The CHERRY RED RECORDS group of labels
has moved quickly to shore up its distribution in light of the collapse of
Pinnacle, by agreeing a UK deal with Plastic Head Music Distribution, effective
immediately.
Cherry Red, which was founded in 1978 by Iain McNay, also includes the Anagram,
Cherry Pop, El, Esoteric, Revola, RPM and 7Ts labels within its roster.
Plastic Head director Steve Beatty says,”We have worked with Cherry Red in other
capacities over the years and we have always hoped we that one day we would
represent the label in the UK – and that time has now come, it’s been a long
wait but one that has been worth it.
Beatty adds, “Cherry Red is a huge label with 45 new releases each month and
well over 2,000 catalogue lines, which will add much to PHD’s ever increasing
value as a UK market player. We at PHD look forward to not a new relationship,
but an extension of an existing one to a new level.”
Cherry Red chairman McNay comments, “We have worked together and known each
other for several years and it seems appropriate to expand our relationship with
them. PHD is a solid, hard working independent distributor that understands
labels like ours. They are proud of their independence and so are we.”
On March 17th NOFX: Backstage Passport will be available on DVD! This 2-disc set
will include all 8 original episodes, plus over two hours of uncensored,
never-before-seen bonus footage!
You can now see the BUZZCOCKS concert in Amsterdam at the “Paradiso” from 11.
February on fabchannel. com/buzzcocks_concert.
The X-RAY SPEX deluxe double-CD edition comprises a total of 41 tracks. The
first twelve tracks on Disc One make up the whole of X-Ray Spex’s superb 1978
album, “Germ Free Adolescents”. Also included are four single tracks, A&B sides
plus seven tracks from BBC Peel Sessions from February and November of 1978.
Disc Two comprises a series of studio demos and rough mixes as well as two
unreleased backing tracks. Release Date: 13. April 2009
THE PROFESSIONALS, the band that Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones formed
after the Pistols demise never really fufilled their potentional, splitting
shortly after the 'Didnt See It Coming' album in 1981. Now it seems the band may
get together later this year for more shows.
THE MEMBERS have recorded a new Single. “international Financial Crisis” is a
new version of the Classic “Offshore Banking Business”. Produced By Dave Allen
it will be available soon on iTunes.
Aachen´s NAZI DOGS haben einen Nachfolger fuer Gitarrist Dizl gefunden. Sein
Name ist Jan „JDog“ Forster, 18 Jahre alt und kommt ebenfalls aus Aachen.
„Kids Union Records“ aus Shanghai/Peking wird im Mai fuer den asiatischen Markt
die zweite full-length der Band mit dem Namen „Old Habits Die Hard“
veroeffentlichen.
Die Band ist nach wie vor auf der Suche nach einem Label in Europa oder den
Staaten, um die Vinyl-Scheibe rauszubringen. (myspace.com/nazidogs)
DUAN PETERS GUNFIGHT album titled "Checkmate" will be released in mid March on
Duane new Label “Indian Recordings”.
Wer frueher JOHN PEEL im Radio gehoert hat, sollte man ein Ohr in diese Show
riskieren. Blue Fred's Radio Session - Radio Rheinwelle 92,5 live & livestream
***radio-rheinwelle.de/index.php?id=johnpeel *** next session *** 01.03.2009,
und von da alle vier Wochen.
“Solitary”, the first all new PARASITES album in over a decade is out on “Kid
Tested Records” (kidtestedrecords.com). In Japan it is coming out on “Inya Face
Records”.
The album will also be released on vinyl in a few weeks on two different limited
colors.
“Kid Tested Records” is also taking wholesale orders, so stores and small
distros can send an email to
Two more CDs will be out in a few months on “Kid Tested Records”, that the Label
working on right now, and a bunch more later in the year including the latest
addition to the Kid Tested Records family, The Guts from New Hampshire, who will
be recording a new full length soon.
At the request of SID VICIOUS mother,
who committed suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert ALAN PARKER has
devoted himself to discovering WHO KILLED NANCY? By interviewing 182 people
including close friends such as Don Letts and Glen Matlock and re-examining NYPD
evidence, he reveals what he believes happened that night in room 100.
DVD EXTRAS: Bonus Stories; Alan G Parker's story, Recording of Fast track to
Hell by Neon Leon, Opening of No One is Innocent at the Proud Gallery and
outtakes. Release Date: 23. Feb. 2009
On 6th January 2009 it was announced that Dave Moore has left the FROM THE JAM
to persue a business opportunity.
