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JOHNNY MOPED - 'THE SEARCH FOR XERXES'
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DAMGOOD559LP - LP
5020422055919DAMGOOD559CD - CD
5020422055926
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Johnny Moped's “lost album” from 1990, finally gets a reissue!
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1 I Believed Her Lies
2 Edwina
3 Every Dream Came True
4 Corpse Boogie
5 Cut Across Shorty
6 I Wanna Die
7 Zogaloogajergabrox
8 Sad Sack
9 Soldiers
10 Save The Baby Seals
11 Moped Crash
12 I'm a Spasm
13 Hiawatha
14 Cut Across Shorty (Alternate Version)
15 Cincinatti Blues
16 Bros and Xerxes
17 Soldiers (Alternate Version)
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THE DALEKS - 'EXTERMINATE - 40 Years too Late!'
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DAMGOOD548LP - LP (COLOURED)
5020422054813
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Limited edition silver vinyl release featuring original Croydon punks The Daleks along with their associated bands! “... honest, heartfelt songs, steeped in earnest melancholy and charming naivete. Equal parts Menace, Members, Lurkers and Television Personalities” The Daleks “I started the group In the summer of 1977 after listening to Rattus Narviticus about 100 times on a church youth club holiday. Slimy Toad's brother, Nicky, who co wrote "I'm a cunt" with me, had it on tape cassette. I remember we used to turn it right up in the middle In the middle of Ugly...because Hugh Cornwall shouted "it's only the fucking rich that get to be good looking". And all the church leaders would have a right go at us. That was it. Had to start a band! Up until 1979 just I had a guitar although we had a drummer a singer and a bass player that were going to get their instruments it never happened. I had loads of the songs already written by the time the first other member with an instrument joined. Mark Adams (Bass), who later joined Case. Then Woodie joined and things started to move quickly with Gaz joining (the original singer. Nicky Fitzgerald, Slimy Toads brother, bailed out when it started to become a real thing. Then Dean replaced Mark Adams.” - Eddie Turtle 2021
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THE WILLIAM LOVEDAY INTENTION - 'THE DEPT. OF DISCONTINUED LINES'
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DAMGOOD544CD - 4xCDs
5020422054424
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A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring recent studio albums by The William Loveday Intention! Comes in a clamshell box set complete with booklet. The four albums in the set are - People Think They Know Me But They Don’t Know Me Will There Ever Be A Day That You're Hung Like A Thief? Blud Under The Bridge The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss
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THE LURKERS - 'SEX CRAZY'
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DAMGOOD541LP - LP
5020422054110DAMGOOD541CD - CD
5020422054127
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We started working with The Lurkers, that’s Pete Stride, Nigel Moore and Esso in 2017 when we did a co-release with HUMAN PUNK records, that was the ‘High Velocity’ EP which featured ‘Danie Centric’ from The Feathers on guest vocals. We followed that with another brand new single called ‘Electrical Guitar’ in early 2019 and the idea formed to do a whole brand new album. They finished recording and mixing the album during the pandemic lockdown months of early 2020 and the ‘Sex Crazy’ album came out in September 2020. There's more to come!
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THE SENSIBLE GRAY CELLS - 'GET BACK INTO THE WORLD'
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DAMGOOD540LP - LP (COLOURED)
5020422054011DAMGOOD540CD - CD
5020422054028
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BLUE VINYL Brand new studio album featuring Captain Sensible and Paul Gray from The Damned, with Johnny Moped drummer Marty Love!
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THE LURKERS - 'FITS YOU LIKE A GLOVE'
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DAMGOOD539 - 7"
5020422053977
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Brand new 7” single from punk legends The Lurkers! A-side taken from the forthcoming album ‘Sex Crazy’. B-side exclusive to this release!
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THE COURETTES - 'HERE ARE THE COURETTES'
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DAMGOOD535LP - LP
5020422053519
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Remastered reissue of their fantastic debut LP with new sleeve artwork! The Courettes' debut album from 2015. Recorded in only two days by Kim Kix from the iconic PowerSolo in a small, cramped studio in Denmark. Unpolished tunes - fresh, raw and alive tunes - and the garage is shaking! Minimal overdubs, no editing, no auto tune, no bullshit. Punk straight out of the garage and a lot of riot grrrl charisma. Mixed by Kim Kix and Nikolaj Heyman. The album features eight original songs all in Mono. Now it’s reissued with a new sleeve and new mastering making it sound better and louder than ever! The Courettes are an explosive garage rock duo from Denmark/Brazil, highly praised by the world's coolest music magazines. Their first single for Damaged Goods, 'Want You! Like A Cigarette', was released in 2020 in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and received airplay on BBC6 Music in the UK and spins at P6Beat and P4 in Denmark. “This extraordinary 45 marries a super-charged pop top side to a charging, rampaging flip" wrote Kieron Tyler (MOJO). A brand new single, 'Hop The Twig', followed in Spring 2021.
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THE COURETTES - 'HERE WE ARE THE COURETTES'
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DAMGOOD5356CD - CD
5020422053526
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The Courettes' first two albums remastered and reissued on a 2-on-1 CD! HERE ARE THE COURETTES The Courettes´ debut album from 2015. Recorded in only two days by Kim Kix from the iconic PowerSolo in a small, cramped studio in Denmark. Unpolished tunes - fresh, raw and alive tunes - and the garage is shaking! Minimal overdubs, no editing, no auto tune, no bullshit. Punk straight out of the garage and a lot of riot grrrl charisma. Mixed by Kim Kix and Nikolaj Heyman. The album features eight original songs all in Mono. Now it’s reissued with a new sleeve, coloured vinyl and new mastering making it sound better and louder than ever! WE ARE THE COURETTES The Courettes´ 2nd album was produced by PowerSolo’s Kim Kix with Nikolaj Heyman as engineer in 2018. This album goes deeper in its songwriting showing The Courettes´ love for '60s Girl Groups like The Ronettes and Shangri-Las. Fuzzy wild sounds are there, loud as hell drumming also, but some additional elements were added to their garage recipe: soul ballads and a handful of '60s girlie pop. Sonic quality is now stereo and overdubs like organ, piano and backing vocals were allowed – all performed by The Courettes themselves, of course! Including 'Boom! Dynamite!', 'Time is Ticking' and 'Voodoo Doll' (featuring horror movie legend Coffin Joe).
