Hot on the heels of John Robb's critically acclaimed book covering the mig eighties post-post punk pop/noise death to trad rock UK underground is this CD.
The compilation includes all the key players on the remarkable scene of a defiant, discordant DIY underground of bands whilst the book details in depth the groups, the venues and fanzines that sustained a remarkable and highly original scene of bands. Perhaps the last stand of DIY culture in the UK, the DIY bands were sometimes recording some of the most extreme music ever in the UK whilst some of them were making wilfully awkward pop. For the first time the bands have been pulled together ona compilation.
Featuring Age Of Chance, The Membranes, Three Johns, The Cravats, The Ex, Big Flame, Dog Faced Hermans, Wedding Present, Stretchheads, The Nightingales, Very Things and many others, this is the spikey soundtrack to the fanzine scene and a perfect companion to the 'Death To Trad Rock' book's detailed account of the scene and the venues and the whole culture that surrounded it from the Miners strike, the post punk fallout and the politics of the eighties.
"Death to Trad Rock" compilation CD out December
DEATH TO TRAD ROCK BOOK OUT ON CHERRY RED AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER