70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Th

They Must Be Russians/ Thieves Like Us/ 3rd Men/ Three Party Split/ Those Naughty Lumps/ Johnny Thunders/ Thursdays/

Tickets/ Tights/ Tiller Boys/ Tinopeners


THEY MUST BE RUSSIANS

RUS-001 Nagasaki's Children/ Nelli The Elephant//

Circus/ I Want To Hold You Now (white label 1979) -rec. 3/79.

 

3 pieces from Sheffield. EP prod. by Cabaret Voltaire and 'Nagasaki...' is the very Cabs' electronic sound.

'I Want To Hold...' is the only pop punk tune on this EP, on which Haydn Boyes-Weston (2-3) plays drums.

 

THIEVES LIKE US

PX-1093 Stick Up For EP 1.Do It For The Rest Of Your Life 2.Murder In New York

3.Touch Your Love (artist's label 1979)

 

g-Tim Barron g-Barry Mizell (repl Tony Oxley) b-Mike Meredith k-Chris Stoner d-John Parrish (repl Paul Bringloe)

Power pop. 2nd single= 'Mind Made/ Strike Out' (Earlobe ELS-1 1980).

 

3RD MEN

SCH-001 You're So Fashionable/ The Robot Age (School 1979) -1 on LDK18. Power pop.

 

THREE PARTY SPLIT

BCS-16 Dubious Parentage/ Kandidate (Quicksilver/B&C 1979)

Punk. 1 on TT6. Also listed 'Insane' (BCS-19).

 

THOSE NAUGHTY LUMPS

CAGE-002 Iggy Pop's Jacket/ Pure & Innocent (Zoo 1/79) -1 on LDK26.

comp.)

3.Iggy Pop's Jacket on 'Labels Unlimited'

 

1980 lineup) v-PM Hart g-Bream g-Bobby Carr v, b-Martin Cooper (replaced David Boyle) d-Kev Wilkinson

Formed '77 in Liverpool. Punk. 2nd EP= 'Down At The Zoo' (Open Eye OE-EP-1002 1980).

 

JOHNNY THUNDERS

ARE-1 Dead Or Alive/ Downtown (Real 5/78)

ARE-3 You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory/ Hurtin' (Real 9/78)

LP)

RAL-1 So Alone (Real 10/78)

1.Pipe Line 2.You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory 3.Great Big Kiss 4.Ask Me No Questions 5.Leave Me Alone//

6.Daddy Rolling Stone 7.London Boys 8.(She's So) Untouchable 9.Subway Train 10.Downtown

 

Ex.New York Dolls, Heartbreakers. Guest musicians on LP= Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) Paul Cook (Sex Pistols)

Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) Peter Perrett (Only Ones) Mike Kellie (Only Ones) Paul Gray (Eddie & The Hot Rods)

Steve Nicol (Eddie & The Hot Rods) Walter Lure (Heartbreakers) Billy Rath (Heartbreakers) Pat Palladin (Snatch)

Steve Marriot (Small Faces) Henri Paul (ex.Maniacs) Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) John Irish Earle, Steve Lillywhite,

Koulla Kakoulli

 

THURSDAYS

comp.)

3.(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay 4.Perfection on 'Earcom 2' -rec.16/6/79

 

v, b-Paul Reekie g-Michael Barclay d-Robert Wylie

Based Leslie/ Kinglassie. Formed Summer '78. Alternative punk.

 

TICKETS

BHS-3 I'll Be Your Pin-up/ Guess I Have To Sit Alone

(Bridgehouse 1979)

comp.)

6.Get Yourself Killed on 'Farewell To The Roxy'

 

v, g-Ken Scott v, b-John B.McGeady d-Andy Scott

Punk.

 

TIGHTS

CHERRY-1 Bad Hearts// It/ Cracked (Cherry Red 5/78)

CHERRY-2 Howard Hughes/ China's Eternal (Cherry Red 9/78)

comp.)

9.China's Eternal on 'Business Unusual'

 

v-Malcolm Orgee g-Robert Banks b, k-Barry Island d-Rick Mayhew

Punk.

 

TILLER BOYS

ORG-3 Big Noise From The Jungle// Slaves And Pyramids/

What Me Worry (New Hormones 1979) -rec. 1/79

 

Eric Random, Pete Shelly (Buzzcocks), Francis Cookson

Experimental punk.

 

TINOPENERS

I'm Not Your Type (Logo 10/79) -on BS3. From Northern Ireland. Punk. Also listed 'Set Me Free' (Logo).