CYANIDE PILLS - 'WHEN I'M WITH YOU'

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• DAMGOOD651 - 7"

  5020422065178

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A very limited 7” from CYANIDE PILLS. Just to be difficult, the Cyanide Pills wanted to release a new single at the same time as releasing their complete singles album, so, yes, this limited 7” features two new tracks NOT featured on their new double LP/CD ‘Singled Out’ Cyanide Pills released their first 7” single ‘Break It Up’ in 2009, following it up with a further 14 fab 45s, the most recent being a split single with Switzerland’s Nasty Rumours early last year. Most of these releases featured exclusive non-album B-sides which we’ve rounded up for Singled Out. Good to have them in one place innit! All tracks were recorded at the Billiard Room in Leeds with producer Carl “Razorblade” Rosamond.

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A ? WHEN I'M WITH YOU

B ? NOTHING CHANGED

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CYANIDE PILLS - 'SINGLED OUT'

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• DAMGOOD648LP - 2xLPs

  5020422064812

• DAMGOOD648CD - CD

  5020422064829

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On gatefold sleeve double colour vinyl (blueish & cherry red)or one shiny CD! Thirty-three tracks! Rounding up all the band’s 7” single releases to date! That’s all their A- and B-sides! Includes two soon to be released singles, one which will appear as a free 7” with the next issue of SAFETY PIN MAGAZINE. The other as a very limited-edition lathe cut 7”. To excite/annoy completists there will be third (standard) 7” released at the same time, featuring an A and B-side that don’t appear here. Cyanide Pills released their first 7” single ‘Break It Up’ in 2009, following it up with a further 14 fab 45s, the most recent being a split single with Switzerland’s Nasty Rumours early last year. Most of these releases featured exclusive non-album B-sides which we’ve rounded up for Singled Out. Good to have them in one place innit! All tracks were recorded at the Billiard Room in Leeds with producer Carl “Razorblade” Rosamond. “Influences? Hmm well, we don’t just listen to punk rock, neither did the early bands because there wasn’t any” said lead singer Phil speaking with Vive le Rock magazine in 2023. “We like the usual suspects obviously, our favourites are the Belgian band The Kids, X-Ray Spex and Buzzcocks. We like Satan’s Rats, The Tours, Knots, The Fingers, Panic, Kleenex, Crime, The Terrorways, Victims, Wipers, The Briefs, The Spits, The Plugz, Bad Nerves, Nasty Rumours, stuff like that, loads of stuff, Syd Barrett, The Kinks, MC5, Stooges, Bowie, Ruben and the Jets, Kim Fowley, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf. The list goes on and on and on.”

Tracks

1 ? Break It Up

2 ? Suicide Bomber

3 ? Conquer The World

4 ? Up Against the Wall

5 ? Johnny Thunders Lived in Leeds

6 ? Where Did It Go?

7 ? Apathy

8 ? Waiting (For You to Call Me)

9 ? Government

10 ? Big Mistake

11 ? Just For You

12 ? The Kids Can?t Be Trusted with Rock ?n? Roll

13 ? Hope You?re Having Fun

14 ? Falling For You

15 ? Amalia

16 ? Second Best

17 ? Mail order Bride

18 ? Stick ?em Up

19 ? Black Lightning

20 ? Diagnosis

21 ? Lying Low

22 ? Shallow

23 ? Lock Up

24 ? Conspiracy Theory

25 ? Hooked on You

26 ? Hit It

27 ? My Baby?s Become a Right Wing Extremist

28 ? I?m Celebrating

29 ? Do You Wanna Know?

30 ? Don?t Tell Me Everything?s Alright

31 ? I Don?t Wanna Dance

32 ? My Mind?s on Strike

33 ? New Love

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - 'KEEP MOJAVE WEIRD EP'

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• DAMGOOD645 - 7"

  5020422064577

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An American-themed four-song EP featuring ‘Keep Mojave Weird’ taken from the band’s House On Fire album plus three exclusive non-album tracks! Released on the same day as House On Fire (the band’s first new album in over three years), this EP is partly inspired by a recent US visit. Alongside ‘Keep Mojave Weird’ it also features a Bo Diddley-esque cover of Chuck Berry’s ‘Memphis Tennessee’, a new version of ‘Wile E Coyote’, and a brand-new instrumental called ‘Thaypo Fuel Station’. Here’s Billy with the story behind the EP’s title track… “’Keep Mojave Weird’ is a tune about the road trip I took with my family to the Southwest in 2025. It mentions three UFOs which I saw over Pioneertown, the lone phone box they've got in the desert, The Mojave Indians weaving Blue Flax, and Captain Beefheart’s liking of Bo Diddley, all nodding to The Seeds. (Sky Saxon once told me that Thee Headcoats played the way The Seeds should have.)” Billy Childish 2026

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1. Keepn Mojave Weird
2. Memphis Tennessee
3. Wile E Coyote
4. Thalypo Fuel Station

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - 'HOUSE ON FIRE'

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• DAMGOOD644LP - LP

  5020422064416

• DAMGOOD644CD - CD

  5020422064423

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It’s been three long years since CTMF’s last studio album, 2023’s Failure Not Success, and now they’re back with a brand-new record! House On Fire finds them firing on all cylinders and dare we say it – they’ve never sounded finer! The album features remixed versions of their covers of The Saints’ ‘Untitled’ and The Yardbirds’ ‘Shapes of Things’ (both previously only available on limited edition 7” singles), along with twelve original new recordings. Also released on the same day is a four-song 7” EP (DAMGOOD645) featuring ‘Keep Mojave Weird’, taken from the album, plus three exclusive non-album tracks.

Tracks

The Magpie's Flown
Shapes of Things
Bridge Burner
Trafalgar
Beneath You Touch
Traces of You
Untitled
Keep Mojave Weird
Blues That Kills
House On Fire
Have You Seen the Devil?
A Surprise to You (No Surprise to Me)
The Rope Puller
Searching from the Losing Place

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MEKONS / HAGAR THE WOMB - 'SPLIT SINGLE'

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• DAMGOOD643 - 7"

  5020422064379

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LIMITED EDITION YELLOW VINYL – SPLIT 7″ A lovely split 7” with two of our favourite bands Mekons and Hagar The Womb, more soon. Hagar sleeve design & Illustration by Lorna Tiefholz HAGAR THE WOMB – FARE DODGING WITH THE MEKON’S RIDER (3 BEERS & A LEMON): Fare Dodging with the Mekon’s Rider came into being after we supported our all-time favourite band the Mekons a few years back in Brighton. Unlike the Hags, they had a bountiful rider including a bowl of fruit topped by a very splendid lemon. When it came to us making a mad dash for the train back to London, Ruth sneaked three beers from the Mekon’s rider into her bag and then found she couldn’t leave the lemon! Imbued with lawlessness, we bunked the train after being told we couldn’t board it as we had the wrong tickets. We finished the beers before it left the station, but reader – that lemon was never consumed. A sorry end to the citrus but in this song celebrating our evening’s gains, it will never be forgotten. This song emerged shortly after beer 3 was downed. MEKONS – OUT OF DESPERATION (LUXURY CHICKEN SONG): “A luxury chicken is something very special and unique and of great value. It is also a hand-painted Mekons T-shirt with a chicken smoking a cigarette on it. Hagar the Womb are very special and unique and of great value and I’m glad they didn’t really split up that night at the Hawley Arms even though they stole our rider.” JON LANGFORD 2025

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A MEKONS - Out Of Desperation (Luxury Chicken Song)
AA HAGAR THE WOMB - Fare Dodging With The Mekons Rider (3 Beers And A Lemon)

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INDIGNATION MEETING - 'MURDER ON THE SANTA EXPRESS'

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• DAMGOOD640 - 7"

  5020422064072

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Indignation Meeting present ‘Murder On The Santa Express’, a brand new song recounting the seasonally appropriate tale of a disgruntled railway worker. Over the catchy punky riff and sing-along chorus, the reluctant Father Christmas recounts his experience on the annual Santa Specials, his frustration mounting until the saying “it was murder...” moves from clichéd metaphor to grim reality. ‘Murder...’ is the single’s naughty side; to lighten the mood a little, the nice side ‘Christmas Train’ is a new rendition of Indignation Meeting’s oldest song, written when main man Peter was just seven years old! The new single is available from Damaged Goods Records from the 5th December 2025, both digitally and on coal-coloured 7” vinyl (OK, that’s black!) with full-colour insert. This is the second single from Indignation Meeting following on from ‘That Leeds Feeling’ (Self-released 2023), with the albums Trouble In The Shed (2023) and A Model World (2024) also available on all formats.

