$7.50 in advance, $8.50 at the door... FEAR, CIRCLE JERKS, VANDALS, SIN 34 (killer!) TOXIC REASONS and AFFLICTED played at the Olympic Auditorium on this day in 1984. Organised by Goldenvoice and, at least some it, filmed. Footage of FEAR and SIN 34 exists (watch below!) unfortunately both...
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East End Oi! COCKNEY REJECTS recorded their second John Peel session on this day in 1980. The recording aired on the 25th, sharing the session slots with STIFF LITTLE FINGERS (their fourth). The session was recorded a few weeks before the release of Greatest Hits Vol. 1, their...
SIEGE recorded at Radiobeat Studios, Boston on this day in 1984. Radiobeat was fucking killer. Some a' the best bands were orbiting around Kenmore and the most exciting recordings in town then were coming out of there. SIEGE's shit was recorded live, too - a lot of people...
We already thought we were original and ambitious, but we even surprised ourselves that day. David J Haskins / Bauhaus interview, Big Ups, 2018 BAUHAUS recorded "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on this day in 1979 at Beck Studios, Wellingborough. The song was recorded 'live in studio' as part of...
I don't know why I have to slit my guts and hope somebody will stick their filthy, stupid head inside and take one small breath and grasp what the fuck it's like to exist in someone else's shoes. Lydia Lunch interview, Sounds, 1986 LYDIA LUNCH delivered a 38...
THE BREEDERS had two weeks booked at Edinburgh studio Palladium for their debut LP Pod. They managed to complete the record in one and used the remaining time to record a Peel session - on this day in 1990 - with engineer Steve Albini (BIG BLACK, SHELLAC) and...
I BET WHEN YOU WUZ IN JAIL YOU WUZ A PUNK! POISON IDEA recorded their classic debut 7" on this day in 1983 at "Recording Ass. Portland, Ore". 13 songs, 13 unrelenting minutes!! The material was written between December 1980 ("Underage") and December 1982 ("Cult Band"). I was...
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY live on this day in 1982 at the Astor Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria. Support bands were GO BETWEENS and LAUGHING CLOWNS. The concert was recorded and released as It's Still Living in 1985 through Missing Link.
I wanted something a bit short for this LP and I liked the lyrics to that song a lot. Also, I wanted to rearrange it 'cause I thought the Kinks' music, which is very rapid on the original, was pretty dopey. That was one challenge, something I don't...
New York No Wave. DNA live on this day at the Savoy Tivoli, San Francisco.
Dutch grind, MY MINDS MINE recorded material for their side of the split with UNHOLY GRAVE on this day in 2000. The songs were mixed and mastered a few weeks later. The split EP was released by the bands own Rot Away Record. This song ["Why Don't You...
SONIC YOUTH played live on this day in 1985 during their first west coast tour. The concert - the Gila Monster Jamboree - was the last organised by Stuart Swezey's Desolation Center at their "all new remote [Mojave] desert location". Swezey released Desolation Center, a documentary about these...
We weren't revolutionary. We were just perverts with a captive audience!
Michiro Endo
THE STALIN released their debut album on this day in 1981.
It shows how things were operating at the time. We weren't really into marketing or anything, we were just doing it. Even though [the album release] was the night before Christmas, it didn't matter! It was still about having fun and doing whatever we wanted to do. The...
JOY DIVISION ("up until the recording date of this E.P. we were known as WARSAW") recorded their first EP for £400 at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham on this day in 1977. I’ve got a little book full of lyrics and I just fit something in. I have a...
Virgin released Sid Sings, a posthumous Sid Vicious solo record cash-in on this day in 1979. Danny Baker, in the NME, started his review with: If rock 'n' roll had any backbone it would close Virgin Records down. The majority of Sid Sings is made up of live...
FUGAZI recorded their only Peel session on this day in 1988 at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London. The session aired two days later.
This is very early FUGAZI. Their first EP, Fugazi (or 7 Songs; recorded that June), was released only a couple of weeks earlier.
ALTERNATIVE TV recorded their first of two John Peel sessions on this day in 1977 at Maida Vale 4. The session aired on Monday 12 December.