tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288470802011-07-18T14:02:26.957+02:00Welcome to my on-line tribute to the London based Chiswick label. Started in 1975 and, under various guises, still going strong to this day, Chiswick put out some of my favorite records ever. Here you'll find an ever growing collection of info, record sleeves, old advertisements and whatever comes to mind. So dig in and enjoy!Jeroen Vedderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12449317481543476795noreply@blogger.comBlogger1591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28847080.post-16902931019072501432009-02-12T00:23:00.000+01:002009-02-12T00:24:29.800+01:00

Roger Armstrong on Lux Interior.

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Out on April 28th:50,000,000 Rock On customers can’t be wrong! The three Rock On retail outlets in London each had a distinctive clientele and sold a wider selection of records than any other record stores between them. Hundreds of thousands of people came through the doors of the stalls and the shop and left with fond memories and great records. This CD covers most all of the styles of music

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London Weekend Show; november 1975:Lipstick, Powder & Paint Come Back My Love

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The Ace book reviewed in the Guardian. (with thanks to Martin Percival for the link)

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Oh what a night. Late March back in 008.Mr You Tube he say: A Policeman's Lot From A Rabbit No Russians Desdemona The Beast of Barnsley

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The one-off reunion will take place at the Blow Up Metro Club in London on March 1st in London, coinciding with the release of an archive live recording from the late 70s. Odd, really, that these two events should coincide. Normally, following the traditional Jet-style co-ordination that has often dominated these kind of events in the Mammalian Past, they would be separated by many months, and

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Johnny Moped playing Brighton last month, why the f*** didn't anybody tell me this was takin' place? I woulda been there boppin' in front of the stage! To quote Whirlwind: "I only wish that I've been told"And while we're at it, check the Moped's My Space site for an amazing video of the band playing in a back garden in 1975!

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From humble beginnings at a London market stall, Ace Records has gone on to change the face of popular music. Now the world’s foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. The first

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Johnny Moped duets with his wife Brenda

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"Basically, it’s better that being hit round the head with a mace…The pride of Croydon’s one and only album has long been among the most defining artefacts of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it era that spawned the full-on punk explosion. Johnny Moped - both the band, and their chummily eponymous frontman – were and still are the epitome of what was at the vanguard of early punk. Along with two Berks

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BlowUpMetro, 19-23 oxford st. london w1 ... newsflash 13.11.07 **just announced - on sale now**MARTIN GORDON friday 29th february 2008RADIO STARS saturday 1st march 2008 Sparks, Jet, Radio Stars, Rolling Stones, Kylie Minogue, Tiger Lillies, Sezen Aksu, the Mammal Trilogy – it was a long and winding road which led to Gordon’s solo debut in the USA in 2007, a mere 34 years after becoming a

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"Hi Tomcats! Yes, this 26 track CD and limited edition DOUBLE vinyl album contains all the stuff from the original Johnny Moped Bootleg cassette which they used to sell at gigs in ‘76 & ‘77 and some of the tracks from the bootleg freebie 7” which originally came with their debut album on Chiswick.It features their earliest recordings from 1974 recorded in various bedrooms right through to 1977

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Kent Records 25th Anniversary Kent Records celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday October 19th 7.30pm – 2 am at The Forum, Kentish Town, London. A spectacular 60s Soul Revue has been arranged with US soul singers Maxine Brown, Tommy Hunt, Mary Love, The Flirtations and Winfield Parker performing in front of a full backing band and celebrity MCs announcing them on stage. The live show will be

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An older but still very interesting interview with Martin Gordon on his days with the Radio Stars, Sparks, Jet and the Rolling Stones....

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Good news for all you Count Bishops fans; The Australian Aztec label is putting out re-issues of Dave Tice's first band Buffalo. And surprisingly good stuff it is! Go check it out... (There's an interview with Dave on these discs here)

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The 101'ers did a brief tour in Holland in the early days of 1976. Two months later Chiswick released their debut 45 and Joe Strummer was off the join the Clash...The dates:Thurs 26th February Boddy’s Music Inn, AmsterdamFri 27th February The Paradiso, Amsterdam Sat 28th February The Eksit Club, Rotterdam

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Faithful Departed (1980)Television Screen (2004)Television Screen (2006)New album in the making...

