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.

 

MAGAZINE

VS-200 Shot By Both Sides/ My Mind Ain't So Open

(Virgin 1/78) -A-side= diff. version

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).

 

MAGNETS

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.

 

MARTIAN SCHOOLGIRLS

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).

 

MARTIN & THE BROWNSHIRTS

GIL-507 Taxi Driver/ Boring (Lightning 3/78)

Punk.

 

BILL MASON BAND

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.

 

MASTERSWITCH

EPC-6259 Action Replay/ Mass Media Meditation (Epic 5/78)

 

Power pop.

 

ANDREW MATHESON

LP) Monterey Shoes (Ariola 1979)

 

Ex.Hollywood Brats v.

 

MAXIM'S TRASH

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).