The Big One! So, towards the end of September it was our kid's big 18th Birthday, sadly on the actual day we were all poorly with Cold/Covid. We booked a restaurant when we all felt better a week later in Drury Lane in London, next door to where my wife worked many years ago for 'Centrepoint' a homeless charity helping young people getting back into a safe place and work/standing on their own two feet. The restaurant were always good…

Play Dead, the Oxfordshire band's second release from 1981 with the single T.V. Eye. Yes, another 'goth' band but, not from the 'powerhouse' of Goth Rock aka The North of England, not that this band by all accounts particularly liked being labelled 'goth'. Track Listing: The track T.V. Eye is not to be confused with a song recorded by The Stooges of the same name, catch the track at the youtube link. Play Dead's track was released on the Independent…

Ok, so in the spirit of this blog and for the name of Independent Record Label music, this post is about the Bronze Record Label and (for a change a non-obscure 'indie label' band), Bronze Records was founded in 1971 by Gerry Bron and was home to many well known acts such as Motörhead, Hawkwind and Manfred Mann's Earth Band to name a few. For this post I am blogging specifically on a band I love and an album I…

Released on the Indie Red Rhino Record label. I guess kind of described as Mod Revival/New Wave and appears to be their only record. Oddly on Discogs there are 3 credited vocalists, I can only assume that a different one was singing on each of the tracks? Red Rhino was an interesting label, it was formed in York in 1977 from a record shop of the same name by Tony Kostrzewa (aka Tony K) and his wife, making their first…

I guess I was more into 'Metal/Punk' and 'Goth' type sounds back in the early part of the 80's, so perhaps missed this and maybe some of the Oi! sub-genre of the time, but hey! hindsight it's a wonderful thing and (for me) is worth revisiting... The track was actually produced by....Joe Strummer for a strange fee! As per the link to dangerousminds.net... "Instead of being paid cash for his production services, the Roosters’ manager arranged for Strummer to receive…