terça-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2007

White Heat : Nervous Breakdown



White Heat , banda formada em Newcastle , em 1976 , autores de uma das músicas que ainda perduram nos tempos de hoje , falo da música "Nervous Breakdown" , musica feita toda ela a medida para figurar no powerpop hall of fame. Editada em 1979 serviu de lado A ao single com o mesmo nome , o lado B alojava a música "Sammy Sez" numa toa mais reggae ska , um pouco fora do contexto em relação a soberba música Nervous Breakdown.





No ano seguinte editam o segundo single , "Finished with the Fashions" pela mesma editora a Vallium. A música que serve de apresentação do single , "Finished with the Fashions" , é uma mistura de NWOBHM com ska , mas bem conseguida. No verso do vinil está o que se pode chamar a pérola , "Ordinary Joe" , uma das músicas de powerpop que mais ouvi até hoje , com um começo todo hard , veia NWOBHM , vai destilando um PowerPop avassalador , com final apoteótico(para mim só o final desta música vale quase pela música toda).




Em 1981 é editado o terceiro single "City Beat" , mais uma prova que os White Heat tiveram o condão de fabricar grandes malhas de PowerPop , sempre com a mestria de saberem tocar , especialmente a secção da guitarra.Nesse mesmo ano é editado o único registo em 33 rotações , o album , "in the zero hour".


Curiosidades em relação aos White Heat , o vocalista , Bob Smeatonn , tornou-se realizador de documentários , muitos deles relacionados com música
Deixo por fim dois videos , um dos originais White Heat , e outra de uma banda japonesa , First Alert a tocarem a música "Nervous Breakdown".



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White Heat - Ordinary Joe mp3 - http://modpunk.free.fr/whiteheat.mp3









quarta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2007

The Sadists - A Ira da Corrente , Mini-LP 2007



Pois é já está na rua , o aguardado LP de estreia dos The Sadists , intitulado "A Ira da corrente" , um hino do Punk da Rua. O mini-Lp é composto por 8 músicas , incluíndo a cover dos Xutos & Pontapés "Morte Lenta" , num desfilar de Punk Rock à antiga ( algo pouco comum por esta terra à beira mar plantada) , com todo o jogo KbD , com influências notórias do Punk dos States , Dead Boys , Pagans , Testors , Dogs e por ai fora. Destacam-se as músicas "Ira da corrente" , pelo seu refrão apelando ao grito em uníssono , a música "Martirizador" a malha mais speedada do álbum , ideal para agitar massas inertes e por fim "No Tomorrow" que conta com a participação nos coros do Cobretti dos Clockwork Boys. O disco encontra-se a venda através do myspace da editora Mayday Records
e em algumas lojas de Lisboa.

Estamos perante o album do ano de 2007 do Punk Nacional. E de referir que os Sadists sabem daquilo que fazem , não é por acaso que no insert o disco é dedicado à geração de ouro do Punk nacional , Aqui d'el Rock , Tilt , Grupo Parlamentar , Speeds , UHF , Xutos Pontapés. E não esquecer o disco está limitado a 300 cópias numeradas , o que é de prever tornar-se uma raridade daqui a uns anos.

quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2007

Enciclopédia Punk em 45 rotações : 45 Revolutions Book



Acaba de ser editado uma autêntica enciclopédia das edições em single do movimento Punk , PowerPop , inclusive do New Wave of British Heavy Metal , mais conhecido pela sigla NWOBHM. Este livro de autoria de Mario Panciera , aberga todas as edições de singles em solo Inglês e Irlandês no periodo de 1976 até 1979.
O livro é composto por mais de 1000 páginas , nas quais se faz refêrência a mais de 2000 bandas com respectivas biografias e fotos dos discos (maioria das bandas são desconhecidas do grande público , bandas que passaram à margem do mercado discografico), tornando este livro , essencial para quem coleccione discografias Punk Powerpop. Um dos entraves a compra do Livro é o seu preço , ronda os 75 euros , mas como se trata de um edição limitada a 1000 cópias , percebe-se . Mas sem dúvida que se trata de uma edição ímpar no mundo do coleccionismo Punk PowerPop.
Existe um blog suporte ao livro , a ver no seguinte link :

