Happy Friday folks!
We hope you're enjoying the World Cup! I'm rooting for Norway as I pulled them out the hat in the family sweepstake! Den kommer hjem!
If football's not your thing we have some great records out this summer, all looking for homes! Perhaps you can help?
OUT TODAY! We have a 4CD box set by Thee Headcoatees plus Girlsville on a standalone LP!
We also have albums by Fabienne Delsol and King Salami & The Cumberland Three, plus a book on London's Dead Pubs up for pre-order!
And don't forget our recent releases including Simon Williams' ace book on crisps plus records by The Courettes, Billy Childish & Holly Golightly, and Cyanide Pills (INCLUDING MORE LATHE CUTS DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!)
As always click on the sleeve art to order!
THEE HEADCOATEES - Girlsville (bonus edition LP)
**OUT TODAY**
First UK pressing since the Hangman Records 1991 vinyl edition!
Now updated to include two extra tracks, their first two singles – ‘Headcoat Girl’ and ‘Davey Crockett’!
“There we were, sitting round a kitchen table coming up with ideas and tunes for Girlsville. ‘Wild Man’ - wow! ‘Round Every Corner’ (written for us by Billy), ‘First Plane Home’, a Kinks cover always played in the live set, as was ‘Meet Jacqueline’ (apparently penned by Albert Hammond, odd!) Every track was a winner, I think. Then we went to conquer the world with our albums Have Love Will Travel, Bozstik Haze (not purple!), and Punk Girls plus numerous 7-inch crackers. The fun we had until Here Comes Cessation. Well so we thought….” MISS LUDELLA BLACK – JAN 2026
THEE HEADCOATEES - A Curious Case of... (4CD Box)
**OUT TODAY**
A 4CD set of the first four THEE HEADCOATEES albums in one small box.
This features the ‘Girlsville’ ‘Have Love Will Travel’ ‘Ballad Of The Insolent Pup’ & ‘Punk Girls’ albums.
Brand new artwork by Bruce Brand and a booklet with a look back from Thee Headcoatees themselves.
KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND THREE - 16 Knockout Hits! (CD/LP)
**RELEASE DATE JUNE 19th**
For nearly two decades, the King and his Cumberland Three have been spreading the Rhythm & Punk grease all around this big old world, bringing along with them buckets of fun, raucous energy, silliness, smiles and sweat! With this quartet, every show is a party!!
To mark their 20 years anniversary of relentlessly playing shows around the globe and releasing dozens of records, King Salami & the Cumberland Three have dug deep into their extensive catalogue to select 16 of their most killer tracks. It makes for a fun-packed album which contains wacky classics such as ‘The Pulpo Dance’, ‘Pineapple Mama’, ‘Shake it Wild’ and ‘Do the Wurst, alongside their lesser-known instrumental ‘Itch!’ that recently featured on the Dreamies cat food TV ad.
This high energy compilation will be released to coincide with their 20-year anniversary gig at the Lexington in London, which will be a party not to miss, featuring lots of guests and surprises. Some tickets are still available from: https://wegottickets.com/event/692801/
FABIENNE DELSOL - INDIGO RED (BLACK VINYL LP/ CD)
**RELEASE DATE JULY 10th**
Fabienne Delsol is back with her fifth solo album!
Fabienne has been finessing her unique blend of neo- and classic psych, ye-ye, and ‘60s beat inspired pop since releasing her debut solo album No Time For Sorrows in 2004. She’s now about to release her brand-new studio album Indigo Red.
Fabienne’s recording of ‘I’m Gonna Haunt You’ (from 2004's No Time For Sorrows) was featured in the second season of the massive BBC show Killing Eve opening her music up to a wider audience.
Since her 2019 album Four Fabienne has been working on tracks for her new album Indigo Red. This is her first album to be recorded at Gizzard Studios by Ed Deegan (ex Toe Rag Studios) at the controls and co-produced by Delsol and Deegan. It features a crack team of musicians including Thomas Gardner, Carwyn Ellis, and Bradley Burgess, and Rupert Brown. The album mixes new original songs with covers of songs by artists including Silver Apples, The Count Five, Sharon Tandy, and Francoise Hardy.
CYANIDE PILLS
AMALIA - DAMGOOD652 - LATHE CUT 7" / DIGITAL - MORE COPIES CUT! OUT NOW!
