BADGEWEARER – F.T.Q. - (Gruff Wit Records-UK-1991)

Tony Kennedy born in Glasgow in 1966, is the founding and now only remaining member of the jazz punk band BADGEWEARER championed by John Peel among others. Earning critical acclaim from many quarters including single of the week in the Melody Maker and numerous other international accolates. He turned down Jelo Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label to remain with independent Glasgow label Gruf Witt, releasing over a ten year period: 4 Lp’s and 6 7” singles. In the meantime teaming up with Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury as part of the Marseille art collective Le derniere Crie to form the art noise phenomenon MUG, who performed at festival Mimi as well as being invited to record a Peel session. His last performance was a live improvisation with legendary CAN singer Damo Suzuki in Edinburgh. Badgewearer then became a solo project,involving collaborations with dancers, poets and writers.He currently plays one of the three basses with the new Mexico based Albuquerque band Tiny Americans, with former members of 3 Mile Pilot and Truman’s Water, specializing in live film soundtracks. Which has led to his most recent collaboration with the Rotterdam based video artist Marit Shalem.(from his official webpage)     click me

Interview on Coeval magazine: https://www.coeval-magazine.com/coeval/badgewearer

 

WHIRLING PIG DERVISH-Full Feather Lovesuit-(Gruff Wit Records-UK-1991)

Great 7 inch by this Scottish post-hardcore band from Glasgow! 
I have already written about them when I posted their cassette Out Of Tune,Out Of Time... released in 1991  just as this vinyl.

Expect the same dose of weird and original sounds, fragmented guitar riffs, broken rhythms, screamed vocals and more rather bizarre passages.

A wonderful 7inch for people into difficult Post-Hardcore Punk to digest.
It comes with a little info-sheet with lyrics, all the relevant scans included here.
Enjoy it.
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Tracklist

	This Gruff
A1	A Question Of Sport
A2	Fatter Richer And Stupider
	That Stan
B1	Whip
B2	Erectile Projectile? (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)

Credits

• Engineer, Mixed By – Sshteve Doyle*

Notes

Recorded at Stuff House June '91. Comes with insert sheet.

DAWSON-First Peel Session 09/05/90-(Unreleased-UK-1990)

First Peel session by this amazing Scottish band, I have already posted the second one and some of their studio productions. As the description there fits very well in this post I just gonna C+P it here. I am adding a great video made for the song"Bears Den To Bagdad" discovered on their FB page.

Back in the early 90s, I was in touch with Dawson, They kindly sent me an amazing tape with some live recordings by various Scottish post-hardcore noise bands, the tape also contained 2 Peel sessions by Dawson! Unfortunately, I lost the letter that came with this cassette but I reckon these recordings were not released and I cannot find any info about it. I left them as waves.

I already wrote about this fantastic band: compared to names such as Butthole Surfers and Minutemen, Dawson throws in their songs sheer violence and electric energy mixing some Avant-guard fast chaotic guitars riffs, math rhythms, weird vocals and experimental jingles that make their music original and difficult to categorize.

 Coming out from the very lively Noize Post Hardcore punk scene from the end of last century, they shared common interests and sweats with Stretchheads, Whirling Pig Dervish and  Archbishop Kebab, all very original bands hailing from Scotland.  An FB page about them is here, where you can see old flyers and pics, a new band formed by the 3rd era Dawson musicians are called Sumshapes and their Bandcamp page is here, you can listen/buy their album Cabin Biscuits released June 30, 2017.

I guess there is no need to talk about John Peel and his famous radio show, all the music lovers around the world should know John Peel already. The recording of this tape is excellent. 

Enjoy it.

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SOCIAL INSECURITY-Futureless World Demo-(Self Released-UK-2001)

Social Insecurity is a Hardcore Punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
This is their first demo, it was also released as 7 inch with the name Burn All Flags (with a different track sequence) by the Czech label Emergency Records in the same year.

5 tunes of raging HC Punk with political lyrics, the folded cover sleeve report email address and the lyrics too.

Their Bandcamp page is here, where you will find only their last album 

Resurgence released in February 2019.

Enjoy it.

