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This issue we were going to do a Day Release Sig revieu, with pictures. iio'sev-:r Day Releabe, f ormer Ly a five-piece, have lost their lead singer and one guitarist, so we will- be reporting the antics of the strearnlined Day Release in future. As for the almost countless letters we receive criticizing us for criticizing the Clash; we don t t go out of our way to do this r w€ rnerely reply to people t s let t ers o ','/e 'di dn t t pull the Clash albunn apart j.n a re'riew r we just ignored it , like $/e ignored t The ',r/a11 t by Pink Floyd, they t re rather sinilar. ltts not as if werve come out with a case of Clash Rash suddenly. I thought the Clash had turned crap when lt'hite l{an was released, musicalllr Some of their more recent stuf f has been ali-right, but thytve never been as good musically - or ideologically as-ffit of other bands . On the subject of ?he The And's r-.1igious attacks, I think they t re pointless. l,lany people wiro believe in God think the Church is full of shit , and agree religion shoulCntt be rarnmeC down kidssthroats. However, basically most people are non-religious & couldntt give a toss either w€.f r Because of this I think the subject is trivial cornpared. with nuclear Fo',ye.r & 'dee;..ong, the Folice, taxation etc.
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STIFF TITTLE FIIIGERS Znd album has been long awaited by many people, yours truly included., Sone uaited with enthusia6n., others with apprehension - but whateve! they thoughtrit was geaerally agreeal that they couldnrt natch the superbness of the first album. ldhateverrthe nusic papers were bouad. to slag itrSI,f' bave been a prine target for the buiLE ten up ka6ck ten doun synd.rome. Hoveverrthie albuo i6 not so easily conpared with the firstralthough on the whoLe itrs nore patchy. The albua starts with a version 0f Gotta Getaway that isart as good as the siagJ.era cock-up ia productiou that makes the bass sound. tinnyrbut that doe€nrt roean itrs not 6ti11 a great song. Next is Wait Aad Seerabout the people wbo said theytd never 6ake it which is a great song. F1y The Flag is about M. Thatcher and associatesratd. At The Edge a:rd Nobodyts lleroesra criticisn of al-l the peopLe who J.ook up to thenrend a fiery siale 1. Every track a good one 60 far ranci as good. as the first.album.-I think theyrve lost sone of the rawness thatts 60 ea6eotial to iheir souncl irr tbe productioa someuhererbut the trroductiou is not as snooth as I
hatl feared. Bloody Dubrstartiag side 2 isras itrs title suggestsra dubbed up version of .Bloody Sunday. It Doesntt Make ft AJ.1 Right,The Specials nunber is nowhere lear as . good as Johnni Wasrexcept when it speeds up at the eadrbut you cantt disagree with the J"yricrwhich is why I think they chose it.. T Doart Like Tou is a..blt of a..let .. ." d.own,but the albuu coroes alive a6ain witb No Chaage rand fiaishes on a high, unJ-ike Iafla-nable Materialrvith Tin Soldiers which carries on the 'dasted Life theme. If this albun isnrt as good as the firstritre only because it hasntt got as nany
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our stuff 3 or 4 tines possibly befor€ you get to know where j.t t s goi-ag. AC: Was the siagle AC: Do you lay nore importance on the lyric Rich,nond a serious or the music in a soag ? die at the neople wh.o ARTURO: They t re both re1ly inportant , but live there ? the f act ie. that the ma j ority of people '.: ' ARTU'RO : Well, it t s onfy -Eeni.-Sbii-ous really are attracted to the sound. If th.ey like believe it or not I actually like;Richmond the music of somethiag then they don I t as a placeritts just about the sort of-*c are what the lyrics are like at f irst *-'people that live j.n those place s o ld"e care what the lyrics are like , we writ e HUGIT: fhat attitud,e. them primarily for ourselves. ARTURO: It t s relly funny because in a AC: Did you find it difficult to get gigs revier*- in. NME Tom Robinsoa sa*d it wa.s a when you started ? savagely updated. version of fDedicated ARTURO: We still find it difficult to get FolJ.ower Of FashionIby The Kinks,and. IIve gigs now. Wetre on tbis tour because wetve t always said. that, i.t s just like a rewrite got the same management as ttprbut youtd of that real}y. Itts not absolutely be surprised difficult how it is for Bs r serious r after this all time that we t ve been AC: 'dhat sort of lyrical content' do you togeth€rr. We havnrt had asy real. success put rrrith your music 2 yet,and promoters don I t want to put you otl ARTURO:, All different sorts of