Chiswick Records ⁽⁴⁾

Something dear to my heart alcoholically 🥃 and musically 🎵, especially over the Christmas period, something that gets played in chez AKickIndieNutz whist sorting Christmas Dinner, songs that just lift the spirits (don't offend the old 'uns too much as long as they don't listen too carefully to some of the lyrics!). Just to get into the festive 'spirit'..... The Pogues, Streams of Whiskey released on the Stiff Records Label in 1984 on the bands debut album 'Red Roses For…

Three versions of the same song first by The Strangeloves, The Count Bishops and finally Bow Wow Wow.... The song 'I Want Candy' was originally recorded way back in 1965 by The Strangeloves, a band created by a New York based song writing team. They were: Strangely in the day they pretended to be brothers from a Sheep Farm in Australia, evidently their British Accents weren't much cop! I can only guess that the British and Australian 'invasions' of music…

The Bard, Lyrically Speaking... This bloke still is (and was at the time) very mature and could see the world around him, what was going on....and better still, write songs about it... I kind of feel I grew up with him, (we are not related by the way!) 😀 I remember buying his first release 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy' on the Utility Record Label released in 1983 and was quite blown away with how different it sounded…

The Band Johnny & The Self Abusers. The band's debut and only single released on the Chiswick label in 1977, by the time it was released they had split and were already recording as Simple Minds (named after a David Bowie lyric in the song 'Jean Genie'), John Milarky also quit soon afterwards and formed the band Cuban Heels. Jim Kerr at the time a budding singer and lyricist and his friend from the age of 8 Charlie Burchill teamed…