http://45revolutions.blogspot.com/

sábado, 8 de dezembro de 2007

Modernist Night Out : Sábado dia 15 Dezembro


A Partners in Crime apresenta dia 15 Dezembro , sábado ,mais uma festa Mod. Desta feita a festa tem como poiso , o Grémio Lisbonense , na rua dos Sapateiros nº226 , 1º andar(no Rossio). Com 3 dj's de serviço , é de prever mais uma noite recheada de boa música.

Modernista : fanzine MoD , numero 1 já nas bancas



Já saiu o segundo numero da fanzine Modernista , com algumas novidades em relação ao número precedente. Entre as novidades está um poster nas páginas centrais (neste número o poster tem como protagonistas os Poppers). Na fanzine são abordados os temas do Mod Revival em Portugal (texto de autoria de Miguel Angelo) , o rescaldo de duas festa mod que ocorreram em Lisboa , Vespas , roupa , sugestões etc... De realçar a participação de mais pessoas na elaboração da fanzine.

sexta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2007

Sham 69 : entrevista M&S



quarta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2007

JAM , a entrevista , M&S Junho 1980

Entrevista aos The Jam , publicada em 1980 na revista Musica Som.A entrevista feita pouco tempo após a edição do album "Setting Sons" , embora a entrevista esteja mais focalizada em Paul Weller.









quinta-feira, 29 de novembro de 2007

Dansette : Festa Mod , Setubal dia 1 Dezembro (Sábado)



Anunciada está mais uma festa Mod , descentralizando um pouco , o local da festa é Setubal. A festa vai contar com os préstimos de 3 dj's , sendo de esperar uma boa variedade de som , desde o ska tradicional até ao Mod Revival passando pelo soul.

Sábado dia 1 , em Setubal , na Cosa , pelas 22 horas , a entrada é gratuita , aparece e diverte-te.
this is the time for action , this is the time to be seen

sexta-feira, 16 de novembro de 2007

Private Dicks : Directamente de Bristol , a entrevista (Interview)



É com grande apreço que publico hoje uma entrevista em exclusivo para o Blog de umas das bandas de culto do PowerPop Inglês. Estou a falar dos Private Dicks uma das bandas (da primeira leva) que continuam a estar em voga. Com um single editado em 1979 , "She said Go" , e com um futuro promissor , acabaram demasiado cedo , para o potencial que tinham. Passados mais de duas decadas , com a febre do powerpop , a editora Japonesa 1977 records , pega nas gravações dos PD e editam o cd "Homelife" (cd esse já há tempos esgotado). Essa mesma editora iria editar outro cd dos Private Dicks "Live at Marquee" , constatando-se à primeira audição , que os Private Dicks eram mesmo uma banda de palco. No decorrer deste ano de 2007 , ainda acabado de sair da fábrica , é lançado o Lp dos Private Dicks , "Homelife" , edição exclusiva em vinil. Entrevista foi feita ao vocalista dos Private Dicks,Gavin King. Thanks Gavin. Myspace : http://www.myspace.com/privatedicks1979bristol


1- How was the last concerts ?

Gavin King (Private Dicks) -- Ummmm . . . our last gig as a band was January 1980 which was bloody awful we never played live again for another 22 years. Since then we played four songs about five years ago for a friends birthday, the launch party for Avon Calling CD in Nov 2005, a local warm up gig at the end of Oct 2007 and Bar Fiacre in Bordeaux for Frantic City on Nov. 3 2007. Sooooooo . . . that aint many really. To take the ones we have done since 1980: the friends party was very good and we were very tight considering how long it was since we had played. The Avon Calling was disappointing. We really hoped for a much better soundand we looked and sounded stiff, only coming alive when Jon Klein joined us (see the video on our myspace site). The local warm up gig was ok first set, then the PA people dismantled the PA and took it home thinking we had finished so we put the vocals through a 100 watt marshall stack and it really really rocked. It was so good to know that we still had it. Bordeaux? Bart from Frantic was really pleased, said we sounded just like the record. However, I was very disappointed personally. I intend to make up for it at The Road to Ruins in Rome Dec. 14. That may sound like I'm being a bit harsh considering we've only done three and a half gigs in 28 years but fuck, if you've got standards you don't drop 'em just cos you're an old bastard.


