70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Ma
Machines/ Mad Dog/ Magazine/ Magnets/ Mag/Spys/ Malcolm Practice/ Manchester Mekon/ Maneaters/ Maniacs/
Martian Schoolgirls/ Martin & The Brownshirts/ Bill Mason Band/ Masterswitch/ Andrew Matheson/ Maxim's Trash
MACHINES
EAR-1 True Life/ Everything's Technical// You Better Hear/ Evening Radio (Wax 4/78) -Punk.
MAD DOG
comp.)
4.Killer 5.Someone Here Must Like Me on 'Is The War Over?' -5 on LDK24/TT8.
v-Eddy g-M g-Busby v, b-George d-Tonto
From Cardiff. Hard punk.
VS-200 Shot By Both
Sides/ My Mind Ain't So Open (Virgin 1/78) -A-side= diff. version |
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VS-207 Touch And Go/ Goldfinger (Virgin 4/78) |
VS-237 Give Me Everything/ I Love You Big Dummy (Virgin 11/78)
VS-251 Rhythm Of Cruelty/ TV Baby (Virgin 3/79) -A-side= diff. version
LP)
V-2100 Real Life (Virgin 6/78)
1.Definitive Gaze 2.My Tulpa 3.Shot By Both Sides 4.Recoil 5.Burst// 6.Motorcade 7.The Great Beautician In The Sky
8.The Light Pours Out Of Me 9.Parade -rec. 3-4/78
V-2121 Secondhand Daylight (Virgin 30/3/79)
1.Feed The Enemy 2.Rhythm Of Cruelty 3.Cut-out Shapes 4.Talk To The Body 5.I Wanted Your Heart// 6.The Thin Air
7.Back To Nature 8.Believe That I Understand 9.Permafrost -rec. 1/79
v-Howard Devote (ex.Buzzcocks) g-John McGeoch b-Barry Adamson k-Dave Formula d-John Doyle
Punk/ Modern pop new wave. Org. k-Bob Dickinson left after 1st single. Org. d-Martin Jackson left after 1st LP.
3rd LP= 'The Corrcet Use Of Soap' (V-2156 5/80).
Who's The Fool (Me Or You?) (Hurricane 1979) on LDK32. Power pop.
MAG/SPYS
GLITCH-1 (Yeh Yeh Yeh/ Pussy Wussy by the OBTAINERS)// Lifeblood/ Bombs (Fools Dance 1979) -only 100 copies.
3.4 on EBM2.
v-Gary g-Stuart g-Stuart b-Rick d-Martin
Punk. On Robert Smith's (Cure) own label. Matthiew Hartley (later Cure) once in the band.
MALCOLM PRACTICE
comp.)
4.Kicking Up A Fuss 8.Sex Object on '499 2139'
v, k-Ross Baillie v, b-Dave Pitt + guest d-John Dropik
From Portsmouth. Pop new wave.
MANCHESTER MEKON
NEW-102 No Forgetting// Have A-Go Go/ Jonathan Livingston Seafood (New Market 1979)
comp.)
12.The Cake Shop Device on 'A Manchester Collection'
Instrumental pop new wave w/ keyboard.
MANEATERS
comp.)
4.Nine To Five on 'Jubilee Cert.X'
Punk.
MANIACS
UP-36327 Chelsea 77/ Ain't No Legend (UA 4/11/77)
comp.)
11.You Don't Break My Heart 12.I Ain't Gonna Be History on 'Live At The Vortex'
v, g-Alan Lee Shaw (ex.Rings, later Physicals) b-Robert Crash d-Rod Latter (ex.Rings)
Punk. Org. 4 pieces w/ g-Henry Paul, who later joined the Living Dead, a session band of Johnny Thunders and Sid Vicious.
Paul returned the band shortly before broke up.
RPR-1 Life In The 1980's/ Lonely Nights (Red Planet 11/79)
v, b-Steve Smith g-Steve Burdon d-Paul Olar
Punk. Formed by Dan Kelleher (ex.101'ers). 2nd single= 'Motion/ The La-La Song' (Theme One/ Albion ION-1015 5/81).
Out On The Streets (Kingsway 1979) -on LDK13
LP)
KMR-311 No Sham (Kingsway 1979)
1.Billy & The Rota's 2.Detectives 3.Out On The Streets 4.I Don't Want You 5.Stand Up And Be Counted// 6.Radio
7.I Got The Answers 8.Mr.G 9.Get Inside 10.Last Years -also on US Star Song.
Bill, Dave, Si, Iain
Christian punk.
EPC-6259 Action Replay/ Mass Media Meditation (Epic 5/78)
Power pop.
ANDREW MATHESON
LP) Monterey Shoes (Ariola 1979)
Ex.Hollywood Brats v.
Disco Girls/ Blue Shoes (Gimp 1979) -Punky synth pop.
From Croydon. Pop new wave, featuring Captain Sensible. Just found on LDK4. Also known as the Sunset Boys,
who released a single 'Wreck My Bed// Tutti Frutti/ Copy Cat/ Wreck My Bed (Gimp GIM-1234).