TWENTY YEARS ON - THE SUMMER OF LOVE?

45 minutes of varied material from one side of this compilation cassette (the flip side was destroyed well beyond listenability).  An acoust...

DECADENCE WITHIN

There's more history here if you like, but Ledbury's DECADENCE WITHIN kicked around in various forms from the mid '80s to the m...

FASHIONABLE LIVING DEATH

A few years earlier, F.L.D. might have become a band of legend, but female fronted moody UK post-anarcho/proto-goth was rather our of vogue ...

VARIOUS STUFF 87

I've put this one aside several times in the past, not because it is somehow lacking, but it's more a collection of various recordin...

ANTI-STATE CONTROL

Brilliant 1983 demo from these under appreciated UK punks. I posted a 1982 rehearsal tape in the early days of The Escape, but it's grea...

DEVIATED INSTINCT

Four killer tracks tacked onto the end of a live set from 1985 (posted here). DEVIATED INSTINCT should need no introduction, but the uniniti...

LET THEM EAT PASTAS! LET THEM EAT SHIT!

Mid-90's international comp from the folks at Spock Productions. A few acts you are likely familiar with (WAT TYLER and THE GR'UPS d...

BLYTH POWER

Active since 1983, BLYTH POWER is the voice of drummer Joseph Porter (THE MOB, ZOUNDS) and is still active today. This band tastes to me the...

BLIND AMONGST THE FLOWERS

While 1987's Dementia Americana  single is a deliberate goth punk stomper somewhere between early P.I.L. and KILLING JOKE, this unmarked...

HAGAR THE WOMB

Self explanatory. A four song Peel Session from HAGAR THE WOMB, female fronted anarcho punks from London. Excellent, but unfortunately missi...

TOON DISASTERS

I've often praised the power of a well crafted mix tape, and Toon Disasters is exactly that. Excellent combination of deep cuts (10,000...

FACTION

FACTION's You've Got The Fire  EP from 1983 was an excellent uptempo anarcho punk record, with shadows of early Siouxsie lurking in ...

HEALTH HAZZARD

I suggest listening to the admittedly rough rehearsal tracks first, so you can get a handle on what HEALTH HAZZARD are  going for before you...

LOST CHERREES

An hour long cassette filled with gems from LOST CHERREES. The band should need no introduction (essential female fronted '80s UK anarch...

BLISS THE POCKET OPERA

Listening in the future, these songs could have easily been from any number of second tier late '80s goth bands - vocals wailing like a ...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING LAW! // WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING WAR!

Terminal Escape turns 900 today. 900 cassettes lovingly converted into a soulless barrage of 00s and 01s just so you can enjoy the music on ...

4 MINUTES

Mid tempo and catchy melodic Scottish punk from 1982. This is a rehearsal tape from one of the hundreds of bands that sprouted up in the sec...

THE WASTE

Kinda tough to track down much info on these UK82 circa 1985 Exeter punks, but their two demos made their way onto this band-made cassette a...

VIRUS

All of these songs save one ("Systematic Violence," arguably the best song on the tape) appear in different forms on the You Can...

SHRAPNEL

Welsh bangers SHRAPNEL left a criminally small output before calling it a day, but with this and the Restricted Existence demo in your stab...