2- How new technologies (internet :myspace,mp3) influenced Private Dicks reunion ?

Gavin -- If it hadn't been for Kidnap from The Not Amused we wouldn't have done anything. It was him who badgered me into getting my Son Kahn to set the page up for me whilst I was in the States March 2007. To be honest I couldn't really see the point. Who the hell would want to visit a page about an obscure band from the seventies? Well sod me . . . quite a few actually. Consequently, here we are having a great old time.


3- Where did the idea "Private Dicks" name come from ? Any hilarious stories with band name ?

Gavin -- The name came about, I'm afraid, in rather a different context than most people understand or expect. I was a big fan of Philip Marlow and made the guys watch Bogie in the title role. At one point he is asked 'what are you some kinda cop ?' He says 'Me ? I'm a Private Dick'. We were searching for a name, we'd had a few, and it just seemed to jump out of the screen at us - we all looked at each other and said 'We ARE Private Dicks'. That's it. The song Private Dicks was based around another Bogies movie which we thought drew some threads together where Lauren Bacal says to Bogie 'If you want me just whistle . . . you know how to whistle dontcha ?' That answers many people's questions about the 'whistling' lyric on the song Private Dicks itself. There aren't any hilarious stories really, just young kids nowadays sniggering behind their hands. Back way then, everyone else knew what a Private Dicks was . . . how times change. The band didn't really become the Dicks until March 1979 when a second guitarist left and we became a four piece: Huw 'Shugs' Davies Bass, Mark 'Sybs' Seabright Drums, Paul 'Guivey' Guiver Guitar, Gavin 'Ol' Man' King Vocals. The band was 'really' formed in the summer of '78. I'd left my previous band Uncle Po - which included Helen O'Hara later of Dexy's Midnight Runners - and one night attended a gig by the Wild Beasts, whose bass player Andy Franks became Robbie Williams and then Coldplay's tour manager, while the drummer, Kenny Wheeler, owned Sound Conception Studios where we were to record most of our material. "I was watching the Beast when a couple of guys I knew slightly carried this bloke over to me - he was drooling and couldn't stand up. They asked if I was still looking for someone to write with. 'This guy's brilliant'. They said he would come over to see me next week. Sure enough, next week I saw this bloke with a guitar outside my flat. I thought, I'm not letting him in, he'll soon go away. But he didn't. And I let him in and he stayed till about three in the morning, and we wrote half a dozen songs that night, including 'She Said Go'. That was Paul Guiver." We needed some collaborators though. Uncle Po's ex-drummer, Jimmer Hill, ended up playing in Sneak Preview, who also appeared on Avon Calling. The main man behind that band was Neil Taylor, now Robbie William's lead guitarist. "Neil often played with the Dicks live and on a few recordings. Jimmer's girlfriend cautiously mentioned that her young brother was in a band called The X-Spurtz and that they had parted company with their singer. They were very much a three-chord punk band, 15 or 16 years old. They recorded one notorious single I believe, 'Rape', about a serial rapist at large in the Clifton area of Bristol. Guivey and I drove down to see them in Somerset but weren't particularly optimistic. However the rhythm section blew us away. They were shit hot. Sybs - the drummer - was stunning, even though he was only 16. And Shugs, the bass player, played a Gibson Grabber with the treble turned incredibly high, like Jean-Jacques of the Stranglers. The guitarist was a bit arty, and he was more into Siouxsie And The Banshees - which was ironic because later on, one of the guitarists who used to jam with us a lot was Jon Klein. Anyway, we rehearsed down at The Docklands in St Paul's, Bristol - the site of the Riots in 1981 - and the other guitarist decided to move to London. The rest of us were sat in the bar and Guivey said, 'Look, we've been trying to accommodate this guy, but Gav and I have a ton of material that foesn't suit him. Do you want to give that a try? We finished our pints and went downstairs and gave 'She Said Go' a shot. Twenty minutes later we all went, 'Wow, this is shit hot'


4- What influenced you to be a singer and what bands or artists did you grow up listening to?

