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

Record Players/ Records/ Red Letters/ Red Lights/ Reducers/ Reels/ Regents/ Reluctant Stereotypes/ Reptile Ranch/

Resistance/ Rest/ Restricted Hours


RECORD PLAYERS

WRECK-001 (AERE-1104) Double C Side (Wrecord/Aerco 8/78)

M.O.R./ Don't Go Backwards// Wrong Song/ Ignore Us

WRECK-2 Don't Give An Inch/ Squirmin' In The Vermin// 67/ Parasite City (Wrecord 1979)

comp.)

6. M.O.R. on 'Business Unusual'

 

From Ramsgate. Power pop. 4 pieces. Also listed LP= 'Record Players' (Wrecord GULP-1).

 

RECORDS

NB-2 Starry Eyes/ Paint Her Face (No Bad/Virgin 11/78)

VS-247 Rock'n' Roll Love Letter// Wives And Mothers Of Tomorrow/ Starry Eyes (live) (Virgin 4/79) -7"

(w/o 'Starry Eyes') & 12".

VS-250 Teenarama/ Held Up High (Virgin 5/79)

VDJ-29 High Heels EP (Virgin 6/79) -bonus 12" EP of 1st LP.

Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)/ See My Friends// 1984/ Have You Seen Your Mother Baby

(Standing In The Shadow)

LP)

V-2122 Shades In Bed (Virgin 6/79)

1.Girl 2.Teenarama 3.Girls That Don't Exist 4.Starry Eyes 5.Up All Night// 6.All Messed Up And Ready To Go 7.Insomnia

8.Affection Rejected 9.The Phone 10.Another Star -rec. 2-4/79.

 

v, g-John Wicks g-Huw Gower b-Phil Brown d-Will Birch

Power pop. Wicks and Birch= ex.Kursaal Flyers. 2nd LP= 'Crashes' (V-2155 6/80).

Starry Eyes (German Virgin 1979)

 

RED LETTERS

CPS-025 Sacred Voices/ Shot In The Dark/ Science Has The Answer (Burning Bing 1979) -rec. 9/79.

 

From Newtongrange, Scotland. 3 pieces punk.

 

RED LIGHTS

Never Wanna Leave/ Seventeen (Free Range 1978) -1 on LDK21.

comp.)

7.Never Wanna Leave on 'Farewell To The Roxy'

Punk.

 

REDUCERS

VR-001 Limited Edition EP: Things Go Wrong/ We Are Normal

(Vibes 4/78)

VR-003 Man With A Gun/ Vengence/ Can't Stop Now (Vibes 1979)

 

v-Raggy F.C. g-Roy Tynan b-Stuart Lyons d-Graham Barstow

From Lancashire. Punk. 3rd single 'Airways' (EMI 1980).

 

REELS

DOOR-003 Prefab Hearts/ Spot The Ridge

(Back Door/ Phonogram 1979)

Pop new wave. sounds like E.Costello.

 

REGENTS

TEB-111 7 Teen/ Hole In The Heart (Rialto 16/11/79)

 

Power pop. More single= 'See You Later' (Arista ARIST-350 1980).

 

RELUCTANT STEREOTYPES

OVAL-1013 The Lull// The Rounds/ Fetch Mr.Clifford/ The Political Boys're On Us (Oval 1979)

 

From Birmingham. Reggae new wave.

 

REPTILE RANCH

Z-2 Animal Noises EP: Henry/ Saying Goodbye// Young Executive/ Ice Blue (Z Block 1979)

comp.)

9.Waterhole on 'Is The War Over?'

 

v, g, violin-Spike b, stuff-Philip John v, k, clarinet-Simon Smith

From Cardiff. Alternative.

 

RESISTANCE

GAT-413 Kidnapped/ Say No To The Macho (Maquis 1979)

-rec.11/78

 

v, g-Mark Damron b-John O'Leary v, k-Ian Reid d-Martin Saunders

Pop new wave. singing like E.Costello.

 

REST

SSR-1 Carnival (Shooting Star 1979) -power pop.

2nd single= Raga/ My House (Shooting Star SSR-2 1980).

 

RESTRICTED HOURS

SRAR-1 Getting Things Done/ Still Living Out The Car Crash// (One Way Or Another/ I Want To Be Somebody

by the SYNDICATE) (Rock Against Racism 1979)

 

v-Mark g, b-Alan syn-Gordon

From Stevenage.