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THE COURETTES - 'WE ARE THE COURETTES'
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DAMGOOD536LP - LP
5020422053618
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Remastered reissue of their second LP with new sleeve artwork! The Courettes´ 2nd album was produced by PowerSolo’s Kim Kix with Nikolaj Heyman as engineer in 2018. This album goes deeper in its songwriting showing The Courettes´ love for '60s Girl Groups like The Ronettes and Shangri-Las. Fuzzy wild sounds are there, loud as hell drumming also, but some additional elements were added to their garage recipe: soul ballads and a handful of '60s girlie pop. Sonic quality is now stereo and overdubs like organ, piano and backing vocals were allowed – all performed by The Courettes themselves, of course! Including 'Boom! Dynamite!', 'Time is Ticking' and 'Voodoo Doll' (featuring horror movie legend Coffin Joe). The Courettes are an explosive garage rock duo from Denmark/Brazil, highly praised by the world's coolest music magazines. Their first single for Damaged Goods, 'Want You! Like A Cigarette', was released in 2020 in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and received airplay on BBC6 Music in the UK and spins at P6Beat and P4 in Denmark. The first pressing of the 7” vinyl sold out in two weeks. “This extraordinary 45 marries a super-charged pop top side to a charging, rampaging flip" wrote Kieron Tyler (MOJO). A brand new single, 'Hop The Twig', followed in Spring 2021, featuring an exciting blend of garage, surf, '60s girlie pop and riot grrrl attitude.
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THE CHATHAM SINGERS - 'KINGS OF THE MEDWAY DELTA'
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DAMGOOD528LP - LP
5020422052819
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The first Damaged Goods release of 2020 is a brand new album featuring Wild Billy and his regular cohorts Nurse Julie and Wolf Howard. It's the third album they've released as The Chatham Singers and features twelve tracks of gritty Chess Studio style blues with Billy on great vocal and lyrical form throughout.
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JOHNNY MOPED - 'LIVE IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE 1983'
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DAMGOOD525LP - LP
5020422052512
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Johnny Moped “Official Bootleg” In 1983 Johnny Moped were asked to play a rally in Trafalgar Square, Central London The rally was for the Campaign Against Seal Hunting and was held on Saturday afternoon, the 12th March 1983. This recording, taken from the Dave Berk archives has been lovingly restored from the original cassette and will be available as a limited LP & Download on Damaged Goods Records. It’s got a screen printed cover and a A4 sheet of photos and info from the day. Features Captain Sensible, Beki Bondage and also the original speeches from the speakers on the day. Speeches include Gabrielle Drake and Fiona Richmond.
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1 VD Boiler
2 Hell Razor
3 No One
4 Make Trouble
5 Speech 1 (David Ennals MP/Fiona Richmond)
6 Save The Baby Seals
7 Foxhunters
8 Speech 2 (Gabrielle Drake/Johnny/Captain)
9 Hard Lovin' Man
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THE GALILEO 7 - 'THERE IS ONLY NOW'
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DAMGOOD515LP - LP
5020422051515DAMGOOD515CD - CD
5020422051522
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Brand new album from Medway's finest psych-beat combo! Heritage can be a harsh mistress. Ex-This, formerly of That. Past acclaim – particularly when it’s attached to some of the most visceral and elemental rock ’n’ roll of one’s generation – can become both a help and a hindrance; impossible to shake off but crucial to continued acceptance in the fickle world of pop music. Not that this is any concern of The Galileo 7 of course. As the title of their sixth album proudly proclaims, There Is Only Now, and this record is nothing if not Now! From humble beginnings 10 years ago as a DIY outlet for Allan Crockford’s songwriting ambitions (he was rarely afforded such luxuries as bass-wielding anchorman of The Prisoners, JTQ, Prime Movers, Solarflares et al) The Galileo 7 has evolved into a powerhouse live act delivering the kind of lysergically-inclined technicolour garage-rock rarely witnessed these days; one born of experience, exploration and an enjoyment of one’s own craft. Following a period of fluctuation, the present line-up stabilised around Crockford (vocals, guitar), Paul Moss (bass, vocals), Viv Bonsels (keyboard, vocals) and the busiest man in garage, Matthew ‘Mole’ Lambert (drums, vocals) – yep, there are a lot of vocals in the mix here and the record is all the brighter for it. The G7’s long-players since 2016’s storming “live in the studio” set Live-O-Graphic have carried way more clout as a result of this newfound energy, breathing fresh life into Crockford’s songs as the songs themselves delve ever more skilfully into a pool populated with Dandyish psychedelic pop, British Invasion muscle, new-wave sparkle and that ever-present Medway magic. “I wanted to make an album a lot quicker this time,” Allan explains. “The last one took nearly two and a half years. This one has been written and recorded in less than a year, which is pretty good going for us. This time we were rehearsing and recording the songs pretty much as soon as I'd written and demoed them, and I think it has a unified feel that I really like.” The approach to capturing the group’s hot sound on tape remains the same. “The tracks would go down on 8-track tape then be transferred onto my digital multi-track, then put on the computer at home for all the overdubs and mixing. I'd like to record in a ‘proper’ studio for a month with an engineer, lovely 2-inch tape and vintage compressors, but this is a budget operation!” Ah, the tracks – a more panoramic, dare we say eclectic selection than we’ve heard before from the G7. The pastoral psych-pop moments are more colourful, the crash-bang-wallop gear more dynamic, the riffs sharp enough to take your eye out. “I don't know if 'challenging' is the right word,” he continues, “but in the context of this kind of 'garage' sub-genre we all get lumped into, it's almost like we're taking a risk by doing something a little different, quiet, slow, odd, proggy, whatever. We're just a pop group, in the original sense of the word, so if I accidentally write something a bit different we'll have a go at it.” For the first time all four members are featured as lead singers. “I wanted everyone to sing at least one song on this album, mainly because I get sick of hearing my own voice for 40 minutes. I'm probably the least accomplished vocalist in the band. I think having different vocalists and some 'different' songs on the album makes this album a better listen as a whole – it was definitely easier to come up with a decent track listing that varied the pace and feel.” “Improvising on a theme of doubt,” Crockford sings on ‘The World Looks Different Today’, yet There Is Only Now is possibly The Galileo 7’s most satisfyingly determined record yet; its sonic peaks and troughs bound together by four people singing and playing in unison, and from the heart. And doing it loud. Andy Morten Shindig! February 2019
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JOHNNY MOPED - 'LURRIGATE YOUR MIND'
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DAMGOOD514LP - LP
5020422051416DAMGOOD514CD - CD
5020422051423
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Time flies! It's was three years since the band's last album, It's A Real Cool Baby, but the band had been busy in the meantime. Following the amicable departure of founding member Dave Berk, they welcomed Marty Love as their new drummer. Since then the band have had successful tours of the UK, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. They've had prestigious slots at Blackpool's famous Rebellion Festival, recorded radio sessions for Marc Riley's BBC 6Music Show, and played a storming set at Damaged Goods 30th Anniversary show at London's Koko last September along with touring with The Damned and a headline Christmas show at The Lexington. So what can we tell you about this LP? Well it has 14 tracks including recent sold out single 'Catatonic'. There's a guest appearance from none other than Captain Sensible, a longtime friend and champion of the band. The original Mopeds Johnny and Slimy Toad have been joined by long time members, Jacko Pistorious , Rock N Roll Robot (also know as Rob from legendary Ska/Punk band ‘Case’) and Marty Love for the new album. It was recorded at Panther Studios, Reigate and produced by longtime associate Dick Crippen.