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The flop, the hit, the re-issue and the, er, "cassette single"...

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Cruisin' AroundTore Apart

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Just recently I was wonderin' if there ever was a "PROMO 5". Thanks to the joy that is eBay I've finally located said item. So here's the score: Rocky Sharpe & the Replays - "special four track review record" 10", 1979. Chiswick PROMO 5Tracks: Devil Or Angel, Tonight, Fools Fall In Love, Since I Don't Have You.

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Creature From The Black Leather LagoonAll Women Are BadBikini Girls With Machine GunsCall Of The WighatCan Your Pussy Do The DogThe Hot Pearl Snatch (the tube)Like A Bad Girl ShouldNaked Girl Fallin' Down The StairsWhat's Inside A Girl (the tube)Bonus tracks: A cool interview and more...

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Stukas - Klean Living Kids/Oh Little GirlCatalogue number: NS 21Release date: 14 Oct. 1977Personnel: John Mckie: drumsPaul Brown: vocalsRaggy Lewis: rhythm guitarMick Smithers: lead guitarKevin Allen: bassProduced by Ted Carroll Another one-off deal, the Stukas were a great pop band from Muswell Hill, a skinny tie affair before it had a name. This record also marked the debut of Ted Carroll as

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Radiators From Space - Television Screen/Love DetectiveNova 6.12112. 1977, Germany.In the UK this was released on the same day as the Radio Stars' Dirty Pictures so you'd figure that any licensing deals to another country would end up on the same label there. Not so... while Pictures ended up on German CBS , the Radiators classic debut was released on the obscure Nova label. And nope, I have no

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Another recent "find" was a Dutch pressing of the Radio Stars' Holiday Album that came with a copy of their 1978 tour programme and this short bio (in Dutch) that is so dry and uninteresting that any intended promotional value must have been less than minimal... Fact fans will be interested to learn that the title on the sleeve of this disc is printed in red, rather than the more familiar blue on

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Rocky Sharpe & the Replays - ImaginationChiswick CHIS 110A-1U, one-sided testpressing 1979.It's kinda ironic that one of my least favorite bands from the entire Chiswick roster was also the most prolific, leaving me with a stack of Rocky 45s from all over the world that will probably never see any action on the ol' hi-fi. But bein' the label obsessive I couldn't pass on this when it turned up on

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101'ers - Keys To Your Heart/5 Star Rock 'n' Roll PetrolChiswick 640.122, 1977 France.The French part of the Chiswick discography is still somewhat of a mystery to me. It seems like Barclay picked up the rights in early 1977, but I have no idea how many discs were actually released. Over the years I've only seen Johnny Moped's No One, this 101'ers 45 that is highly desirable among Clash fans c/o

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Radio Stars - Dirty Pictures/Sail AwayCBS 5347, 1977 Germany.Promo copy.

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JESSE HECTOR - A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD - Documentary Film Premier - LondonA Message To The World is being shown at 9pm on December 4th at 242 Acklam Road W10 at the Westbourne Studios, London. Admission is free.Press Release: 'A Message To The World'Mutton-chopped Jesse Hector was a permanent fixture in the English music press of the mid-Seventies and the electrifying live performances of his band

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The Fabulous Titans - Rico's Lament/Johnny RockerChiswick DICE 12. Release date 23-07-1982.Issued in Holland only as DICE 1487.From the liner notes of The Chiswick Story: A strange American ska record by the Fabulous Titans came next. 'Rico's Lament' (DICE 11) may have come out in Holland through a one-shot license, but it only ever reached the acetate stage through Chiswick. By now Chiswick were

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Hal Harris - Jitterbop Baby/I Don't Know WhenAce NS 47, 1978The disc itself is hardly rare, but of some curiosity value is the personal note from Ted Carroll to Roger (Armstrong?);Hi Roger,Rocky Sharpe is 55 this week! TOTP on Thursday. Thanks for your supportTed

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Yep, that's me outside Rock On in (I think) 1990. A recent trip to London made it clear that just about everything worthwhile has disappeared from Camden Town. Even the mural mentioned recently has been painted over in some ghastly techno design. Only two things reminded me of yesteryear; the gal spinning rockabilly 45s at the Elephants Head on Saturday Night and the, uh, "ace" Sounds That Swing

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Johnny Todd - Pink Cadillac/Al Urban - Looking For MoneyAce PROMO 6, 1981.Cool rockabilly two-sider, that I've only recently located. The first four "PROMO" 45s (all on Chiswick) are relatively common; Count Bishops (2), Radio Stars and Johnny Moped, but this clearly indicates that the numbering system was kept in use for Ace releases. So the obvious questions are; what was PROMO 5, and was there

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"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

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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

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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)

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

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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...

