Hello folks,
Out today! It's the brand new and very limited, purple vinyl 7" from Duncan Reid And The Big Heads called 'C'mon Josephine'!
Also up for pre-order is a white vinyl reissue of The Snivelling Shits' I Cant Come LP. This comes with revised sleeve art featuring rediscovered photos by photographer Paul Slattery. It's due for release on 21st July.
Full details on both releases below...
Duncan Reid and The Big Heads - C'mon Josephine
Ex-Boys returns with a blistering two track 7” on purple vinyl!*
There are only two people in the entire world who can claim to have played with the Ramones while not actually being tagged with the ‘Ramone’ nom-de-plume. Duncan Reid is one of those people. As singer and bass player of Joey Ramone’s favourite band, The Boys, Duncan rode on the crest of a wave during punk’s original late-1970s heyday as part of a wider collective of friends and peers that included Sex Pistols, The Clash, Generation X and a host of other power-chord pioneers. The Boys remain one of the best-loved and influential bands of their generation.
Montevideo, from the Big Heads’ debut album Little Big Head, earned Duncan the keys to the Uruguayan capital (the only other musicians to achieve this being Elton John and Paul McCartney). Following a cornucopia of stellar reviews for first album Little Big Head, The Big Heads developed their unique, effortlessly entertaining, melodic brand of harmony laden pop punk with: The Difficult Second Album.
Their third album Bombs Away is just out. Fourteen catchy little ditties about life, death, paranoia and Viagra.
2017 sees the Big Heads touring eternally in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany including festival dates at Rebellion, and Undercover.
There are only two people in the entire world who can claim to have played with the Ramones while not actually being tagged with the ‘Ramone’ nom-de-plume. Duncan Reid is one of those people. As singer and bass player of Joey Ramone’s favourite band, The Boys, Duncan rode on the crest of a wave during punk’s original late-1970s heyday as part of a wider collective of friends and peers that included Sex Pistols, The Clash, Generation X and a host of other power-chord pioneers. The Boys remain one of the best-loved and influential bands of their generation.
Montevideo, from the Big Heads’ debut album Little Big Head, earned Duncan the keys to the Uruguayan capital (the only other musicians to achieve this being Elton John and Paul McCartney). Following a cornucopia of stellar reviews for first album Little Big Head, The Big Heads developed their unique, effortlessly entertaining, melodic brand of harmony laden pop punk with: The Difficult Second Album.
Their third album Bombs Away is just out. Fourteen catchy little ditties about life, death, paranoia and Viagra.
2017 sees the Big Heads touring eternally in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany including festival dates at Rebellion, and Undercover.
LIVE DATES
The Snivelling Shits - I Can't Come LP - Now on white vinyl!
** LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL **
** TOTALLY REVISED COVER INCLUDING NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTOS FROM PAUL SLATTERY **
** INCLUDES THE DAMNED & GIOVANNI’s RECORDING OF ‘THERE ‘AINT NO SANITY CLAUSE’ **
** TOTALLY REVISED COVER INCLUDING NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTOS FROM PAUL SLATTERY **
** INCLUDES THE DAMNED & GIOVANNI’s RECORDING OF ‘THERE ‘AINT NO SANITY CLAUSE’ **
The third ever release on Damaged Goods was the original vinyl version of this album. (FNARRLP3)
‘Terminal Stupid’, their one and only single was one of my favourite singles from 1977 and in 1988 I searched out lead singer Giovanni Dadomo and together we put together this album. It features both sides of their that 7” plus another track they released on the Beggars Banquet compilation ‘Streets’ (Beggars first release), although they had to change their name (to Arthur Comix) as Beggars were worried about the word ‘shits’ on the cover of their album!.
Anyway we found another 6 or so tracks, mastered it with Dave Goodman and put it out, at the time Gio had also unearthed one of the three tracks that he cowrote and recorded with The Damned, ‘There ‘Aint No Sanity Clause’ is included on the LP & CD.
This is a review of the original album from the Trouser Press website....
"The hazard of anyone-can-do-it musical movements is what might get dragged in. Fortunately, the jokey Snivelling Shits - two London rock critics (singer Giovanni Dadomo and guitarist Dave Fudger) and such musician friends as Steve Nicol of the Hot Rods and bassist Steve Lillywhite - were sharply skilled at smuttily satirising the sounds of '77. As anthologised in this archival colored-vinyl document, the band's brief recording career (eight whole tracks, including the viciously irreverent "isgodaman?," originally released on a Beggars Banquet compilation LP under the name Arthur Comics?) included incisive swipes at the Sex Pistols, John Cooper Clarke ("I Wanna Be Your Biro") and the Velvet Underground."
That's history for you!
Ian & Duncan