In the early Seventies my brief flirtation with Welsh rock bands seems to have extended to a third, Budgie. (more…)

Here’s a band I once loved that I had completely forgotten about, though I still have this album in my vinyl collection.

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RIP Julz Sale, the singer in proto-feminist post-punk band Delta 5 – a vital part of the soundtrack of my youth.

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The first gig I ever saw was by a Welsh rock group called Man, in May 1974.

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I’ve never really bought into the idea of the “guilty pleasure” so I feel no shame about liking and posting this song.

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I’m not sure The Runaways were ever really a punk group, but they made their mark at the right time to be part of our world and they were punky enough to play CBGBs alongside Blondie and Television and The Ramones.

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The Modern Lovers’ only album is, for me, one of the greatest albums ever. Roadrunner is pretty much a standard now. It’s astonishing that this song, which most of us only heard years later, was recorded back in 1972. (more…)

Not one but eight snippets of songs from the earliest days of punk, shot at CBGBs in New York over the course of (I’m guessing) 1974 and 1975. (more…)