Vince Taylor poster

1976 release sheet

"Chiswick singles (S prefix) are 65p & EPs (SW prefix) £1.00. All are available through any record shop & if you have difficulty, tell them to order through President Records who are our distributors. Otherwise any of these records may be ordered by mail through Rock On, Bizzarre or direct from Chiswick. Forthcoming releases include more records from the Count Bishops & Gorillas as well as reissues by the Music Machine, The Leaves & the Showstoppers.

Thanx for your support."

Ace Records beermat

Chiswick sticker

Vinyl Experience

The recent re-issue of the Cry Wilf! album by Howlin' Wilf & the Vee-Jays pulled the old Vinyl Experience shop on Buck Street out of my memory banks (The cover shot of the band was taken in front of the side-wall of the shop). Always a good stop for rare wax back in the day. The building had previously housed Sea Of Tunes owned by Rock On co-founder Barry Appleby, and the mural even got a mention in Hi-Fidelity. Round the back and down the stairs was the Psychotronic video shop ran by former Sting-Rays singer Bal Croce, where you could get (then) hard to find copies of Rat Fink A Boo Boo or The Incredible Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies . And yep, that's a younger me tryin' to look cool at the exact same spot in the shot below...

Skydog

Not necessarily related in any direct way, the French Skydog label was very much part of the same mid 70s underground as Chiswick. Their site has a brief history and news on their current activities. (a complete discography can be found here)

More eBay madness

A German pressing of the Damned's History Of The World 45 changed hands for a whopping $725 on eBay last week...

Rock On makes the papers...

In an article on fleamarkets in London and Paris in yesterday's edition of de Volkskrant (one of Holland's main newspapers) Rock On got mentioned as one of the places that put Camden Town on the map...

Meteors rarity on eBay

The ten inch promo edition of the Meteor Madness E.P. (limited to 200 copies) is currently up for grabs on eBay. With one day left the price is already up at nearly $600...

Mont De Marsan punk festival

The latest editon of Mojo magazine (#156) featues a five page story on the 1976 Mont De Marsan punk festival with quotes from Roger Armstrong and Jesse Hector (a.o.)