'Depth Charge' is the debut single by The Senior Service. You may have heard it already thanks to the good people at 6Music. Reserve your copy by clicking the cover art below. Also don't forget the single launch gig at The Half Moon Putney later this month.
The Senior Service - Debut 7" single out today!
The Senior Service are the latest band to burst forth from the little clutch of towns known collectively as Medway. However, they are no newcomers (as their name may suggest), for they have been in some of the biggest bands to have come from that area. These bands include -
The Prisoners
The Mighty Caesars
The Masonics and
Billy Childish and The Buff Medways.
The band members -
Jon Barker - organ,
Graham Day - guitar,
Darryl Hartley - bass guitar
Wolf Howard - drums and percussion
have been close friends throughout and have always been into film themes and instrumental music.
Amongst their influences are John Barry, Barry Gray, Booker T and the MGs, Ennio Morricone and The Small Faces.
“We got together to play instrumental covers because I happened to have bought a Hammond organ” says Jon, “but we dropped that idea before we played a note and quickly moved onto our own stuff.”
The recordings, done at Borstal Road Studios (Jon’s house) have an organic feel to them that only close, like-minded friends can achieve, and it feels like the time is just right for a fresh batch of exciting tunes played on antique instruments by young-minded lovers of Sixties instrumentals!
Single launch gig at The Half Moon, Putney!
This is expected to be a sell out so we recommend booking your tickets early. To mark the release of 'Depth Charge', the debut single by The Senior Service, there's to be a launch gig at The Half Moon in Putney.
Advance tickets are available here.
Full details on the flyer below.
Coming soon on Damaged Goods...
CTMF - 'A GLIMPSE OF ANOTHER TIME' 7" SINGLE £4.99
New 4 track EP from Wild Billy Chyldish & CTMF which precedes their forthcoming 4th album.
The title track of the EP is ‘A Glimpse Of Another Time’ it's a song about set seen based round Slim Chance’s Club at the Wild Western Rooms in the 1990′s (The club was out the back of the St John’s Tavern in Archway, North London) The club later moved down the road to the boston arms. Billy’s group Thee Headcoats used to play a regular monthly stint, which explains the EP photo from 1991 of Billy fronting Thee Headcoats with Bruce and Johnny on that tiny, legendary – wild west themed – stage. Photo : Mr Paul Slattery
‘Ode To Citrus Heights’ and ‘Throwback’ are written and sung by JuJu, while ‘Sq 1′ is another Billy penned song.
THEE HEADCOATS 'CONUNDRUM' - WHITE VINYL LP
Reissue of the classic album from 1993, Originally released on Steve Turners (Mudhoney) legendary garage label SUPER ELECTRO RECORDS in the USA and later by Billy Childish’s HANGMANS DAUGHTER Records in the UK.
It features two of their classic singles ‘Every Bit Of Me’ (originally a Damaged goods 7″) and ‘Girl From ’62 (a Regal Select single from 1991), It’s been unavailable for nearly 20 years so it seems like a good time to put that right.
CAT: DAMGOOD449LP - LIMITED LP ON WHITE VINYL - GET IN QUICK!
And coming soon is the new JOHNNY MOPED album 'It's A Real Cool Baby!'..
And you can pre-order the new single 'Real Cool Baby' on GREEN or YELLOW vinyl HERE
Lots of news to come including live shows from CTMF, HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & JOHNNY MOPED & MORE...