the BBC observes | the GLC protests

tottenham high road. after Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. ▼ WIRE: REUTERS from “Pink Flag” LP (Harvest EMI) 1977 (UK)

augustus pablo swaby paints

kingston, 1976, photographer unknown. Overtaken by a weakness to bludgeon the house senseless with a royal flush of dubs, the bleachers echo with the whisper of melodica. From 10PM to 5AM, its disinfected concrete steps slump tiredly. A stomach emptied. Hosed down with cobalt blue.  Tubular rails faintly thrumming.  A late August cough nudging silver

newtown #1 | take two

That is thing with new towns. Architectural interventions. Less than ten years on, the paint is worn; the litter and graffiti proliferates. Thirty years on, and the third generation has evolved its own indecipherable mother tongue.Postscript On 19th September, 1977, Arianna Forster, Viv Albertine, Paloma Romero, and Tessa Pollitt – collectively The Slits – recorded

subject to alteration

▼ WIRE: MR. SUIT from “Pink Flag” LP (Harvest EMI) 1977 (UK)

archived radiation

▼ PERE UBU: CHINESE RADIATION from “The Modern Dance” LP (Blank) 1978 (US) ▼ PERE UBU: SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY from “The Modern Dance” LP (Blank) 1978 (US) UBU PROJEX: BUYER’S GUIDE TO PERE UBU

tricky fingers: bring me the dub glove of bunny lee

Bunny Lee’s succinct dub take on Dillinger’s “No Business” – ranked “Mind Your Own Business” on “Talkin’ Blues” – from side two of the Weed Beat issue of “Ranking Dellinger: Superstar“. Sans vocal, and quite possibly all the sweeter.Featuring The Aggrovators. Recorded at Channel One. Remixed and engineered at phase two of King Tubby’s Home

spoiler alert: channel one for the road

here’s to early retirement. and ukuleles. And not a G-Man from here to the border. “This set was voiced at King Tubby’s studio in may [1977] for producer Bunny Lee. I was lucky enough to be at Tubb’s on one of the nights, Bunny arrived in his rather beat up yanky [sic] car with Dillinger,

the dub that would not die

#LPIR 0001.“an i far an i… a toot’ far a tooth…”Resurrected. From the excellent Trojan 2007 remasters, originally mentioned here; issued on the twin CD, “Ape-Ology“. To what extent Scratch utilized the engineering skills of Osbourne Ruddock or Jammy on this is subject to dub-ate. King Tubby would revisit Super Ape on “A Noisy Place”

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Released on March 25, 1977. From Elizabeth Arden to the seedy Riviera. Disturbed at the prospect of terminal promotion into white collar drudgery, Declan Patrick MacManus signs with Jake Riviera’s fledgling independent, age twenty-two. The leap from computer data entry – in an era when IBM had not yet tipped the scales in its war

import and export

king’s road, 1977. opposite lloyd’s bank. Produced by Micky Foote and The Clash. ▼ THE CLASH: POLICE & THIEVES from “The Clash” LP (CBS) 1977 (UK)

agitator in the house

not much cop at nuffink but stealin’, bo. Well. They could not police a tantrum in a kindergarten. But they are alarmingly proficient at robbing both tenant and taxpayer blind. Produced by Lee Perry. Written by Lee Perry and Junior Murvin.Covered by The Clash. ▼ JUNIOR MURVIN: POLICE AND THIEVES from “Police And Thieves” LP

stars on 45: if we haven’t done what we could have done, we’ve tried

500 copies with silk screened 3 colour ‘Beatles’ jackets. No plastic wigs. A Day In The Life • The End • Money • Tell Me What You See • God • The Beatles 3rd Christmas Record • Can’t Buy Me Love • Tell Me Why • I Am The Walrus (backwards) • Blue Jay Way

the ghost of christmas stooge

Well. Never let it be said, Mr. Devlin. While this may not be the song you were hounding me for, I had to put on my reading glasses regardless just to procure the label for a Sunday scan. And put aside the solvents. I hope you are satisfied. Alone again or a different form of

busboy blues

A cautionary tale, and an unusual stab at fusion from producer Bunny Lee which left everyone involved with undressed wounds in the back and sundry infections. At some point in 1977, Lee invited guitarist, Carl Harvey – born in Jamaica but raised in Toronto, Canada – to collaborate on an ill-considered production involving the reinterpretation

something borrowed, something new

seasonal greetings from SibLINGSHOTConsidering Glasgow’s climate is generally temperate, it was cold; -2℃ this morning when I stepped out to purchase some essential supplies. My decision to decline a carrier bag for the 2 litre carton of milk straight out the refrigerator was ill judged at best. By the time I fidgeted the key back

the lazy earl of wessex

Annotated as an “outtake”on the 2002 repackage, I can hear nothing here differing significantly from their definitive LP version. The most recent accession, of course, to the Dukedom of Wessex is none other than ‘our’ Prince Edward; a tiresome brat harboring melodramatic delusions of grandeur. A dribbling imbecile racing from one knockout to the next.

pal joey and the queens mafia

Anyone with half a heart will guess immediately from just checking in on yesterday’s 1974 post what this is all about. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, NYC in the very same year, our holey knock-kneed stick insects concocted the perfect antidote to all which was sick and rotten in the state of detritus. A simple

white line fever #1

“undertakers to the industry – if they’re dead – we’ll sign ’em”. A curiosity. From the early compilation – SEEZ 2 – from 33 Alexander Street, London W2; that original little shop of horrors. An entirely different take to the one which made its way onto their debut LP on Chiswick. Lemmy: bass, vocals; Eddie

after the stooges…

above and below: 1970. camp, subjects and photographers unknown. Hey Keith ? I never got to summer camp as a kid. It is – or was – a uniquely American phenemonon.However. This is as close to a soundtrack, short of Charlie Brown, as is feasible. ▼ THE DAMNED: I FEEL ALRIGHT from “Damned Damned Damned”

a teardrop explodes

who ate all the pies ? dig•i•tal•is |ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪlɪs|nouna drug prepared from the dried leaves of foxglove and containing substances (notably digoxin and digitoxin) that stimulate the heart muscle. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from the modern Latin genus name of the foxglove, from digitalis (herba) ‘(plant) relating to the finger,’ from digitus ‘finger, toe’ ; suggested