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GRAHAM DAY & THE FOREFATHERS - 'GOOD THINGS'
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DAMGOOD512LP - LP
5020422051218DAMGOOD512CD - CD
5020422051225
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Expanded reissue of their 2014 album. Graham Day – vocals, guitar Allan Crockford – bass, vocals Wolf Howard – drums Re-issue of the 2014 ‘almost live’ collection of greatest hits and misses from more than thirty years of the Graham Day songbook - with three extra tracks. Out of print since 2015. The crucial ingredients of The Prisoners, Prime Movers, Solarflares and The Gaolers extracted and squeezed into one stripped down power trio… Graham Day, Allan Crockford and Wolf Howard have been intermittently blasting out their muscular version of Medway garage-rock (tm) in various combinations and guises over a period of more than 30 years, releasing dozens of albums between them. Graham and Allan were in The Prisoners (82-86), before forming The Prime Movers with Wolf in 1988, releasing 3 albums before they split in 1993. The trio were re-united in 1999 as the Solarflares, releasing another 5 albums until once again calling it a day in 2004. They also found time to play in various pairings over that period in the original line-up of The James Taylor Quartet and Goodchilde (Allan and Wolf), and Billy Childish's Buff Medways (Graham and Wolf). These days Graham and Wolf also play cinematic instrumentals in The Senior Service, and Allan leads psych-popsters The Galileo 7 (both bands also on Damaged Goods).
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GRAHAM DAY & THE GAOLERS - 'JUST A LITTLE'
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DAMGOOD511 - 7"
5020422051171
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It’s a brand new limited edition 7” from Graham Day & The Gaolers! Last December to celebrate 30 years of Damaged Goods Records, Graham Day & The Gaolers got together after an eight year lay-off to play at the Lexington in Islington. Taking advantage of a rare visit to the UK from drummer Dan Eletxro, they took to Rochester’s Ranscombe studio and bashed out the two new tracks that make up this fabulous 7” single. This will be the Gaolers’ first new release in 11 years, and both songs are full of the typical soulful tunes played with no-frills energy and passion that you would expect from the trio. It’s as if they’ve never been away! Graham Day – Guitar/Vocals Jon Barker – Bass Dan Eletxro - Drums
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THE BRIEFS - 'PLATINUM RATS'
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DAMGOOD510LP - LP (COLOURED)
5020422051027DAMGOOD510CD - CD
5020422051010
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Skinny ties, plastic sunglasses, matching bleach-blond dye jobs, bad haircuts and a record collection centred on The Adverts, Buzzcocks, The Undertones and The Weirdos. Yes folks The Briefs are back with a brand new album! Platinum Rats is the band's fifth LP and the first since 2005's Steal Yer Heart. That's not to say they've not been busy - Singer guitarist Steve E. Nix and bassist Steve Kicks have released three albums in the last decade by their other band The Cute Lepers. Where The Cute Lepers records feature some added power-pop drive, The Briefs are closer in spirit to pure '77 punk - loud, raucous and fierce, yet cohesive, hooky and hilarious. They have so much energy, it’s hard to believe they’re from Seattle, the city that put lattes and flannel on the map. The Briefs still make Seattle their home, but they’ve come a long way since their debut record, and they’re still cranking out hits. One of the hardest working bands in America. They’ll play any time, anywhere! The band formed in 2000 and originally consisted of Daniel J. Travanti (guitar/vocals), Steve E. Nix (guitar/vocals), Lance Romance (bass/vocals) and Chris Brief (drums/vocals). They released their first full-length album, Hit After Hit, in 2000 on Dirtnap Records. The band was courted by and reportedly signed with major label Interscope Records, following their 2002 release of Off the Charts, but that deal later fell through. The Briefs re-surfaced on California's BYO Records with the release of 2004's Sex Objects and the reissue of their Dirtnap-era LPs. In 2004, the Briefs went on a European tour without Lance Romance, who stayed behind to get his GED. In his place went bassist Steve Kicks of Vancouver, British Columbia's band, New Town Animals. Lance re-joined the line-up for the 2004 release party of Sex Objects, but retired from the band in 2005. Kicks since become a permanent addition and was a full member for the follow-up, 2005's Steal Yer Heart. For more info on The Briefs check out The Greatest Story Ever Told, a movie about the band made in 2007. It’s available on DVD with a bonus disc including rare live recordings of some of the bands’ most popular hits. That's the history but fans both old and new should check out Platinum Rats, 12 tracks of pure punk rock pandemonium, it will not disappoint!
