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70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Tr
Trainspotters/ Transmitters/ Trash/ Steve Treatment/ Tremors/ Trend/ Tronics/ Troops/ Tubeway Army/ Tunes/
TV Personalities/ TV Product/ 23 Jewels/ Twilight Zoners/ Twink & The Fairies/ Twist/ 2-3/ 2 Timers
TRAINSPOTTERS
ARIST-290 High Rise/ Rock'n' Roll Hall Of Fame (Arista 1979) -1 on EBM3.
Hiring The Hall (1979) on TT7.
Punk. Mike Read (BBC DJ) on v.
| EYE-11 Party/ 0.5 Alive (Ebony 1978) |
EYE-12 Nowhere Train/ Uninvited Guest/ Persons Unknown (Ebony 1978)
SF-12 The Ugly Man/ The One That Won The War// Free Trade/ Curious (Step Forward 1979) -12"
LP)
EBY-1002 24 Hours (Ebony 3/78)
1.Next Year 2.Photofile 3.No One Goes Out At Nite 4.Last Night 5.One Night Stand 6.Behind My Back// 7.Silent Scream
8.Can't Say No 9.Good News 10.Coma 11.Anymore
v-John F.Quinn g-Mikel Lee g-Vince Cutcliff b-Sam Dodson d, k-Jim Chase
Punk, not hard, not pop.
| 2058-939 Priorities/ Look (Polydor 11/77) | ||
| 2059-013 N-N-E-R-V-O-U-S/
Page 3 (Dumb Blondes) (Polydor 4/78) |
Mick Brophy, Keith Oswald Jeyes, Simon Wright, Simon Butler-Smith
Punk.
STEVE TREATMENT
v-Gal Garry g-P.J.Dobbin b-Sneaky Pete Hitchin d-Joey Martin sax-Lord Ted Bunting piano-Jane Vincent
second piano-Terry Butters
Pop new wave.
TREND-001 Teenage Crush
(Trendy 1979) on LDK16
TRONICS
T-001 Favourite Girls/ Susie's Vibrator (Tronics 1978)
T-002 Time Off/ Good Bye (Tronics)
TROOPS
Save The Boy (Aura 1979) -listed as pop new wave.
| BEG-5 That's Too Bad/ Oh, Didn't I Say (Beggars Banquet 2/78) |
| BEG-8 Bombers// O.D
Receiver/ Blue Eyes (Beggars Banquet 7/78) -later re-issued as BEG-5 & 8 double pack. |
BEG-17 Down In The Park// Do You Need The Service/ I Nearly Married A Human (Beggars Banquet 3/79)
-7" (w/o 'I Nearly....') & 12"
BEG-18 Are 'Friends' Electric?/ We Are So Fragile (Beggars Banquet 5/79)
LP)
BEGA-4 Tubeway Army (Beggars Banquet 11/78)
1.Listen To The Sirens 2.My Shadow In Vain 3.The Life Machine 4.Friends 5.Something's In The House 6.Every Day I Die//
7.Steel And You 8.My Love Is A Liquid 9.Are You Real 10.The Dream Police 11.Jo The Waiter 12.Zero Bass (Mr.Smith)
-rec. 8/78. Later w/ diff. sleeve.
BEGA-7 Replicas (Beggars Banquet 4/79)
1.Me, I Disconnect From You 2.Are 'Friends' Electric? 3.The Machman 4.Praying To The Aliens 5.Down In The Park//
6.You Are In My Vision 7.Replicas 8.It Must Have Been Years 9.When The Machines Rock 10.I Nearly Married A Human
comp.)
2.Down In The Park on '20 Of Another Kind Vol.2'
v, g, k-Gary Numan(ex. Mean Street) b-Paul Gardiner d-Jess Lidyard
Punk/ Synth. pop. Orig. called Laserr & The Ultimate Gang. Lidyard left after 1st single, replaced by Bob Simons.
