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If you love The Saints, The Sonics or The Real Kids. If you think The Silver Apples and Suicide are trancendent gods from another world (teenslain;)), If you love Howling Wolf, Furry Lewis and Bo Diddly, if you obsessivley collect small DIY punk rock bands on labels so small they are gone before the record ever comes out, then this is your thread.

There is more Rock & Roll, Psych, Soul and Blues out in the world than we will ever hear in a life time, old and new. This thread is a show and tell for discovering and showing off all the obscure and forgotten, old and new bands, labels, radio shows, gigs and records that everyone should know but doesnt. I don't know if there are enough people here to keep this thread rolling but hey ho lets go!

my favourite Liverpudlian band, Blue Demon...

F'in excellent! I want to see them Live. Think I might make a few calls?

Saw these three times in one week, love 'em


Bit of a classic

electric eels - Cyclotron
Lengendary, confrontational band from Cleveland, Ohio

Current musings - http://www.electricfuckingeels.com/

[quote=Ste_S;639741]Saw these three times in one week, love 'em



Hell Yeah! Mr. Airplane Man! Margaret and Tara, two of the nicest rock n' roll girls I ever met! Margaret is a mom now, I'm sure she's still rockin' though, and tara is playing drums with The Turpentine Brothers I think.

Good man! you made my day!

This is what I'm talking about, I've never heard Electric Eels before. They're amazing! New discovery #1! Thanks!

I'll return the favor with some Simply Saucer!

Bought the three albums and ep off them at the end of one of the gigs, had a quick chat seemed like nice people. Not heard of the Turpentine Brothers, will check 'em out.

Anyhoo, we need some Billy Childish on the first page. Love his cover of Fire

Awesome thread, Aram! I'll play you Agitated by The Electric Eels next time I see you, they were Nick Knox's band before The Cramps... Epic disgusting noise...

I give you Metal Urbain... Electro-punk Gods... From France... In 1976... I'll play this single next time I see ya too... Top 5 epic noize mentalizm... :D

If your a Monks fan, Me and Teenslain are putting on:

The Nuns


With

The Jooks of Kent


2nd May - At Gammagoochie! At the Grovesnor in Stockwell. I'll post more info about it when it gets closer. We are actually putting on a bunch of amazing shows coming up! I'll keep everyone posted.

By all means post any good gigs or clubs you hear about, the more the merrier!

I've been waiting for you to show up, I knew you would find your way here eventually!

Seeing the Metal Urbain vid I went looking for some Dr Mix and the Remix (who Metal Urbain turned into), can't find anything unfortunately. Their Wall of Noise is amazing; if you like fuzzed-out, electronic, noise pop.

Anyway, here's some Acid Eater, from Japan.

YouTube - ACID EATER
edit. It seems that the video isn't embeding, oh well.

I've got the Dr Mix singles, Lady Coca-Cola is a classic...
This thread makes me feel all warm and cosy... :]

A friends dad (really nice guy, became social worker)was the guitarist for a leicester based band called Gypsy, and also Legay.

The bits ive heard of them are bloody awesome, id love to hear some more/see vids but all their stuff has been out of print for years. And ive lost contact with this friend. They also look uber-hip in old photos.

They made it on top of the pops and got quite big. There most well know song had the the chorus "nooo body loves you, Iiii-do Iii-do"

Hmmm? Thats a hard one, but not impossible. If you cant find it on the t'internet then fughettaboutit!

I used to listen to solely garage rock a few years back.

Standout bands for me are the Dirtbombs, the Deadly Snakes and the Soledad Brothers.

Deadly snakes are awsome!

Yeah they really nailed it with 'ode to joy' for me. I love everything about that record, especially the way it's recorded.

This is what they looked like:

Ooooh! Here's a good one. One I'm in! So the band is The Choke, they are friends of mine. Before the show, Cameron the singer asked me to jump up on stage and pretend to attack her at a certain point in the song. It was supposed to be funny, but It ended up looking like I was really beating the shit out of her! Oops? Well as you will see as soon as I got up there a whole ton of guys jumped on me and dragged me outside the bar to beat the crap out of me! I managed to talk my way out of it and Cameron had to vouch that it was all fake before the hate rays were taken off me. You have to watch closely or you will miss it! You can see me throwing fake punches that dont look very fake I'm afraid?! Fun night out though!

Metal Urbain/ Dan Melchior's Broke Review, was the first show I ever put on! Metal Urbain were still amazing 25 years on! They were the very first record Rough Trade ever put out.

Used to look forward to Dan's gigs then he pissed off to the US! Pfff! He's great! I didn't get to see MU when they reformed, they are so awesome... *sighs*

Some stuff from the '60s...

The Choir

Kim Fowley

The Sonics + Go Go dancer

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.The Kingsmen

and on a lighter note...

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

You can still get their records and but they are out of print for sure. Not that expensive either.

There are very few references to them online. Here's one blurb I found.

Gypsy/Legay
http://www.huxrecords.com/bio10.htm

Thanks for that. It is now stuck in my craw and I can't get it out.

And in response..... Whats the word!

The Dwarves

We are a very small lot on this thread. Where the hell is Dante and Kitty?

I played with damo suzuki about a month ago in exeter
That was cool.
I can link to the recording if anyone's interested

Some newer stuff very much influenced by bands posted here already:

Dum Dum Girls

Blank Dogs

Wavves

Crystal Stilts

Jacuzzi Boys

Also check out Medication, Party Fowl, Thee Fair Ohs, Pens anything on Hozac records, captured tracks, sex is disgusting records all awesome garage/psych/surf/lo-fi stuff thats current and around now.

For The Fucking Win!

Damn man, of course we are interested. How did you end up playing with Damo Suzuki? Put it up!

Holy shit! Awsome post! Look like you blew your wad in one post. Something tells me you have tons more up your sleeve? Keep it coming.

From my youth in L.A.

This band is great, never heard of em before. Time to start trawling the internet for records!!

Just found this, great stuff

^ I still have a Pandoras single at home somewhere... I really wanted to meet them when I was a kid...

Here's a band I was in (much later on)... These guys were my favourite band as a teen, then they randomly showed up in the UK! Mana from Heaven... No one could fuck with The Scientists, I've seen many bands try but not one could blow them offstage...

might be a bit contentious but for me the weddoes were a great garage band but with a really northern take on it - Aram, I'll bring you some of their stuff tonight, absolutely blinding live

The Pandoras were amazing, part of the same scene as The Three O'clock, The Long Ryders, Tater Totz etc. It was dubbed "The Paisley Underground" L.A. was shitloads of fun in the early 80's.

I Love The Wedding Present! I don't own any though :( See you at polo tonight!

Fave Saints song:

Totally can never get enough of this track, didnt seem to do a hell of a lot else this band but when youve written this song why would you:

My fave track is This Perfect Day... YouTube wouldn't let me post that vid up so here's Know Your Product, awesome vid and Ed Kuepper's playing a Veleno guitar!?! Oooh, just like Marc's one!

Have I mentioned how much I like this thread?

JMC nailin it for ya guapo

Beat Happening

hey sorry for the late reply.
the first set recording is up here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=364KV2GV

and second

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2P4W425H


we played for nearly four hours in all, not all of it was recorded.
I'm the loud, lead(ish) guitar.

oh yeah, and the first set is ambient for the first 8 mins so don't worry if it's quiet

Thee Oh Sees

I really dig the Dwarves cover of Caveman.
@Elguapo - I've been meaning to see the Nuns at Dirty Water but never gotten round to it, might have to head down.