As I
finished last week’s episode with some Slade I decided to hammer home that the
fact that the band were more than just one Christmas Record and a handful of
badly spelt song titles by starting this week’s with the live version of “Rock
‘n’ Roll Preacher” taken from the “Ruby Red” double 7”. Once again the UK Subs
are the subject of “Waiting for The Postman to deliver my stuff” with regards
to their November 1977 4 track 7” Demo. Instead I play a demo track from their
Cleopatra “Endangered Species” Deluxe 2CD re-issue. New music firstly takes us
to the streets of my former neighbourhood Croydon, (I moved a whole quarter of
a mile to the next borough) to the first release by The Fiascos. “Who are
they?” I hear you cry. Well I shall enlighten you; Richie Hudson, guitar
vocals, Keef Gibbs, guitar vocals, Robin Guy drums and Ben Lawson on bass
vocals. Who released yesterday the aforementioned new release in the form of a
single “Built For Speed” / “Olivia”. As I’ve already played the a-side on
Episode 503 it’s the b-side that gets aired. Stand by for some great Powerpop
magic! And if you’re quick off the mark the band are
playing the Odd Shoe in Croydon tonight. A band that I didn’t get to see on the
last Ginger Wildheart tour was, apart from the Main Grains, Massive Wagon. To
readdress this I went out and got the band’s latest offering “Welcome To The
World” and thoroughly enjoyed what I heard. Elements of Volbeat but without
James Hetfield on vocals. Moving over to Italy for The Leeches and the b-side
of their current 7” gets an airing. A bad I knew nothing about were Thee Oh
Sees, but as I got sent their new CD “A Weird Exits” I thought I’d give it a
spin. I’m sure Henry Rollins is a big fan. A band I do know a lot about are The
Cadillac Three who have just released their new album “Bury Me In My Boots”. If
you like Deep Southern Rock you’ll love them. Staying with the deep South, but
this time the South in question is South London, it seemed only right and
proper to play some Peckham Cowboys. Redd Kross’ Jeff McDonald’s 1999 solo
album has just been re-released on vinyl, as the original which came out as a
CD-R is rarer than rare thing, on the Bang! Record label. Of course I play a
track from it. Crowd Funding Fan funded releases are up next with The Lords of
Altamont kicking things off who are swiftly followed by the voice of The Bay
City Rollers Les McKeown, who in turn is topped off by Sweet Creature who sport
Martin Sweet from Crashdiet and Tin Star
from Gemini Five. Rounding things off for this week is a rough and ready demo
from Billy Rath’s Street Pirates as it would’ve been the former Heartbreakers
Birthday last Monday.
