Hello folks! Have a Crunchie, it's Friday!
OUT TODAY! Three reissued LPs by the Buff Medways. All on lovely WHITE vinyl!
Also selling fast is The Galieo 7's rather ace new LP Tear Your Minds Wide Open! - 300 vinyl copies only containing an inserted CD with an extra track! It's due for release on November 10th. There ain't many left so get in quick if you've not already pre-ordered!
The band will have a few copies for sale at their gig tonight at the Cricketers, Kingston-upon-Thames. Full info on the flyer below.
Also available for pre-order is the Lurkers's High Velocity 7", CTMF's 6Music Sessions 10", In The Devil's Focus, and their next single 'What About Brian'. Full details and links below.
The Buff Medways - Three reissued LPs on WHITE vinyl!
Steady The Buffs, 1914 & Medway Wheelers
*THREE CLASSIC MEDWAY GARAGE ALBUMS, ALL ON LOVELY WHITE VINYL! *
Billy Childish formed The Buff Medways in 2000. Their full name was Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association.
During the 19th century a breed a chicken was developed peculiar to the Medway area. The breed, now extinct, was a table bird for the London hotel market. The BUFF MEDWAY project, based at Fort Amherst, Chatham, attempted to recreate that ancient fowl through a selective breeding project.
The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old but as one critic wrote the band were “the snarled lip embodiment of rock’n‘roll spirit rather than nostalgia or shabby revivalism”. Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS were all about great songs and vibrant raw energy – no frills!
The original line up was Billy on guitar and vocal, Johnny Barker (bass) and Wolf Howard (drums), both ex-Daggermen. Johnny later left the band and was replaced by Graham Day (The Prisoners).
They released two LPs for Graham Coxon’s label Transcopic Records Steady The Buffs & 1914, one on Vinyl Japan called This Is This. Their last album Medway Wheelers came out on Damaged Goods in 2005. A great 'Live & Sessions followed a few years later caqlled 'The XFM Sessions'
The Buffs called it a day in 2006, going out on a high with a sold out show at London’s Dirty Water Club on the 27th of October 2006.
But you probably knew all that...didn't you!
The Galileo 7 - Tear Your Minds Wide Open! (LP + CD insert)
Medway garage-psych at its finest!
Limited to 300 vinyl copies with free CD featuring an exclusive extra track!
Prior perception is a right nause, especially when it comes to The Galileo 7. This Kentish quartet have now been kicking out keen psych-pop nuggets since 2010, over the course of four albums and several 45s, but vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Allan Crockford's illustrious past and parallel present, as bassist with a roll call of the greatest British bands of the past 30+ years – The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet, The Prime Movers, The Solarflares, Graham Day & The Forefathers – seems to have, weirdly, done 'em no favours. And in an age when peeps of a certain age are going goo-goo googly-eyed over the XTC back catalogue, rediscovering all manner of 60s psych-pop and garage treats, and lionising such moderne combos as Thee Oh Sees and Tame Impala, that the Galileo 7 haven’t reaped comparable plaudits seems just plain stoopid... (More on the DG website)
Joss Hutton, B-Side the A-Side, Sally’s Cafe, Timsbury, August 2017
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The Lurkers - High Velocity EP (7" pink vinyl)
LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES ON PINK VINYL!
"The Lurkers - Pete Stride, Manic Esso, Nigel Moore and vocalist Danie Cox have recorded an EP of new material in 2017 to be released on the Human Punk record label and distributed by Damaged Goods.
The EP is entitled the High Velocity EP and will be released as a limited edition initial press of 500 singles in pink vinyl.
The Lurkers say that they wanted to demonstrate that 40 years on from their original inception they are still the pride of Fulham and Ickenham and are still making great records.
Mark Wyeth for Human Punk records said “ we are extremely proud to be able to bring you this landmark record and we are delighted that Beggars are referencing this release at the same time as their brilliant box set is released - every home should have a Lurkers record!”
We definitely agree!
The Lurkers on this single are..
Pete Stride : Lead Vox / Guitars / Keyboards Nigel Moore : Bass / Backing Vox Esso : Drums / Precussion Danie Cox : Lead Vox (High Fidelity)
Tracklisting...
A1 – High Velocity B1 – White Noise and Feedback B2 – One Butterfly
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - In The Devil's Focus
(6Music Sessions for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe) - 10"/Digi
10” LP from Billy Childish's CTMF!
“We're like a cherry tree in the garden that nobody can be bothered to scrump cos it has slightly undersized fruit which has not been standardised for a supermarket. But we're the real thing and the jays and the crows like us.”
Billy Childish – July 2017
For one week in July this year Billy Childish & CTMF had the unique disctinction of airing radio sessions on both Marc Riley and Gideon Coe's BBC 6Music shows. The songs broadcast during the week of Billy Two Mates, (as it became known) is now available on a limited edition 10” vinyl LP.
Track listing
1. Marc's Jingle 2. You Gotta Lose 3. In The Devil's Focus 4. Empty 5. Billy B. Childish
6. Gideon's Jingle 7. I've Done Something Rotten 8. Medway Trogglamania 9. Rusty Hook 10. You Destabilise Me
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - What About Brian (7"/Digi)
Brand New 7” from Billy Childish's CTMF!
500 COPIES ON BLACK VINYL!
The A-side is an alternate version of a track from the band's recent Brand New Cage LP. The B-side is exclusive to this release.
“There's a plaque to Mick and Keith at Dartford station saying 'here they formed the Rolling Stones.' To his great credit Bill Wyman is pretty pissed, you can see him complaining on YouTube about it, saying it's nonsense and that Brian formed the group... he's like the conscience and the talisman of The Rolling Stones. Apparently quite a difficult character in a lot of ways. His idiosyncratic take on things meant his demise was like the end of the validity of rock music.”
Billy Childish – July 2017
Track listing
1. What About Brian (Alt. Version) 2. The Fields In Mist