THE DALEKS - EXTERMINATE 40 years Too Late! - SILVER VINYL LP
Limited edition vinyl release featuring original Croydon punks The Daleks along with their associated bands!
“… honest, heartfelt songs, steeped in earnest melancholy and charming naivete.
Equal parts Menace, Members, Lurkers and Television Personalities”
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The Daleks
“I started the group In the summer of 1977 after listening to Rattus Narviticus about 100 times on a church youth club holiday. Slimy Toad’s brother, Nicky, who co-wrote “I’m a cunt” with me, had it on tape cassette. I remember we used to turn it right up in the middle In the middle of Ugly…because Hugh Cornwall shouted “it’s only the fucking rich that get to be good looking”. And all the church leaders would have a right go at us. That was it. Had to start a band! Up until 1979 just I had a guitar although we had a drummer a singer and a bass player that were going to get their instruments it never happened. I had loads of the songs already written by the time the first other member with an instrument joined. Mark Adams (Bass), who later joined Case. Then Woodie joined and things started to move quickly with Gaz joining (the original singer. Nicky Fitzgerald, Slimy Toads' brother, bailed out when it started to become a real thing. Then Dean replaced Mark Adams.” – Eddie Turtle 2021
More on The Daleks
“I was at school south of London in Caterham in the late ’70s and used to hang out in Goodness Records each afternoon spending all my paper round money there. I’d seen ‘The Daleks‘ sprayed on a wall in the town and got chatting to Eddie one day, they were looking for a drummer – The general consensus locally was that he was a great songwriter. I think the band name came from the end of Remote Control by the Clash – ‘gonna be a Dalek… I obey!’ There was quite a few line-up changes before the record, it was me that suggested Gaz as a front man. He’d just been expelled from my school for dying his hair and looked the part… yellow creepers to boot! It was him that did the artwork for the record sleeve and got all our mates to get photo booth pictures done. We all made the pilgrimage to Broadcasting House at the BBC to take John Peel a copy. Gaz spoke to him from the phone in reception (while he was in the middle of a show). I only heard one side of the conversation but it went something like ‘It’s Gaz from the Daleks from Croydon, we’ve brought you our record to play… it’s fuckin’ brilliant!’” – Woodie Taylor 2021
Strictly Rockers
Following the demise of The Daleks in the early ’80s, Gaz the lead singer and front man of The Daleks, was quick to form a new band, Strictly Rockers, with two local Croydon reprobates Ian and Steve. Gaz and Ian wrote the songs and Steve provided the distinctive percussion. The 3-piece band was born, Gaz was again lead vocals but now sported a bass guitar. Running off the back of the punk rock era the band exploded with collection of upbeat anti establishment songs, the exception to the theme being the classic track ‘I Miss You’.
The trio played a variety of different venues in the Croydon area, with their favourite haunt being the “Star” in West Croydon where they played regularly. Probably their most memorable gig was with UK Subs, and the infamous Charley Harper.
Strictly Rockers’ popularity was short lived, and within 18 months the trio had gone their separate ways. L.A.M.F.
ViaVess
“When Gaz and Roland left, I felt that we would have been successful if we’d stayed together, so, thought I’d call us Virgins of Success, shortened to V of S. Then I thought what about giving it a mysterious twist so ViaVess was how the initials sounded when you said V of S, so that became our “shortlived” name. It was a very short-lived band (3 or 4 months and I was then off following the Meteors full-time).” – Eddie Turtle 2021
Here's the full tracklisting
TRACKLISTING
1 – Rejected (Single) 2 – Man of the World 3 – This Life 4 – Daleks 5 – Suicide 6 – Rejected (1979 Demo) 7 – Stand By Me (Strictly Rockers) 8 – Tiny Town 9 – One Small Mind 10 – I Got You (Strictly Rockers) 11 – You Wouldn't Know (ViaVess) 12 – Transfixion (ViaVess) 13 – (I'm Not In Love With The) Rude Girl (ViaVess) 14 – I'm a Runt (Eddie Turtle) 15 – Miss You (Strictly Rockers)
and if you like The Daleks, you might just have missed another compilation we did a few years back, this was the very wonderful CASE compilation
AIN'T GONNA DANCE! - RECORDINGS 1980-1985
This 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.
Back in 1981 case had a vociferous and die-hard following who, in substantial numbers, took to daubing
the walls with graffiti championing their support for the band. These expressions of support for the band are now the stuff of social commentary – see, for example, the New Cross item at transpont.blogspot.com.
Something about CASE seemed to attract fanatical fans, several claiming to have seen every gig, since the early days in Croydon, and one in particular who, whilst working in London, spent his lunchtimes visiting public toilets all over the city – unrolling the rolls of toilet paper and writing CASE on each sheet on the roll, with a biro, before rolling them up again. These were strange times.
THE CD HAS 19 TRACKS | THE LP HAS 14 TRACKS
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That's all for now, don't forget our more recent release, the lovely 7" from THE COURETTES
Orange vinyl 7" - Released last Friday, grab it here https://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/buy/hop-the-twig-0/
Cheers
Ian & Duncan
LONDON & HULL