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1 Murder on The Santa Express
2 Christmas Train

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THE COURETTES / THEE HEADCOATEES - 'CHRISTMAS (I CAN HARDLY WAIT) / SANTA CLAUS'

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• DAMGOOD639 - 7"

  5020422063976

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A split 7” single on red or green vinyl! This is a limited-edition Christmas 2025, double ‘A’ sided special 7” edition celebrating two of our favourite Christmas tunes of the last 30 years. The Courettes present a remixed version of their classic, long deleted 7” ‘Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait) and Thee Headcoatees, who’ve just returned with a brand-new album after a 26-year gap, have the other side with their version of The Sonics’ ‘Santa Claus’ complete with Billy Childish intro. It’s available on two different colours, Xmas tree Green and Rudolph’s nose Red. Both tracks are also available in their original forms on our ever-popular Christmas compilation – A Damaged Goods Christmas Gift To You (DAMPUD567LP)

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JOHNNY MOPED - 'MATINEE ACOUSTIC LIVE AT THE PRINCE ALBERT'

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• DAMGOOD636LP - LP

  5020422063617

• DAMGOOD636CD - CD

  5020422063624

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On 16th March 2025 Johnny Moped played two sets at The Prince Albert in Brighton. In the afternoon they played an acoustic set. They had a quick break for some fish, chips and ice cream before playing a full electric show in the evening. The afternoon acoustic set was recorded for a live album which we now present to you! So here they are – Johnny Moped stripped-down in all their glory playing a selection of their most-loved tracks! The vinyl LP is pressed on random colour eco vinyl. There will also be a special mail-order only bundle set complete with three badges, two stickers, a poster, and a special Johnny Moped (un) knotted hankie!

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THEE HEADCOATEES - 'MAN-TRAP'

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• DAMGOOD635LP - LP

  5020422063518

• DAMGOOD635CD - CD

  5020422063525

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If you had an uneasy feeling that 2025 would somehow be the year of Thee Headcoatees, then give yourself a hearty handshake – for surprisingly, ’tis true! We can indirectly blame the passing of our dear departed Great Ribbon, Mr Don Craine, for instigating a regurgitation of Thee Headcoats back in 2022. Ostensibly booked to record a tribute EP as Thee Headcoats Sect – featuring Don’s fellow Downliner-in-Chief Keith Grant Evans – the chaps found they had a few extra hours to fill in the studio, so they figured they may as well record a new Headcoats album, too. And why not? This materialised, with minimum fuss, as Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) on Damaged Goods in 2023. Come late 2024 and before you could unravel a deerstalker ribbon the chaps were at it again, and another new Headcoats LP was “in the can”, originally scheduled for release earlier this year. HOWEVER, somewhere along the line, some bright spark pointed out, “Why should the boys get all the fun? How about giving those Sisters of Suave, Thee Headcoatees a look in, too?” Utilising all the masculine wiles at their disposal, Thee Headcoats / Damaged Goods suaveness and charm machine shuddered into action. Through sheer determination and tenacity, one-by-one, Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie and Holly Golightly were dragged kicking and screaming (the things they do best) out of the woodwork to lay down the 14 killer-diller cuts found on this, their latest long-playing release, the cunningly titled Man-Trap. That’s no mean feat! 

Tracks

1. The KKK Took My Baby Away
2. Man-trap
3. Signals of Love
4. The Double Axe
5. Modern Terms of Abuse
6. Becoming Unbecoming Me
7. Paint It, Black
8. Walking On My Grave
9. Jim Bowie
10. Sex and Flies
11. He's Gonna Kill That Girl
12. Fire in the Mountains
13. I Can't Find Pleasure
14. The Money Will Roll Right In

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TRELANE AND THE SQUIRES OF GOTHOS - 'MARY MARY'

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• DAMGOOD634 - 7"

  5020422063471

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We first met Trelane in 2267 AD whilst on a supply mission to the Beta VI colony. Trelane was young, courageous, dressed in calf length moccasins - claimed to be the ex-property of one Peter Tork - a stupidly long-fringed cowboy jacket and 'hip' pants. 'You cats dig The Monkees?' Quired Trelane. 'Of course,' we replied. 'Groovy,' laughed Trelane, 'I name you cats The Squires of Gothos. Got a harpsichord?' 'No, sorry.' 'Don’t worry, I'll conjure one up - and here's a studio. Now for Pete's sake stop fooling around and let's record!' And so it was, and here is the result. Dig!!!

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THEE HEADCOATS - 'THE SHERLOCK HOLMES RHYTHM & BEAT VERNACULAR'

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• DAMGOOD633LP - LP

  5020422063310

• DAMGOOD633CD - CD

  5020422063327

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“The undisputed kings of garage rock” * are back once again! Two years on from their 2023 album Irregularis (The Great Hiatus), Thee Headcoats are back with a new record that ranks alongside the very best of their 1990s albums. We proudly present to you The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ’n’ Beat Vernacular. Featuring 12 fab cuts (or ditties, if you prefer) recorded last year at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester. The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ’n’ Beat Vernacular will be released on the same day as Man-Trap, a brand-new album by Thee Headcoatees, which features the chaps on rhythm section duties.

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THE MILKSHAKES - 'FOURTEEN RHYTHM & BEAT GREATS'

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• DAMGOOD632LP - LP

  5020422063211

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“From the opening rasp of “SEVEN DAYS” to the dying chimes of “WO’ NOW”, the frenzied beat goes on. Even the more subdued tracks are given that unmistakable MILKSHAKES brand, pointing to THE MILKSHAKES being the undeniable leaders of world beat!” It says here. Following on from the imaginary international success of their debut album “Talking Bout… “ and the 45 “It’s You” c/w “Please Don’t Tell My Baby”, the Milkshakes decided to squander what little money they had left on another long-player. The result was the cleverly-titled, if slightly boastful-sounding, “Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats”. Indeed, if you close your eyes and unplug the record-player, all 14 – count ’em (next time you open your peepers) – finely-crafted tunes on this LP could almost qualify as “great”, depending on where you stand, musically. I recommend just around the corner, out of earshot for best results. Featuring such live favourites as “Black Sails In The Moonlight” and Red Monkey”, the general consensus was that this was THE MILKSHAKES’ finest work to date (ask them yourselves). That must be partially true, as London’s prestigious Big Beat Records figured it was good enough to reissue on their very own prestigious Big Beat record label – twice. But that was 40-odd (yikes…!) years ago, so please try and control your excitement and form an orderly queue… although the sooner they sell out, it can be repressed – yet again – with the blue masthead. - Hasty Bananas

Tracks

SIDE A
1 Seven Days
2 Black Sails (In the Moonlight)
3 Exactly Like You
4 A Girl Called Mine
5 Sad Girl Mambo
6 I Want You
7 Cadalina

