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Entrance More Sheffield Post Punk with the band I'm So Hollow. This track 'Entrance' from the 1981 Album Emotion/Sound/Motion released on the Illuminated Records Label, the label being set up by Keith Bagley in 1980 and specializing in Post Punk releases, other artists with releases on the label were Sex Gang Children, 23 Skidoo, Dormannu and D.A.F. The band's first and only 7" single release was Dreams to Fill the Vacuum in 1980 actually on the Hollogram Record Label (which…

The Story Of... You can also see on the back cover that the single was produced by the legendary producer, engineer and musician Mike Hedges who has produced for some really big names over the years. He has been responsible for production of The Cure (Seventeen Seconds), Siouxsie & The Banshees (Nocturne), The Associates (Party Fears Two) and this track by The Southern Death Cult with their first single called 'Moya'. Interestingly enough The Cult have just released their first…

There doesn't seem to be anyone around... An oldie, originally done by Tommy James and the Shondells back in 1967 and been covered more times than a Plasterer's Trowel. It was released by Lene Lovich on the independent 'Stiff Records' label in 1978 as catalogue no. 'BUY32', the B Side to the single called 'Lucky Number' was probably better known and was re-released as an A Side by Stiff in 1979, it hit #3 in the UK Singles Chart of…

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…

Exhibit A. A marvellously entitled E.P. on a brilliantly named label by a London Band called 'Exhibit A' called 'No Elephants This Side Of Watford Gap' an EP released in 1979 on the Independent 'Irrelevant Wombat Records' as catalogue no. 'DAMP 1' - Matthew Matrices (Matthew Vosburgh) - Bass/Vocals - Dan Dare (Dan Goldstein) - Keyboards/Vocals - Paul Platypus - Guitar - Andrew Lunchbox - Drums Exhibit A were to release another 7" E.P. called 'Distance' in 1980 on the…