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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...

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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.)

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v/a - Rock 'n' Roll Suburbano de LondresChiswick 17.1401/9, Spain 1979.Yet another curiosity from Spain, this LP compiles the EPs by Riff Raff, Jook and Drug Addix. Lengthy sleeve notes that I won't even begin tryin' to translate, but the point seems to be that there were a lot of good new bands in London at the time, which is hard to argue with I guess...Tracklisting:A1. Drug Adddix - Gay Boys

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Jakko - Straining Our Eyes (extended)/Grab What You Can, Something In The MirrorCatalogue number: Jakko 1 (promo only 12")Release date: May 1982From the press release: "Michael Jaksyzk, also know as Jakko, is a 24 year old singer, guitarist, writer.His first band, 'Soon After', played their way to the semi finals of the 1975 Melody Maker Rock/Folk competition.Soon after 'Soon After' he formedthe

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Radio Stars - El Autentico Yo/Madera NoruegaChiswick 02.1392/5, Spain 1978.

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Work in progress shots of the artwork for two Damned releases that recently turned up on eBay.

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This month's batch includes a Music Machine double disc, the 2nd volume of the Mirwood Story, Wanda Jackson, the Champs and the Everly Brothers. Check it out here.

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v/a - Sonidos Chiswick (17.1380/6, 1978)v/a - Sonidos Chiswick vol. 2 (17.10468/5, 1979)Roughly translated as The Sound Of Chiswick, these two Spanish promo-only compilations are a weird but wonderful set, if only for the title translations. I mean No Hay Rusos En Rusia should be clear enough, but what about Querida, Tengamos Otro Nino? Anyways, the sleeve designs are kinda dull, and it's not

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Red Beans & Rice - That Driving Beat/Throw It In The GrassChiswick CHIS 124. Released 7 March 1980.Produced by Pete Wingfieldengineered by Alvin ClarkeLavern Brown: vocalsJeff Coleman: guitarMike Paice: saxophone, harmonicaBenny Herbert: bassTom Riley: drumsThat Driving Beat by Red Beans & Rice is one of Chiswick's should-have-been-hits. A Willie Mitchell tune that gets a powerful Sam & Dave-like

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Another scan from Roger Armstrong's archives. Even with the Pistols non-apperance due to their split six months earlier, this is one heck of a line-up! Johnny Moped among cosmic krauts! And how did Dutchies Captain Coke ever get on this bill? I've put up this link before; but right here, you can check some cool pictures of this event...

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Muchos gracias to Chiswick's own Roger Armstrong who send in a CDR full of archive material. Promo pictures, advertisements, stickers, label shots, posters, you name it. All will be posted here in due time, but in the meantime, check this ad for the Radio Stars' Dirty Pictures.

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The initial idea was to go through the Chiswick catalogue chronologically on this here blog, and then slowly move onwards into documenting the label's many offshoots. This would have worked out fine if what I call my "archives" were ordered in some kinda sane fashion. But looking around at the piles of what can only be desrcibed as "stuff", it's obvious that I can only keep this blog going by

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Ultravox/Damned split LP. De Agostini IGDA 1145/46, 1990.Tracklisting:Ultravox: My Sex, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Slow Motion, Maximum Acceleration, Man Who Dies Every Day.Damned: Love Song (live), Machine Gun Etiquette, Smash It Up Pts 1&2 (live), Wait For The Blackout, Therapy.Now here's a strange one; not necessarily rare, but a real curiosity. Apparently this is part 72 (!) of an ongoing series

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The Count Bishops - Sometimes, Good Guys Don't Wear White/You're In My WayChiswick CH 201, 1978 ItalyNow here's a real curiosity, an Italian only coupling of these great tunes off of the Bishops' first LP. The label sez campione non commerciable which might mean it's a promo copy, but then again, one of those on-line translation services tells me it means "champion not commerciable"...Anyway, if

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Damned - Damned From The Start (no label, LP) You'd figure that with the recent anniversary editions of Machine Gun Etiquette and The Black Album, the number of tracks recorded during the band's stint at Chiswick would be taken care off. And I guess it does, unless of course you take the various demos the band recorded at this time.This 2004 LP (a limited edition of 293 copies) features six

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From Dutch magazine, July 1978.

