid Y Bus Stop (Pwdwr 2/78)

comp.)

5.N.C.B. on 'Labels Unlimited'

 

v-Dafydd Rhys g-Hywel Peckham g-Garry Beard b-Pete Williams d-Julian Lewis

Welsh punk. Began 12/77.

 

LOCAL OPERATOR

VS-277 Pressure Zone/ Untouchables (Virgin 20/7/79)

-inside of the open cover sleeve.

VS-302 Law And Order/ All We're Gonna Get (Virgin 10/79)

 

Power pop.

 

LOCKJAW

RAW-8 Radio Call Sign/ The Young Ones (Raw 11/77)

RAW-19 Journalist Jive// A Doong A Doong A/ I'm A Virgin (Raw 1978)

 

v-Bo Zo g-Micky Morbid b-Andy Septic d-Oddy Ordish

Punk. b-Simon Gallop (later Cure) joined on 2nd single.

 

LONDON

MCA-305 Everyone's A Winner/ Handcuffed (MCA 6/77)

MCA-319 Summer Of Love/ No Time// Friday On My Mind/

Siouxsie Sioux (MCA 1977) -7" & 12"

MCA-336 Animal Games/ Us Kids Cold (MCA 1977)

LP)

MCF-2823 Animal Games (MCA 1978)

1.No Time 2.Animal Games 3.Reaction 4.Everyone's A Winner 5.Summer Of Love// 6.Us Kids Cold 7.Young

8.Good-Looking Girls 9.Out On The Skids 10.Speed Speed 11.Swinging London

comp.)

12.Animal Games on 'Meet The New Punk Wave'

 

v-Riff Regan g-Dave Wright b-Steve Voice d-John Moss (later Damned, Edge)

Punk.

Summer Of Love(German)

Animal Games (Dutch)

   

 

LONDON SS

Formed 2/75 by Mick Jones (Clash) and Tony James (Generation X). Other members incl.= Brian James, Rat Scabies

(Damned), Paul Simnon, Terry Chimes, Nicky Headon (Clash), Matt Dangerfield, Casino Steel (Boys). Split up 1/76.

Never played a gig, no recordings left.

 

LONDON ZOO

ZUM-12 Receiving End/ London Zoo (Zoom 1979) -rec. 6/79

 

g-Robert Sandall g-Nick Aldridge b-Ed Shaw d-David Sinclair

Power pop. Don't who is the singer. 2nd single= 'Who's Driving This Car' (Gramaphone STB-80 1980).

 

LONGPORT BUZZ

BUZZ-13 Canterbury Pop EP: I'm In Love With You/ The Daughters Of Frenchmen/ If I Was A Jewess/ Dreamland

(Canterbury Pop 1978)

SWAG-14/BUZZ-14 Fun/ Who Is He? (Criminal/Canterbury Pop 1979)

 

Power pop. Some accoustic pop on 1st EP.

 

LONG TALL SHORTY

K-17491 By Your Love/ 1970's Boy (Warner 1979) -rec. 8/79

 

v-Keith Mono g-Tony Perfect g-Stewart England b-Jimmy Grant d-Mark Reynolds

Mods. Formed in 8/78 from the ashes of a punk band, Ben E Dorm and the Tourists. Initially called the Indicators

w/ Perfect on v, g, Grant, Reynolds. Mono joined 10/78. Jimmy Pursey persuaded them to change the band name to

Long Tall Shorty. Grant and Reynolds left 2/80, new d-Grimbull joined and Perfect on b. 2nd single 'Win Or Lose/

Ain't Done Wrong' (Ramkup CAC-007 11/81) w/ some more member changes. Perfect joined Angelic Upstarts later.

 

LENE LOVICH

BUY-32 I Think We're Alone Now/ Lucky Number (Stiff 7/78) -avail by mail order

BUY-35 Home/ Writing On The Wall (Stiff 1978) -listed, but said to be never released.

BUY-42 Lucky Number// Home/ Lucky Number (Instrumetal) (Stiff 2/79) -7" (w/o B-2) & 12"

BUY-46 Say When// One Lonely Heart/ Big Bird (Stiff 5/79) -7" (w/o B-2) & 12"

BUY-53 Birdsong// Trixi/ Too Tender (To Touch) (Stiff 9/79) -7" (w/o B-2) & 12"

BUY-63 Angels// The Fly/ The Fall (Stiff 1979) -7" (w/o B-2) & 12"

LP)

SEEZ-7 Stateless (Stiff 10/78)

1.Lucky Number 2.Sleeping Beauty 3.Home 4.Too Tender (To Touch) 5.Say When// 6.Tonight 7.Writing On The Wall

8.Telepathy 9.Momentary Breakdown 10.1 In A 1,000,000 11.I Think We're Alone Now

 

v, sax-Lene Lovich v, g, syn-Les Chappell v, b-Ron Francois k-Nick Plytas (ex.Roogalator, TRB) syn-Jeff Smith

v, d-Bobbi Irwin

Pop new wave. Lene and Chappell= ex.Diversions. Both joined Oval Exiles w/ Jimmy O'Neill (Fingerprintz).

2nd LP= 'Flex' (SEEZ-19 1/80).

 

LOW NUMBERS

K-17493 Keep In Touch/ Nine All Out (Warner Bros. 1979)

 

Punk. Prod. by Jimmy Pursey.

 

LUCY

BCS-0008 Really Got Me Goin'/ Oy! (Lightning 1977) -2 on EBM3.

GIL-516 Never Never/ Feel So Good (Lightning 1978) -1 on BSUK1.

 

Punky hard rock.

 

LURKERS

Lurkers

 

LUXURY ITEM

NIIM-1 Trade/ Brenda Cries Her Eyes Out (GTF 12/77)

 

on A-side) v-Dez Brennan g-Scott Lidbetter g-Ronnie Paris b-Brenda Dee d-Graham Broad

on B-side) v, g-Paris g, b, syn-Dee d-Richard Burgess

Pub punk.