OUR MAY RELEASES ARE NOW UP FOR PRE-ORDER!
On the eve of The Courettes UK tour we present a 10" mini LP/CD rounding up some unreleased tracks, rarities and spruced-up B-Sides.
We also have a lovely 4CD Box set of Milkshakes albums!
Both titles are released on Friday May 27th. Pre-order by clicking on the sleeve art below!
The Courettes - Back In Mono (B-Sides & Outtakes) (10" LP/CD)
10” Mini LP/CD featuring outtakes and re-recorded B-sides from the 'Back In Mono' sessions!!!
Back in Mono, The Courettes´ third album, was critically acclaimed worldwide and made it onto numerous best -of -the-year lists in 2021.
If, like us, you can’t get enough of Back in Mono, here's some good news!
Back in Mono - B-sides & Outtakes is coming out at the end of May, just in time for the band's UK tour! Bringing some more “spit ´n´ snarl garage-meets-Phil Spector pop” (Mojo) in three brand new unreleased tracks. Look forward to hearing the three new smash tunes 'Daydream', 'Tough Like That' and 'Talking About My Baby', all wrapped in a new mix by Wall of Sound aficionado Seiki Sato (Japan) and produced by the hit wizards Søren Christensen & C.T. Levine.
Also included are the three non-album B-sides from the band's most recent singles. These B-sides have been newly spruced up with extra instrumentation. Making up the eight tracks is the inclusion of a Courettes rarity - 'So What' was previously only available on a split single with The Jackets released on Chaputa Records back in January.
**TICKET LINKS FOR ALL UK SHOWS HERE**
The Milkshakes - Milk Box (4CD Box)
A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring four classic albums by The Milkshakes.
We present four albums by The Milkshakes in a clamshell box set complete with booklet.
The four albums in the set are -
Talking 'Bout Milkshakes
After School Session
Thee Knights Of Trashe
The Milkshakes Revenge!
**THESE ALBUMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS STANDALONE VINYL RELEASES** - BUY VINYL HERE
THE
MILKSHAKES were mainly Mickey Hampshire (Git/Vox); Billy Childish (Git/Vox);
Bruce Brand (Drums); Russ Wilkins (Bass)
When punk rock group the Pop Rivets broke up in 1980, Billy Childish joined
forces with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a
group called Mickey and the Milkshakes with his cohort Banana Bertie. The two
began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, Talking
’bout Milkshakes! in 1981. With Childish and Hampshire sharing guitar and
vocal duties, Bruce Brand on drums, and Bertie on bass (later replaced by Russ
Wilkins then John Agnew), the Milkshakes’ sound was a primitive blend
of British beat groups, like the early Kinks at their toughest, and hard-rocking
American guitar instrumentalists like Link Wray. This sound came to be known as
the “Medway sound” and the core members have been playing a
variation on it throughout their whole careers.
The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording
nine records in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of
Childish’s primitive songwriting and Hampshire’s more melodic
leanings. The group also masterminded and backed a Medway girl group, the
Delmonas.
When Mickey left The Milkshakes in 1984 Childish, Brand and Agnew went on to
form Thee Mighty Caesars. Mickey and Bruce now play in The Masonics along with
Ludella Black from The Del Monas, and Russ lives in Scotland and fronts the
Wildebeests as well as being Lord Rochester.