SIDE B

1 No-One Else
2 I Need No-One
3 You Did Her Wrong
4 Can You Tell Me
5 Red Monkey
6 Take You Home Tonight
7 Wo' Now

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HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - 'LOOK LIKE TROUBLE'

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• DAMGOOD630LP - LP

  5020422063013

• DAMGOOD630CD - CD

  5020422063020

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Brand new studio album! Features ten new original songs! Look like Trouble features ten new original songs all offering Holly’s unique look at life and reflecting its many ups and downs. “‘Black Tongue’ is a melodic hex” says Holly, “feel free to use it, it works!” Another standout track is ‘It’s All’ which Holly describes as a memorial song. “This one is dedicated to several old friends. A contribution to funerals I could not attend” she says. As always, the darker songs are offset with lighter offerings – “‘Rolling Along’ is an upbeat ditty of encouragement for everyone, since we are all doing it!” It also wouldn’t be a Holly Golightly album if there wasn’t a sharp caustic track or two included. “‘Miss Fortune’ is a blunt advisory number for those without a lick of sense” says Holly. We’ve been enjoying this album immensely in the DG office for the last few months. Now it’s time to share it with you. We hope you enjoy it!

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THE MILKSHAKES - 'THE MEN WITH THE GOLDEN GUITARS'

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• DAMGOOD629LP - LP

  5020422062917

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Instrumental album from 1983! The band’s 4th LP, finally back on vinyl! The 'Track Withdrawn' from previous issues has now been reinstated in the form of 'The Wrong Man'! Having endured no less than three long-players and a brace of singles featuring the caterwauling of Messrs Hampshire and Childish, the Milkshakes’ audience figured it might be time for an instrumental outing. In response the group gave them just that. But this was to be no run-of-the-mill effort – no Dick Dale-esque surf marathons or Shadowsy twangers are apparent here. These tunes are more ‘rhythm-and-mood’-based compositions; occasionally leaning more towards the Link Wray end of the spectrum – as you would probably expect. This IVth album (hence the name) was recorded in 1983 at Oakwood Studios – as were all previous releases – but this was the first in their new facilities in a converted church near Canterbury, which opened up a whole new golden vista of shimmering, silvery sounds in atmospheric conditions. Of course, the Milkshakes were having none of that. We suggest you plonk the wax on your gramophone and let whatever happens happens. - Hasty bananas.

Tracks

SIDE A

1 Chatham Drive
2 General Belgrano
3 Scapa Flow
4 The Wrong Man
5 The Klansmen Kometh
6 Thunderbird
7 Mumble The Peg

SIDE B

1 The Yorkshire Ripper
2 Flatfoot
3 Dogwatch on Monkey?s Paw
4 Every Corner
5 Can You Tell?
6 Dreadnaught
7 Shed Country ?83

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MONTY OXYMORON - 'THE PIANO PLAYS 'TIL MIDNIGHT: MONTY OXYMORON PLAYS THE SONGS OF THE DAMNED'

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• DAMGOOD628LP - LP

  5020422062818

• DAMGOOD628CD - CD

  5020422062825

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Available on PINOT NOIR RED VINYL LP (500 Copies) / ABSINTHE GREEN VINYL LP! (repress of 300 Copies) or expanded CD! Not many people realise… That The Damned have produced a fine array of songs with melodic, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication; with a depth of imagination and atmosphere. They spearheaded British punk, and yet diverse musical influences went into the crucible: UK and US psychedelia, Canterbury prog rock, and even classical and filmic musical influences abound. Now, with the return of drummer Rat Scabies the line-up is the same as that which produced many of these songs… with Monty on keys. Monty Oxymoron has played keyboards with The Damned since 1996, has written songs for the band, and played with Captain Sensible and Dr Space Toad before that. He is a retired psychiatric nurse and trained in art psychotherapy. Monty is keen on “free improvisation” and plays in and around Brighton where he lives. Monty has an almost impossibly eclectic collation of his music on Bandcamp, his YouTube channel, and shares ideas on various subjects on his Substack page (under his “real” name: Laurence Burrow.)

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VINYL TRACKLISTING

SIDE A

1 Beauty of the Beast
2 Wait for the Blackout
3 Absinthe
4 History of the World
5 Life Goes On
6 Smash It Up

SIDE B

1 I Just Can?t Be Happy Today
2 Shadow of Love
3 Limit Club
4 The Dog
5 Disco Man
6 Nature?s Dark Passion

CD TRACKLISTING

1 Beauty of the Beast
2 Wait for the Blackout
3 Absinthe
4 History of the World
5 Life Goes On
6 Smash It Up
7 I Just Can?t Be Happy Today
8 Shadow of Love
9 Limit Club
10 The Dog
11 Disco Man
12 Nature's Dark Passion
13 Under the Floor
14 Generals
15 Black is the Night
16 For Captain Sensible
17 For Dave Vanian
18 For Paul Gray
19 For Stu and Pinch

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AMELIA & THE HOUSEWIVES - 'MAYBE'

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• DAMGOOD627 - 7"

  5020422062771

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DEBUT 7” by Brighton-based female-fronted indiepop band! Loved by XFM’s John Kennedy - he’s aired all five songs they’ve recorded so far! We will be releasing the debut Amelia & The Housewives single digitally on April 11th, with the vinyl following a week later. We loved these tracks straight away. Small wonder that the band’s live hometown debut quickly sold out, or that they were recently selected for the BBC’s Fresh Faves!

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INDIGNATION MEETING - 'A MODEL WORLD'

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• DAMGOOD625LP - LP (COLOURED)

  5020422062511

• DAMGOOD625CD - CD

  5020422062528

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On CD and limited-edition RED vinyl LP Indignation Meeting are punky rail fans from Leeds. 15-year-old Peter is the driver – he’s the drummer and lead singer, writes most of the songs, and also plays bass and trumpet on the album. The rest of the crew is his dad Michael on guitar, Hugo on bass, and with Keith, Heather and Sally often along for the ride when they play out. Here at DGHQ we loved listening to their self-released debut album Trouble In The Shed so much we eventually released it on vinyl for the first time in August to coincide with their appearance at Rebellion Festival. They now have a second album! 

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THE COURETTES - 'KEEP DANCING'

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• DAMGOOD624 - 7"

  5020422062474

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Two brand new tracks by The Courettes on PINK coloured vinyl. Both tracks will also feature on the band’s next album, The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes, in slightly different form! “We worked with Richard Gottehrer, who for us is like a songwriter god!” says Flavia. “He worked at the Brill Building and co-wrote ‘I Want Candy’. A mutual friend played him ‘Keep Dancing’ and he left a message on my phone saying, ‘I love your track and I really dig the lyrics’. He ended up mixing ‘Keep Dancing’ and ‘Boom Boom Boom´.” “Because I'm the one most responsible for the lyrics, I actually allowed myself to open up to some personal things,” admits Flavia. “We lost both of our fathers. My father died of COVID. But my relationship with my father was non-existent. He abandoned me and my sister. It was a very difficult relationship and it’s not so easy for me to talk about it. ‘Keep Dancing’ is about his death and how he still has a power over me and bringing me down and what it’s like to break free from that. You know, some parents are cruel.” “It’s a special subject to sing about and to make pop music out of,” says Martin. “It’s actually celebrating moving on and I think that’s really fantastic. ‘Keep Dancing’ is absolutely smashing.” “Life is so fragile,” smiles Flavia. “But what are you supposed to do? I’d rather dance.” 

