Hello folks!

Coming soon on Damaged Goods Records we have a brand new 7" single from Italian punks The Manges (feat.Giuda)!

'Tootsie Rolls (Parts I & II)' is set for release on June 25th. There will be 500 copies only, on red vinyl! We'll be starting pre-order next week but you can have a sneak preview of the artwork and read all about it below.

In other news our triple vinyl Billy Childish compilation Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot is back in stock. As always click on the cover art below to order via our online shop.

We've also done a round-up of our recent releases if you fancy any of those. Lovely vinyl from The Sensible Gray Cells, The Daleks, The Courettes and Heavenly along with a 4CD box set by The William Loveday Intention.

Go on, treat yourself, you deserve it!

 

The Manges feat. Giuda - Tootsie Rolls (Parts I & II) - Ltd. red 7" (500 copies)

BRAND NEW LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL 7” single!

THE MANGES
Making punk rock noises since 1993

Current line-up:
ANDREA - vocals, guitar
MASS - bass
MANUEL - drums
MAYO - guitar

Formed in La Spezia, a small seaside town located in northern Italy, the Manges started to play Ramones-style punk rock in 1993 and they are so dumb that they never stopped.
Old school punk rockers, matching striped t-shirts, speed, melodies, fun. The lyrics are inspired by movies and novels; irony, crime, war, rock references.
They've recorded 5 albums and their discography includes many other releases (anthologies, eps, live, splits with Queers, Apers, McRackins, Hard-Ons). In their 27-year career they have toured Europe, North America and Japan, sharing the stage with bands as Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Descendents, Marky Ramone, Screeching Weasel, Queers, Riverdales, and Mr T Experience. They own the record label Striped Records and manage the Italian festival Punk Rock Raduno.

 

MASSIMO FROM THE MANGES TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH GIUDA...

“We like Giuda. A lot. Over the years we've met at shows, played together a bunch of times, and we believe the respect and admiration is mutual. We didn’t want our latest album to sound like all contemporary punk rock of our scene. We are a so-called “Ramonescore” band but we started more than 25 years ago so we think that definition is not enough to describe what we've done and what we’re still doing.

We love what Giuda did with '70s glam rock… they took a kind of music that was more than 40 years old and made it fresh, catchy, relevant today, while still following a specific canon.  They produce their own records so we thought they could totally improve a Manges one. They know punk rock pretty well too and that’s a fact. Just think about their astonishing previous band Taxi! We wanted to see what could happen by having Lorenzo and Danilo’s approach on our band’s music.

The studio sessions in Rome were great, we have been very productive although the environment was pretty laid-back.

One of our favorite songs for our new album is called 'Tootsie Rolls', and it kinda stands aside from the rest of the album, being a more pure rock tune. On this one, our producers could totally work on their favorite arrangements and structure, to the point that we ended up having two versions: one, the album song, and two, a remixed version featuring members of Giuda, called 'Tootsie Rolls - Part II'. What a treat!”

 

 

Various Billy Childish bands - Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot (3LP / 3CD)

 

TRIPLE VINYL LP - NOW BACK IN STOCK!

How did Billy come to be? Holed away in the distant inter tidal marshland of mid-Seventies Kent, breaking rocks in the hot sun as a teenage dockland stonemason, undiagnosed dyslexia and general insubordination denying him the educational path he might have taken, Childish took the punk gospel Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols preached in 1976 as revealed scriptural truth. Forty-two years later Childish is the last man standing, the most enduring, uncorrupted and prolific of the class of ‘77. And some heroic fool has now tried to sum him up in a mere forty-eight songs, from the thousand or so he has recorded.

This compilation provides tiny tasters of each of Childish’s phases, and some snippets of short-lived side-projects too. Administered correctly, it will make an addict of you. You have been warned. Here’s a field guide to the many faces of Billy Childish.

 

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”

ORDER IT HERE https://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/the-daleks/

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)

 

The Courettes - Hop The Twig 7"

Look out! Look out! Look out! It´s 'HOP THE TWIG'! And it´s coming FAST!

'Hop The Twig' is The Courettes´ brand new single! An exciting and groovy blend of garage, early surf music and '60s girlie pop, all wrapped in tons of riot grrrl attitude. Like The Ronettes and The Ramones invite Link Wray and Duane Eddy for a wild party in Gold Star Studios’ echo chamber!

Hop the Twig was slang for dying in the 19th century. A very up-to-date theme in these pandemic times, so the tune has a bit of a dark atmosphere - although you can easily dance to it. Shake off your lockdown blues and enjoy the ride, while you can!

Glorious B Side 'Only Happy When You´re Gone' is a Spector-Esque dancefloor Killer!, filled with girl group backing vocals and wall of sound echoes and vibes. And yes, tremolo fuzz atomic guitars are also there!