tbings. a bill when they car'r t guaraatee making a DAVE :. Personal experienc es , . . .. bit of noney frorn it,and there is no, ARISRO: Mostly serious. Richmond is about guarantee of tbat f or us Xet r because we.r ve the nost, light-hearted, thing we" do rmost got' no roots follor*ing around the country of itfs quite persotalrandrwellrsongs as or anything like that. about alJ- kinds of thingsrlike depression, AC:yet What sort of reaetion do you get iasomniarRed Iadians -. about what the your gigs 2 mainly at white people did to them. They arenrt DAVE: Rea1ly varied. really polit j.cal . Our songs don I t say ARTIIRO: Last sumrner we started getting a I things like i/e hate Margaret That eher I people lot of comingrbut we had a four and. a!-1 that ,I mean , we do , but it seens break nonth aad it tailed off quite a lot. pointlass writing that in a song. Itts AC: That happens in London. much Bora lulfl€. than that. I think the ARTURO : I r m sure tb.at i. f we had. a rec ord subject matter in our songs tend,s to be that did pretty r*eil , all tbe people who I d less cliched than most peoples. ft I s seen us' over the last 2 year6, that I s how difficult to cover anything that hasnft long werve been goingrwould comerbut they be.en c"overed bef ore , but there are things got that great an interest at:the =: havntt that havn f :t been covered as much as "
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left it on theytd, have probably said it was like X-Ray Spex. IIUGH : If we I d have lef t it on and worn . suits on the cover it would have been a1l rightryou know what I mean. Itfs always ex-Lurker 6omethiag. DAVE: It depends who they come from and who I s reviewiag it. Someone slagged. it off because he didn t t like the conpany the record itfs onrf nean what sort of basis is that to go on 2 AC: Yeahrltve noticed that a 1ot- in the press when they mention Pinpoint t they alr*ays say ex-Lufker etc. ARTURO: It I s been really detrimental to us I reclcon. The press didn t t like The Lurkersrand they grouped them in with bands U"ke Eater & Slaughter & The Dogs who thiry called ran6.-larna d.ole queue punk groupsrand they havnft even listened to us rtheyt re no"t interested in coming rbecause f wa6 in a band they hated. It?s like The Edge,Lu and. J oha Moss were in The Dannned at a time when The Damned were an absolute joke with the press and when they formed th,eir own group they were ignored, and. we t ve been ignoreC. AC: They seemed to have formed an opinion about you because of your background. ARTURO: Of course they have, t cos they t re just trendy cunts,theyIre not into nusic tb.ey I re j us t int o the 'tat es t f ashi on in. AC: I doatt think f rve seea an&thing 'i other f anzines eith,er.
A.C: I got the siagl,e about 3 nonths ago r 60 how come it. hasntt been picked up until now ? ARTURO : Where d.i d you get i t ? AC: Virgin somewhere ARTURO: Wellitheyrve only got then in Oxford WaIk because ny sister works there fhe distribution has beea so bad it t s Ull, true. lde I ve had no adverts f or it . It ctid get played by John Peel and Mike Read but it didntt reflect nuch in the sales. It got reviewed about 7 weeks after it cFrye out.. I didn I t think it would get in
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go-ing to .A,mericar.d.ontt like fhemrt But if that bandrsey The Clashrhad staye d small , t hey I d 6ay rrI saw then a year ago and they I re the sane ba-nd t Irm not going to see themtf The sane people who say a band. have sold out are to embarrassed to go to a g:'-S if there I s only 5O people there. In one wiy they want to elate yourbut then if you get big they hate that aE well. IIUGH : That I s the Brit ish t hing r they ,-1_**_j 9 rnake heroe.s and they expect so much of themfand tb.en they tear 'dewh the .f,igure they I ve built uP. -.qRtUnO: If we had an over the top single or alJ. dressed in black or had a Ii ght shoti and snoke bonbs , we I d probably have a much larger a.rdience because people tend to like tbat sort of thing. just the music. get on wit to h want A0: So yourre a band who t just ess ful at least bre won I t have done succ we not re do.If do what we ARTURO: We aone stupid publicity stunt. DAVE: If you go and eee Talking Eeads itrs just four people on stage playing music and that rs it. ARTURO: l,t'e t re not sensationalists,and we don I t want publicity stunts. We I re not a consistent prof essional grouprwhen we get pissed off at a gig you can tel1. AC: I thiak itfs good if you can get a particular act on stage that I s visually goodrbut only as long as you donft rely on it