Gavin -- According to me mother I was singing before I could talk. I was recruited by my headmaster into the choir at Malvern Priory in Worcestershire UK at the age of six and sang monday, wednesday, friday, saturday and twice on sunday's with them until me balls dropped (of course some people say that aint happened yet) and it was through those early years that i gained the ability to harmonize. I also had an elder brother Robb (God rest his soul) and as he was five years older than me I was listening to people like Ray Charles and Sleepy John Estes very early on. The Beatles and Stones came along and I was a big fan of Jagger and then when I saw the Pretty Things on TV - especially Phil May's hair - that was me hooked. Then the mod scene took off and we were listening to Motown/Stax etc. There were a number of British soul cover bands who were big at this time. One of the best was Zoot Money's Big Roll Band whose party piece was Barefooting. They were such a great band. But for me best of all was The Alan Bown Set. Their singer Jess Roden - who sang for the Butts Band later (the band formed by the surviving members of the Doors) - was my hero. The guy had such a fantastic voice. I really just wanted to be him. He was far better than his replacement in The Alan Bown Set, one Robert Palmer. Oh, and as for influences let's not forget alcohol. I was at a gig at the Malvern Winter Gardens where the support band was called Tarmac. I was very drunk and was told that they needed a singer. After they had played I walked up and told them I was a singer and they said right, audition Tuesday. I forgot all about this until they turned up to pick me up, but I must've been OK cos three days later I played my first gig with them, three hours of covers for which I made up every word - a skill i still use today.


5- "She said go" single had a good reviews in 1979 , Why PD didn't continue ?

Gavin-- 'She said Go' was the first song we recorded, about eight weeks after writing it. We recorded two other songs, Green is in the red and Forget the Night. We took the demo to Simon Edwards cos he was putting out a compilation of Bristol bands, (just about the first city compilation in the UK). After Avon Calling every city put one out. This one caught the attention of John Peel who included it in his his top 20 records of 1979. Somehow we heard this was happening, knocked on Simon's door - he lived opposite Guivey - and we gave him the demo tape. He liked it immediately and said he would put a track on the album. He rang back about two days later and said he had fallen in love with 'She Said Go' - now available on ebay for $150 - and wanted to put it out as his next single. It sold over 2,000 copies which for an indie wasn't bad but we had much higher hopes for it. We were due to record a follow up - Don't Follow My Lead - but a certain Mark Dean - the guy who discovered and was sued by WHAM! - caught us at a gig in Bristol (with Jon Klein from Siouxsie and the Banshees jamming with us - and thought we were the next big sensation. Indeed, he told George Michael he was lucky that he (MD) had screwed up otherwise we would have gone worldwide first (whatever!). Mark Dean had ideas above his finances and couldn't see that management was also about investment. We refused to sign the contract he offered after our legal advice was that it was crap. Dean got angry at this and walked. I think our heads dropped at that moment - even further into our beer and the plentiful breasts on offer - and we soon decided that it was time to move on. It was only three years after the Dicks decided to take their (extended) break that he got back in touch. By that time he had lots of dosh via WHAM and he wanted us back in the studios but even then he buggered the studio time about and me and Guivey decided that it just wasn't worth messing with the guy. He came back later by the way with MDM Records on which the Mighty Wah scored their 'Story of the Blues' track - a great record.







6- What is your favourite PD song ?