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THE BRIEFS - 'I HATE THE WORLD'
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DAMGOOD509 - 7"
5020422050976
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Skinny ties, plastic sunglasses, matching bleach-blond dye jobs, bad haircuts and a record collection centred on The Adverts, Buzzcocks, The Undertones and The Weirdos. Yes folks The Briefs are back with a brand new single! 'I Hate The World' is taken from Platinum Rats, the band's fifth LP and the first since 2005's Steal Yer Heart. It's backed with an exclusive B-side 'Lonely Satellite' Singer guitarist Steve E. Nix and bassist Steve Kicks have released three albums in the last decade by their other band The Cute Lepers. Where The Cute Lepers records feature some added power-pop drive, The Briefs are closer in spirit to pure '77 punk - loud, raucous and fierce, yet cohesive, hooky and hilarious. The band formed in 2000 and originally consisted of Daniel J. Travanti (guitar/vocals), Steve E. Nix (guitar/vocals), Lance Romance (bass/vocals) and Chris Brief (drums/vocals). They released their first full-length album, Hit After Hit, in 2000 on Dirtnap Records. The band was courted by and reportedly signed with major label Interscope Records, following their 2002 release of Off the Charts, but that deal later fell through. The Briefs re-surfaced on California's BYO Records with the release of 2004's Sex Objects and the reissue of their Dirtnap-era LPs. In 2004, the Briefs went on a European tour without Lance Romance, who stayed behind to get his GED. In his place went bassist Steve Kicks of Vancouver, British Columbia's band, New Town Animals. Lance re-joined the line-up for the 2004 release party of Sex Objects, but retired from the band in 2005. Kicks since become a permanent addition and was a full member for the follow-up, 2005's Steal Yer Heart. For more info on The Briefs check out The Greatest Story Ever Told, a movie about the band made in 2007. It’s available on DVD with a bonus disc including rare live recordings of some of the bands’ most popular hits. That's the history but fans both old and new should check out Platinum Rats, 12 tracks of pure punk rock pandemonium, it will not disappoint!
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VARIOUS - 'DAMAGED GOODS 1988-2018'
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DAMGOOD500LP - 2xLPs
5020422050013DAMGOOD500CD - 2xCDs
5020422050020
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COMPILATION SPANNING THIRTY YEARS OF DAMAGED GOODS! Seems like only yesterday but it's 30 years since the first Damaged Goods release! As part of the anniversary celebrations we're releasing this compilation bringing together a selection of top tracks, deep cuts, lost gems and personal favourites. Punk, garage and indie are all well represented, with artists including Thee Headcoats, Holly Golightly, Johnny Moped, Manic Street Preachers, Cowbell, Pete Molinari, Fabienne Delsol, Thee Dagger Debs and many more! The past is a foreign country and there's certainly been many changes in the musical climate since 1988. Formats have come and gone (and returned!). Online, digital and streaming music were all pure science fiction then. But good music is as they say timeless. With this in mind we bring you some of the best music Damaged Goods Records has released since its humble beginnings in Ian Damaged's front room. With 500 releases to date it was difficult to whittle this collection down onto two pieces of vinyl or two shiny compact discs but we're happy with the result. As a handy best-of or taster for further investigation we hope you'll enjoy this selection. Place it on your turntable, crank up the volume and enjoy!
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BILLY CHILDISH - 'PUNK ROCK IST NICHT TOT'
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DAMGOOD499CD - 2xCDs
5020422049925
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How did Billy come to be? Holed away in the distant inter tidal marshland of mid-Seventies Kent, breaking rocks in the hot sun as a teenage dockland stonemason, undiagnosed dyslexia and general insubordination denying him the educational path he might have taken, Childish took the punk gospel Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols preached in 1976 as revealed scriptural truth. Forty-two years later Childish is the last man standing, the most enduring, uncorrupted and prolific of the class of ‘77. And some heroic fool has now tried to sum him up in a mere forty-eight songs, from the thousand or so he has recorded. This compilation provides tiny tasters of each of Childish’s phases, and some snippets of short-lived side-projects too. Administered correctly, it will make an addict of you. You have been warned. Here’s a field guide to the many faces of Billy Childish.
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HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - 'DO THE GET ALONG'
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DAMGOOD498CD - CD
5020422049826
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In 2018 HOLLY GOLIGHTLY was back with her first full band album since 2015’s Slowtown Now! Do The Get Along features 12 songs performed by the perfect Holly Golightly band line-up of Bruce Brand (drums), Matt Radford (double bass), Ed Deegan (guitar) and Bradley Burgess (guitar). Alongide nine original tracks there are three choice covers – 'Satan is His Name' by Steve King & The Echelons, 'Love (Can't You Hear Me)' by the Knight Bros., and 'I Don't Know', originally recorded by Ruth Brown. Holly first came to musical prominence as a member of Thee Headcoatees, a Billy Childish/Thee Headcoats all-girl splinter group in 1991. Four years later she broke away from the garage punk scene with the release of her debut solo album The Good Things, which featured a mix of folk, early electric blues, & '60s beat influenced rock 'n' roll. It's a template that she's honed over the course of 12 solo albums, along the way impressing celebrity fans such as Jim Jarmusch (Holly's track 'Tell Me Now So I Know' featured as the main title theme in his Broken Flowers movie), and most notably Jack White who duetted with Holly on 'It's True That We Love One Another', the final track on the classic White Stripes album Elephant. Holly's been busy over the last decade as half of blues/Americana duo Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs (The Brokeoffs being multi-instrumentalist Lawyer Dave). The pair have released nine well-received albums, and undertaken many tours on both sides of the Atlantic.
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THE LURKERS - 'ELECTRICAL GUITAR'
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DAMGOOD497 - 7"
5020422049772
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It’s a brand NEW Lurkers single. The Lurkers formed late in 1976, the original lineup consisting of Pete Stride on Guitar, Pete ‘’Manic Esso’ Haynes’ on Drums, Nigel Moore on Bass and Howard Wall on Vocals. In the 2010’s, Esso, Stride and Moore have been collaborating again under the name of The Lurkers : God’s Lonely Men and released a album in 2012 entitled Chemical Landslide which contained tracks considered a lot heavier than anything they had previously recorded under the Lurkers name. In 2016 they released a further album ‘The Future’s Calling’ and then collaborated on follow-up material with The Featherz’ lead singer Danie Centric. The first fruits of the collaboration with Danie was the ‘High Velocity‘ EP, was released in late 2017 as a limited edition pink vinyl 7” on Human Punk/Damaged Goods. The Lurkers have since been recording more new material with Pete Stride and guest vocalist Danie Centric sharing lead vocal duties, the first fruits of which being this brand new 7”, limited to 750 copies on split black / clear vinyl. We asked Pete Stride about the new tracks – ‘Electrical Guitar’ started out as being slightly tongue in cheek, but I came to realise that it can also be seen as a direct statement of belief in the essence of rock ‘n’ roll – 4 beats to a bar, electrical guitar, sometimes that’s all you need! ‘That Was Julia’ is a rather more dark proposition, a tale of thwarted love and obsession, given a bit of a sapphic twist due to Danie’s vocal.”
