HELLO FOLKS!
At long last we have the Gorillas 'Message To The World' LP in! - We'll be shipping any mail orders this week. Also a quick reminder of a couple of recent items you may have missed, including the 18 track CD version of CTMF's "All Our Forts Are With You" album (we also have the LP vinyl in stock again) and the expanded version of Holly Golightly's "Truly She Is None Other". Also a sneak preview of the artwork for the next Cyanide Pills single! Read on!
THE GORILLAS - MESSAGE TO THE WORLD - Deluxe Re-issue - LP / CD / Download
RE-ISSUE OF THE LEGENDARY DEBUT GORILLAS ALBUM FROM 1978
**FIRST TIME ON VINYL SINCE 1978**
LP on 180 GSM RED VINYL! (Ltd to 1000 copies)
CD first time on digipak!
The Gorillas livened up the mid-70s rock scene like few others. They were the missing link between Hendrix, glam and punk.
Interest in Jesse Hector and The Gorillas (originally The Hammersmith Gorillas) has grown steadily in recent years in no small part due to Caroline Catz' documentary film, A Message To The World, the Gorilla Got Me compilation on Big Beat Records and the recent Crushed Butler albums re-released on Last Years Youth Records. The band also featured heavily in Wired Up!, last years' excellent book of proto-punk and glam record sleeves. Unavailable for some time, we're now re-issuing their debut album. On vinyl for the first time since 1978, our version features 3 BONUS TRACKS not featured on the original Raw Records release ("I'm Seventeen" "My Son's Alive" and the classic single "It's My Life".)
CTMF - ALL OUR FORTS ARE WITH YOU - NOW ON CD as well as LP & Download
In 1976/ 77 the ‘shortly to be’ Billy Chyldish, as well as being head of research in the counties first fortress study group The Medway Military Research Group, was working as an apprentice stonemason in Chatham dockyard. After seeing a feature on punk on the London Weekend show Billy thought he wouldn’t half mind being the singer in a punk rock group
himself. Childish duly left work and suggested to a few old secondary school mates that they should form one pronto. “What about a name?” they asked, “simple”, answered Wild Billy, “we’ll be called CTMF.” Button Nose Steve, who was to shortly give Billy Chyldish his punk moniker – and even owned a Woolworth’s guitar, and Dave Marsh, a form mate who said he might buy a drum kit one day – both nodded slightly. 36 years later, and CTMF have finally come into being. no ones sure where Dave Marsh now is, but button nose Steve is busy feeding pigs and ducks on his small holding in New Romney and Billy Chyldish, with other mates, has recorded an LPs worth of material – and half a dozen 45’s for different destinations around the globe – utilising lyrics first jotted down for the original CTMF line up in 1977.
Billy describes CTMF group as “the epitome of modern”.and their sound as “the sound of yesterday, tomorrow” All of their records are released under the moniker CTMF. Some say this stands for Copyright TerMination Front, others claim it is simply short form for Clarity Through Fuzz .There have been numerous rumours that Jimmy Cauty plays bass and that it is none other than Bill Drummond that can be heard on Xylophone. Billy, however, muses that though he is indeed friends with Jimmy Cauty – and has in the past been in correspondence with Bill Drummond – he has never knowingly heard of the KLF as he “gave up on music after punk turned crap at the end of 77”.
People in the know can vouch that all this is in fact truth
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THIS RELEASE IS THE FIRST ONE, IN 25 YEARS TO BE MANUFACTURED AND DELIVERED INTO THE DAMAGED GOODS WAREHOUSE WITHOUT OUR INVOLVEMENT OR VERY MUCH WARNING!
Holly Golightly - Truly She Is None Other (Expanded Version) - CD/LP/Download
10 year anniversary re-issue of Holly's greatest album with 2 BONUS UNRELEASED tracks!
Collector's edition on RED vinyl and digipak CD
It's been out of stock for a while so we've decided to make this re-issue a little bit special. Often cited as perhaps her best solo album Truly She Is None Other was recorded in 2002/3 at Toe-Rag Studios by Liam Watson and features the song 'Tell Me Now So I Know' which was picked for the main title theme for Jim Jarmush's 'Broken Flowers' movie.
Among the nine Holly originals the album features two Ray Davies songs ('Time Will Tell' & 'Tell Me Now So I Know'), along with 'There's An End', (penned by her friend Craig Fox from The Greenhornes.) There's also a fine version of Jessie Mae Robinson's 'Black Night', a song most famously covered by Muddy Waters.
Backed by the cream of Toe-Rag's in house musicians, this is Holly Golightly at her finest.
With sleeve notes by none other than Jack White III.
Cyanide Pills - Apathy/Conspiracy- 7"/Download
Not available for pre-order as yet but here's a sneak preview of the single artwork. Conspiracy is a brand new track, Apathy is off the current album 'Still Bored'
That's it for now! More to follow soon including full details of our lovely new Talulah Gosh compilation!