John Peel took notice of us right from the start. He played us on his show on numerous occasions. It certainly brought us to the publics attention, as he did with so many bands of the time. Looking back, TOH was never played on BBC Radio bar John...
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MINUTEMEN recorded the Joy EP on this day in 1981. The entire process, including mixing, took five hours.
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The first exposure [to punk] was rehearsing with the Rebels in my mum and dad's house and listening to The Vibrators and The Damned on John Peel. Sticks / Angelic Upstarts interview, Punky Gibbon, 2005 ANGELIC UPSTARTS recorded their third and final session for John Peel's programme on...
...we started out with the help of a huge band in the punk scene, we didn't know how to play anything but we had the rock'n'roll of Stiff Little Fingers in our blood and the masters from Discharge with Cal (laughs). About our first record, it was funny...
THE 4-SKINS recorded a session for the John Peel programme on this day in 1981. It never aired. Peel, who had played "1984" (from Strength Thru Oi!) that May, typically aired sessions a few weeks after recording. On 4 July a gig at the Hambrough Tavern, Southall with...
ARMIA released their classic second album, Legenda, on this day in 1991.
THE GUN CLUB released the Death Party EP on this day in 1983. Death Party was recorded by the short-lived trio of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop with Jimmy Joe Uliana on bass (filling in for Patricia Morrison) and backing vocals by "Texas" Linda Jones,...
COP SHOOT COP recorded their first of two sessions for John Peel's programme on this day in 1991 at Maida Vale 5.
MELVINS recorded their only session for John Peel's programme on this day in 1991. The set first aired on 10 March 1991, sharing the session slots with a repeat of the second CARCASS session from December 1990. Three of the four songs are covers: "Leech" (GREEN RIVER), "Theme"...
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES recorded their fourth session for John Peel's programme on this day in 1981. The majority of the songs appear on the fourth SIOUXSIE album, Juju, released four months later. The other song, "But Not Them", was recorded by Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie as THE...
SKIDS live on this day in 1981 at the Chelsea College of Art. Part of the Rock Goes to College series (1978-1981), gigs were broadcast by the BBC simultaneously on TV and radio. The video has been around forever but more recently the BBC have aired the original...
John Peel took notice of us right from the start. He played us on his show on numerous occasions. It certainly brought us to the publics attention, as he did with so many bands of the time. Looking back, TOH was never played on BBC Radio bar John...
I was in this band with Christina Billotte who went on to play in one of my all-time favourite groups Slant 6. She is a real genius song writer. Autoclave was formed in DC in about 1990. I was in college in Boston at this time, and we...
KILLING JOKE released their eighth album, Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions, on this day in 1990.
Extremities... is the only album to feature Martin Atkins (PUBLIC IMAGE LTD, MINISTRY) on drums.
BLACK FLAG, the MINUTEMEN and EDDIE AND THE SUBTITLES played live at the Los Angeles Starwood Nightclub on this day in 1980. A very early MINUTEMEN gig, amazing footage. Old School Punk Rock Info has a great page full of details about the Starwood in 1980/1981, including flyers...
THE DAMNED released the Friday 13th EP on this day (Friday, 13th November) in 1981.
The song "Limit Club" is dedicated to Malcolm Owen - of former touring partners THE RUTS - who had died the previous year. His life was short, he lived it well.
BAUHAUS released their debut album, In the Flat Field, on this day in 1980 through 4AD / Beggars Banquet. We didn't need [critics] and we didn't need labels; we just formed our own force. By the time Beggars Banquet had signed us we already had a large audience...
Photograph: Catherine McGann We started off being influenced by a lot of the noise bands. We loved The Birthday Party, we loved a lot of punk music. When Rob and I met he loved The Misfits, I loved the Cramps, and we both loved Black Flag. We would...