Long-forgotten by all but hardcore punks, Belfast band Victim were the second group to put out a single on the city’s Bad Vibrations label. This is it.

Formed in mid-1977, they appeared on a TV punk documentary (It Makes You Want To Spit) in their formative months, earning them a live following and the chance to record this single for the princely outlay of £90.

It’s probably worth more than that now as a collector’s item.

In July 1979 the band moved across the water from Belfast to Manchester, after being offered a deal by a UK label, TJM Records.

Early gigs there found them playing with The Fall, John Cooper-Clarke and The Revillos. They even played the Factory, to accompany a screening of the excellent Belfast punk doc Shellshock Rock.

Victim’s second single, Why Are Fire Engines Red – their first for their new label – went down well with John Peel and the music papers; well enough to earn them a support slot on a 1979 tour of the UK by The Damned.

As a result Rat Scabies produced their third single, The Teen Age, released in 1980 on a third label, Illuminated Records, and while in Manchester they recruited a new drummer of Irish descent, Mike Joyce… until he left in 1983 to join The Smiths.

Victim replaced him with Kev Williams from Mick Hucknall’s punk group, Frantic Elevators, and added a keyboard player called Toni Isaac – the girl leaning on the lamp post in Jilted John’s single of the same name.

The new lineup didn’t last long and they broke up in the mid-80s, leaving just a handful of singles as their legacy.