much. DAVE: People shouldjust be what they are on stage. ARTORO: Sone of itrs so clicbedrthereis nothiag oeu you cau do on a sta8e. You can eitber stard up to it like Rod. stewartror haag over it like Johapy Rott3a......itrs a1l been done. trrle got spat at by punke in Plydouth because we r,reren t t playing fast stuf f all the tine aad we weren I t providing them with what theytd got ia their heads that they waated to hearrwe were playing some of the longer ones . tr{e t ve got aboutl 27 songs to choose f rom. AC: Tonight youtre playing to an audience that hasnrt come to see you specificallyrso maybe that nakes it harder. ARTURO: I dontt know reallyrwerve head.lined gigsra lot in London. I think I prefer supporting actually. HUGI{ : it I s less of a bat t 1e headlining because the majority of people know what to expectrbut when you supportra'lot of people don t t know what to expect. DAVE: People just tend to watch. They d.on I t go away and. they don t t go over the top' .It - w-on r t -inspire a reaction the f irst The PURIIANS are. a newJ-y -formsd hand from :, time you hear it " the East End of London , previously calle'd - .l -A3"SURO: . ,To-. rne r it. d,oesn !.t make . any dif f erThe Assassins. ,At present ,they- are .lookin"g. .:eoce. -I!rn either in the mood- for it or Irrn f or suitable equiprnent so ,tfra,t .ihey call, oL. ILls ,just like list.enint ..to, a piec,e organiae"'gigs wj-th b.ands: who.lare ',-i.n t.heji.r,.,::," of nnusic , i f' you t re not in tbe nood. you position,under the banner of Puritan .dpa !,},, en joy it .. . h/e11, we t re contr"oversial Pr omo t,L clhg i .".Th e,, s,e,t, at': pfe s.o!,*';,r!s''sho r i, r',.,, ':ar-;â&#x201A;Ź. E I t- wg.,;boys , go"od int ervi ew. .A,nything al-t hough -:r e w rna t eri a1 :,,i s, -b ej-a g";a dded: e uery.else ? week. Best titles arerfBlack Mirrorsr,f rrDied AC : -trihat about on the rec ord f ront apart on Wednesday, " and rroverheadsri The band. t s frors the album ? stance is totally anti-compromise (wetve ARTURO: Probably a singLe released with it heard that before but this time it|s lt'ha b we wani t o d.o i" , the album wi li have true)rand play for the purpose of making about 10 tracks on itrbecause some of the statements in the most enjoyable way posstracks are 4-f minutes long so we can I t ible through RrnrR. The Puritans are have 12 or 14 tracks, some of the old firm believers in independence from the numbers we could possibly put on a six usual scum (radio,record conpani.es,promotrack E.P or somethingrFut with the Lp. ters etc ) theref ore they are tryi.ng to f ind AC: Will that be on .q,lUion ? places where many small bands can playrali ARTURO: Yeahrthat will be on Albiono Wetve chipping in towards the cost. If anyone got a. three year contract with then . knows a suitable venueror band whord be interestedrplease write to AFTERI,IATII, 1j George Gillett Court rBanner St rLondon EC1 .
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iatend to do a6 naay gigs as possible in prisoas/borstaL s,/deteation eedLres/ orphanages/ruental asyluns - we raat to give our nessage to the rejeets. of society. Sorne people say ou! lyrics are boneti.nes like Crass. .{ 1ot of our songs were wri.tten before Craesreven thou8h ue ag"ee with what theyrre doing and sayinS. We 'rrere going to be a faEt punk band with aoalchistic viewerbut I consider Crass to be the ultiaate rebellious fast musi.c baad about. We do not inteqd to foLlow in gr:assr footstepsras you cair ai1 see they are now very popuJ.ar. At our futule gigs we intentl to give out photocopies like the one showo.lye are rlow also doing a. ItThe The And[ fanzine to give away to 1et people know what we are doing i.e. narcbes !a[ti-t]ar, anti poLice brutality etc. Arxother thing is that we feel f,ast rebeLlious srusic can?t rea11y go any further without being the same as anybody or being classed as Crass cloaes etc rso we have created a new sort of nusic r'ihich is not f ast ,not slow tnot medium but a c ornbination of all three , We do not feel we are ripping people off just because we hate many thingsrl am an anarchistrl do not speak for other members although we are agreed on just about everythingrwe think that our views are views of other peopleranarchists, rejects and misfits. We know we wonrt be the first or last to try and act against the system.Good luck to anyone else try@ 'de do a. f,.eu songs with bori-ng tunes and'-vocals , a good refl.ection of modera 1ife. l{e f,ee1 aa ouf ausj,c is not fast puak it leaveE nore areas to explOrerafter aLl- bow {aiy no.t punk;.'groups have got rebellious lyricsrwe caart. think of, any.. .Nowe.days..ifyou play very.f,ast music you become very popular anrl people start to feed,off you aad exploit you aad your neaniag becones lees powerful. .IOn - DasS gul-tar Fudd d.rums " Kye Eye - lead guitar ---{haz -.-."lead guitar Mr Tak - vocals & whistling Adol-f Phuq - rhythm guitar through " "Ti:Zz 'bijxr jaw harp, flute rhair dryer. Song titles include:â&#x201A;Ź,a$r PgaE Cl:,urchrBorstalrTV Brain rKil).iag Babi-es, ri.7. Public Toy rSellout rRebellious Housewife, ,. .Y'ageieq Mllitary FIen , Speech Of Youth , ** British Press,Pigs In B.Iiue rDon t t waste t IT tcLl H *rf, (*ltlu""' tw'lE'Ltr*A My Time We