Due to illness of a close family member, the band have cancelled all live dates
until summer 2009. FTJ hope to reschedule the U.S. dates sometime in the fall.
BRISTOL ARCHIVE RECORDS (February Updates / bristolarchiverecords.com):
“This month we have no new releases to report but we have taken the opportunity
to up date the infrastructure of the site and include the start of a new section….
Bands 1982 onwards …. and we start with Strangelove, Maximum Joy, The Flatmates,
Brilliant Corners, Claytown Troupe, Rip Rig and Panic, Third Eye Foundation and
Mark Stewart and The Mafia. This will be a section dedicated to text only.
We have also included another section ‘VINYL RELEASES’ which will do exactly as
it says, report on new Vinyl releases from the Bristol Archive. If you would
like to receive information on these proposed releases please email – vinyl@bristolarchiverecords.com
and merely put ‘TELL ME’ as a header. These releases will be strictly limited
edition mail order only 300 – 500 copies max. We will let you know the first in
the series very soon.
We have added 15 new mp3’s for your listening pleasure.
Simon Edwards the head of Heartbeat Records has now joined the label. This is a
fantastic addition to the team having run his Heartbeat label from 1977 and also
the now legendary Riot City Records. Simon brings a huge data base of previously
unreleased material but also an in depth knowledge of Bristol music. Simon has
been an inspiration to me for many years with his enthusiasm for the era 1977 –
1981 in particular.
We are currently awaiting a decision from The Cortinas on whether or not they
want to accept an offer from Cherry Red/ Anagram Records to release The Cortinas
Anthology on Cd. The proposed track listing would include on Cd 1 the two Step
Forward Records singles and the CBS album ‘Heartache’. Cd 2 would include the
two Bristol Archive albums ‘Please Don’t Hit Me’ and ‘For Fucks Sake Plymouth’.
We are in the very early stages of talking to a publisher about writing a book
on the Bristol Archive which would include a fantastic picture history of the
Bristol music scene 1977 to probably 1985. The book could also include a
compilation Cd of the very best from Bristol Archive Records. We are currently
looking to talk with various key photographers from this era who may well have
great pictures to offer for inclusion. ( if you know of such people please get
in touch and we will refer you to Mike Crawford who is heading up the project )
info@bristolarchiverecords.com
Releases already scheduled for 2nd March:
X-CERTS – ‘Fusing and Fighting’ Album
THE HARPOONS – ‘Tunnel Child’ Single
Releases already scheduled for 6th April:
BLACK FLAMEZ – ‘Live Jam’ Single
BLACK FLAMEZ – ‘Never You Change’ Single
DOMINICA – ‘Independence Fever’ Single
ELECTRIC GUITARS – ‘Health’ Single
ELECTRIC GUITARS – ‘Work’ Single’
ELECTRIC GUITARS – ‘Wolfman Tap’ Single
FELIX DC – ‘You Like What You See’ Single
HASWELL – ‘Prissy Miss Maybe’ Single
SWEET ENERGY – ‘Family Affair’ Singe
CREATURE BEAT – ‘She Won’t Dance’ Single
HEAD – ‘Bottled Vintage xxx’ Album
THE SPICS – ‘Midnight Girls’ Album
THE STINGRAYS – ‘Live At The Dug Out 1977’ Mini Album
Further material still currently being mastered and compiled includes:
THE PIGS – ‘1977’ Album
ROYAL ASSASSINS – ‘Flux’ Album
GARDEZ DARKX – Album
EUROPEANS – Live Album
SOCIAL SECURITY – Album
Over and out!”
Steve Jones, the SEX PISTOLS guitarist and host of Jonesy's Jukebox, is looking
for a new job because Indie 103.1, the radio station that employed him, is no
longer broadcasting:
"Indie, that was my radio station, so to speak. I think people are starting to
really miss it and realize how special it was. And for me, taking the job, it
got me out of a rut that I was always in. I'm pretty much an isolated person.
I'd rather stay home and play video games. For me to go somewhere every day, it
was the best thing for me as a human. It got me away from the madness in my head."
"Wherever I go, I will still do my show the same; I wouldn't change it. I don't
think I should, and I hope any of these people that are thinking of hiring me
aren't going to try to mold me into something else. I'd be bored out of me brain.
I'd last two weeks if they had me reading some nonsense. If you want someone to
read a piece of paper, just hire someone else. There's loads of people that do
that."
