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Japanese pUnK rOcKeRs, THE STAR CLUB are in the studio for recording a new
full-length.
After 20 years of turning out music with punk outfit No Use For A Name, TONY SLY
is set to release his first solo full length. It is titled 12 Song Program and
is due out February 16th. Folks can expect guest appearances from Karina Denike
of Dance Hall Crashers, Darius from Swingin’ Utters and Joey Cape of Bad
Astronaut/Lagwagon fame. Additionally, Tony Sly has announced tour plans for
2010 which include a west coast run with Chris Shiflett from the Foo Fighters
and a European tour with Joey Cape.
Odeon Entertainment will release a new DVD from THE SEX PISTOLS. Title: “Who
Killed Bill? The Sex Pistols On The News”. This release features unseen and rare
archive footage of The Sex Pistols from 1976 to now, it is a Part of the ITN
Archive Collection.
It includes a huge range of material: LWT 76, John / Janet Street Porter 78
interview, Sid Nationwide 78, PiL on Check It Out, various Filthy Lucre 96
interviews including 100 Club, Pistols at the Palace garden interview, Guitar
Hero 3 conference, John on London Tonight 07, and of course Bill Grundy.
Release Date: 22nd March 2010!
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This spring MICHAEL MONROE returns with new group. The band features bassist
Sami Yaffa (HANOI ROCKS, NEW YORK DOLLS) and guitarist Ginger (THE WILDHEARTS).
Also on guitar isTodd Youth (DANZIG, D GENERATION) and on drums Jimmy Clark (DEMOLITION
23).
The band are set to enter the studio in the spring to record a new album for the
fall.
The CD “THE BEST OF FRIED EGG RECORDS” (Bristol 1979-1980) will be out on the
first day of February on “Bristol Archive Records”. It.features bands like:
Shoes For Industry, Art Objects, The Fans, Electric Guitars, Various Artists and
The Untouchables.
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LEATHERFACE new full-length “The Stormy Petrel” is slated for a February 23,
2010 release through No Idea Records in North America and on the band's own Big
Ugly Fish Recordings in their native UK. This will be the band's first new
studio album since 2004's Dog Disco.
SLOPPY SECONDS “Destoryed” full-length has been remastered with ten bonus tracks.
And it is out now on “Kid Tested Records”.
SHAM PISTOLS “Natural Born Killers” is a unofficial vinyl album, which include
for the first time ever unreleased studio recordings from 1979. The short lived
venture brought together Steve Jones, Paul Cook 8from THE SEX PISTOLS), plus
Jimmy Pursey and Dave Treganna from SHAM 69. The album is also understood to
include the encore from the Sham 69 show at Glasgow Apollo on June 29th 1979.
(Steve and Paul joined Sham for the encore: Pretty Vacant, White Riot, If The
Kids Are United, finishing with What Have We Got). Although the encore has seen
the light of day more than once before, the studio tracks have not.
THE PARTISANS will be taking some "time out" during 2010, the only live date/dates
being “The Punk and Disorderly Festival” in Berlin (Germany) with the Buzzcocks
and Stiff Little Fingers etc., and possibly Sao Paulo/Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) in
October some time, more news when we get it.
THE
GERMS plan in the near future recording two songs that Darby Crash wrote with
Pat Smear. "Out of Time" and "Beyond Hurt - Beyond Help". Darby committed
suicide and the songs were never recorded. The original line up will be
recording these "new" songs: Pat Smear (guitar), Lorna Doom (bass), Don Bolles (drums)
and Shane West will be singing.
NEWS FROM THE BRISTOL ARCHIVE:
THE CORTINAS ‘Anthology’ album for Cherry Red Records is progressing nicely.
Bristol Archive will release a limited edition vinyl Cortinas album with
hopefully some extra special extras included.
The compilation album ‘Bristol – The Punk Explosion’ is nearing completion with
sleeve notes from Shane Baldwin.
Work continues on piecing together ‘Avon Calling 2’ compiled and with sleeve
notes written by Simon Edwards. Thomas Brooman CBE is finishing off the sleeve
notes for the album he is compiling provisionally entitled ‘The Bristol
Recorder’
The Pigs have been confirmed on The Rebellion Bill in Blackpool this year.
