Hello folks!
Here's a round-up of our recent releases.
If you didn't manage to get a copy of The Galieo 7's ace new LP Tear Your Minds Wide Open! then you're in luck. We held a small number of copies back which are now available on the store. First come fist served, these will ship to be with you before Christmas!
There will be a repress in the New Year due to the demand. This LP comes with an inserted CD with an extra track! To purchase, click on the album sleeve below.
Also available are the very last copies of The Lurkers 7", CTMF's 6Music Sessions 10" and 'What About Brian' 7", along with The Buff Medways reissues. That's your Christmas soundtrack sorted!
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 Galileo 7 - Live Dates
Thursday 25th January - 100 Club, London (supporting The Fuzztones!) - TICKETS
The Lurkers - High Velocity EP (7" pink vinyl)
LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES ON PINK VINYL!
Also available via Rough Trade
"The Lurkers - Pete Stride, Manic Esso, Nigel Moore and guest vocalist Danie Cox (on the title track) have recorded an EP of new material in 2017 which is released on the Human Punk record label and distributed via 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.
AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT...The Lurkers asked us to remind people of their latest album 'The Future's Calling' which is out on their own label. You can get it via their official site
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - In The Devil's Focus
(6Music Sessions for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe) - 10"/Digi
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.
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.
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!