Season's Greetings!

Our Christmas compilation LP is out today!

Purchase from your local record emporium or order direct from us, simply click on the cover art below.

We also have details on our first release for 2022. It's a rather lovely 10" mini LP by The Senior Service feat. Rachel Lowrie. More details on that below.  We'll be starting the pre-sale week so keep an eye on your inbox!

Various Artists - A Damaged Christmas Gift For You

At long last! Finally on vinyl!

Can Fifteen Great Christmas Songs be collected together on one lovely 12-inch vinyl disc featuring bands and artists from the Damaged Goods archives? …you betcha bottom dollar they can! Each song has been recorded with the Christmas spirit in full flow and we’d guess the odd mince pie was consumed along the way as well. The full-on Christmas feeling that is flowing through these wonderful tracks is a joy to behold and we implore you to not just read these sleeve notes but to go crimble-crumble-crazy and actually buy this record and treasure it, not only this year but for many years to come.

We are very proud to have put this album together as Christmas is our favourite time of the year. We love the feeling at special Christmas gigs - the over-inflated people and prices of things and the way everyone just has to go out and drink as much as they possibly can in the name of the good old lord Jesus. We did this for you, and only for you because we really, really care and want to share the joy that only Damaged Goods Records can bring you at this special time of the year.

So enjoy some great music from the likes of Wild Billy Childish, Miss Holly Golightly, Helen Love, Goldblade & Poly Styrene, The Courettes and so many more and remember, this LP is not just for Christmas it’s for LIFE!

Ian Damaged, National Elf

TRACKLISTING

1 – Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire – Christmas 1979  2 – The Courettes – Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait)

3 – Holly Golightly – Christmas Tree On Fire  4 – Helen Love – Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight)

5 – Cuckooland – Silver Bells  6 – Wat Tyler – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen  7 – Thee Headcoatees – Santa Claus

8 – Severe – Stop the Cavalry  9 – Goldblade feat. Poly Styrene – City of Christmas Ghosts

10 – Holly Golightly and The Greenhornes – Little Stars  11 – Cute Lepers – The Cute Lepers Christmas Song

12 – TV Smith – Xmas Bloody Xmas  13 – The Singing Loins – Ding Dong Merrily On High

14 – Monkhouse – Guinness and Wine  15 – The Buff Medways – Merry Christmas Fritz

The Senior Service feat. Rachel Lowrie - A Little More Time With (10" Mini LP)

Instrumentalists find their voice

The Senior Service returns with a brand new 10” Mini LP for 2022.

A year or so ago, The Senior Service decided that it wanted to add a little more to its well-honed instrumental sound. On one slightly drunken night out, they approached local songwriter and chanteuse Rachel Lowrie and asked if she’d like to perform guest vocals on some specially written new material. By this time, Rachel had supplied impressive ‘pipework’ on quite a few Medway records so the band was confident that she’d be able to deliver – the band was right.

Following a lengthy hiatus in activity due to lockdown restrictions, The Senior Service was finally able to get together to record the new songs, so they piled into Ranscombe Studios to crack on. It soon became apparent that they’d lost none of the chemistry that had made them such a powerful musical collective and the instrumental backing tracks were laid down with relative ease. It was when Rachel arrived and sprinkled vocal sugar over the tracks that they really began to shine! Intuitively, she understood the approach needed and delivered a made-to-measure performance for each song.

This collection includes four original tracks penned by the band plus two rollicking covers of lesser-known instrumentals; John Schroeder’s take on ‘Lovin’ You Girl’ – a slinky slice of lounge grooviness, given a slightly chunkier sound, informed by the band’s musical aesthetic, and ‘Mysterious Land’ – The Chris Lamb Orchestra’s little-heard filmic masterpiece; a track seemingly tailor-made for the band to get its musical chops around.

So, we invite you to spend ‘A Little More Time with The Senior Service’.

Tracklisting

Everyone's Stranger Than Me / Seasons of My Mind / Lovin' You Girl

Just a Little Time / If You're Not There / Mysterious Land

This new mini-LP is amazing...some of their best recordings.

Thanks for your continued support during this interesting and painful post-Brexit world...lots planned for 2022

Have a fabulous and festive weekend!

IAN & DUNCAN