Hello folks!
Next week we'll be shipping orders for Acorn Man, the brand new long-player from Billy Childish & CTMF! Available on standard LP and CD. (The limited hand-pasted sleeve edition has sold out, sorry!)
You can pre-order your choice of format now from our online shop. More details below. Also we have a lovely new Damaged Goods T-shirt, and are also taking pre-orders for our Killjoys re-issue (on tri-colour vinyl, no less!) Read on peeps!
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Acorn Man (CD/LP/Digi - released 9th December)
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back! Hot on the heels of their recent “Punk Rock Enough For Me” single is the band’s second long-player Acorn Man.
Billy Childish is an international cult figure, painter, poet and novelist. He has released over 120 independent albums and influenced a vast range of musicians from Kurt Cobain, Beck and Mudhoney, through to Jack White, The Hives, The Strypes and Kylie Minogue. Time will no doubt see more names added to the list.
His Latest band is CTMF. Billy’s description of their sound holds true - “the sound of yesterday, tomorrow”
Acorn Man is arguably one of Childish most accessible LPs, showcasing Childish's love of punk rock and beat. Traces of dirge and the The Fall mingle effortlessly with unbounded pop on tracks such as 'It's So Hard to be Happy.'
Childish's 35 year quest for the 'ever essential bones of pop' bears fruit and remains true to to his opening gambit back in 1977. "We write the songs, produce the songs and determine what constitutes success."
Click the above pic for standard LP or CD edition.
The Killjoys - Naive (LP - released 16th December)
Limited repressing of a long lost Killjoys mini album which originally came out on DG back in 1991, This time it’s on red, white and blue vinyl! (Click on the pics for our online shop.)
Before Kevin Rowland discovered the joys of making menswear and even before he launched Dexys Midnight Runners he was the lead singer in this great punk band from the Midlands. Originally called Lucy & The Lovers and more jazz orientated, Kevin caught the first of a series of wind of changes and hitched a ride on punk with his girlfriend Heather on backing vocals and the gorgeous Gem on bass whom he exploited to the full even encouraging her wearing of sexually alluring clothing!!!! One single Johnny Won’t Get To Heaven / Naive Records 1977). Raw Classic amphetamine punk. Another great track ‘At Night’ on the Raw Deal compilation album. One other known song – Recognition – floating around on an album ‘Naive’ on Damaged Goods released in 1991. They were supposed to be making tapes for an album but they split before anything happened and a supposed deal with Bronze was scuppered by Mr Rowland.
Around mid 77 they lost Heather and Joe 90 (on Kevin’s insistence probably) and acquired a new drummer, Bob Peach, and guitarist Keith Rimell and became virtually a different band as Mr Rowland again sought to jump ship. If you get a chance check out the two John Peel radio sessions they did to hear the difference. Great footage of them performing ‘Johnny’ and ‘At Night’ on the Punk In London video. Forget Gaye Advert, Gem was a star on bass! Bless them all. Gem / Gil was in fact short for Ghislaine! She formed Alternating before going on to join Girlschool replacing Enid on bass after being recommended to the band by Lemmy! Sadly rumour has it that Heather died. And lastly from his majesty Mr Rowland himself these words from Mojo October 2001. “There was no doubt in my mind that I was at least as passionate and angry and as from the street as any punk rock singer you could name. But it was wrong for me to try to be part of someone else’s thing.”
Damaged Goods T-shirts!!
Looking for that special something to give your loved ones this Christmas? Why not treat them to one of our new T-shirts. Silver print on black shirt, available in S, M, L & XL.
Click on the pic for size details and to order online.