Tag: vinyl

SCUL HAZZARDs – Last Few Bucks – 1st February 2008

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Cat #: 014TZM

All tracks taken from the Let Them Sink album. This 7″ was supposed to be available in time for the band’s 2008 Australian tour but due to multiple fuck ups with the pressing company, Zenith Records in Melbourne, arrived too late. tenzenmen was threatened to be sued by Zenith at this time as I warned other people about the problems there. The owner was a particularly unpleasant person who upset many others too. After this experience I vowed never to deal with them again.

As this was a long time ago, and I believe Zenith is still pressing vinyl, I believe the situation has changed there, with new ownership and reports of better product supply. Don’t take this decade plus story as an indication of current news.

Singles of the Year – 31st December 1980

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Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
The Fall – How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’

17th July 2021 – Holiday in Cambodia still sends chills down my spine. I would have first heard this on John Peel’s radio show I’m sure, as well as all the Fall singles. I listen to the Fall quite regularly still (still discovering parts of their huge back catalog), more so than the DK’s.

I’d scour the NME and Sounds ‘indie’ charts and marvel at all the weird names of bands and song titles, curious about everything. The genre ‘punk’ still encompassed so many different sounds around this time and even crappy little bands from places like Nowhere, Cornwall could sell 10,000 or more copies of their DIY 7″. I feel lucky to have been at just the right age to get caught up in it all.

At the time I wished I was older and could have gotten caught in the first punk wave but in retrospect that explosion seemed to alienate many after a year or two and it’s legacy, whilst worthy, perhaps wouldn’t have inspired such a life long dedication to these oddball sounds that I still hanker to find in new bands today.