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THEE DAGGER DEBS - 'THEE DAGGER DEBS'
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DAMGOOD495LP - LP
5020422049512
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PUB ROCK POWER TRIO! DEBUT LP! Thee Dagger Debs are three girls – brought together by their love of ’60s garage, British R’n’B and ’70s proto punk and pub rock; Chiswick records, The Stranglers, Dr Feelgood and Nine Below Zero always feature heavily on their playlists. Since 2011 Laura and Letty have played together in The Neasden Bees and Thee Jezebels, and since the autumn of 2016 joining forces with drummer Paula, developed their ultimate line-up in Thee Dagger Debs, a pub-rock power trio. The girls have played with bands such as Johnny Moped and Giuda, and have built up a following both in the UK and across Europe, renowned for their sweaty, high-energy rock ‘n’ roll gigs, followed by happily propping up the bar and dancing ‘til dawn. Thee Dagger Debs are… Laura Having been in all manner of musical outfits from the age of 14, our screamin’, Epiphone SG-slingin’ frontwoman is happiest either on stage or propping up the bar. Also a DJ, she regularly spins her rekkids both in London and the rest of Europe. Lager top. Letty Our Letty treats her thumpin’ bassline like she does her marathons- relentless pace and a lot of sweat. You may recognise her from such musical exploits as The Sine Waves as well as her DJing pseudonym Mz Siren. The mushy pea enthusiast couldn’t ‘alf murder a pint of Guinness. Paula Our tub-thumper is none other than Way Out Radio host Paula! She started playing drums when she was a mere 8 years old, and having been pounding the skins in several punk bands from the age of 13, our Paula remains busy as ever writing for music magazines and spinning records across the world. Rum ‘n’ coke.
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MISS LUDELLA BLACK - 'TILL YOU LIE IN YOUR GRAVE'
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DAMGOOD492LP - LP
5020422049215DAMGOOD492CD - CD
5020422049222
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BACK WITH A NEW LP! FEATURING THE MASONICS! Miss Ludella Black is back with brand new LP Till You Lie In Your Grave, her follow up to 2008's From This Witness Stand. Yes, 10 long years but worth the wait! Till You Lie In Your Grave is the former Delmona and Headcoatee, Ludella's 3rd and favourite solo album released by Damaged Goods. It was recorded at Jim Riley's Ranscombe studio, in her home town of Rochester in Kent. The fourteen songs include twelve titles penned by Mick Hampshire, a cover of The Beatles' 'Wait', and a nod to her headbanging days with a rendition of Black Sabbath's 'Am I Going Insane'. Pour yourself a large Merlot, sit back, relax and enjoy! By the way,the sharp eyed of you may notice that the location of the photo shoot on the record cover bears an uncanny resemblance to that on the Headcoatees' Girlsville LP. Funny that! “Of all the creatures, man alone has ears on his stomach.”
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Till You Lie In Your Grave
Am I Going Insane?
The Brother I Never Had
You Don't Know Right From Wrong
Monotony
Cruel Anniversary
A Creature Called Doubt
Save My Soul
Every Little Bit Of Me
I'm Not Gonna Cry
Wait
Love You I
Dead Sea Fruit
I'm Not Playing Your Game No More
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THE SENIOR SERVICE - 'KING COBRA'
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DAMGOOD490LP - LP
5020422049017DAMGOOD490CD - CD
5020422049024
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The Senior Service are back with their follow up to 2016's The Girl In The Glass Case. Fans of their soundtrack inspired instrumentals will dig this new collection which features the recent 7” 'Slingshot' and 12 other fine cuts. Get tuned in to the twangy guitar, churning organ, pumping bass and funk drums that define The Senior Service! She lays coiled in the dark, her smooth skin pushed hard against the coarse wicker-work of her small prison. Eyes glisten emerald green through the blackness; a pink tongue darts from her mouth, lightning fast. She is patient but expectant, like a spring pressed down hard into the cavity of a music box, ready, waiting… The sudden crash of a guitar chord begins to chug rhythmically, purposefully – her senses are awoken and then, immediately captivated, she uncoils. Hypnotised by the sound, she raises her body from its curled position and with little force, loosens the lid of her prison – she lifts her head into the newly discovered light just as the music builds. A cathartic trance overtakes her and she begins to dance, her long slender body swaying from side to side in perfect harmony with the aural pleasures that have entranced her. The music continues as she slides gently down the outside of the basket that has kept her incarcerated for countless hours. Her freedom tastes exquisite and the accompanying soundtrack feels perfect – so many sounds; textures; rhythms. And as the bright blue sky moves through a myriad of ever-darkening hues, she is relentless in her dance, unable to shake the hypnotic hold that the music has over her. Then, as the music fades, she awakens from her trance, renewed, invigorated; she grows taller and lifts her face to touch the moon – a perfectly cylindrical white disc that hangs in the ink black sky – and with the music forever within her, she glides with sensual reptilian grace into the night.
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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - 'BRAND NEW CAGE'
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DAMGOOD488CD - CD
5020422048829
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“The punk was in me and it had to come out, You mite try to dismiss me as dockyard lout, but I never sort fame – I came to glory by a different rout” Billy Childish – 'The Punk Was In Me (And It Had Come Out)' “We're like a cherry tree in the garden that nobody can be bothered to scrump cos it has slightly undersized fruit which has not been standardised for a supermarket. But we're the real thing and the jays and the crows like us.” Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back with their fifth album in five years. Brand New Cage follows the critically acclaimed SQ1 album from 2016. It features 10 new Billy Childish songs along with two written and sung by the band's bassist Nurse Julie. Subjects include lost landmarks of '70s Chatham, the true revolution of punk, spirituality, lost loves and the sidelining of Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones.
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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - 'IN THE DEVIL'S FOCUS - BBC SESSIONS'
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DAMGOOD485 - 10"
5020422048515
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10” LP from Billy Childish's CTMF! “We're like a cherry tree in the garden that nobody can be bothered to scrump cos it has slightly undersized fruit which has not been standardised for a supermarket. But we're the real thing and the jays and the crows like us.” Billy Childish – July 2017 For one week in July this year Billy Childish & CTMF had the unique disctinction of airing radio sessions on both Marc Riley and Gideon Coe's BBC 6Music shows. The songs broadcast during the week of Billy Two Mates, (as it became known) is now available on a limited edition 10” vinyl LP.