Simons soon left, added g-Shaun Burg, d-Barry Benn, released 2nd single. Then back to orig. 3 piece lineup again, 1st LP.
Abondaned the band name 'Tubeway Army' after 2nd LP, then Numan's solo.
TUNES
GO APE-1 The Truth Justice And The Mancunian Way EP 1.Larger Than Life 2.Headlights/ 3.My Time
4.Last Orders Taken (Rhesus 1979) -12"
v, g-Colin Thorpe b-George Budd k-Anne Webley d-Bernard Nuttall
From Manchester. Modern pop new wave w/ synth.
SRTS/CUS-77089 14th Floor/ Oxford St. W1 (Teen 7/78) -as Teen '78.
| LYN-5976 Where's Bill
Grundy Now?: Part-time Punks/ Where's Bill Grundy// Happy Families/ Posing At TheRoundhouse (Kings Road 12/78) -rec.26/8/78. re-issued on Rough Trade (RT-033 1979). |
Lineup listed on Bill Grundy EP)
v, g, b-N.Parsons v, d-Russ Harty b-B.Forsyth d-H.Green (latter two did not show up.)
Raw pop punk. Mainly Dan Treacy (=Parsons)'s work w/ help from Edward Ball (=Harty). Also listed 'Woodentops' EP
(GLC), but seems that it never existed. LP= 'And Don't The Kids Just Love It' (Rough Trade ROUGH-24 1980).
Edward Ball formed his own bands, O-Level and Teenage Filmstars, which see.
| TAKE-2/4 Nowhere's Safe/ Jumping
Off Walls// (Me/ Modern Men by the PRAMS) (Limited Edition 1979) Inside poster sleeve: TV Product2. |
v, g-Simon Hinkler (later Artery) v, b-Tony Perrin d-Jess Jespersen
From Sheffield. Alternative punk.
23 JEWELS
TEMP-1 Playing Boghart/ You Don't Know Me (Temporary 1979) -prod. by Clive Gregson (Any Trouble)
v, g-Nick Simpson g-Neil Roberts b-Paddy Russel d-Geoff Powers
From Northhampton. Power pop. 2 more singles in '80/81. g-repl. by Frank McCarthy, b-repl. by Mark Buckle.
TWILIGHT ZONERS
ZEROZERO-1 Zero Zero One: Hospital/ The Wrap// Twister/ The Film (Z.I.P./Dining-Out 1979)
v, g-Gordon Twilight (later Occult Chemistry, White Brothers) v, g-Johnny Limbo (John McGowan) d-William Pew-Evans
(repl. by Justin for 2nd single) v-Gerry v-Martha 'Tilli' Tilson (later A Certain Ratio)
Alternative punk. Disbanded 1980.
TWINK & THE FAIRIES
SW-26 Do It '77 1.Do It 1977/ 2.Psychedelic Punkeroo 3.Enter The Diamonds (Chiswick 1978) -12"
v, d-Twink (ex. Pink Fairies) v, g-Kid Rogers b-Danger Sun k-Fingers Falkner g-Chris Chesney (on 'Punkeroo')
g-Little John (on 'Do It')
TWIST
Ads (Polydor 1979)
This Is Your Life (Polydor 1979)
comp.)
4.Ads 13.This Is Your Life on '20 Of Another Kind Vol.2'
Power pop.
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FAST-2 All Time Low/ Where To Now? (Fast 8/3/78) -rec.6/2/78 |
comp.)
8.All Time Low 9.Where To Now? on 'Fast Product-The First Year Plan F-11'
v, g-Paul Bower v, b-Paul Shaft d-Haydn Boyes-Weston
From Sheffield. Alternative punk.
2 TIMERS
VS-216 Now That I've Lost My Baby/ Fast And Furious (Virgin 7/78)
v-John Warnick g-Audie Willert g-Johnny Jones b-George Fury d-Jim Morrison
Simple pop new wave. Also listed 'Living For The Weekend/ The Good Die Yooung'.