Blyth Power - A Little Touch Of Harry

UPDATE: I've re-ripped it from a different tape so the quality of this download is better. It's still from a 25 year old tape though :)

LATEST UPDATE: The Old Punk has given me some good news about this. Someone by the name of Paco has released a vinyl pressing of this classic. It's only £6 plus a bit for postage. It comes with a poster and a copy of the original booklet too. Get it here - La Vida Es En Mus.

A Little Touch Of Harry In The Night was the first release from Blyth Power. It was originally released on cassette in 1984 so the actual quality of the files is not exactly perfect.

Blyth Power are a British 'folk punk' band formed in 1983 by singer/drummer Joseph Porter, formerly of Zounds and The Mob.

Blyth Power's music shows strong influences from punk rock and folk music, and the band members have described their sound as a cross between The Clash, Steeleye Span and The Rubettes.
(text from Wikipedia)

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Here's the tracklisting (320kbps mp3)...
01) Coriolanus
02) Smoke From Cromwell's Time
03) Chevy Chase
04) In The Ffucke-Masticke Room
05) Goodbye General To Lose
06) Under The Sea Wind
07) The Rookery
08) Probably Won't Be Easy
09) Hurling Time
10) God Has Gone Wrong Again
11) My Lady's Fortress Europe
12) Emmanuel
13) Some Of Shelly's Hang-Ups

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Hit Parade - Bad News / Plastic Culture EPs (Crass Records)

Here is a re-post of the Bad News and Plastic Culture EPs by Hit Parade. The downloads are in FLAC or 320kbps mp3 format so just grab whichever one you want.

Hit Parade was Dave Hyndman from Belfast, with occassional assistance by members of Crass on backing vocals but mostly it was Dave. The Bad News EP was released in 1983 on Crass Records and rather than guitars, bass and drums it uses drum boxes and samplers. There is also a second EP, Plastic Culture which was released in 1984 that contains extended versions of a couple of tracks. In fact Media Song is basically an extended version/remix of Bad News from the first EP.

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(text from Southern Records)
This record exposes the tyranny of the British Government's attacks on Northern Ireland. Borrowing from Outta Control: Paper of the Belfast Anarchists, the record sleeve/poster details the atrocities of prisons in which "political criminals" are locked up for speaking out against the unjust, violent sectarian state which has long ignored outcries from its inhabitants. The sleeve/poster pictures those who died in peaceful demonstrations and hunger strikes, specifically, the "H Block" hunger strike. "Britains role in Northern Ireland, both on the streets and in legislative methods is clearly repressive and designed to keep in check a rebellious section of the population...which seeks to take control of and responsibility for its own future.

AS LONG AS POPULATIONS ARE UNABLE TO TAKE A UNITED STAND AGAINST ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION, THEY WILL REMAIN SUBSERVIENT TO IT.

Here's the tracklistings...

BAD NEWS EP
01) Here's What You Find In Any Prison
02) More Faces
03) Bad News
04) H Block

PLASTIC CULTURE EP
05) Product Of The Troubles
06) Media Song

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D&V - Inspiration LP & Nearest Door EP (Crass Records)

Here's a rip of both releases by D&V on Crass Records. D&V only consisted of Andy Leach on drums and Jef Antcliffe on vocals, hence the name D&V (Drums & Vocals). This download consists of The Nearest Door EP which was released in 1983 and the hugely titled album Inspiration Gave Them The Motivation To Move On Out Of Their Isolation which was released in 1985. I hadn't heard the album in about 20 years and I was pretty surprised at how much I enjoyed it when I ripped it. The backing tracks were arranged and played by Penny Rimbaud using samples built up from vocal and percussive sources and the vocals of Eve Libertine & Joy de Vivre. Frankly it's pretty experimental in places but considering it's basically drums & vocals they've done a really good job.

A special mention goes to The Saucer People for reminding me about D&V and to The Loftmonkey for sending me the vinyl (check out his ebay shop over to the right or just click here).

The downloads are in FLAC or 320kbps mp3 format so just grab whichever one you want.

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Here's the EP tracklisting...
A1) Jekyll And Hyde
A2) Wake Up
A3) High Above
A4) Today's Conclusion
B1) Step Inside
B2) Dignity
B3) S21RN

Here's the album tracklisting...
A1) Get Around Sound
A2) Al Sithi
A3) Waiting
A4) Goodbye 23 (School Rule Blues)
A5) Unstable Table
A6) Winter Warmer
A7) A New New Beginning
A8) Epsilon Estate
B1) Don't Ever Give In (The Reason Is Within...)
B2) The Present Situation
B3) A Light Hearted Account
B4) The New Beginning
B5) Epsilon
B6) Sometimes
B7) Tomorrow Is Here

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This download (as well as lots of other good stuff including music, vegan recipes and reviews) is also available at the excellent Old Punks Never Die site.

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Steve Hillage - Live In Concert (76/79)

Here's a download from one of my favourite artists of all time. Steve Hillage (born Stephen Simpson Hillage, 2 August 1951, London, England) is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. Besides his solo recordings he has been a member of Gong, Khan and System 7. Most of the tracks were recorded on the 28th April 1979 at the Paris Theatre in London except for tracks 1 & 6 which are from the 4th December 1976 at the Paris Theatre.

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Here's the tracklisting (320kbps)...
01) Hurdy Gurdy Glissando
02) Unidentified (Flying Being)
03) Radio
04) New Age Synthesis (Unzipping the Zype)
05) Electrick Gypsies
06) The Salmon Song
07) It's All Too Much
08) 1988 Aktivator
09) Crystal City
10) Activation Meditation
11) The Glorious Om Riff

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DJ Embryo - A Political Message Mix

This is an anarcho punk mix I did recently. It only goes on for 45 minutes & as well as lots of the old classics there is some not really anarcho stuff as well. I decided to do this 'cos of a photo that made me laugh I saw over at the oldpunksneverdie.com site. I've also added 3 ebooks to the download (mobi & html/txt formats). The Conquest Of Bread by Petr Kropotkin, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins & The Last Of The Hippies by Penny Rimbaud

Special mention should go to Cassetteboy for some of the speeches... and for inspiring me to do some of my own.

... and as an added bonus see if you can find the hidden message :)

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Here's the tracklisting (320kbps)...
01) Face [Cross Stitched Eyes]
02) Under The Sea Wind [Blyth Power]
03) Capitalism Is Cannibalism [Anthrax]
04) Kings & Punks [Conflict]
05) Duty Calls [Omega Tribe]
06) Axe Man [Amebix]
07) Vampire State Building [Rudimentary Peni]
08) In Darkness [Anti-Sect]
09) Dignity [D&V]
10) Can't Cheat Karma [Zounds]
11) Animal Welfare [Anti-System]
12) Myxomatosis [Flux Of Pink Indians]
13) Evil Speak [Icons Of Filth]
14) Rats [Subhumans]
15) One Nation Under The Bomb [Conflict]
16) Nagasaki Nightmare [Crass]

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