September 19th, 2009 by Ed
This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper’s book, “Trapped In A Scene”. Eventually I’ll add some details about the recording and artwork, but for now here are the songs.
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September 19th, 2009 by Ed
This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper’s book, “Trapped In A Scene”. Eventually I’ll add some details about the recording, but for now here is the track.
[Photo of Nick by Paul May]
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September 19th, 2009 by Ed
This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper’s book, “Trapped In A Scene”. Eventually I’ll add some details about the recording, but for now here are the songs.
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May 5th, 2008 by Ed
Never one to turn down a request, here’s the very first BDS demo, Gothic Monstrosities (for James R). Recorded over a couple of days in the basement of a used car salesroom in Kingston in (I think) 1986. The engineer was a lovely bloke called Hick. He even played sax on one of the songs I think. Martin Hawkes (aka Marty Tuff) from the Stupids played lead guitar on a couple of songs (listen out for anything that sounds remotely competent and that’ll be him!). I had no idea what I was doing and relied on Jason and Paul who had both been in the studio already with earlier bands. I’d hung out with the Stupids for a couple of sessions and done a 4-track recording with Frankfurter, but this was the first ’serious’ session I’d ever done. Listening back now I honestly can’t say any of it sounds too clever…in fact most of it’s pretty embarrassing, but I’m amazed at the number of people who like it 20+ years later. To be honest I’m amazed that anyone’s heard it at all.
- Nick Norris - Vocals
- Paul Condon - Bass
- Jason Cook - Drums
- Ed Wenn - Guitar
A lot of it’s punk-by-numbers and influences were very much in evidence. Here’s a rundown of the more obvious steals:
- Obsession = London Dungeon by the Misfits.
- Dark Knight = Heard It All Before by Stupids (or the Marginal Man track that they nicked it from).
- Never So Funny = No More Pain by Embrace (just the intro which is taken from Chris Bald’s bassline)…also a nod to the Stupids again with their song title Always Never Fun (which is way cleverer than my feeble attempt).
- Why Even Bother? = Generic 7 Seconds riff.
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June 11th, 2007 by Ed
That clever Ian Glasper (author of two great books on the UK punk scene) is at it again. He’s busy writing a third book about the bands who were selling their souls on the HC circuit between 1985-1990. Apparently he’s doing pieces on Bad Dress Sense, Stupids & Sink (hurrah!) so I’ll be contributing material here and there. We’re currently trying to set up a face-to-face meeting to kick things off.
While we wait for the book to hit the streets you’d do a whole lot worse than go out and buy his first two forays into documenting that elusive little beastie called punk rock:
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