Gavin -- Interesting question - cos I know all the band have different ones. For me it is probably All I Want is You, not only because I wrote it for the girl who became my wife (25 years and counting) but also because of the session when we rehearsed it to such a great height. I won't tell you what was happening in the studcio that night but it was one of the best evenings we ever had. The excitement of the track was so much we just kept playing it and playing it. Sybs the drummer really doesn't like the song tho'. My Son Harry loves 5 Star Freezing, the singer from The Lavas in the USA wants to do a cover of Want Some Fun, whilst Astrid from The Nasties is hopefully singing Green is in the Red with me In Rome (if she can stand up by then). Green is in The Red really seems to be the one that most people latched onto . . . perhaps because of what they saw as the strange lyrics.... or as I think because of the stunning drumming on it . . . people can't believe that a 16 year old kid actually did do the drumming on that, live, and in one take. Mostly, though, I just wanna record the new stuff.


7- What do you think about new interest in old Powerpop bands ?

Gavin -- Is there new interest? I know that we've had a few hits on myspace but it's nothing compared to other bands on there. It does appear to be an esoteric calling. I suppose it's gratifying that people have listened to GreenDay etc and then gone back to see where it came from (apart from the obvious references). I have to say that we've never been mentioned by any name band as being worthy so we can't really claim anything. We were just a small part of something and have managed to last the distsance better than most. As to 'powerpop', I never have seen Private Dicks as a Powerpop band. That was such a derogatory term back then. We were always a New Wave band. Some people even put us in the 'Mod' category but dear God, if you had ever seen us play on the same bill as the Purple Hearts you'd know that we were anything but. However, it seems that all these terms have merged into Pop Punk which , if we have to be categorised, does it for me.


8- What has PD best memories ?

Gavin -- Best gig The Granary in Bristol Nov 1979 . . . I just wish that had been filmed. Playing the Marquee . . . one of my favourite ever albums was 'Live at the Marquee' which features one side by the Alan Bown Set and the other by Jimmy James and the Vagabonds (f you've guys have never heard it search it out) and to actually play the same place was very very special. But the best memories . . . it was the Summer of 1979 . . . man we had such a fucking GREAT time.


9- Have you ever had any regrets about first period of PD career?

Gavin -- Anyone who says they aint got no regrets is either a fool or a liar. However an even bigger fool wastes his time thinking about them.


10- I know that "Homelife" CD released by 1977 Records has sold out , and PD has a new release by Rave Up , any reason for this success ?

Gavin -- Haven't a clue. The 1977 Japan thing came completely out of the blue - we had no idea that there was anything happening out there. We were just so pleased to be able to get the stuff together. Paul Guiver (Guitarist) did such an amazing job with that album, remastering the whole thing. The work he did on the live album was even better. You would not believe the initial sound of those tapes . . . bloody hell, they had lay about someones attic for 25 years and part of the tape had rotted away and yet, and yet, he got what I consider to be a better sound that the studio album.


11- Are you writing new material ? Have plans for new recording ?

Gavin -- As sad as it may seem for some, we are in the midst of recording a new Album called 'EXILES IN NEVERLAND'. We have half a dozen new numbers written and pre-produced. We hope to ge these recorded in the new year with Neil Taylor producing. Part of the album is also going to allow us to record some of the songs that we never got around to doing in the studio such as Incest, Take Her Home, Michael from the live album. Also, perhaps, one from our pre-dick days called 'Crippen' which we all have very fond memories of. So I have a feeling it's going to be one side old and one side new.


12- Any final comments ?

Gavin -- Life is so awful . . . and so short.

domingo, 11 de novembro de 2007

Purple Weekend 2007 : The Times , The Knack .... Leon, Espanha


Como tem sendo habito , ocorre por alturas de Dezembro , o festival , Purple Weeekend. Festival esse dedicado às sonoridades Mod e PowerPop. Este ano conta com dois nomes importantes , um do Movimento Mod Revival , os ingleses The Times , e o outro nome , este ainda mais conhecidos , os PowerPopers , The Knack (do celebre "My Sharoma"). Senão basta-se estas duas bandas de topo , ainda há mais uma série de bandas (incluindo os The Thrills) e dj's para completar o cardápio da festa.
O festival ocorre em Leon , Espanha nos dias 6,7 e 8 de Dezembro.Para mais informações consultar o link da organização do festival: http://www.purpleweekend.com/index.html

segunda-feira, 5 de novembro de 2007

Amostra Grátis : MOD Revival para todos e de borla


Uma série de colectaneas Mod Revival , a maioria da cena Inglesa , mas com direito a uma compilação só de Mod 79 dos States , estão disponiveis para download gratuito no Blog Mod64 , a confirmar no seguinte link : http://mod64.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html , blog feito por malta do Brasil , não há desculpas para não escutar o verdadeiro espirito do Revivalismo Mod.




