[image 1 700x700] Hello folks, a few bits 'n' bobs for ya. Firstly a reminder of our January sale, 3-for-2 on LP's CD's and 7" singles. This will be running to the end of January. Visit the DG shop by clicking on the sale flyer below. [image 5 400x400] A quick nod to a couple of forthcoming releases, check these out:- The Vermin Poets - Poets Of England (CD/LP/Download) [image 2 300x300] The Vermin Poets are Neil Palmer on Guitar/Lyre/vox Billy Childish on Bass/Backing Vox JuJu Claudius on drums/Backing Vox and Wolf Howard on Drums but don’t think this is just another Billy Childish band ‘cos it’s not. The sound is very pop psychedelic, think of 80’s Television Personalities and chuck in The Who and you’ve got it. A small tour is planned for the spring as well as a launch gig at the ICA in London Due out on 13th March, this will be available for pre-order from from 1st February. Here's some words from the band:- The Vermin Poets are the self-discovered heirs to a long line of bards and natural philosophers whose number includes Reg Presley, Sky Saxon, Bo Diddley, D.H Laurence, William Shakespeare, Aristotle, Homer, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and all the unnamed carriers of legend and myth. In raising their songwriting art, the legendary punk rocker William Chyldish and Fire Dept front man Neil Hereward Palmer engaged in an alliance to pursue the thrice-fold aims of Happiness, Poetry and God. They succeed in manifesting the authentic sound of amateurism, elevating it to high art and thus banishing procrastination and the fear of creation from the human imagination. However, mindful that poets are, in the main, vermin Chyldish and Palmer cheerfully mock their own craft, praising limitation. For in unceasingly veiling God’s truth, which is the way to things, with words, the Vermin Poet separates persons-with-an-interest from the wider interests of human beings outside commerce and held in God’s law, which is love. Dr Johnson was none too keen on vermin poets: his English dictionary of 1755 contained a definition of the word "vaticide", which is "a murderer of poets". The Vermin Poets seek neither to gild the ars poetica, nor to slay its sons and daughters. The stated aim of The Vermin Poets is to describe the shape of the things sufficiently well so that others to may understand and explore, or view more effectivly the universe and the bounty it contains for themselves. Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - Medicine County (CD/LP/Download) [image 3 300x300] Holly and Lawyer Dave are back with their third album together as Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs. ‘Medicine County’ was written and recorded on a farmhouse just outside Athens in Georgia and as Holly says it’s “peppier” than the last album, in fact there’s only one slow song on the whole album which is probably down to the fact that this time they had a lot longer to work on the songs and recording, their last album was recorded in the middle of a very long European tour over a week or two in Spain. So what does it sound like? Choc-full of ghostly blues, gut-bucket slide guitar, with a smattering of ol’ time country. This is just the disc for conjuring up the spirit of weird old America. Anyone with an interest or liking for the music of The Band, Son House, or Hank Williams, sung by Nancy and Lee, should certainly check it out! Holly’s mum painted the cover, which adds to the warm home-spun appeal. 12 brand new songs including a cover of Wreckless Eric’s ‘Murder In My Mind’ and a guest appearance by Tom Heinl on ‘Blood On The Saddle’ (Tom wrote Holly’s Christmas track ‘Christmas Tree On Fire’) Due out 22nd March, this will be available to pre-order from 1st February Piney Gir - For The Love Of Others video This was the Damaged Goods Christmas single for 2009, you may not however have seen the video for it! To purchase the track on 7" black vinyl click on the cover art below. [image 4 300x300] For videos by other Damaged Goods artists including Pete Molinari, Nat Johnson & The Figureheads, Goldblade, Singing Loins and Betty & The Werewolves click here. A few gigs... *Betty & The Werewolves (debut album due out in the spring!)* 28 Jan Jamm, Brixton, London 6 Feb How Do You Do? 2 (The Good Ship, Kilburn), London 6 Mar Dance Magic Dance (The Old Blue Last), London *Nat Johnson & The Figureheads* 1 Feb Acoustic set @ The Puppet Theatre, Norwich 4 Feb The Grapes, Sheffield 5 Mar Tom Robinson session BBC6 Music *The Singing Loins* 25 Feb The Brook Theatre, Old Town Hall, Chatham 25 Mar The Cardinal’s Error, Tonbridge 1 May ThRochester Sweeps Festival, Rochester 17 May Sheppey Folk & Blues Club, Sheerness *The Cute Lepers (US tour)* 29 Jan Emerald City Soul Club Seattle, Washington 11 Feb Grudge Rock, The Crocodile Seattle, Washington 24 Feb East End Portland, Oregon 25 Feb Thee Parkside San Francisco, California 26 Feb The Redwood Los Angeles, California 27 Feb Alex’s Long Beach, California 28 Feb Kensington Club San Diego, California 1 Mar Blank Club San Jose, California *Penetration* 14 Mar The Welly (supporting Stiff Little Fingers) Hull 27 Mar The Forum London 23 Apr Corrina, Perth 24 Apr Stereo, Glasgow *Louis Lingg & The Bombs* 28 Mar Pena Festayre (supporting Stiff Little Fingers) Paris, France *Graham Day & The Gaolers* 30 Apr Festival, Toscano, Isle Of Elba, Italy 4 May Venue TBA, Bordeaux, France 7 May La Boule Noire, Paris, France 8 May Venue TBA, Dublin, Ireland *Armitage Shanks* 6 Feb The Command House, Chatham That's it for now! Enjoy the weekend. Ian & Duncan www.DAMAGEDGOODS.co.uk