And, THE BEST OF FRIED EGG RECORDS (BRISTOL 1979-1980) – OUT ON CD 1/2/2010
Would you like to meet Little Iggy? It's a question, had you been a moderately
attractive person of the groupie persuasion, you may have heard backstage at a
Stooges show in the early-'70s, as IGGY POP sought to engage you and his "old
chap" in a nefarious act.
No more nefarious, arguably, than the latest in Ig's series of notorious
Swiftcover advertisements. And while it pains us to offer the helium of
publicity to an insurance company, we knew you'd want to be privy to the outrage
(pictured).
From the people who brought you Spitting Image's army of latex grotesques, Pop's
puerile puppet is to star alongside the, er, genuine article in a $30m rollout
of new ads in 2010.
While Iggy's share of that cannot be inconsiderable, the scrawny orange
simulacrum certainly does him no favours. Another admirable display of King
Punk's self-deprecatory bonhomie, or just one more example of his Dignity
Deficit Disorder? You decide:
Iggy Pop Puppet
SWINGIN’ UTTERS are in the process of recording a
new studio album. It will be released on Fat Wreck Chords and should be out
spring or summer 2010. The last studio recordings were 7 years ago.
Das letzte Album ist gerade mal ein Jahr alt, da machen sich die Kanadier D.O.A.
schon wieder auf ins Studio, um den Nachfolger zu "Northern Avenger"
aufzunehmen; angepeilt ist eine Veroeffentlichung im Mai 2010, natuerlich auf
Sudden Death, dem Label von D.O.A.-Boss Joey Shithead.
Eben dort gerade jetzt erschienen ist auch das neue Album der langjaehrigen
Weggefaehrten THE POINTED STICKS, die sich mit D.O.A. nicht nur die Herkunft,
sondern frueher auch diverse Mitglieder teilten. "Three Lefts Make A Right" ist
die erste neue Platte der Band seit 29(!) Jahren.
Ebenfalls neu auf Sudden Death ist die Zusammenstellung "Complete Punk
Recordings 1977 - 1978" von THE ACTION, der ersten Punkband aus Ottawa. Nach
zwanzig Jahren Pause haben diese sich wieder zusammen gefunden und kuerzlich
wieder ein paar Konzerte gespielt.
It looks like the CD from TV21 will be released around February/March on Cherry
Red. It will be their first album “A Thin Red Line” (from 1981) plus all of
their early singles and b-sides.
THE PIKES, a new Mod-Punkband from Berlin got their debut out on “Time For
Action” (Vinyl-Version, the first 100 copies are on coloured vinyl) and “Dirty
Faces” (CD-Version). Six Mod Revival/PowerPop-Tunes in the tradition of bands
from the early stages. Recorded on analogue equipment and produced by Smail /
The Shocks.
Music publisher Omnibus Press has released a new book covering the history of
hardcore pioneers,BLACK FLAG. The book is titled “Spray Paint The Walls: The
Story of Black Flag” and is out since November 2009.
Assembled by Stevie Chick, the book features older interviews with Henry Rollins
and Greg Ginn and a new interview with Chuck Dukowski. According to SST
Records-affiliated Joe Carducci,
The story, laid out from the band's earliest practices in 1976 to its end ten
years later, makes a far more dramatic book than the usual shelf-fillers with
their stretch to make the empty stories of various chart-toppers sound exciting
and crucial and against the odds.
Out now on DETOUR RECORDS
SPEEDBALL -“MAXIMUM SPEED”
This is a full length CD release from Southend’s finest MOD band…. Starting off
life as “Idiot”, but after a false start the band re-grouped from a four piece
down to a three piece and started playing all the local haunts. Then after a few
choice gigs, London beckoned! The band realised they had found their audience
and built up a loyal following of up and coming parka clad fans from the newly
formed Mod phenomenon that was sweeping the country… From 1979 to 1981 the band
played their hearts out to packed venues.
In this period, the band released one cult status single on local ‘No Pap’ Label
which has now become quite a collectable single. Sadly the band imploded in
1981, Rob the main song writer ended up emigrating to downunder, Dave the
drummer sadly died a few years ago from Cancer and Guy has been playing with
Pink Floyd for the last 15 years.
This brilliant and over due release features both sides of the single,
unreleased studio tracks and choice live tracks.
Comes with an eight page booklet with rare photos and sleeve notes by their ex
manager Roger Allen.
And......
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