 

The Sensible Gray Cells - Get Back Into The World (Blue vinyl LP)

 

BLUE VINYL LP! Brand new studio album! 12 Tracks!

Brand new studio album!
Featuring Captain Sensible and Paul Gray from The Damned, with Johnny Moped drummer Marty Love!

Who, what and why are The Sensible Gray Cells?

Captain :- Paul Gray and myself being garage psych aficionados would prefer to hear more of this kind of music and this is our contribution to the cause. If I said that some of the songs were 'Damned rejects' that shouldn't be seen as an indication of inferior songwriting.. more that they're not wearing the right shirt.

A Postcard From Britain came out in 2013. What have you been up to since then?

Captain :- I've never been a prolific writer.. being a lazy so and so I think it's best to wait for inspiration to call.. which explains the 7 year gap..( how many albums could the Beatles have crammed in that period!) but in the meantime PG rejoined the Damned and we've gigged about a bit, which is always fun - CAN WE HAVE GIGS BACK AGAIN PLEASE!!!

A Postcard From Britain was a snapshot of modern life. Does the new album cover similar themes or have you taken a new direction?

Captain :- It's sad that high streets around the world have been destroyed by online shopping but nobody's forcing people to do it.. but what can you do. These are very strange times were living though - I just count myself lucky to have been around to witness the 2nd half of the 20th century.. a fab time for music, culture, ideas.. and that without even mentioning Benny Hill and On The Buses. The new album coincides with all this virus malarkey.. which, unpleasant as it is will undoubtedly be used by the powers that be to tighten the screws on us little people on behalf of their billionaire paymasters. Blah blah, etc. There's a bit of that hidden away in the album.

 

The William Loveday Intention - The Dept. Of Discontinued Lines (4CD Box)

 

 

 

A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring the recent studio albums by The William Loveday Intention!

For the first time on CD we present the recent studio albums by The William Loveday Intention in a clamshell box set complete with booklet.

The four albums in the set are -

People Think They Know Me But They Don’t Know Me

Will There Ever Be A Day That You're Hung Like A Thief?

Blud Under The Bridge

The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss

For the uninitiated, The William Loveday Intention is the latest band put together by Billy Childish. The four album project includes guest appearances by James Taylor (The Prisoners, JTQ), Dave Tattersall (The Wave Pictures) and Huddie Hamper (The Shadracks) amongst others.

 

 

Heavenly - A Bout De Heavenly: The Singles - (LP/CD)

 

Yes, it's the singles compilation by Heavenly which has every one of their 7" singles that were originally released by Sarah, K & wiiija Records.

It's called A Bout De Heavenly: The Singles and it's available on pink vinyl LP and CD.

A potted history of Heavenly...

Heavenly debuted with the 7" single 'I Fell in Love Last Night', followed by another 7", 'Our Love Is Heavenly', both released in 1990 on Sarah Records. Heavenly vs. Satan, the group's debut album, came out in 1991. At this stage in their career, Heavenly's songs were still mainly concerned with an innocent view of love, whether or not requited, and the instrumentation remained very much the same jangly guitar style used by Talulah Gosh.

Before releasing the critically acclaimed Le Jardin de Heavenly, Cathy Rogers (keyboard, back-up vocals) joined the band. Her harmony vocals and keyboards became an integral part of the group's sound.

Before their next long-player, Heavenly released two non-album 7" singles, 'P.U.N.K. Girl' and 'Atta Girl'. These signalled a growing complexity in Amelia's songwriting, particularly 'Atta Girl', in which Amelia and Cathy sung in rapid-fire trade-off vocals. A broadening (and darkening) of lyrical subject matter was shown in the B-side, 'Hearts and Crosses', which told the story of a date rape, with an upbeat keyboard riff providing an ironic counterpoint.

The band's third LP was The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (1994). Here the group were at their most commercial and at their most attuned with the growing Britpop movement. The arrangements expanded even more to include strings and a large amount of percussion, and the dual-vocal trick was used on several tracks. Lyrically, the old romantic view of love was largely banished, but the tunes remained as upbeat and joyful as ever. In 1995, the band contributed the song 'Snail Trail' to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Bothered produced by the Red Hot Organization.

The group's last album was Operation Heavenly (1996). Arriving in the middle of the Britpop boom, the album contained such fine singles as 'Space Manatee' and 'Trophy Girlfriend'. Despite the closing of Sarah Records and release on Wiiija, the album was still recognisably the Heavenly sound. Shortly before the release of Operation Heavenly, Mathew Fletcher, the band's drummer and Amelia's brother, took his own life. The remaining members announced that the band name Heavenly was to be retired.

 

Have a fantastic weekend!

Ian & Duncan