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THE GALILEO 7 - 'TEAR YOUR MINDS WIDE OPEN! (EXPANDED EDITION)'
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DAMGOOD484CD-EXP - CD
5020422048423
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CD VERSION HAS 8 Extra tracks. Medway garage-psych at its finest! Prior perception is a right nause, especially when it comes to The Galileo 7. This Kentish quartet have now been kicking out keen psych-pop nuggets since 2010, over the course of four albums and several 45s, but vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Allan Crockford's illustrious past and parallel present, as bassist with a roll call of the greatest British bands of the past 30+ years – The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet, The Prime Movers, The Solarflares, Graham Day & The Forefathers – seems to have, weirdly, done 'em no favours. And in an age when peeps of a certain age are going goo-goo googly-eyed over the XTC back catalogue, rediscovering all manner of 60s psych-pop and garage treats, and lionising such moderne combos as Thee Oh Sees and Tame Impala, that the Galileo 7 haven’t reaped comparable plaudits seems just plain stoopid... French rock’n’roll maven Phillippe Migrenne, the former manager of Jesse ‘Hammersmith Gorillas’ Hector AND Tav Falco, is a hard fella to impress and he recently asked whether I’d seen the Galileo 7, as he caught ‘em by chance in Paris and had been blown away – “I mean,” he said, “there aren’t many bands who can casually knock off a brilliant version of ‘Astonomy Domine’…” That should give you some idea of Allan’s six-string prowess, and what’s more he’s got the vox and songwriting chops to go with it. Of course, moving from bass to centre stage is really just completing the circle, Allan having initially been the embryonic Prisoners’ guitarist, with Graham Day holding down the bottom end, and he also played six-string with Johnny & The Bandits, Goodchilde and The Stabilisers. But enough of this after-the-fact justification, tossing the weight of pedigree aside, and hearing the Galileo 7 with fresh lugs, they’re a hell of a combo. This, their fifth album (counting the scorching “Live-o-Graphic” set), sounds like the work of a quartet of twenty-somethings – it’s high-energy, psychedelic garage rock’n’roll, replete with catchy, memorable tunes, seriously gnarly guitar, darkly humourous lyrics, four-part harmonies, Viv’s searing organ, Paul’s pin-point bass work and gloriously crash, bang, wallop drums, in a Keith Moon meets Thom Mooney (The Nazz) vein. The latter comes courtesy of longtime Galileo 7 bassist Mole (Embrooks / Higher State / State Records), whose shift to the drum seat has really kicked everything up a notch – his dynamite sticksmanship and stellar backing vox really bring out the best in the band – from the kinetic opener, “Cold Hearted Stowaway”, to the vinyl album’s elegiac closing track, “Nobody Knows Anything”, they’re firing on all cylinders. And everything sounds fantastic, too, clear yet punchy as hell, thanks to a typically trad Medway approach to recording, albeit informed by new technology. Everything was recorded live to eight-track in rehearsal, playing as a band, then overdubbed at home, in Allan and Viv’s cellar studio, which even boasts its own Hammond (“And it’s never coming up out of there!” he says), meaning that the album sounds exactly as intended – maximum impact, not too glossy and undeniably exciting. It stands should-to-shoulder with such footlong Medway classics as The Prisoners’ “The Last Forefathers” and The Milkshakes’ “After School Session” – it’s just SO RIGHT! The expanded musical possibilities provided by that DIY recording process and Mole’s move to the drums are exemplified by the CD-only ‘bonus’ track, the ten-minute “The Girl In The Glass Case (Beta Version)”, a wild-assed, totally live jam marrying Allan’s careening guitar with a solemnly-told tale based upon the sleeve notes that he was asked to pen for fellow Kentish travellers The Senior Service’s debut album, which is also available on Damaged Goods. “I wrote a short story which was too long to use as sleeve notes,” Allan explains, “I thought of The Velvet Underground’s ‘The Gift’, so we recorded a one-take jam and Viv’s sister-in-law happens to be a voiceover artist, so she was perfect to narrate it.” But not only did said walloping, ten-minute musical rampage bequeath one track, Allan also used portions of it to fashion the album closer, proper: “‘Nobody Knows Anything’ was created from the first three or four minutes of the jam,” he confirms, “and I wrote a song on top of it…” Characteristically, although he’s justifiably proud of the album, Allan’s also too damn modest, commenting of the recording process that, “A lot of it is luck, just as much as judgment,” and, concerning his top-notch tunesmithery, quipping, “I thought it was a black art, writing songs, until I was about 43.” Well, for longtime fans of the uniquely sussed bands who appeared from the Kentish Delta, seemingly as if by magic, when British music all-but-sucked in the early 1980s, this album sounds as fresh and exciting as you’d hope. For those fans of 1960s psych, beat and garage who, mystifyingly, haven’t investigated The Galileo 7 until now, fuck me, you’re in for a helluva treat! Joss Hutton B-Side the A-Side Sally’s Cafe, Timsbury, August 2017
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THEE HEADCOATEES - 'PUNK GIRLS'
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DAMGOOD482LP - LP
5020422048218
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LONG OUT OF PRINT 1997 LP (ORIGINALLY ON SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY) – ON VINYL ONCE AGAIN! Thee Headcoatees Punk Girls reissued after 20 years, it’s one of their best and meanest records. The opener, 'Punk Girl', is Kyra at her most defiant. She’s had people walk all over her and abuse her and she’s not taking shit from anyone anymore. She’s out for blood and it shows. Ludella is equally spiteful on 'Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand'. This is really a great angry album. Best version of 'Teenage Kicks' after the original. Screw The Raconteurs. Jack White knows who ripped off who. Of course closer, 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' is the Thee Headcoatees on fire. Not a bad song on here. The Headcoatees were Holly Golightly, Ludella Black, Kyra Rubella & Bongo Debbie, they released seven studio albums, a singles compilation and a split live album with Thee Headcoats. Thee Headcoatees played live along with Thee Headcoats from 1990 – 1999 when they split followed a year later by Thee Headcoats. Holly Golightly has gone on to release 13 solo albums and too many singles to mention, plus notable guest appearances on records by Rocket From The Crypt, The White Stripes and Mikabomb. Ludella Black was a founder member of legendary Medway band the DelMonas and has also released two solo albums with another planned for 2008 and is currently out on tour with The Masonics. Kyra Rubella released one solo album and singles on quite a few labels in the 1990’s, she also did a single with Armitage Shanks in 1996. Kyra is currently in The A-Lines along with Debbie and Julie from The Musicians Of The British Empire. Bongo Debbie is currently in various bands including The Buffets, The A-lines, & Dutronc and before that was also in The Would Be Goods, Honey & The Hucksters, Baby Birkin and probably a lot more besides.
