Bloodstains Across the Midwest

Boy if you guys paid me per hour for doing this blog I'd be rich. It's a real chore with downloads not working, files duplicating or going missing. Anyhows here's the Midwest Bloodstains. Sorry each file is individual. The order is Dow, Hask, Emb, Giz, Baloney, Cust, NNB, Lat, Tox, Gyn, Cult, Brain, Ment, End, Crap, Five. http://www.divshare.com/download/798078-6a1 Oh, and the California link is fixed.

Bloodstains Across California

Does anyone like the Bloodstains and Killed by Death records? I have quite a lot of them and can post them if there is any interest. I'm putting up the California comp as it contains one of my favourite songs ever "Midget" by the Vktms. My sister stole one of my John Peel tapes when we were kids. On this home made comp I rerecorded many songs and went on a quest for others. It took me a while to get the Eltifits ep and the Vktms eventually released a CD on Broken Rekids. I got this from the guitarist John Binkov, who is a great guy. Sadly Nina died a few years ago. Probably the other best band on the comp were The Controllers. I have an LP of theirs which is a classic. Anyway here's the Bloodstains record. http://www.divshare.com/download/806169-4a8

Here's a link to John Binkov's VKTMS webage http://members.tripod.com/~binkov/index.html

Bad Brains

On 2nd May 1983 while I was still at the tender age of 17 I was fortunate to see Bad Brains at Croc's in Rayleigh, Essex. There was a lengthy delay as the band would not play without and ganga. Someone had to drive all the way back to London to get some. While I was waiting I went up to Joseph I and asked if he had a set list. The copy is above. He said he didn't mind, but not to mention it to his brother. He took me backstage, where the band was drinking Guinness. It was a small room with nowhere to hide when bottles started flying around. The crowd was disappointing and lethargic and the band were disjointed making too many stops to change from punk to reggae. However, I had a great time. No fights! http://www.divshare.com/download/737362-b78

Impact (UK)

This one's for Keith of Running Riot blog. It's a recording I took of Impact in 1981 in Chelmsford, Essex. They were supporting UK Subs. I never got to see or record UK Subs as I was attacked by the nazi punks, because I was wearing the Dead Kennedys "nazi punks fuck off" armband.http://www.divshare.com/download/737151-c70

Yr Anhrefn

Boy this post has given me a lot of grief. Anyway Yr Anhrefn were from Wales and sang in Welsh. They were a favourite of John Peel and in fact the following recordings were taken off his radio station. I have hundreds of tapes of John Peel shows, where I would stay up late at night waiting with my finger on the pause button for him to announce which band was coming next. I have a lot of sessions recorded. His show was 2 hours long and a band doing a session would normally do 4 songs which he would play about ever quarter of an hour. The show would be on from 10-12 at night and I would often fall asleep and miss the fourth track. The band were on the softer side of punk, but are high up on my punkometer. For me punk is what the bands are singing about. Music can be heavy, but have some shite, wishy washy subject like these new metal bands, or it can have fire from within. Check out other Welsh bands like Dat Blygu. Also Anhrefn have a website somewhere which has MP3s and information of their later projects. I tried to upload these all together, but DIVshare kept uploading half then booting me off. If anyone wants the track titles let me know.http://www.divshare.com/download/736697-594

Subhumans

Skipping up the alphabet here's 20 minutes of the Subhumans recorded at the anarchist centre in London. 4 or 5 other bands also played and all for 1 pound. I'll post the other bands another time. Flux, Rudimentary Peni, Conflict, The Mob. This was the first time I met Dick. He left his "leather" jacket where I was standing. I saw the in St. Petersburg a few years ago and got a good video of them.http://www.divshare.com/download/720601-a78

Black Easter

While I'm at it here's the Black Easter recordings from the same Amebix gig. I also have the "Ready to Rot" (1982) EP by them. Anyone know if these guys released anything else, or if they were in other bands? Jeff Bale did a review in MRR, where he did not like the band. I think it's great. They had a unique sound, not copycatting a generic sound. Don't worry about the start of the recording. I couldn't see if the record was on, then switched it off and back on when I worked out what I was doing. As I said in the Amebix blog it was my friend's recorder. http://www.divshare.com/download/720520-dcc