E falando de literatura , aconselhou um site (um pouco primário na sua apresentação , mas com uma imensa base de dados , biografias , flyers,fotos, entrevistas etc..) dedicado ao geração Mod de 79 , a ver :









Como complemento a este post , fica o flyer da próxima festa do Vespa Gang , a realizar-se já no Sábado dia 10 , no bar Europa , Cais Sódre.

sexta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2007

Telephone : Rock de Pedra e Cal , em Portugal 1981








































Hoje cabe a vez de um especial , Telephone , um dos maiores nomes do rock Francês , com sucesso estrondoso , que chegou a ter repercussões em Portugal.Com 4 concertos em solo Português , coadjuvados pelos UHF (na altura a maior banda rock tuga).Os Telephone eram uma mistura de Rolling Stones com Clash , as influências dos stones eram evidentes tal como as dos Clash (basta ler a entrevista que está publicada no blog). Iniciaram-se com um estilo punk-pub rock em 1977 , evoluindo para um som rock com o decorrer dos anos.
Com o desmembramento da banda , Jean Louis Aubert (vocalista e principal compositor da banda) , seguiu uma carreira a solo com bastante sucesso.

quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2007

Manual de Sobrevivência PowerPop : 45 rotações

Dando seguimento ao 1º capitulo do manual de sobrevivência PowerPop , chega o 2º capitulo. Desta vez dedicado aos discos pequenos (vulgo singles , vulgo sete polegadas , vulgo 45 rotações), tendo sido editados em Portugal uma panóplia de singles (a razão é simples , país pobre , singles baratos , lp's caros , logo há que prensar em força os singles , é disso que o povo precisa).


Barracudas , banda Inglesa com fortes influências de surf-garage e do pop dos anos 60 , foram os artifices de um single de sucesso , "Summer of Fun". Música de fácil contagio , um hit do Powerpop. Curiosidade a contracapa Portuguesa é diferente em relação a edição Inglesa. http://poppunk.free.fr/barracudas2.mp3
















The Secret , banda inglesa que surge com o boom do punk77 , editam o single "young ones" (cover da música da celebre série TV).














Josie Cotton e o seu hit "Johnny are you queer?" , editado em 1981 pela muito afamada editora Bomp Records , chamando a atenção da major Elektra , que aproveitou o embalo do sucesso do single para o reeditar em seguida.


http://glammusic.free.fr/josiecotton1.mp3












Bijou , um dos grandes nomes do Rock Francês juntamente com os Telephone. Os Bijou chegaram a pisar solo português para dar um concerto. "Bijou Bop" foi o único single a ter edição nacional , com a capa do single a ser diferente da capa francesa , tornando a edição portuguesa uma edição única. http://glenn.guillevic.free.fr/bijou2.mp3

segunda-feira, 22 de outubro de 2007

Modernista : Fanzine MOD




Modernista , talvez a primeira fanzine editada em Portugal dedicada a cena MoD. De louvar o empenho do Driving Beat e dos respectivos colaboradores em levarem para a frente o projecto da fanzine. O primeiro número serve de prólogo ao que há de vir nos numeros seguintes , abordando de um modo introdutório , o que é o Mod , o que é ser-se um Mod , os hábitos dos Mods (desde o inicio até aos dias de hoje). A fanzine tenta abranger tudo aquilo que rodeia o Modernismo (desde a roupa até ao cinema). A não perder , distribuição gratuita nos locais habituais (festas).

domingo, 21 de outubro de 2007

Stiff Tour : Lisboa 1980 , Dirty Looks , Any Trouble , Tenpole Tudor, Joe Carrasco , Equators