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THE BUFF MEDWAYS - '1914'
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DAMGOOD478LP - LP
5020422047815
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Billy Childish formed The Buff Medways in 2000. Their full name was Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association. During the 19th century a breed a chicken was developed peculiar to the Medway area. The breed, now extinct, was a table bird for the London hotel market. The BUFF MEDWAY project, based at Fort Amherst, Chatham, attempted to recreate that ancient fowl through a selective breeding project. The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old but as one critic wrote the band were “the snarled lip embodiment of rock’n‘roll spirit rather than nostalgia or shabby revivalism”. Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS were all about great songs and vibrant raw energy – no frills! The original line up was Billy on guitar and vocal, Johnny Barker (bass) and Wolf Howard (drums), both ex-Daggermen. Johnny later left the band and was replaced by Graham Day (The Prisoners). They released two LPs for Graham Coxon’s label Transcopic Records Steady The Buffs & 1914, one on Vinyl Japan called This Is This. Their last album Medway Wheelers came out on Damaged Goods in 2005. The Buffs called it a day in 2006, going out on a high with a sold out show at London’s Dirty Water Club on the 27th of October 2006.
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THE BUFF MEDWAYS - 'STEADY THE BUFFS'
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DAMGOOD477LP - LP
5020422047716
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Billy Childish formed The Buff Medways in 2000. Their full name was Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association. During the 19th century a breed a chicken was developed peculiar to the Medway area. The breed, now extinct, was a table bird for the London hotel market. The BUFF MEDWAY project, based at Fort Amherst, Chatham, attempted to recreate that ancient fowl through a selective breeding project. The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old but as one critic wrote the band were “the snarled lip embodiment of rock’n‘roll spirit rather than nostalgia or shabby revivalism”. Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS were all about great songs and vibrant raw energy – no frills! The original line up was Billy on guitar and vocal, Johnny Barker (bass) and Wolf Howard (drums), both ex-Daggermen. Johnny later left the band and was replaced by Graham Day (The Prisoners). They released two LPs for Graham Coxon’s label Transcopic Records Steady The Buffs & 1914, one on Vinyl Japan called This Is This. Their last album Medway Wheelers came out on Damaged Goods in 2005. The Buffs called it a day in 2006, going out on a high with a sold out show at London’s Dirty Water Club on the 27th of October 2006.
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CYANIDE PILLS - 'SLICED AND DICED'
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DAMGOOD475CD - CD
5020422047525
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Fact #1 - Cyanide Pills are a brilliant live band. Anyone who has seen them at Rebellion Festival or on one of their jaunts around Europe will agree. Fact #2 – They write great songs. Fact #3 – Their third LP Sliced and Diced is due out in March. It has 18 songs on it. (See Fact #2) Keeping the spirit of '78 alive, the band's mix of punk blasts and melodic power-pop has never sounded better. With razor-sharp twin guitars, a pounding rhythm section and un-matched lyrical barbs, Sliced and Diced is one of the best albums you'll hear all year. It's everything you love about the band. Since the last LP (2013's Still Bored), the band have gigged alongside some of the biggest names in punk including Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Johnny Moped, The Lurkers and many more. Cyanide Pills will be touring Europe in March and also play Rebellion Festival in Blackpool this August. Like the previous album, Sliced and Diced was recorded at The Billiard Room in Leeds by Wedding Present producer Carl Rosamond.
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CYANIDE PILLS - 'BIG MISTAKE'
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DAMGOOD474 - 7"
5020422047471
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New 7” from Leeds' finest! Fact #1 - Cyanide Pills are a brilliant live band. Anyone who has seen them at Rebellion Festival or on one of their jaunts around Europe will agree. Fact #2 – They write great songs. Fact #3 – 'Big Mistake' is the first single taken from their new album Sliced and Diced Fact #4 – You will love it! Keeping the spirit of '78 alive, the band's mix of punk blasts and melodic power-pop has never sounded better. With razor-sharp twin guitars, a pounding rhythm section and un-matched lyrical barbs, 'Big Mistake' is taken from the band's new album Sliced And Diced and is backed by an exclusive B-Side. Since the last LP (2013's Still Bored), the band have gigged alongside some of the biggest names in punk including Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Johnny Moped, The Lurkers and many more. Cyanide Pills will be touring Europe in March and also play Rebellion Festival in Blackpool this August. Like the previous album, Sliced and Diced was recorded at The Billiard Room in Leeds by Wedding Present producer Carl Rosamond.
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SLIME - 'CONTROVERSIAL'
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DAMGOOD471 - 7"
5020422047174
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Long-lost punk classic reissued on limited edition slime-green 7”! Another in a long line of punk single re-issues from Damaged Goods, this time it's the 7" released on Toadstool Records by the band SLIME. Slime was SLIMY TOAD from Johnny Moped's solo adventure into a recording studio during a bit of downtime in Johnny Mopeds career in 1978. He was joined by mates Dave Tate on drums and Phil Sayers on vox and bass. They never got around to playing live as Moped duties took over once again. The single came out on Toadstool Records, Slimy's idea for a record label which was run by Chris Goodness who run a couple of record shops in Caterham, South London. It was recorded in Richmond studios where the legendary Cycledelic was also recorded.