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: Why d,o you caJ.J' yourselves The Vibrators ? ftP: Because Ed.d,i.e t s in it. IAN : 'nie are who we are , The st ory is , when Knox lef t tbe band, , they cami ed oa f or a little while without bin I and the line up - was Greg van Cook, Ben Brierly aad Eddie. They d.id a couple of gigs but it dida t t work out lprincipally because Ben was hopeless(larghs around. roos) so the next thing uas that Eddie and Greg decided to get the band together with a proper bass pliyerrne KIPI Aaahrrubbish. IAN: then they asked Elliot Michaels who l/as then in the Electric Chairs , f or guitar lCe r,eere going to sing ourselves but none of us was good eaough to be a lead singer so we put ail' ad in Melody Maker and Kip came aloag., We did a. couple of gigs with that line-up and then for various reasons such as the two American guitarists being .:un!ies rwe decid.ed. it wouid be best they uent back to Americarand. then, uâ&#x201A;Ź,t d. f ind two nuch, better English musiciansrunfort* unateJ.y we did,a I t but Jinny and Birdnan -""' ti&m6' alougtand that I s it., AC: So really it is actual.ly a natural Vibrators as opposed to Ed,die just going out and. getting nore members. It continua1ly changed" rbut what appeared to happen tra6 that. you split and th,en Eddie reformed. AC
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ber that. Any band. that r s any good, have changed.. would,n t t r*cognirJ The Clash fron 1975-You or The Danned. KIP : - Even the Jan have change d . AC: But donft you think the-troubre with calling yourselves the vibrato"u iu that people are going to cone to see the..band
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not losing any audience", re gaiai.ng it. fAN: When we : headliae gigs twâ&#x201A;Ź,- donr.t.'.-eone on to rapturous applause like the old. Vibrators d.id,but by the end. of the set t werre doing two encores a aight. Every gig we I ve done , rre t ve encored.. KIP : Whether they I ve liked it or not tte I ve BIRIMAN: We t re
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fAN: Things are going quite well for us at the moment AC: So the Vibrators are continuing from where they left off. fAN: Well , the thing is , they never did. leave off. KiP: What you nean by left off is when Knox left the bancl." AC: WeIl rKnox did seem to be the rnain menber in the band. KIP: Oh yeah,he was r IAN: But you call 6ee Knqx playing dosn the Hope tnt Anchortor dowa the Marquee on a weekd.ay rso it just goes to show he rorasa t t the ban d. AC: You r ve got a single out on Rat' Rac.e rec or*s I J.our
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AC: When you splitrd.id you iatend to carry on ? EDDIE: Yeahrthe three of us carried onr and after days of auditions this line up resulted,tJimmy V turned up and. he found Birdraan ia Lond.on Zoo stud.ying the birds in an aviary. Thatts why we called hin Birdnanrand why hefs got birds painted on
his guitar. : Irlas it you playing on The Label albun doing the tracks under the name of
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Froat ? EDDIE: Yeahrit was me drumming on that. AC: Front were an actual group before that , so' I lias ciuite surprise d. when I saw the line-r:p on that. EDDIE: Yeahrand I never got a penny for that. Another thing Itve been ripped off OIL
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AC: There was only one person in Front vbo was consistent all the way through the Froat tracks on that albun. EDDIE. : Yeab. , that wa,s Ben . Fuck knows wlrat he I s doing tlowr KIP: Hers narri.ed. EDDIE: Yeah, that t s right , to Marianne
f'aithful. l/e got Jimmy V " and Birdman one day bef ore we did the single . "{e went in , had" f our houis of practice , cut tb.e eingle , then had niae hours of practi"ce and. did e gig at the Electric Ballroom r^rith The Dickies. Things have gone on from there. AC : lvhy d.id you get the sing1.d out on your own label ?