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1 Keep Dancing
2 Boom Boom Boom

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THE COURETTES - 'THE SOUL OF... THE FABULOUS COURETTES'

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• DAMGOOD622LP-4 - LP (COLOURED)

  5020422062276

• DAMGOOD622CD - CD

  5020422062221

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BLACK WHITE SPLIT VINYL A rock’n’roll sensation from the word go, Danish-Brazilian The Courettes are back with their fourth and best album to date – The Soul Of… The Fabulous Courettes. And this time, they’re bigger, wider and deeper than ever before as they add more to the blistering ramalama that’s seen them cause pandemonium across the venues, festivals and airwaves of the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. Hitting the sweet spot that straddles garage rock, girl groups, doo-wop harmonies, heartache and all points in between, here The Courettes build on the momentum of predecessor ‘Back In Mono’ with a collection of songs that opens up their sonic scope while confronting dark, emotional matter to reveal ‘The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes’.

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1 You Woo Me
2 California
3 Keep Dancing
4 Here I Come
5 Don?t Want You Back
6 Wall of Pain
7 SHAKE!
8 Boom Boom Boom
9 Better Without You
10 Run Run Runaway
11 Lies
12 Stop! Doing That
13 For Your Love

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THE COURETTES - 'CALIFORNIA'

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• DAMGOOD620 - 7"

  5020422062078

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Two brand new tracks by The Courettes on RED vinyl. Both Alternate version to the new album. Both tracks feature guest vocals by La La Brooks of The Crystals! ‘California’ is a song we wrote on our first tour in California last year. We wanted to bring all the sunshine and some psychedelic vibes from The Byrds, the Laurel Canyon, and tons of 12-string guitars to our songwriting. But somehow the lyrics kept some black clouds. It talks about traveling and leaving your loved ones behind. Any musician on the road can relate to this. Although you can have a great time around the world, you’re always missing someone. Home is really where your love is. We are very proud of this track, and on top of it we have a guest vocalist. The legendary singer La La Brooks - yes, from The Crystals, the lead voice on the classic ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’, one of our favourite Phil Spector produced songs of all time. To have La La singing with us is an absolute delight and honour. It’s so surreal that we haven’t even realised it has really happened! For the mixing our producer Søren Christensen has teamed up with the fantastic Darian Sahanaja (who produced and mixed no less than Brian Wilson's SMiLE album) to enlighten even more the Californian good vibrations. So open up your windows, let the sunshine in and play this one to the max!

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THE CHEFS - 'RECORDS & TEA - THE BEST OF THE CHEFS AND LOST SECOND ALBUM'

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• DAMGOOD621LP - 2xLPs

  5020422062115

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From the ashes of the thriving underground punk scene in Brighton in 1979, a band of songwriters called The Smartees emerged. They never made any records but after their demise one of the guitarists, Carl Evans, approached bass player Helen McCookerybook to ask her if she’d like to write some songs with him. He’d already set one of her poems, Food, to music, and they played their first gig with just three songs, each of which lasted just over two minutes: you can hear Food, Sweetie and Boasting on this compilation. The Chefs original drummer, Rod Bloor, contributed the seeds of the song Records and Tea before returning to his native Manchester. Soon, augmented by James McCallum on additional guitar and Russell Greenwood on drums, the songwriting duo started recording for local label Attrix records, firstly two tracks on their Vaultage 79 album, followed by the Sweetie EP and then 24Hours which was championed by BBC Radio 1’s John Peel, who invited them to do a session. A residency at The Moonlight Club in West Hampstead, London, tempted them all to relocate to the big city, and a move to Graduate Records saw the re-release of 24 Hours. Graduate also commissioned the album tracks included here, which were languishing in the band attic and have not been released until now. The band split up in 1982, heading in different musical directions: Helen switched to guitar and formed Helen and the Horns, Carl formed Yip Yip Coyote, Russell joined John Hegley’s Popticians, and James left the music industry. In our short three years we’d spent hundreds of hours writing and rehearsing our songs, recorded three sessions for the BBC, appeared on two compilations, piqued the interest of top pop producer Pete Waterman, and played countless gigs around the UK. We thought we’d been together for thousands of years! We hope you enjoy our music.

Tracks

SIDE ONE

1 Food
2 You Get Everywhere
3 Sweetie
4 Thrush
5 Records and Tea
6 Boasting
7 Someone I Know

SIDE TWO

8 24 Hours
9 Let's Make Up
10 You're So Nice
11 I'll Go Too
12 Springtime Reggae
13 Love is Such a Splendid Thing

SIDE THREE

14 Sad Boy Style
15 Honcho
16 Commander Lonely
17 Just a Word
18 Land Ho!
19 Baby Small
20 Lucky Hello

SIDE FOUR

21 Northbound Train
22 Sleeping Dogs Lie
23 Toby
24 One Fine Day
25 Locked Out
26 Femme Fatale

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THE SINGING LOINS - 'TWELVE'

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• DAMGOOD619LP - LP

  5010422061910

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A new album by Medway’s premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins! 

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1 Hauling in the Slack
2 The Topless Twins of Allhallows-on-Sea
3 House in the Woods
4 Big Wheel
5 The Ghost of Old Rose
6 Ain't the World a Lovely Place
7 God Bless the Whores of Rochester
8 That's How Murders Happen
9 I Don?t Like the Man
10 Nail it Back Together
11 Where?s My Machine Gun?
12 Angel of the Medway

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INDIGNATION MEETING - 'TROUBLE IN THE SHED'

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• DAMGOOD618LP - LP (COLOURED)

  5020422061811

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DEBUT LP! First time on vinyl. Very limited first pressing on GREAT WESTERN GREEN VINYL! Indignation Meeting are punky rail fans from Leeds. 15-year-old Peter is the driver – he’s the drummer and lead singer, writes most of the songs, and also plays bass and trumpet on the album. The rest of the crew is his dad Michael on guitar, Hugo on bass, and with Keith, Heather and Sally often along for the ride when they play out. Here at DGHQ we’ve been listening to their self-released debut album Trouble In The Shed since last year and finally spoke with the band and agreed to release it on vinyl for the first time. It was very good timing as they’ve just been in the studio to finish recording their second album, so we’ll be releasing that later in 2024. Welcome on-board!

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1. PVLR
2. Swingball Blues
3. Electrification
4. That Leeds Feeling
5. Abergynolwyn
6. Oh Zacharias
7. Hornby Horrors
8. 41241
9. The Class 37's in the Pits
10. The Inspirational Transformation of an Unwanted Derelict Industrail Diesel Locomotive into a Key Display Exhibit
11. Riotous Rolling Stock
12. Oh My God, It's Cybil Shepherd
13. Fabulous Flying Scotsman
14. Give the Teddies What They Want

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THE GUY HAMPER TRIO & JAMES TAYLOR - 'INSTRUMENT OF EVIL'

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• DAMGOOD617 - 7"

  5020422061774

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Superb 45 featuring two Hammond-led instrumentals!

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1. Instrument of Evil
2. Incense Rising From a Censer

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JOHNNY MOPED - 'QUONK!'

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• DAMGOOD614LP-P - LP (COLOURED)

  5020422061453

• DAMGOOD614CD - CD

  5020422061422

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PINK VINYL To celebrate 50 years of this mighty band – A brand new studio album by the legendary Johnny Moped!