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UNWANTED - 'SECRET POLICE'
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DAMGOOD462 - 7"
5020422046276
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Punk classic reissued on limited edition coloured 7”! First ever reissue of The Unwanted's second and final single on Raw Records. Originally released in late 1977. Formed in March 1977 in London they played under their original name, SMAK, for the first two months, including the recording of the Live at the Roxy LP, before settling on the name of The Unwanted and playing at many of London's Punk hotspots, The Man In The Moon, Marquee Club, the Roxy and the Vortex. Although a highly entertaining live act, consistent line up changes resulted in a stop-start career. Members came and went including bassist Dave Postman from Flowers Of Romance, drummer Robbie from Peroxide Romance and those who went on to greater things, Robin Wills (later to the Barracudas) and Vince Ely (to the Psychedelic Furs). Their debut single 'Withdrawal' (on Raw records) was a superb slice of ramalamadolequeue, but the album they craved, and deserved, would never happen.The rest of the year was spent sporadically touring, before a second single, and a complete image overhaul, occurred at the start of 1978. 'Secret Police' (again on Raw) was a loping sub-reggae single and most fans felt short changed after their original full on punk attack. The band continued on for a few months more supporting their long time friends Siouxsie and the Banshees and X-Ray Spex whenever the opportunity arose. However in May, Ollie's past caught up with him as he was given a six month prison sentence for stealing a union jack flag from a flag pole in Bromley the previous June. The Unwanted were no more. OLLIE WISDOM - VOCALS MARK CURZON – GUITAR PAUL GARDNER - BASS DANNY DESTROY - DRUMS
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LOCKJAW - 'RADIO CALL SIGN'
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DAMGOOD461 - 7"
5020422046177
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Punk classic reissued on limited edition colour 7”! First ever reissue of Lockjaw's debut single. Originally released in late 1977. Lockjaw began life in Crawley Sussex, first as The Guernsey Flowers and then The Amazing Doctor Octopuss. This is the first of two singles they recorded for Cambridge-based Raw Records. A second 7” - 'Journalist Jive', followed in 1978. Their continued claim to fame is that Simon Gallup was later in the band before going on to join The Cure, and it was his older brother Dave who wrote 'Radio Call Sign'. Bo Zo – vocals Micky Morbid – guitar Andy Septic – bass Oddy Ordish – drums
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THE MILKSHAKES - 'REVENGE ? TRASH FROM THE VAULTS'
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DAMGOOD459LP - LP
5020422045910
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THE MILKSHAKES were mainly Mickey Hampshire (Git/Vox); Billy Childish (Git/Vox); Bruce Brand (Drums); Russ Wilkins (Bass) When punk rock group the Pop Rivets broke up in 1980, Billy Childish joined forces with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a group called Mickey and the Milkshakes with his cohort Banana Bertie. The two began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, Talking ’bout Milkshakes! in 1981. With Childish and Hampshire sharing guitar and vocal duties, Bruce Brand on drums, and Bertie on bass (later replaced by Russ Wilkins then John Agnew), the Milkshakes’ sound was a primitive blend of British beat groups, like the early Kinks at their toughest, and hard-rocking American guitar instrumentalists like Link Wray. This sound came to be known as the “Medway sound” and the core members have been playing a variation on it throughout their whole careers. The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording nine records in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of Childish’s primitive songwriting and Hampshire’s more melodic leanings. The group also masterminded and backed a Medway girl group, the Delmonas. When Mickey left The Milkshakes in 1984 Childish, Brand and Agnew went on to form Thee Mighty Caesars. Mickey and Bruce now play in The Masonics along with Ludella Black from The Del Monas, and Russ lives in Scotland and fronts the Wildebeests as well as being Lord Rochester.
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THE MILKSHAKES - 'THEE KNIGHTS OF TRASHE'
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DAMGOOD458LP - LP
5020422045811
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THE MILKSHAKES were mainly Mickey Hampshire (Git/Vox); Billy Childish (Git/Vox); Bruce Brand (Drums); Russ Wilkins (Bass) When punk rock group the Pop Rivets broke up in 1980, Billy Childish joined forces with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a group called Mickey and the Milkshakes with his cohort Banana Bertie. The two began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, Talking ’bout Milkshakes! in 1981. With Childish and Hampshire sharing guitar and vocal duties, Bruce Brand on drums, and Bertie on bass (later replaced by Russ Wilkins then John Agnew), the Milkshakes’ sound was a primitive blend of British beat groups, like the early Kinks at their toughest, and hard-rocking American guitar instrumentalists like Link Wray. This sound came to be known as the “Medway sound” and the core members have been playing a variation on it throughout their whole careers. The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording nine records in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of Childish’s primitive songwriting and Hampshire’s more melodic leanings. The group also masterminded and backed a Medway girl group, the Delmonas. When Mickey left The Milkshakes in 1984 Childish, Brand and Agnew went on to form Thee Mighty Caesars. Mickey and Bruce now play in The Masonics along with Ludella Black from The Del Monas, and Russ lives in Scotland and fronts the Wildebeests as well as being Lord Rochester.
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THE MILKSHAKES - 'AFTER SCHOOL SESSION'
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5020422045712
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First re-issue for over 19 years, originally released in 1983 on LP on Upright Records in 1981 (UPLP 1), on LP again on Hangman Records in 1988 (HANG 24 UP) and in 1997 on LP/CD on Hangman’s Daughter (SCRAG 10) THE MILKSHAKES were mainly Mickey Hampshire (Git/Vox); Billy Childish (Git/Vox); Bruce Brand (Drums); Russ Wilkins (Bass) When punk rock group the Pop Rivets broke up in 1980, Billy Childish joined forces with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a group called Mickey and the Milkshakes with his cohort Banana Bertie. The two began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, Talking ’bout Milkshakes! in 1981. With Childish and Hampshire sharing guitar and vocal duties, Bruce Brand on drums, and Bertie on bass (later replaced by Russ Wilkins then John Agnew), the Milkshakes’ sound was a primitive blend of British beat groups, like the early Kinks at their toughest, and hard-rocking American guitar instrumentalists like Link Wray. This sound came to be known as the “Medway sound” and the core members have been playing a variation on it throughout their whole careers. The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording nine records in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of Childish’s primitive songwriting and Hampshire’s more melodic leanings. The group also masterminded and backed a Medway girl group, the Delmonas. When Mickey left The Milkshakes in 1984 Childish, Brand and Agnew went on to form Thee Mighty Caesars. Mickey and Bruce now play in The Masonics along with Ludella Black from The Del Monas, and Russ lives in Scotland and fronts the Wildebeests as well as being Lord Rochester.
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THE MILKSHAKES - 'TALKIN ' BOUT'
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DAMGOOD456LP - LP
5020422045613
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This is the re-issued 12" Vinyl version on Damaged Goods - DAMGOOD456LP One of the Medway's finest bands from the eighties. Very much influenced by the rhythm and beat from the 50's and 60's,as well as the comedians from the 40's onwards. Formed in 1980 from the ashes of the Pop Rivits and featured Mickey Hampshire (git/vox) Wild Billy Childish (git/vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Mark Gilbert (Bass).