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AC: Did you try any record colrpanies before you d.id it ? EDDItr: Not reallyrwe just did it, and unless anybody had come along with a better offer we were going to do it-'oursefves. Nobod.y did innediatelyralthough there are some at the moment. We wanted to get it in the shops and the fastest way to d.o it was on our own with more control. Now youtre going to ask why that song. AC: Yeah why. Actually it sounds like heavy rnetal to fie. EDDIE: ln/hat t s heavy naetal 2 AC : I{ow would yo1l describe your music then? EDDIE: About as far away fron heavy metal &Sr.rr.
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KfP: I played the single the other night to a girl I know whots totally into disco, punk is eeught you knowrand she wouldnrt even know what heavy metal isrand, sbe real1y liked it. EDDIE: ftrs dance musicrlike the Vibrators
have always been. AC: Do you still play a lot of the old numbers 2. EDDIE.: Yeahrwe do some of then. At the. noment we I re going through the old rrllr!bers and de c i ding what we want t o d.o . AC: Did you co-write any of the old stuff, EDDfE: I got a look in oa it ,yeah. AC., ttlho writes the new material" EDDIE: Bird.man , Jimmy, Kip , we all writ
e it " b-side of the single was Kip & Ian,the next single is fan & Jimmy and I don I t know what the b-si d.e will be. KIP: It. could. even be an Eddie drum solo The
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First on were Pinpointrfresh from the interviewrand without aay hesitation they got straight into the set. They might not have an â&#x201A;Ź|e-c&tching stage actrbut when a band. Garr deliver the sound like this it hardly matters r A sax player wa,s used to enhance the nusic on a few numbersrincluding the siagJ.etwhich it carne over well on. They really steamed tbrough the soagsrand there around this band. woatt take 'las a lot of potential ln it. If therers any justice long to build up a following. They did one encore rrMoved awayrt (i think)rwhich was o!,e of the best they played. Next on were The Vibrators rrho stornetl o:r to the stagerrocked around a 1ot and 8enera1Iy created a good atnosphere. They even caused quite a bit of rnovenent at the f"ont. Old numbers tbey played were lllhips & Furs which was narvellous, Londoa Girl,s anai Baby.rBaby , but the nev material wasnrt Lackirg,although I bne of myr associates thought otherwise.,. ltToo b.eavy rr oae Boanedrand he has the nelve to.own at least tuo l'lotoxhead recordB. The tt'ro 6ongg on the single were a fairly weak choice I think. They do have a hoavy â&#x201A;Źui.tar soutld and a Lot of leadrbut I wouldart call it E!1. I uourt say too ouch about t!! because ue did a review of them or, the sane tour in the last issue. Tb,ey played pretty tigbtlyrbut the venue wae against theni A Lot of the songs were off the aew albumrbut thatrs aot to say they were lackiag in quality. Best ones were Boys Io a Gaag and Itn A1ive.
fflE' rLgED$rt P{Lss {ne*rEsr }1 tTe voL. L The Cockney Rejects storm your
brain cells idith a record that I s a mother of an albun to some peopleritad'a shoddy return to 1977 to others. I donrt regard it as either; therers no way thi$ album could have beea produced in 1977,but in some aspects itts a let down compared to the excellence- of the first single. Not to say it hasnrt got itfs good points. Side 1 starts with ilIrm Not A tr"oolrt - doesnf t sound very convincing to nerwhich isnrt very good, but later the albun livens up with Bad Han , Here They Come Aga!.n and. Join The Rejectsrwhich takes a bit of getting used to after knowing the original version by the Tickets " About half the album is really worth list ening t o lrJhere The He 11 Is Babylcn is pretty funny , but it does have it r s boring points as well as good ones. Stinky Turnerrs disability to sing is only a minor setbackrbut Mickey Geggus on guitar g-eTtaigly knows how t o hi t itre strings . This aLbum w,-ould have more of an honest H*-l?n[j.i theY weren't Fart of a larse
The Bleeding Pyles origi.nally forned in Oct 77 under the name of Cut Throat + The Razors. The played a few gigs(mainly youth clubs and parties ) and then sp1it. In March , 78 they re f ormed with a d.i if erent line up. They got some songs down on taperbut due to differencesrand. the
bassist being put in a D.C. for 3 months t.hey spli t again , only t o re f orm in Sep '79 with the current nane,and ihe group is stili going with ihat line rrp3Scotty vocals , Dee Mented guiiar, Di Lema .. bass , Cut Throat - Drums . Song titles include : G.B.i{. Saliva Army ,Recruitrnents ,London t s Burning rir'hite Riot ,New Rose ,Boof Boys.
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