the Mutants of the Holocaust: April 2012

"...so bad, they're actually bad!"

Can it be true? Are the Mutants of the Holocaust really that bad? Well judge for yourselves fellow music lovers. This page gives a brief snapshot of a short period in the bands lifespan. More will be written when I get round to it.
In the meantime, feel free to download these tracks recorded in the bass players bedroom sometime in '85 if memory serves correctly.

We ran through the songs once and then recorded them straight onto a cheap compact cassette recorder.

Train is not one of ours - not actually sure who wrote it, although everyone has covered it, but this is based on a cross between the Shockabilly and Motorhead versions. Mushroomhead, on the other hand is one of ours. This is really just a series of observations and comments about, and inspired by, a certain strain of fungus. End of the World is also one of ours. Originally it was at least three times as long as what you hear on this record but for some reason or another, the tape got cut and the rest has been lost to history. Shame really. Loose is, of course, the Stooges song, although again, our version is based on the one that the Birthday Party recorded. We finish off with a tune that changed every time we played it. Whoever was singing at the time invented some new words; only the opening line stayed the same.

What happened to side two, you ask?

Well quite honestly, that’s it! That’s all we have.

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Patricia Morrison - Sisters of Mercy / Gun Club / Damned

After having a look at some traffic stats for this blog, I was surprised at how many folks had arrived after trying to find info on Patricia Morrison. Despite having included the picture towards the bottom of the blog, I realised there was no explanation for the pic, so for anyone interested, here goes....
The photo was taken at the Warehouse nightclub in Leeds (I think it was March '83, but I may be wrong. We had gone down to see the Gun Club who Patricia was playing with at the time and they were being supported by the Sister of Mercy (also a Leeds band who only had a couple of singles out at the time and who she later joined).
We'd first heard of her through her being a member of the excellent LA punk band the Bags (whose Babylon Gorgon single is one of the finest punk records ever made in my humble opinion). Anyway we got talking up in the bar after the show and so impressed her with our knowledge of the LA punk bands of the late 70's that she put us all on the guest list for their show at Sheffield that weekend. This was the one and only time I've been on a guest list so I still feel very honoured.
The gig was excellent but after putting away several beers too many we thought we were the new best friends of the Gun Club and poured, mob-handed, into the changing room and preceeded to munch our way through their sandwiches and beer. I can't believe how civil they were and I remember Jeffery Lee Pierce very politely asking us to leave after about fifteen minutes. I'm sure I'd have told us to 'fuck-off' long before that!
I still feel embarrassed about that to this day. Sorry Patricia!

And a shot of her in action at the Sheffield gig which I have just uncovered after going through some old pics.

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Cheap Publicity Tactic Nirvana Green Day Free Downloads

Please excuse this scandalously cheap attempt at driving traffic this way...I'm just going to mention a few bands who we have absolutely nothing to do with..let's say...Green Day for example. Or how about Nirvana? Surely we'll get some clicks for mentioning them. That'll do for now, although I might need to put those names in the title box for google to pick them up. Let's see. Oh by the way...the album is still FREE to download from Mediafire (that's unless the CIA or whoever decide they want to shut that down too)