DAMAGED GOODS - FROM THE ARCHIVE 1

Hello and welcome to the first ARCHIVE email, where we look back at a few releases from the past...erm...28 years or so....ENJOY!

HELEN LOVE

A nice place to start would be with HELEN LOVE, this is the album version of their their 4th single PUNK BOY, the great thing about this version is that it's a duet with Joey Ramone!

You can get it on their debut album Love And Glitter, Hot Days And Muzik

Helen Love are playing live at the LEXINGTON in London on the 24th April - INFO

THE DEL MONAS

Next up is the band that would eventually evolve into THEE HEADCOATEES...it's THE DEL MONAS which featured Miss Ludella Black

 

Their first album 'Dangerous Charms' is still unavailable but Ace have hinted that it may be coming out sometime in the future, we re-issued their other two album, originally on the Hangman Records label in 2013

 

THE SNIVELLING SH*TS

I always loved their single ‘Terminal Stupid’ that came out on Ghetto Rockers records in late 77 but I knew nothing about them, so when I started Damaged Goods it was something I wanted to unearth and possibly re-issue. I asked around and eventually someone mentioned that the main person behind the band was Giovanni Dadamo and that he worked in Records & Tape Exchange at Notting Hill, so I headed down there and eventually met him. We arranged to meet for a beer after he finished work and that’s how the album came about. I showed him the Slaughter & The Dogs album and said I wanted to re-issue the 7” and he said did I want any other tracks, we met up at his parents house and searched through old boxes and dug up a whole load of cassettes and even an acetate or two.

We then went over to Dave Goodmans house and cleaned everything up and eventually put the album together. Photo’s were found at Ray Stevenson’s house and we had a cover. Gio put together a mock review of the album and we were away. One thing I never knew was that the Shits did have a second release called ‘isgodaman?’ as Arthur Comix on the Beggars Banquet compilation ‘Streets’. The reason it was under a pseudonym was because Beggars didn’t want the word SHITS on the cover!! how punk!.

This is a that track, isgodaman?

 

and last pick of the month is CASE

Released in 2011, 'Ain't Gonna Dance' was the first ever album of recordings by legendary UK band CASE, formed in Croydon in 1979 after being introduced to each other by Slimy Toad from Johnny Moped. Case played the pubs of south London and finally released their one and only 7”, the ‘Wheat From The Chaff’ EP in 1983, it reached the top of the independent charts and led to them being played heavily on BBC radio including plays by John Peel, Janice Long & Kid Jensen. They recorded a live Radio 1 ‘In Concert’ which was broadcast twice.
Originally, in 1980, CASE played primarily at a (fairly rough) pub in North Croydon, called “The Star” and built quite a following there before larger, occasionally more salubrious, venues beckoned. They famously played at The Rainbow in November 1981 - where smoke flares and buckets of maggots flew into the crowd as the band played, the Marquee Club (where they were banned for playing an encore – the only band to be banned for this since the Rolling Stones), Hammersmith Palais, 100 Club, the BBC Paris Theatre, ICA, & the Woolwich Tram Shed (and Chislehurst Caves!) amongst other less-prestigious venues.
With better management who knows where CASE may have ended up – as it is - they retain a legendary status among the legions of punk/ska fans...and graffiti historians.

It's a great album of lost recordings by a great band.

Thanks for reading and look out for more like this in the coming months.

Sneak peek at the next new Damaged Goods releases...more on them soon.

     

Cheers

Ian & Duncan