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.
VS-277 Pressure Zone/ Untouchables (Virgin 20/7/79) | ||
VS-302 Law And Order/ All We're Gonna Get (Virgin 10/79) |
Power pop.
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.
MCA-305 Everyone's A Winner/ Handcuffed (MCA 6/77)
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.
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
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.