Hello folks!
We know this should maybe be football themed but hey ho!
A round-up of our recent and upcoming releases!
Some really great records here including 7" singles by The Courettes and The Manges feat. Giuda, albums from Cowbell and The Daleks. There's a digital single and new video from The Shadracks.
And also a heads up on our forthcoming reissues of The Courettes' first two albums! (Availalble to pre-order to soon.)
The Manges feat. Giuda - Tootsie Rolls (Parts I & II) - Ltd. red 7" (500 copies)
BRAND NEW LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL 7” single!
Available for pre-order now! We have the 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! Click on the artwork below to reserve your copy!
**STRICTLY ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER**
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!”
Cowbell - Waiting For Yesterday
(+ very limited LP available via the band's own label Cool Jerk Records)
Release Date: 25th June 2021
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FOR GARAGE
FLOWERS! - https://youtu.be/5ByzDCBIqFU
Brand new studio album from Cowbell!
Waiting For Yesterday is the fourth Cowbell LP. This time we are joined by some old friends to add a coat of sonic luxury to our usual stripped-back garage sound. Recorded fast and loose over sessions in the old world back in 2018 and 2019, it’s a record crammed with nostalgia, memories and fleeting hints of regret. The title track makes even more sense to me now than it did back then.
We’d journeyed into the more psych/soul realm with our last record Haunted Heart but these new songs really hit their stride with the expanded band, particularly on our very own lost Northern Soul ballad “Throw It All Away” and “Got Me You Where You Want Me” where a Curtis Mayfield inspired guitar leans on a loose Bill Withers style groove. There’s something of a West Coast sleazy & breezy feel and a cinematic aura to tracks like “Be My Man” and “Garage Flowers” where Wednesday takes the lead vocals.
Waiting For Yesterday was recorded at the The Cube studio in Stoke Newington, London with Laurie Sherman. We’d rehearse and record four new songs each day, and despite having never played together before, we hit the ground running, taking just three days to track the entire album. Finding our sound so quickly was useful in a small hot studio, not least as Wednesday, behind the drums, was heavily pregnant at the time. Sometimes energy and passion can be inspired by the most practical necessities.
Tom Wright plays Bass, and Fabio D’agostini is on Lead Guitar. The artwork is by Jaime Zuverza - an Austin based artist and musician who stitched together all the themes from the record and brought them to life in one incredible cover.
The music is available digitally through Damaged Goods Records and a very Limited Edition of 200 LPs on our own imprint Cool Jerk Records.
Jack Sandham, May 2021
THE SHADRACKS - NEW DIGITAL SINGLE ‘YOU CAN’T LOSE’ OUT NOW!
WATCH VIDEO HERE: https://www.clashmusic.com/news/track-of-the-day-16-the-shadracks
The Shadracks are a three-piece rock n’ roll group hailing from Medway, Kent. Led by guitarist and vocalist Huddie Shadrack (son of chief Headcoat and the somewhat prolific artist Billy Childish) and joined by bassist Rhys Webb (of Southend-On-Sea psychedelic mutants The Horrors) and drummer Elisa Abednego, with timeless and expert precision, The Shadracks play from 37.3 years in the past 33.7 years into the future.
Today sees the release of their new single ‘You Can’t Lose’ through Damaged Goods Records. The single comes from their forthcoming second album ‘From Human Like Forms’, produced by Billy Childish and set for release August 13th. Featuring fourteen tracks of taut, stripped-down garage rock that has the capacity to be as whimsical as it is stomping, ‘From Human Like Forms’ sees The Shadracks achieving giddy new heights in their song writing and performing abilities - pushing their ancient sound 3.7 years ahead of the current lunar time module. ‘You Can’t Lose’ is the first evidence of this – a stamping, rattling ode to need and want that declares everything it desires to say in just over two-minutes, then snaps to a halt.
“It’s about wanting something you can’t get,” explains Huddie. “Chasing the unobtainable and finding yourself at the mercy of your pursuits.”
The Shadracks began a mere three years ago when Huddie Shadrack and Elisa Abednego had a brief encounter in a deserted parkland. Discovering a shared interest in vacant park benches, herbaceous borders and beat music, it became paramount that they form a group - and quickly.
After the release of their self-titled debut LP in 2018, a subsequent live BBC 6Music session for Marc Riley and a fast-selling EP, original bassist Elle Meshack retired from The Shadracks to peruse a career as a Poly Styrene impersonator aboard a Tahitian cruise liner: SS Honolulu Baby.
Fortunately for the bass bereft Shadracks, an advert placed in the window of a local stationers was answered by a certain Rhys ‘King Nebuchadnezzar’ Webb, there followed a two-hour induction ceremony (in which to learn all the new tracks) before Webb was sworn into The Shadracks fraternity.
The anticipated release of ‘From Human Like Forms’ will be complimented by videos for the album’s single releases shot by innovative film maker, and former The Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, and The Shadracks have keen eyes on opportunities to play live as 2021 starts to come alive.
THE SHADRACKS NEW ALBUM 'FROM HUMAN LIKE FORMS'
IS RELEASED ON AUGUST 13th VIA DAMAGED GOODS RECORDS
Find The Shadracks online at:
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 (Ltd. ORANGE vinyl 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 a 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 Courettes - First two albums remastered and reissued!
VINYL VERSIONS
TWO-ON-ONE CD VERSION
The Courettes' first two albums remastered and reissued on standalone vinyl versions as well as on a 2-on-1 CD, all with new artwork!
PRE-ORDER COMING SOON!
HERE ARE THE COURETTES
The Courettes´ debut album from 2015. Recorded in only two days by Kim Kix from the iconic PowerSolo in a small, cramped studio in Denmark. Unpolished tunes - fresh, raw and alive tunes - and the garage is shaking! Minimal overdubs, no editing, no auto tune, no bullshit. Punk straight out of the garage and a lot of riot grrrl charisma.
Mixed by Kim Kix and Nikolaj Heyman. The album features eight original songs all in Mono. Now it’s reissued with a new sleeve, coloured vinyl and new mastering making it sound better and louder than ever!
WE ARE THE COURETTES
The Courettes´ 2nd album was produced by PowerSolo’s Kim Kix with Nikolaj Heyman as engineer in 2018. This album goes deeper in its songwriting showing The Courettes´ love for '60s Girl Groups like The Ronettes and Shangri-Las. Fuzzy wild sounds are there, loud as hell drumming also, but some additional elements were added to their garage recipe: soul ballads and a handful of '60s girlie pop. Sonic quality is now stereo and overdubs like organ, piano and backing vocals were allowed – all performed by The Courettes themselves, of course! Including 'Boom! Dynamite!', 'Time is Ticking' and 'Voodoo Doll' (featuring horror movie legend Coffin Joe).