GANG OF FOUR recorded their second of three John Peel sessions on this day in 1979. They shared their session broadcast with mod revival group CHORDS a week later, on the 9 July programme.
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Danzig - Her Black Wings DANZIG released II on this day in 1990. Danzig - Devil's Plaything From the November 1990 New York Times "Dark Metal: Not Just Smash and Thrash" article: Unlike the younger dark-metal performers, Glenn Danzig was already active during the punk era of the...
Live at the Melkweg club, Amsterdam on this day in 1984. A fairly good quality recording, bootlegged in 1989 as Catastrophe Ballet Live. This was towards the end of CHRISTIAN DEATH's fragmented European tour; their first time playing outside the US. The band traveled to Paris on 21...
...the TV and the distortion is just what people do. Sitting in front of a TV, going from channel to channel having your life directed by the norm. Consulting your TV to guide your life. It's the way we see things coming to in the world. Especially in...
DOOM recorded their first of two Peel sessions on this day in 1988 at Maida Vale 5. The session was first played on the Tuesday 28 June programme. John mentions he'll be seeing DOOM - along with NAPALM DEATH, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, and ELECTRO HIPPIES - live at...
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES released their second LP, Join the Army, on this day in 1987.
The album release was preceded by the "Possessed to Skate" single and a killer video.
Following a series of demos and a split with TERRORIZER, NAUSEA released their debut LP on this day in 1991. We just wanted to do what we wanted to do, so demos was our thing. Also it kept NAUSEA low pro in the underground scene. There wasn't many...
AU PAIRS recorded their second John Peel session on this day in 1980. The session aired a couple of weeks later, on 12 June. You'll notice, from John's introduction, it was the same week JOY DIVISION's Love Will Tear Us Apart was released; not long after Curtis' death...
NAUSEA live on this day in 1991 at the Villa Roller Youth Centre in Waiblingen, Germany.
An all-day punk festival at The Bierkeller, Leeds on this day in 1984. It proved tough to find much information about this concert, headlined by BLACK FLAG, but some excellent footage has survived. The complete BLACK FLAG set is available and one of their best. Just a few...
They want me in a studio, but it ain't gonna change a thing. I'm not selling out, no fucking way. It'll still be a scum fucking record.- GG Allin interview, Noise Noise Noise, 1987 GG ALLIN and an assemblage of session members - Gerard Cosloy, Mike Kirkland (PRONG), Greg Bullock...
SKIDS recorded their first of five Peel sessions on this day in 1978. The songs were broadcast three days later on the Friday programme.
Pray to the gods and worship the goods... Anarcho punk band (as they were) NAPALM DEATH recorded Unpopular Yawns of Middle Class Warfare on this day in 1983. Very rare and I haven't been able to find a sample, but a song from this demo - "The Crucifixion...
...The outing ties in with the release of a new Cure album on the Fiction label, through Polydor. It has the working title of 'Pornography', but as the Polydor spokesperson observed this week: "Whether or not it will actually go out under that title remains to be seen."-...
Tickets were on sale at the union for £1.50, or £1.75 on the door. Food available, late bar. JOY DIVISION played their final concert on this day in 1980. With support from A CERTAIN RATIO, the gig took place at Birmingham Uni's High Hall - a student block,...
EXTREME NOISE TERROR recorded their second Peel session on this day in 1988. Still a good few months before they recorded their debut album A Holocaust in Your Head, this session includes a few songs that would end on up the LP (and were already known to most...
BRATS began as a punk rock band in Copenhagen, 1977. The earliest material is good but not remarkable. Guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner (and briefly Carsten Van der Volsing) soon began incorporating their heavy metal influences - JUDAS PRIEST, SCORPIONS and UFO. BRATS released their only LP...