This single is a very limited, lathe cut 7” of another new single (that is actually on the album) called ‘Amalia’. We've had more copies cut due to popular demand!
DAMAGED GOODS BOOKS TO PUBLISH TWO NEW BOOKS ABOUT THE PERFECT UNION OF PUBS AND CRISPS!
‘UP THE PACKET – ONE MAN’S CRISP ODYSSEY’ BY SIMON WILLIAMS – OUT NOW
DERELICT LONDON PRESENTS: LONDON’S DEAD PUBS – BY PAUL TALLING – PUBLISHED JUNE 25TH
Following previously released books on Johnny Moped, New Order and two volumes of Paul Talling’s acclaimed Lost Music Venues series, Damaged Goods Records further expand their side hustle with two new books to be published by Damaged Goods Books this May and June. Almost as if it was planned, the subject matter for both books compliment each other as much as they do in real life, pubs and crisps!
‘UP THE PACKET – ONE MAN’S CRISP ODYSSEY’ BY SIMON WILLIAMS – OUT NOW
First up, ‘Up The Packet – One Man’s Crisp Odyssey’ is published May 14th. Compiled by former NME journalist, Fierce Panda Records head honcho, all round indie rock legend, and crisp packet collector Simon Williams, ‘Up The Packet’ details one man’s journey through rock n’roll and eating crisps.
Since 1977, Simon has amassed more than 8,000 crisp packets.They are all empty, they all live in shoeboxes, and they are all different. Apart from the swapsies.
‘Up The Packet’ is a tale about those crisp bags and their amazingly zinging innards: from the Tayto potato to the Spudos spud; from the wartime birth of Golden Wonder to the 1990s stock & awe of Walkers; from the ‘70s kid-friendly frenzy to the growth in grown-up snacks and into the indie credibility revolution. It takes the reader on a crunchy cultural journey through the entire history of the potato crisp, packed with solid packet factettes and frankly wild snacking theories. Oh, and it delivers some fabulous new full colour pictures of crisp bags through the past 50 years in the ‘Don’t Look Bag In Anger’ pull-out photo spread.
But that isn’t all, because ‘Up The Packet’ packs in a heap of music references, as you may or many not expect from a book title which riffs on the Libertines’ debut album. Who is a Soho Salad? Why is Motörhead’s Backstage Buffet? What is Kid Jensen? Where is the actual epicentre of the actual crispy rock’n’roll universe? Is there parking?? Will there be snacks??? The fashions, the fads, the songs, the TV ads, the crazy flavourings and the hazy lost favourites and - of course - the long and fact-finding road from Smiths Salt’n’Shake to Splodgenessabounds, ‘Up The Packet’ is a crisp-lover’s paradise in rock’n’rolling form.
For Crisp lovers, collectors, nostalgia geeks, and fans of retro graphic design.
DERELICT LONDON PRESENTS: LONDON’S DEAD PUBS – BY PAUL TALLING – PUBLISHED JUNE 25TH
Next up, Derelict London Presents – ‘London’s Dead Pubs’, published June 25th. Following from London’s Lost Music Venues Vol 1 & 2, author Paul Talling turns his attention to the capital's lost drinking dens. If you enjoyed his previous books, you'll enjoy this one too. Read about The Ruskin Arms in Manor Park where the Small Faces used to rehearse; The Star in Croydon where Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, Cream, and Fleetwood Mac all played; and Putney's White Lion who hosted punk and new wave bands including X-Ray Spex, Tubeway Army, Crass, Monochrome Set and The UK Subs. In addition to the many music-related anecdotes Paul broadens this book out into an alternative, sticky-carpeted history of London, viewed from the bar of some of its most iconic (and now sadly gone) drinking dens.
A well-stocked jukebox, bar snacks, and pints of Whitbread, Fuller's, Truman's or Courage on tap. Nothing quite matches the atmosphere of a London pub. But since 2004, one in five pubs across Greater London have closed. This book pays tribute to many of the great public drinking places we've lost, while also celebrating some pubs that have returned from the dead.
Paul Talling is best known for the 'Derelict London' website and has been giving guided walks across all parts of London for over 20 years. With over 200 original photos of pubs in all states of dereliction plus some that have luckily come back from the dead, London's Dead Pubs laments the drinking spaces we've lost and also points to places where it's still possible to drink in the (usually) convivial atmosphere of a great London boozer today.
Enjoy the footie!
Ian & Duncan