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Radiators From Space pictured in Rock On, from Dutch magazine, nov 1977.

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It might be stating the obvious, but just in case: I have absolutely no time for Skrewdriver's, or better make that singer Ian Stuart's, post Chiswick "career". Nor do I want to go into any details of that on this here blog. But if you really wanna read the entire sad saga, I suggest picking up Cranked Up Really High the excellent book by Stewart Home.That said, I really dig the band's thug-punk

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Radio Stars - Good Personality The BBC Live Anthology. (Punk Vault CD)From Japan comes this excellent, but probably not very legal, CD with 22 songs recorded by the Radio Stars for the BBC. Two In Concert live sets and their third, and final, Peel Session. Sound quality is pretty good, AM mono taped from the radio, and the performances pretty darn solid. Best of the bunch is the May 1978 (and not

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My introduction to the Chiswick label came courtesy of a Dutch-only compilation album entitled Geef Voor New Wave that featured (a.o.) Johnny Moped, Motorhead, The Radiators From Space and Radio Stars. By late 1977 the Dutch branch of Ariola had, through various licensing deals, a solid stack of new wave artists. Trouble was, this "new" music wasn't selling. In late December Jonathan Richman had

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The Rings - I Wanna Be Free/AutomobileChiswick S 14, released 20 May 1977.Line-up: Twink: vocalsAlan Lee Shaw: guitar, vocalsDennis Stow: bassRod Latter: drumsProduced by Martin GordonThe Rings were formed by Twink (real name John Alder) veteran of many psychedelic bands including Tomorrow and The Pink Fairies. While primarily a drummer he took on the role of front man in the band while Alan Lee

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Hope You're all aware of the joy that is YouTube. Did some diggin' and came up with the following videos from bands on Chiswick/Big Beat. Enjoy:Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? (The Tube)Cramps - What's Inside A Girl (The Tube)Cramps - You've Got Good Taste (The Tube)Damned - Drinkin' About My Baby (Something Else)Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today (Old Grey Whistle Test)Damned - Love Song (

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Jeroen I suppose strictly speaking I shouldn't be responding to you on this link as I have no information to pass on about obscure punk bands; well I probably have if I put my mind to it, but that isn't the reason I'm writing. I could have signed up as a blogger, but to an elderly person like myself it seems too much trouble. Anyway the reason I'm writing is to thank you for tracking down those

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Various Artists - Never Mind Other Labels Here's Chiswick (10", Chiswick 0900.45, Germany 1977).One of the coolest promo-only discs in the Chiswick discography. Released in 1977 by the label's German distributor Metronome, this 10" disc comes in a stapled together/silk-screened 12" sleeve.Tracklisting:1.Radiators From Space - Television Screen2.Skrewdriver - Anti-Social3.Little Bob Story - Riot

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This month's releases from Ace Records.

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Thrust was one of the first Chiswick label off-shoots, debuting in July 1977 with Lee Kristofferson's Dinner With Drac, a cover of John Zacherle's 1958 hit. A nice enough version that, by the sound of it, was recorded on multitrack by a one-man band. The flip is the better tune here tho'. A dark, brooding instrumental with Link Wray-ish overtones. For years I figured this was the labels only

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Radiators From Space - Midnite demos EP and Live At The Southend Kursaal 1977 LP (both Rejected Records).Two archive releases by the mighty Radiators From Space that appeared last year but only recently found their way to HQ. The EP features the bands first demo, recorded October 31st 1976, and shows 'em in prime garage mode. The sound is raw but perfectly suits their primal wail. I really love

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"Ace Records and The Luminaire are excited to announce a special one off show by one of our all time heroines Wanda Jackson ! Wanda will be flying in all the way from Oklahoma City to perform a rare club date to help us launch a new compilation of her country recordings 'The Very Best Of The Country Years’. The evening will be very special featuring Wanda backed by Wes McGhee + Bill Haley & The

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