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1 Heebie Jeebie Boogie
2 Roxy You?re Gone
3 Doggy Woggy
4 Things May Happen
5 Lockdown Boy
6 See The Time Is Late
7 Sounds Like
8 Funny
9 Oh Jane
10 I'm a Skitzoid (Mind Bender Syndrome)
11 Skin

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MARTIN SAVAGE AND THE JIGGERZ - 'MARTIN SAVAGE AND THE JIGGERZ'

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• DAMGOOD613LP - LP

  5020422061316

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Who said rock’n’roll is dead?! Maybe Dr Frankenstein’s made a rock ‘n’ roll monster cuz it sure seems alive to me. We introduce to you the debut LP of MARTIN SAVAGE AND THE JIGGERZ! All three gentlemen in this power trio have a solid background in the rock ’n' roll business which we won’t bore you with here. The band has already released a slew of solid 7” records which we won’t bore you with here either. Get on the internet ya lazy sods! Anyway, back to this here album: recorded by Ed Deegan at the esteemed Gizzard Recording Studio up in Fish Island, East London, on magnetic tape it delivers 12 solid senders of pure heart-on–the-sleeve rock ‘n’ roll action! From the blastin’ drumroll of opener ‘Between the Lines’, a staple in the band’s live set, via punk ballad anthem ‘Down the Line’ leading up to another live favourite called ‘Boomerang’. There are covers of should-have-been-legends with bad-ass names like the Backstabbers or the Stripes. There are songs about shitty jobs, troublesome relationships, life on the high and life on the low. It’s got everything you need really. Whether ya dig Boston 1976, Medway 1986 or Memphis 1996 there’s something for you here. You can call it punk, pub rock, garage, glam or any other label you like but we just call it good ole rock ‘n’ roll. Hope ya dig!

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1 Between the Lines
2 On the Run
3 Out of This World
4 Observer
5 Next in Line
6 In the Eyes of a Blind Man
7 Mailman Blues
8 Fly by Night
9 Down the Line
10 Fast and Loose
11 On the Corner
12 Boomerang

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THE COURETTES - 'SHAKE!'

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• DAMGOOD612 - 7"

  5020422061279

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Second pressing on BLACK vinyl! (technically, the rare one!) B-side exclusive to this release! The grooviest Courettes’ tune to date! Try to listen to ‘Shake!’ without rocking your hips! An invitation - or better, an intimation - to put out your pointy shoes, let it loose and make your best sleazy moves! Killer fuzz riffs, Motown beats, hints of soul and young Tina Turner vibes are all in there, showcasing a bit of the recipe of The Courettes’ next album.

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VARIOUS - 'FROM FOSSILISED CRETACEOUS SEAMS'

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• DAMGOOD611LP - 2xLPs

  5020422061118

• DAMGOOD611CD - 2xCDs

  5020422061125

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A compilation to celebrate the release of the book – To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish written by Ted Kessler 

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1 Thee Mighty Caesars ? You Make Me Die
2 The Buff Medways ? Archive from 1959
3 The Milkshakes ? For She
4 The William Loveday Intention ? You Gotta Move
5 Thee Headcoats ? Fingers in the Sun
6 The Spartan Dreggs ? Headlong Fly the Achaens
7 Thee Headcoats ? Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot
8 CTMF ? Last Punk Standing
9 CTMF ? Bob Dylan?s Got a Lot to Answer For
10 The Buff Medways ? Troubled Mind
11 Billy Childish and The Singing Loins ? I Don't Like the Man I Am
12 Billy Childish and Holly Golightly ? Upside Mine
13 The Guy Hamper Trio feat. James Taylor ? Moon of the Popping Trees
14 CTMF ? All Our Forts are With You
15 The Musicians of the British Empire ? Christmas 1979
16 The Delmonas ? I Feel Like Giving In (French)
17 The Musicians of the British Empire ? Thatcher's Children
18 Thee Mighty Caesars ? Lie Detector
19 The Pop Rivets ? Fun in the UK
20 Thee Headcoatees ? Hurt Me
21 CTMF ? A Song for Kylie Minogue
22 The Shall I Say Quois feat. CTMF ? It's so Hard to be Happy
23 Jack Ketch and The Crowmen ? Brimful of Hate
24 CTMF ? Failure Not Success (ALT)
25 Thee Headcoats ? Davey Crockett
26 The Musicians of the British Empire ? Joe Strummer's Grave
27 The Buff Medways ? Medway Wheelers
28 CTMF ? You Can?t Capture Time (Slight Return)
29 The Spartan Dreggs ? A Shropshire Lad
30 The William Loveday Intention ? Sex and Flies
31 Thee Headcoats ? The Same Tree
32 Thee Mighty Caesars ? Cowboys are Square
33 Billy Childish and The Singing Loins ? Song of the Medway

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THEE HEADCOATS - 'I AM THE OBJECT OF YOUR DESIRE'

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• DAMGOOD610LP - LP

  5020422061019

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REISSUE OF THEE HEADCOATS’ FINAL ALBUM IN THEIR ORIGINAL INCARNATION! Originally released by Friends Of The Buff Medway Fanciers Association Records in 2000! The final studio release by Thee Headcoats (until last year’s Irregularis: The Great Hiatus) gets a long-awaited vinyl reissue! Includes eleven Billy Childish originals plus a cover of Bo Diddley’s ‘Great Grandfather’! Recorded at May Road & Red Studios. Engineered by Graham Semark.

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1 I Am the Object of Your Desire
2 Hurt Me
3 An Image of You
4 In a Dead Man's Suit
5 Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men
6 In Blood
7 Come Into My Mind
8 Great Grandfather
9 I'm a Desperate Man
10 Strange Looking Woman
11 Your Crying Means Nothing to Me
12 The Same Tree

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THE GALILEO 7 - 'YOU, ME & REALITY'

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• DAMGOOD609LP - LP

  5020422060913

• DAMGOOD609CD - CD

  5020422060920

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Since the early 80's Allan Crockford has been a major figure in Medway's garage rock scene, including playing for The Prisoners, Billy Childish's Thee Headcoats, the original line-up of the James Taylor Quartet, The Solarflares and many more. Since 2010 he has fronted his own band, The Galileo 7, as writer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their unique blend of powerful ‘60s garage rock'n'roll, psychedelic vocal harmonies and quality songwriting has now featured on no less than eight albums, including two on Damaged Goods. Their third, You, Me and Reality is out now.

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CYANIDE PILLS - 'HOPE YOU'RE HAVING FUN'

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• DAMGOOD607 - 7"

  5020422060777

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LIMITED EDITION 7” BY LEEDS PUNK BAND CYANIDE PILLS! A-side from recent album Soundtrack To The New Cold War! B-side exclusive to this release! Tell us about your influences Phil… “Influences hmm well, we don’t just listen to punk rock, neither did the early bands because there wasn’t any. We like the usual suspects obviously, our favourites are the Belgian band The Kids, X-Ray Spex and Buzzcocks. We like Satan’s Rats, The Tours, Knots, The Fingers, Panic, Kleenex, Crime, The Terrorways, Victims, Wipers, The Briefs, The Spits, The Plugz, Bad Nerves, Nasty Rumours, stuff like that, loads of stuff, Syd Barrett, The Kinks, MC5, Stooges, Bowie, Ruben and the Jets, Kim Fowley, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf. The list goes on and on and on.”

