70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Tr
Trainspotters/ Transmitters/ Trash/ Steve Treatment/ Tremors/ Trend/ Tronics/ Troops/ Tubeway Army/ Tunes/
TV Personalities/ TV Product/ 23 Jewels/ Twilight Zoners/ Twink & The Fairies/ Twist/ 2-3/ 2 Timers
TRAINSPOTTERS
ARIST-290 High Rise/ Rock'n' Roll Hall Of Fame (Arista 1979) -1 on EBM3.
Hiring The Hall (1979) on TT7.
Punk. Mike Read (BBC DJ) on v.
EYE-12 Nowhere Train/ Uninvited Guest/ Persons Unknown (Ebony 1978)
SF-12 The Ugly Man/ The One That Won The War// Free Trade/ Curious (Step Forward 1979) -12"
LP)
EBY-1002 24 Hours (Ebony 3/78)
1.Next Year 2.Photofile 3.No One Goes Out At Nite 4.Last Night 5.One Night Stand 6.Behind My Back// 7.Silent Scream
8.Can't Say No 9.Good News 10.Coma 11.Anymore
v-John F.Quinn g-Mikel Lee g-Vince Cutcliff b-Sam Dodson d, k-Jim Chase
Punk, not hard, not pop.
2058-939 Priorities/ Look (Polydor 11/77) | ||
2059-013 N-N-E-R-V-O-U-S/
Page 3 (Dumb Blondes) (Polydor 4/78) |
Mick Brophy, Keith Oswald Jeyes, Simon Wright, Simon Butler-Smith
Punk.
STEVE TREATMENT
v-Gal Garry g-P.J.Dobbin b-Sneaky Pete Hitchin d-Joey Martin sax-Lord Ted Bunting piano-Jane Vincent
second piano-Terry Butters
Pop new wave.
TREND-001 Teenage Crush (Trendy 1979) on LDK16
TRONICS
T-001 Favourite Girls/ Susie's Vibrator (Tronics 1978)
T-002 Time Off/ Good Bye (Tronics)
TROOPS
Save The Boy (Aura 1979) -listed as pop new wave.
BEG-5 That's Too Bad/ Oh, Didn't I Say (Beggars Banquet 2/78) | ||
BEG-8 Bombers// O.D
Receiver/ Blue Eyes (Beggars Banquet 7/78) -later re-issued as BEG-5 & 8 double pack. |
BEG-17 Down In The Park// Do You Need The Service/ I Nearly Married A Human (Beggars Banquet 3/79)
-7" (w/o 'I Nearly....') & 12"
BEG-18 Are 'Friends' Electric?/ We Are So Fragile (Beggars Banquet 5/79)
LP)
BEGA-4 Tubeway Army (Beggars Banquet 11/78)
1.Listen To The Sirens 2.My Shadow In Vain 3.The Life Machine 4.Friends 5.Something's In The House 6.Every Day I Die//
7.Steel And You 8.My Love Is A Liquid 9.Are You Real 10.The Dream Police 11.Jo The Waiter 12.Zero Bass (Mr.Smith)
-rec. 8/78. Later w/ diff. sleeve.
BEGA-7 Replicas (Beggars Banquet 4/79)
1.Me, I Disconnect From You 2.Are 'Friends' Electric? 3.The Machman 4.Praying To The Aliens 5.Down In The Park//
6.You Are In My Vision 7.Replicas 8.It Must Have Been Years 9.When The Machines Rock 10.I Nearly Married A Human
comp.)
2.Down In The Park on '20 Of Another Kind Vol.2'
v, g, k-Gary Numan(ex. Mean Street) b-Paul Gardiner d-Jess Lidyard
Punk/ Synth. pop. Orig. called Laserr & The Ultimate Gang. Lidyard left after 1st single, replaced by Bob Simons.
Simons soon left, added g-Shaun Burg, d-Barry Benn, released 2nd single. Then back to orig. 3 piece lineup again, 1st LP.
Abondaned the band name 'Tubeway Army' after 2nd LP, then Numan's solo.
TUNES
GO APE-1 The Truth Justice And The Mancunian Way EP: Larger Than Life/ Headlights// My Time/
Last Orders Taken (Rhesus 1979) -12"
v, g-Colin Thorpe b-George Budd k-Anne Webley d-Bernard Nuttall
From Manchester. Pop new wave w/ synth.
SRTS/CUS-77089 14th Floor/ Oxford St. W1 (Teen 7/78) -as Teen '78.
LYN-5976 Where's Bill
Grundy Now?: Part-time Punks/ Where's Bill Grundy// Happy Families/ Posing At TheRoundhouse (Kings Road 12/78) -rec.26/8/78. re-issued on Rough Trade (RT-033 1979). |
Lineup listed on Bill Grundy EP)
v, g, b-N.Parsons v, d-Russ Harty b-B.Forsyth d-H.Green (latter two did not show up.)
Pop punk. Mainly Dan Treacy (=Parsons)'s work w/ help from Edward Ball (=Harty). Also listed 'Woodentops' EP
(GLC), but seems that it never existed. LP= 'And Don't The Kids Just Love It' (Rough Trade ROUGH-24 1980).
Edward Ball formed his own bands, O-Level and Teenage Filmstars, which see.
TAKE-2/4 Nowhere's Safe/
Jumping Off Walls// (Me/ Modern Men by the PRAMS) (Limited Edition 1979) Inside poster sleeve: TV Product. |
v, g-Simon Hinkler (later Artery) v, b-Tony Perrin d-Jess Jespersen
From Sheffield. Alternative punk.
23 JEWELS
TEMP-1 Playing Boghart/ You Don't Know Me (Temporary 1979) -prod. by Clive Gregson (Any Trouble)
v, g-Nick Simpson g-Neil Roberts b-Paddy Russel d-Geoff Powers
From Northhampton. Power pop. 2 more singles in '80/81. g-repl. by Frank McCarthy, b-repl. by Mark Buckle.
TWILIGHT ZONERS
ZEROZERO-1 Zero Zero One: Hospital/ The Wrap// Twister/ The Film (Z.I.P./Dining-Out 1979)
v, g-Gordon Twilight (later Occult Chemistry, White Brothers) v, g-Johnny Limbo (John McGowan) d-William Pew-Evans
(repl. by Justin for 2nd single) v-Gerry v-Martha 'Tilli' Tilson (later A Certain Ratio)
Alternative punk. Disbanded 1980.
TWINK & THE FAIRIES
SW-26 Do It '77 1.Do It 1977/ 2.Psychedelic Punkeroo 3.Enter The Diamonds (Chiswick 1978) -12"
v, d-Twink (ex. Pink Fairies) v, g-Kid Rogers b-Danger Sun k-Fingers Falkner g-Chris Chesney (on 'Punkeroo')
g-Little John (on 'Do It')
TWIST
Ads (Polydor 1979)
This Is Your Life (Polydor 1979)
comp.)
4.Ads 13.This Is Your Life on '20 Of Another Kind Vol.2'
Power pop.
comp.)
8.All Time Low 9.Where To Now? on 'Fast Product-The First Year Plan F-11'
v, g-Paul Bower v, b-Paul Shaft d-Haydn Boyes-Weston
From Sheffield. Alternative punk.
v-John Warnick g-Audie Willert g-Johnny Jones b-George Fury d-Jim Morrison
Power pop. Also listed 'Living For The Weekend/ The Good Die Yooung'.