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EXPOSE YOUR EYES-Steaming Slipons-(Destroy All Music-UK-c90-199?)

Another great tape by Expose Your Eyes,personal music-idea of Paul Harrison a musician from West Yorkshire,who formed this electronic noise project in the mid 90s.Here his SoundCloud page. and here his own blog.

I have already posted another tape by this good act,you`ll find it here.

The label is the "radical cutting edge" Scottish tape label called Destroy All Music(nice name,indeed)-you find here some other of their cool tapes that I posted in this blog.

Enjoy the beatiful noise.
ps-this tape is not indexed
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EX CATHEDRA/MACHINEGUN ETIQUETTE-[Split Tape]Live at AZ Bazille Kassel-12.05.96(Zebra Core-Germany-1996)

"Ex-Cathedra are an anarcho punk band from Glasgow, Scotland. They got together in 1991 and in late 1993 we heard about them after buying a copy of their first single on their own label. We did a single ‘Tresspass’ and then offered them an album. Their debut album, ‘Tartan Material’ was produced by Frankie (Leatherface) Stubbs. One more single followed a cover of Culture Club’s ‘Karma Chameleon’ then they were off. They are still going strong and I think they have a second album out on MoonSka records as well as a new compilation of early stuff including the ‘Tresspass’ E.P. You can usually catch them on tour playing all around the UK and Europe"(from discogs)
"Machine Gun Etiquette were a political punk rock band from Ayrshire, Scotland, formed in the mid-nineties by vocalist/bassist Rat Cunningham.
Machine Gun Etiquette released a number of demos through 1994-96 (“Revolution in the Head” tape as well as the “No Frills” demo tape.) The band released split records with Ex-Cathedra & Juggling Jugulars in the late 90s before finally releasing their 16 track debut album “Hate this city” (Problem Child) in 2000, as well as a single - the “Self Respect” EP (Campary Records). In 2003 Machine Gun Etiquette released their final album “Reality Check”, and played their final gig, supporting MDC at the Path Tavern in Kirkcaldy. A final 7” single was released on Campary - “Hate This City” - with a re-recorded and re-worked version of “Joe Public” as the B-side (featuring Stiff from Ex-Cathedra/Scunnered performing a ‘special’ “Evening Times!” intro…)"(from lasfm)

This is a split tape recorded live at their gig at AZbazille in Kassel(Germany)on 12/05/1996 and it was released by Zebra-Core,little label based in Duisburg(Germany).

Recording is pretty good considering that this was recorded live,there is no song titles in the cover sleeve.

For the lovers of  political ska punk this is a great tape.

Enjoy it.
This tape is not indexed
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WHIRLING PIG DERVISH-Out Of Tune,Out Of Time...-(Yummy Orgasm Recs-UK-1991)

Amazing cassette by this band hailing from Glasgow(Scotland).
They were part of the avant-hardcore scene of this Scottish town back in the 90s.

Probably friends with bands like:Dawson,Archbishop Kebab, Stretchheads and Keatons.

They play a crazy form of HC punk touching the  highs of Minutmen and The Pop Group with some post punk sounds.

Everything mashed up with screams,acid guitars,some unknown noise, fast drums and powerful bass guitar.

Here  a discogs page dedicated to them where you can read about their other productions.

Enjoy it.

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ATTACKED BY WOLVES - Up A Bit From Down - (Destroy All Music-UK-1994-c30)

Another tape released by Destroy all Music,good enough I have found one copy of their catalogue so here I am going to copy what they wrote to introduce this tape on their catalogue.

"Attacked by Wolves-Up A Bit From Down(c30-£1.50)-some of the best stuff yet from this man,he creates crop circles of avant-garde which gradually stray temporarily into the fields of avant-rock, like a cross of Factor X ,Small Things but mostly ZGA with runaway scuzz-honk.Don`t ignore..."
About this scottish label active during the 90s here what they wrote:
"Destroy All Music is a new kind of label specialising in lo-fi noise-art-punk-jazz-no-wayexperimental and anything with alternative edge or viewpoint.Destroy All Music is also a queercore label,written big and proud and wants confrontational bands ,so if you are in a band send us a tape or what you are just interested!!!"

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