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1 Hope You're Having Fun
2 Don't Tell Me Everything's Alright (Exclusive track)

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THE LURKERS - 'LIVE AT THE QUEENS HOTEL MARGATE 23/12/77'

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• DAMGOOD604LP - LP

  5020422060418

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It was 1977 and things were progressing extremely well. We had signed to Beggars Banquet and our first single ‘Shadow’ b/w ‘Love Story’ had been released. John Peel had been playing both sides of the single most nights on his radio show, so we were getting heard by a lot of people. But we didn’t yet have a "proper" tour bus, so we all piled into a transit for the trip down to Margate with our tour manager Mike Stone in the driving seat. The Queens Hotel turned out to be a pretty good venue. There was a nice high stage which we much preferred over the low-slung platforms of some of the places we played. It meant that the crowd wasn’t totally swamping us the whole time, although there would still be a constant stream of people jumping on and off stage, bumping us, knocking equipment over and so forth. We weren’t sure if many people would turn up on a cold and windy night so close to Christmas, but it was a good turnout, and they were out for a good time too. There was none of the aggro stuff which would become a problem later on at our shows. The actual gig was typical of a Lurkers show at that time, being fairly chaotic with a lot of crowd "interaction". There is a recklessly fast version of ‘Pills’ on the recording, and I think we were playing ‘It’s Quiet Here’ for the first time live. Howard was on good form too; it would be his birthday on Christmas Day. My favourite quip from him is towards the end of the show when he says "eat your heart out Hank Marvin" after one of my more eccentric Shadows guitar intros. PETE STRIDE 2022

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1. Ain't Gotta Clue
2. Self Destruct
3. Love Story
4. Freakshow
5. Pills
6. It's Quiet Here
7. I Love the Dark
8. Be My Prisoner
9. Then I Kissed Her
10. Total War
11. Time of Year
12. Ooh Ooh I Love You
13. I'm on Heat
14. Shadow
15. Be My Prisoner
16. Shadow

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CYANIDE PILLS - 'SOUNDTRACK TO THE NEW COLD WAR'

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• DAMGOOD603LP - LP (COLOURED)

  5020422060319

• DAMGOOD603CD - CD

  5020422060326

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LONG AWAITED FOURTH LONG PLAYER BY LEEDS PUNK BAND CYANIDE PILLS! ON LIMITED EDITION YELLOW/RED SPLATTER VINYL We catch up with lead singer Phil to discuss where the band is at man… What inspired you to make this concept album, time was right? I had to look up what a concept album was, it means an album where the songs all relate to each other? It must have been an accident due to memory loss, “Phil, haven’t we already done a song about war?” “Phil, haven’t we already done a song about corruption?” We live in dark times, the stupid ones are in charge, the evil ones are at the controls. It’s hard to write songs about kittens and flowers at the moment.

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THEE HEADCOATS - 'HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD, EVEN! IT'S THEE HEADCOATS (ALREADY)'

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• DAMGOOD602LP - LP

  5020422060210

• DAMGOOD602CD - CD

  5020422060227

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REISSUE OF CLASSIC ALBUM ORIGINALLY RELEASED BY SUB POP RECORDS IN 1990! NOW WITH NEW ARTWORK + EXTRA TWO TRACKS (‘Girl From ’62’ was originally released as the A-side of a single on Regal Select Records, USA 1991 / ‘Troubled Times’ – was the B-side of a single on Dog Meat Records, Australia 1990)

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1 Troubled Times
2 Mantrap
3 No Way Out
4 Reindeer Are Wild
5 Hand to Hand
6 Headcoat Man
7 Girl of Matches
8 Girl From '62
9 I Don't Like the Man I Am
10 Pocahontus Was Her Name
11 We're Gone
12 Stewball
13 I Ain't About to Give You My Name
14 Rusty Hook

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THE COURETTES - 'BOOM! DYNAMITE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FABULOUS COURETTES'

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• DAMGOOD600LP-US - LP

  5020422060012

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DAMAGED GOODS are proud to announce our first ever US only release, this is a compilation, an introduction, if you like for The Courettes to the American & Canadian market. ON PURPLE VINYL Boom! Dynamite includes singles, deep cuts from their studio albums, with B-sides and rarities thrown in for good measure! The Courettes are pure dynamite! Turn up the volume and fuzz out! BOOM!

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Boom! Dynamite
Hop the Twig
Want You! Like A Cigarette
Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait)
Time is Ticking
I?ve Been Walking
Only Happy When You?re Gone
The Boy I Love
Night Time (The Boy of Mine)
R.I.N.G.O.
Misfits & Freaks
Strawberry Boy
Push It Too Hard
Voodoo Doll

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HELEN LOVE - 'YEAH YEAH WE'RE HELEN LOVE'

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• DAMGOOD599CD - 2xCDs

  5020422059924

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A compilation to celebrate 30 years of Helen Love! Featuring the best singles, album tracks, rarities, and fan favourites! On CD in gatefold sleeve. “Almost all the songs on here were recorded on an 8-track second-hand tape machine. We recorded everything ourselves, we mixed them ourselves in the attic, we made all our sleeves on the back of cornflake boxes, Pritt-sticked, cut-outs from The Face and Nintendo magazine covers and a sheet of Letraset. We couldn't play,vwe used auto accompaniment pre-sets off old Casio keyboards, and an old Woolworth electric guitar.vThere was only going to be one single. No plan... we still haven't got a plan… we are still here though 30 years later. Punk Rock forever! Xxx”

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KYRA - 'HERE I AM, I ALWAYS AM'

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• DAMGOOD595LP - LP

  5020422059511

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25th Anniversary issue with 5 BONUS TRACKS! KYRA from The Headcoatees with backing by Thee Headcoats! This is one of our favourite albums of the 90’s and we’re over the moon to finally have it out on Damaged Goods, it was originally released on Vinyl Japan (ASKLP71) in 1998. This new expanded version with FIVE bonus tracks including her 7” with the legendary ‘Armitage Shanks’ is also available on coloured vinyl for the first time, peach in fact! Kyra Rubella was best known as a member of Thee Headcoatees and was also in The A-Lines and The Shall-I-Say-Quois. ORIGINAL LP SLEEVENOTES – Kyra (that’s pronounced ‘Keera’) is a Flemish girl who sings punk rock and Chansons with heart and abandon. She first came to our attention as one of Thee famed Headcoatees. The energy and power of her performance convinced us that she should make an album of her own.

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1 Agitated
2 Anna K.
3 It's a Stick-Up
4 Here I Am, I Always Am
5 Naked
6 Louise
7 Marieke
8 Ego Maniac
9 Do Things Right
10 Organic Footprints
11 Today is the Night
12 Laughing Song
13 Doodlebug *BONUS TRACK*
14 Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot *BONUS TRACK*
15 Love in A Void *BONUS TRACK*
16 Orgasm Addict *BONUS TRACK*
17 Die Wonderlijke Dag (This Wond?rous Day) *BONUS TRACK*

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THE LURKERS - 'PAST & FUTURE LANDSLIDE'

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• DAMGOOD594BX - 3xCDs

  5020422059429

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A boxed set of three CDs + booklet featuring two studio albums by The Lurkers along with a previously unreleased live recording from 1977! CHEMICAL LANDSLIDE THE FUTURE’S CALLING LIVE IN MARGATE 1977

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THE LURKERS - 'FIRST EVER DEMOS 1977'

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• DANGOOD592 - 7"

  5020422059276

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ON ORANGE OR CLEAR VINYL The band had been together for a few months, and we had some songs roughly worked out. I had managed to arrange a meeting with Miles Copeland (manager of the Police), and he wanted us to bring a demo tape. We didn’t have much money, but I found a very cheap studio in Hayes in Middlesex, which we booked for two hours. At that point I didn’t have my own amp but the man at the studio said not to worry because he had a great Fender amp which was all set up and ready to go. The studio was a very small, converted building in a back garden, it was a tight fit, and the Fender amp was actually a miniscule combo amp, with a very clean sound. It was a million miles from the overdriven noise I was looking for. Also, there was no proper headphone mix and I had to play guitar in the tiny "control room" to avoid sound spillage. This meant I could only vaguely hear the rest of the band. We quickly ran through our three songs. The man thought we were playing so fast because we were nervous, he wasn’t aware of punk rock yet. I told him it was meant to be like that. All three songs were recorded and mixed within the two hours. The following week myself and Esso took the tube up to Oxford Street for our meeting with Miles Copeland. He had a good listen to the three songs and appeared unshocked. He was well aware that punk was "happening" so he was friendly and took us seriously. He was mainly interested in what our ambitions for the band were,we should have said “we wanna be worldwide stars," or something like that but we didn’t. PETE STRIDE - NOVEMBER 2022

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And Then I Kissed Her
I Love the Dark
Rat City

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THE BUFF MEDWAYS - 'A BOX OF BUFFS'

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• DAMGOOD590BX - 3xCDs

  5020422059023

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Three brilliant albums by the Buff Medways, neatly contained in one box, complete with booklet! The albums are Steady The Buffs, 1914, and Medway Wheelers. 