Jonesy says he'll only take jobs in NYC or LA. I just called my radio station,
Live 105, and tried to get them to call Jonesy and hire him. But they said no.
And Jonesy also said he might go on tour with Iggy and the Stooges. That's
pretty cool.
Epitaph head and Bad Religion guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz has finished
mixing on the RANCID upcoming album. It's set for a spring release
GREEN DAY have announced the name and rough release date of their new album. A
posting on the band's official website Greenday.com revealed that the album -
called '21st Century Breakdown' - will be released this May.
The album, Green Day's eighth, is split into three 'acts' - 'Heroes And Cons',
'Charlatans And Saints' and 'Horseshoes And Handgrenades'.
Die THE BOTTROPS haben soeben mit einem Sack voll neuer Songs das Studio
verlassen! Die Platte ist fertig! Im April dann wohl die CD auf Destiny-Records
und die LP auf Rookie Records.
The personal possessions of THE CLASH's former guitarist Mick Jones are set to
go on display at a London exhibition starting this March.
'The Rock And Roll Public Library' is billed as Jones' personal take on the O2
Arena's British Music Experience exhibition.
Jones' collection will go on show at London's Chelsea Space from March 18 until
April 18.
Among the items on show are customised stage clothes, instruments, flight cases,
records, amplifiers and recording gear, posters, books, boxes of correspondence
and song lyrics.
Jones will also display books, magazines, videos, ephemera, toys and games
collected throughout his life.
The guitarist said he plans to make the collection freely available in the
future.
The BELFAST PUNK DVD “A Riot Down The Lane” has finally been released and
features 6 years worth of material adding up to 2 hours worth of locally created
raging, high energy punk rock music, humour and general idiocy. 40 tracks of
live footage from Belfasts current crop of spiky tops.
Only £7.00 including P&P. Contact Billy Riot: billyriot@hotmail.com
The Times: "SEX PISTOL sends Dairy Crest butter sales soaring. Dairy Crest has
hailed an 85 per cent rise in its spreadables business on a leap in its butter
sales thanks to John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of the
Sex Pistols. The company said that the jump in sales volumes of its spreadables
in the third quarter to December 31, 2008 was helped by its £5 million
advertising campaign featuring Mr Lydon's promotion of its Country Life butter.
In the television advert the punk legend, dressed in country tweeds, says: "It's
not about Great Britain, it's about Great Butter." Dairy Crest had issued a
profit warning in November but, announcing its results today, it said that
trading had steadied because of strong performances by some of its key brands.
Sex Pistols' John Lydon has apparently helped to revive sales of the butter
brand Country Life.
The punk frontman has been appearing in TV adverts for its makers Dairy Crest,
who have claimed that the brand’s sales have risen by 83 per cent, reports
Reuters.
Lyndon has appeared in a series of adverts with the slogan "It’s all about great
butter."
The advert received heavy criticism from some fans - for Lydon apparently
selling out his punk values.
Lux Interior: October 21, 1946 - February 4, 2009
Lux Interior, the gloriously untamed frontman of garage punk psychoids THE
CRAMPS, passed way yesterday in Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale,
California, as the result of a pre-existing heart condition.
The Cramps, who formed in 1973, were instrumental in popularising the forgotten
weirdness of early moonshine rockabilly, garage punk and lascivious ’50s R&B.
Interior (born Erick Lee Purkhiser), along with his fellow Cramp, and partner
for 37 years, Poison Ivy, became de-facto curators of bizarro American pop
culture, from sci-fi movies to Tiki culture and it was this unholy mix of
rock’n’roll energy and backwoods American lunacy that The Cramps injected into
the American music scene during their time served on the downtown New York punk
scene of CBGB and Max’s Kansas City in the mid ’70s.
"Lux was a fearless frontman who transformed every stage he stepped on into a
place of passion, abandon, and true freedom. He is a rare icon who will be
missed dearly," The Cramps' publicist said in an official statement.
The Cramps have remained active throughout the past three decades, with Interior
and Poison Ivy anchoring the line-up while other members changed.
It seems the new team of PUNK AID are currently planning for the 10th
Anniversary fest for 2010. Though its early days in this current climate time is
of the essence and so the team are planning this now and already with some big
names lined up.
SONNY VINCENT (sonnyvincent. com - New York City’s original Punk Rock icon rocks
across Europe.) Touring from 20/5/09 to 19/6/09 – booking now - contact manny@telenet.be