"The World's Most Flexible Record Label" era assim que se auto titulava-se uma das editoras mais importantes dos finais de 70 e inícios de 80 , a Stiff Records. Editora que teve algum impacto em Portugal , nota disso , foram as muitas edições tugas de discos da Stiff Rec. , Plasmatics , Elvis Costello , Madness etc... Em 1980 a Stiff Records promoveu uma Tournee por essa Europa fora , e Portugal foi contemplado. No concerto de Lisboa como representantes da Stiff foram eleitas 5 bandas , 4 delas ligadas ao PowerPop/Wave e uma ao Reggae.
Suspeitos da New wave/Powerpop : The Dirty Looks , Joe Carrasco e os Any Trouble (a banda de maior nome da lista das 4 bandas),Tenpole Tudor e da facção reggae os The Equators. Todas as bandas tiveram edição em solo português , se dos Dirty Looks saiu o 1º Lp de 1980 (no qual se destaca as músicas 12 o'clock , Let go , Disappearing), dos Joe Carrasco também houve edição do primeiro LP. Dos Any Trouble é que houve uma extensa publicação da sua discografia por cá , desde o 1º lp até ao 4º lp e alguns singles pelo meio.
Os Tenpole Tudor banda inglesa , cujo o front man , Edward Tudor Pole ficou conhecido no filme "Rock n'roll Swindle" ao cantar "Who Killed Bambi?".A banda teve algum sucesso com o single de 1980 , "Swords of a Thousand Men".

segunda-feira, 15 de outubro de 2007

Manufactured Romance : Romance fora de Prazo



Press release by Musicalissimo 1980 acerca da banda inglesa , Manufactured Romance. Banda a contar para o campeonato da 2ª liga do PowerPop-Punk , daqueles singles para completar a caixa dos singles edições tugas. Para além do single (único da banda) a banda tem mais duas músicas editadas numa colectânea Punk (também editada em Portugal). Para escutar um sampler da música "Time for my Life" :
http://poppunk.free.fr/manufacturedromance.mp3

segunda-feira, 8 de outubro de 2007

Evento : Modernist Night Out - Sábado dia 13 Outubro


Como prometido aí está a 2ª festa "Modernist Night Out" , este sábado dia 13 , no mesmo local , Scandy Bar , Cais Sodre , Rua do Alecrim de quem soube do Cais Sodre é a 1ª à direita. Para abrilhantar a festa vão estar 4 dj's , com sets diferentes , que vão desde o northern soul até ao brit-pop.O inicio está programado para às 23 horas , apareçam e divulguem.

quarta-feira, 3 de outubro de 2007

The Sweat - No More Runing



Com o fim do Verão avizinha-se uma mão cheia de reedições , obrigando a aumentar a want-list. Neste caso quem merece atenção , é banda norte irlandesa os , The Sweat , que vai ver o seu único LP "no more Runing" de 1980 ser reeditado no formato LP e CD , com capas diferentes para ambos. Edição essa a cargo da editora japonesa 1977 Records , é de prever uma corrida ao LP (não fosse o mercado Powerpop grande consumidor de vinil). Esse mesmo Lp , cuja a edição original (só foi editado na Alemanha) custa uma suma considerável. A edição em CD tem como bónus mais 7 músicas , provenientes de singles editados pelos The Sweat e pelos No Sweat (o 1º nome da banda , que teve de ser alterado devido a existência de outra banda com o mesmo nome).
De referir que a mesma editora vai lançar em simultâneo um cd retrospectiva da carreira de um dos grandes nomes da cena punk/powerpop , Clive Cluberston (o mentor dos The Sweat) , o título é "Time to Kill". Para festejar em grande estas edições os The Sweat voltaram aos palcos e vão tocar no Japão.

http://www.1977records.com/main.html
http://modpoppearls.free.fr/nosweat1.mp3 -- No Sweat : Start all over again mp3
http://modernpop.free.fr/sweat.mp3 -- The Sweat : Why'd have to lie