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THE GUY HAMPER TRIO & JAMES TAYLOR - 'ALL THE POISONS IN THE MUD'

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• DAMGOOD589LP - LP

  5020422058910

• DAMGOOD589CD - CD

  5020422058927

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DEBUT LP FROM THE GUY HAMPER TRIO! Groovy Hammond garage rock instrumentals from Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats/CTMF etc) and featuring James Taylor (Prisoners/JTQ)

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - 'FAILURE NOT SUCCESS'

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• DAMGOOD588LP - LP

  5020422058811

• DAMGOOD588CD - CD

  5020422058828

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New studio album by Billy and CTMF! Featuring Billy at his song writing best! Includes covers of Richard Hell and Jimi Hendrix songs, along with a newly recorded version of ‘Bob Dylan’s Got a Lot to Answer For’!

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Love Comes in Spurts
Failure Not Success
Beneath the Flowers Serpents
Walk of the Sasquatch
Hanging by a Tenuous Thread
Fire
The Old Long Bar
Come into My Life
Skinwalker
Becoming Unbecoming Me
Moon of the Popping Trees
Bob Dylan?s Got a Lot to Answer For

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THEE HEADCOATS - 'IRREGULARIS (THE GREAT HIATUS)'

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• DAMGOOD587LP - LP

  5020422058712

• DAMGOOD587CD - CD

  5020422058729

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The undisputed kings of garage rock are back! It’s been 22 years since the last Headcoats album, but now Billy, Bruce, and Johnny return with a brand-new studio album! Recorded last year at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester. 

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THEE HEADCOATS SECT - 'A TRIBUTE TO DON CRAINE EP'

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• DAMGOOD586 - 7"

  5020422058675

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Four song Extended Play 7” by Thee Headcoats Sect! “Absolutely fantastic, cracking rhythm 'n' blues, best thing I've heard for years!” - Rob Symmons (The Fallen Leaves) After 23 years off Thee Headcoats (Billy, Bruce and Tub) have again teamed up with Keith Evans of Downliners Sect, to record a top notch Extended Play as Thee Headcoat Sect. 'The Backer Street Irregulars' features Keith on lead vocals, still equipped with all the power, fun and attitude that put him at the top of the tree of British R'n'B vocalists back in the heyday of rhythm and beat. The EP was recorded in honour of their dear friend Don Craine (the leader of the Sect), who passed over in February 2022.

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THE COURETTES - 'BYE BYE MON AMOUR'

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• DAMGOOD585 - 7"

  5020422058576

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The A-side 'Bye Bye Mon Amour' is a re-recorded French language version of previous 7” 'Want You! Like a Cigarette'. The original English language version features on the B-Side. Great news for anyone who missed out on the now sold out 7” from 2020! Here's the wonderful Flavia Couri with a few words about the single... “We are big fans of '60s French pop - Gainsbourg, Sylvie Vartan, Jacques Dutronc, France Gall and many more. We love the versions made in France of the British and American hits back them, like Marie Laforet’s version of Stones’ 'Paint it Black' ('Marie Douceur') and Petula Clark’s version of The Kinks’ 'A Well Respected Man' ('A Jeune Homme Bien'). So we decided to have our own Frenchy pop hit! Please welcome 'Bye Bye, mon amour'! Because nous desirons les francophone fans comme a un cigarette! Hope the French, the Canadians, the English, the Danes, the Brazilian, the whole planet, the whole galaxy enjoy it. Turn up your volume and allez-y!”

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THEE HEADCOATS - 'HEAD BOX'

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• DAMGOOD581BX - 4xCDs

  5020422058125

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A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring four classic albums by Thee Headcoats! We present four albums by Thee Headcoats in a clamshell box set complete with booklet. With exclusive new artwork by Bruce Brand at Arthole! The four albums in the set are - Headcoats Down! The Kids are all Square, This Is Hip! Headcoatitude W.O.A.H! Bo in Thee Garage Thee Headcoats was a band formed in Chatham, Kent, England in 1989, that was well known for its garage rock sound, explicitly sticking to this style on almost all of their albums. The band's signature sound as well as their prolific writing has been attributed to Billy Childish's love of simple, direct recording. The band has been on multiple labels including Billy's own Hangman Records, Damaged Goods and Sub Pop. Described in the New York Times as 'the king of garage rock', Thee Headcoats had their roots in the British punk scene of the 1970s (both Billy and Bruce playing in The Pop Rivets and The Milkshakes). The band recorded songs by The Clash under the pseudonym Thee Stash. The band also recorded tribute albums to Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Their debut album featured new versions of songs recorded by Son House including 'John the Revelator' and 'Child's Death Letter', both of which were later covered by The White Stripes upon whom Billy and Thee Headcoats were a great influence. These influences give a good indication of the band's sound; punk mixed with pure rhythmic rock 'n' roll and blues.

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VARIOUS - 'ARE THEY HOSTILE?'

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• DAMGOOD579LP - LP

  5020422057913

• DAMGOOD579CD - CD

  5020422057920

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An 18 track compilation featuring the best of Croydon's punk and post punk scene! Are They Hostile? Is a new documentary film about the Punk, New Wave and Indie scene in Croydon in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. It takes its name from the first single by Croydon band Bad Actors. To coincide with the film’s release Damaged Goods Records are releasing a compilation vinyl LP and CD featuring bands from in the film including Johnny Moped, The Marines, The Daleks, Case, Fanatics and also bands such as The Straps who played Croydon many times usually at The Star Pub in West Croydon. The CD version also features a specially recorded introduction by the legendary ex-Croydon Greyhound DJ Peter Fox. It’s been argued that Croydon was the birthplace of Punk in the UK, largely due to The Damned and Johnny Moped. But there was a group of other, less well-known bands who were part of that scene, or who came just after, but who didn’t achieve the same success or recognition. The film and album attempt to set the record straight by shining a light on bands such as Bad Actors, Case, The Daleks, The Heroes and Fanatics. The music still fizzes with the energy and enthusiasm of youth and the punk ethos of just doing it. And the participants, if a bit older and slightly less slim than forty years ago, come alive in the current interviews as if connected to the mains. As the saying goes, “old punks don’t die”, but they do remember. The documentary film takes us through the history of these bands, the people in them, the places they played and, through current interviews with “a bunch of old punks”, what they did next, and how formative and important being in a band was for them growing up. The film is the brainchild of Bad Actor Griff Griffiths and Mark Williams and will premier at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon on 2nd September with a Q & A afterwards by Griff and Mark, and an aftershow party nearby with special celebrity guests TBC. Griff explains: “It’s also a film about being young, being passionate, being part of something.”

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE SINGING LOINS - 'THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE'

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• DAMGOOD578LP - LP

  5020422057814

• DAMGOOD578CD - CD

  5020422057821

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In memory of Chris Broderick of the Singing Loins, who passed away in 2022 we present a new studio album by Wild Billy Childish and Arf and Rob from The Singing Loins. The Fighting Temeraire contains new songs, old songs re-worked, traditional songs and a Bob Dylan cover. HMS Temeraire was a 96 gun ship of the line, built in Chatham, as was HMS Victory. After the passing of their dear friend, Chris Broderick, (lead Singer of The Singing Loins), Billy, Arf, and Rob decided to get together and record a 45 in his memory. The single ‘Song of the Medway’ soon led to this full-length LP.

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GRAHAM DAY & THE GAOLERS - 'REFLECTIONS IN THE GLASS'

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• DAMGOOD577LP - LP

  5020422057715

• DAMGOOD577CD - CD

  5020422057722

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Third studio album by Graham Day & The Gaolers! Their first in 14 years! It’s been a good time recently to be a fan of Graham Day. Last year saw the release of A Little More Time With, a 10” mini LP by The Senior Service, as well as his recent debut solo album, The Master Of None, (released on Acid Jazz). There’s also been a string of hometown reformation gigs with the Prisoners, and a US tour with the Woggles, And now this! We’re extremely proud to be releasing Reflections In The Glass, a brand new album by Graham Day & The Gaolers. 

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Mystery Man
Narrow Mind
Step Out of Your Parade
A Rose Thorn (Sticking in Your Mind?s Eye)
I Can?t Stop This Feeling
I Will Let You Down
My Body Tells Me the Truth
Different Rules
Don?t Hide Away
History on Repeat
Time is Running Out
Filtered Face

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THE COURETTES - 'BACK IN MONO (B-SIDES & OUTTAKES)'

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• DAMGOOD576CD - CD

  5020422057623

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The Courettes proudly present their third album, Back In Mono. It’s a milestone in their career so far. You can look forward to some “spit ´n´snarl garage rumble-meets-Phil Spector pop” showcasing the band in top form – great songwriting skills, Spector-esque arrangements, with broader nuances, influences and production qualities added to their garage rock recipe. Fourteen Wagnerian teen-trash-tragedy masterpieces – it’s as if The Ronettes and The Ramones were invited to a wild party in Gold Star Studios’ echo chamber. Fuzz guitars, loud drums, trashy pianos, jingle bells, tambourines and three-minute dance floor garage killers where a Wall of Sound blasts the songs out of the speakers! Produced and recorded by Søren Christensen at Starr Sound Recording Studios in Denmark and mixed by top producer/wall of sound aficionado Seiki Sato in Japan.

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THE DAGGERMEN - 'DAGGER IN MY MIND'

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• DAMGOOD575LP - LP

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Long-awaited reissue of a Medway classic! 12 track vinyl LP and 18 track CD including bonus single and demo recordings. The Daggermen all went to Rede Secondary School in Medway, Kent. It was a school for those that failed their 11 plus, or who passed it but decided to go there anyway (as Jon pretends). Being in some of the same classes we became friends and found we liked the same music; The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. We started going to Carnaby Street, wearing Beatle boots and generally being a bit Moddy. Dave’s older brother, James Taylor, played organ in The Prisoners and we’d listen to cassette tapes of them along with other local band, The Milkshakes as we bounced on the trampoline during P.E. After watching both bands play live in local venues such as the M.I.C. club in Chatham we formed The Daggermen, working out who was going to play which instrument as we stood next to the now demolished school sports hall. No one can quite remember who thought of the name, The Daggermen (it was me) or how comes Jon was playing bass on a guitar in the band at the very start and then Terry took over when we started gigging (it was because he had a real bass guitar and a car). But the next thing was that we were supporting The Prisoners both in Medway and places such as the 100 Club in Oxford Street. Then, one sunny day at around the age of 17, I bumped into Billy Childish walking across a field. I formally introduced myself and told him that he should definitely come and see our band that night because we were “fucking brilliant”. He did turn up and bought us a tray of whiskies whilst we were on stage, a sure sign that he had liked it. This led to him and Russ Wilkins, bass player in The Milkshakes alongside Billy, asking us if we wanted to record an E.P. for Russ’s label, Empire Records. This was our first ever recording called Introducing The Daggerman which was made in a brick arch under Rochester bridge that we rented for £2 a week to rehearse in and lovingly referred to as ‘The Hole’. We got ourselves a “manager” (our mate, Vic Templar) and started playing up and down England, drinking as much as possible in the van on the way to each gig, often paralytic by the time we went on stage. Our musical style was a sort of mixture of punk and mod and we played covers such as ‘Heatwave’ (The Who’s version) and ‘Get Ready’ by the Temptations, along with Dave and Terry’s originals. Then came a change of line up when Jon resumed his position as bass player and Terry left for America. We started wearing military jackets thanks to Jimi Hendrix and made our first long player, Dagger In My Mind (I got the title off an episode of Star Trek, although I remembered it wrong and it should have been ‘Dagger Of The Mind’). The album was produced by James Taylor and Allan Crockford of The Prisoners at Woolly Studios on the Isle of Sheppey in 1986. This line-up played together for a couple of years up and down the country (also with a few gigs in France) before we called it a day and sailed off into the future in bands such as The James Taylor Quartet, The Kravin’ “A”s, The Solarflares and Billy Childish and The Buff Medways. As energetic youths we had a lot of fun and I am very proud to have been part of The Daggermen. We hope you enjoy these recordings, now all gathered together for the first time.

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE SINGING LOINS - 'SONG OF THE MEDWAY'

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Billy & The Loins reunite for a tribute 7” to founding Loins member Chris Broderick. Billy recorded the first two Singing Loins LPs with Chris Broderick and Arf’ Alan in his bathroom at May Road, Rochester in 1991 and 1993. The lads then decided to record an LP of folk variations of Billy’s own tunes, called At The Bridge. The Singing Loins then went their own way recording many LPs. Fast forward to late 2021 and the singer Chris was diagnosed with blood cancer. Before his passing in January 2022, he let Arf (and later Loin Rob), know that he wished them to carry on the group. That said Billy proposed a memorial 45 (and an LP to follow). The tracks: ‘The Song of the Medway’ is about their hometowns of Rochester, Chatham, Strood and Gillingham, all on the banks of the River Medway. Chatham’s ancient Dockyard was where Nelson’s Victory was built. The Broken and the Lost of the Old Long Bar celebrates a drinking hole on Chatham High Street (which once boasted more pubs and brothels in a single mile than anywhere in the world). Especially written by Billy for this return of The Singing Loins, the songs are at once brand new and ancient.

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A Song of The Medway
B The Broken and the Lost of the Old Long Bar

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STEVE E. NIX AND THE FAMOUS LIZARDS - 'MOTORCADE EP'

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FOUR SONG EP FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE BRIEFS! Steve E. Nix and The Famous Lizards are a new four-piece group led by guitarist/singer Steve E. Nix (from legendary Seattle punk band The Briefs). Accompanying him as The Famous Lizards are bassist Kicks (also from The Briefs), guitarist Emi Pop and drummer Miles Freeborn. The Motorcade EP is the band’s debut release. Available on a limited edition black vinyl 7”, it features four killer pop-punk tracks, just what you’d expect from the prolific pen of Steve E. Nix. “I’m a punk rocker who loves guitars and interesting songs. I really like The Godfathers” says Steve. Steve has been putting out quality underground music since 2000 when The Briefs released their first single ‘Poor And Weird’. After four albums, a slew of singles and relentless touring, The Briefs took a well-earned hiatus. Never one to stay still for long Steve almost immediately formed and fronted The Cute Lepers. With Briefs’ bassist Kicks on board and a rotating cast of drummers, guitarists and back-up singers The Cute Lepers continued to tour across the US and Europe and released three albums, all on Damaged Goods Records, along with a bunch of 7” singles. In 2014 The Briefs started touring again and also began work on an album, Platinum Rats, which was eventually released by Damaged Goods Records in 2019.

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