The Plight-Feb 2010 Tour Cancelled

05-2010: Unfortunately The Plight have had to cancel this tour due to the loss of a band member. They'll be back ;)

Here's some words from the band...

I cannot fully express how bad we feel for doing this but we have to cancel the tour.

Really sorry for the hassle this will cause, but we have no other choice.

Our bass player walked out on us last night. After nearly 3 years of being in the band and working various shit jobs and turning down most other commitments, he’s decided that the job he’s been offered is too much to turn down.

I hope you appreciate this whole thing has been a nightmare for us. Sean had told us he was leaving before this but had agreed to do the tour as a farewell, especially as I had booked it. We literally found out last night that he could no longer honor this. There's no hard feelings but of course it's a shame to have to cancel. Not to mention the fact that our drummer left the band a few weeks ago, which we'd managed to replace before the tour. We have a lad with a killer groove on drums now. Watch this space I guess.

The heart of the band is still alive and we will back with vengeance later in the year. Hopefully we can book the tour in a couple of month’s time when we have sorted this. To try get someone to fill in at this late stage (1 week before the first gig) would be a dishonor to our selves as well as people listening.

Again. Sorry for the fuck about. We will be back.

THE PLIGHT

Here's a copy of the tour poster and you can buy their latest album "Winds Of Osiris" from Amazon.

There's more posts for The Plight on this blog already.

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Ska Rarities Collection

Time for some ska I reckon. This is a collection of rare tracks from the mid to late 1960s and features some of the biggest names from that era.

I don't think this was ever officially released and has been floating round the internet under the name "Ska Rarities Volume 2: El Bang Bang".




DOWNLOAD SKA RARITIES COLLECTION [TRACKS 1 TO 11]
DOWNLOAD SKA RARITIES COLLECTION [TRACKS 12 TO 22]

Here's the tracklisting (256kbps)...
01) V.C. 10 (Shake A Lady) [Roland Alphonso]
02) Red Dress [Prince Buster]
03) Shining Light (original 7" version) [Maytals]
04) Lon Chaney [King Sporty & Edwards All Stars]
05) Walk & Talk [Eric Monty Morris]
06) The Lord Is With Me [Jackie Opel]
07) The Scratch [Granville Williams Orchestra]
08) Shirley [Roy Shirley]
09) Don't You Know [Andy & Joey]
10) King Solomon [Skatalites]
11) Shanty Town [Prince Buster]
12) Babylon [Vernon Allen]
13) Treasure Isle [Don Drummond]
14) Fight For Your Right [Justin Hinds & Dominoes]
15) You're Too Bad [Jackie Opel]
16) Dan De Lion [Don Drummond]
17) Sinners [Joe White & Maytals]
18) El Bang Bang [Jackie Mittoo]
19) Don't Trouble People [Alton & The Flames]
20) Soldering [Desmond Dekker]
21) Rollie Pollie [Roland Alphonso]
22) Mother In Law [Lee Perry]

DOWNLOAD SKA RARITIES COLLECTION [TRACKS 1 TO 11]
DOWNLOAD SKA RARITIES COLLECTION [TRACKS 12 TO 22]

Stoner Rock Collection

Here's a compilation of some of the Stoner Rock bands I've been listening to lately. Most of it is your standard big riffs, bass heavy stoner rock but there's also a bit of sludge/doom for your listening pleasure.

According to wikipedia stoner rock and stoner metal are interchangeable terms describing sub-genres of rock and heavy metal music. It combines elements of psychedelic rock, blues-rock and doom metal. Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features low-tuned guitars, a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep.

DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 1 (TRACKS 1 TO 11)
DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 2 (TRACKS 12 TO 24)
DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 3 (TRACKS 25 TO 35)

NOTE :
All tracks are 320kbps except 14/25 (192kbps) & 19/22 (256kbps)
Here's the tracklisting...
01) Thumb [Kyuss]
02) Retrosky [Celstial Season]
03) Burning Beard [Clutch]
04) Giant [The Atomic Bitchwax]
05) Here Falls The Shadow [sHEAVY]
06) Eye [Witch]
07) From Hell [The Plight]
08) Nineteen [Karma To Burn]
09) Omega Glory [Dozer]
10) California Queen [Wolfmother]
11) Phase 1&2 [Blowback]
12) Sin's A Good Man's Brother [Monster Magnet]
13) Chemical Lady [Sasquatch]
14) King Of Mean [Halfway To Gone]
15) Vinum Sabbathi [Electric Wizard]
16) Imperial Lagerblayde [Motherboar]
17) They Come Back (Harvest Of Skulls) [Orange Goblin]
18) July [Slo Burn]
19) Ride With The Devil [Buddha Sentenza]
20) Redwood Blues [Spiritual Beggars]
21) Cold Cut [Slut Sister]
22) Aphrodite [Nebula]
23) Vat 69 [Greenleaf]
24) Super Computer [The Atomic Bitchwax]
25) Glen Zappa [Electric Magma]
26) Dragonaut [Sleep]
27) The Sleeping Assasin [sHEAVY]
28) Cherry Red [Earthless]
29) Thirty Four [Karma To Burn]
30) Soul Of Fire [Witch]
31) The Flood [Dozer]
32) Rapture Of Riddley Walker [Clutch]
33) Woman [Wolfmother]
34) Asteroid [Kyuss]
35) Visions Of Gehenna [Black Pyramid]

DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 1 (TRACKS 1 TO 11)
DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 2 (TRACKS 12 TO 24)
DOWNLOAD STONER COLLECTION PART 3 (TRACKS 25 TO 35)

35007

I only heard 35007 for the first time just before Christmas and they've already made it into my 'one of the best bands ever' list. Going by the enigmatic code name 35007 ("loose" spelled upside down), Dutch musicians Mark Sponselee (guitar, bass, drums, synths, effects), Bertus Fridael (guitar), Michel Boekhoudt (bass), and Sander Evers (drums) perform ambient trance-groove music of a predominantly instrumental design. Secretive by nature, the group rarely performs live, and when it does, it’s usually with the help of a visual specialist to provide a truly multimedia and multi-sensory experience. They're kind of a mix of Hawkwind, Earth & System 7... and very, very good if you like your music cosmic ;)

DOWNLOAD 35007 COLLECTION [TRACKS 1 TO 5]
DOWNLOAD 35007 COLLECTION [TRACKS 6 TO 10]

Discography
(1994) Especially For You
(1997) 35007
(1999) Especially For You (Re-Issue)
(2001) Sea Of Tranquility EP
(2002) Liquid
(2005) Phase V
These were all released on the German label Stickman Records.

Here's the tracklisting (320kbps)...
01) Herd (from 35007)
02) Undo (from 35007)
03) Powertruth (from 35007)
04) Zandbak (from Especially For You [Re-Issue])
05) Cosmic Messenger (from Especially For You [Re-Issue])
06) Basiculo Ad Cunnum (from Especially For You [Re-Issue])
07) Artificial Intelligence (from Sea Of Tranquility EP)
08) Evaporate (from Liquid)
09) 23 32 (from Phase V)
10) 06 18 (from Phase V)

DOWNLOAD 35007 COLLECTION [TRACKS 1 TO 5]
DOWNLOAD 35007 COLLECTION [TRACKS 6 TO 10]

Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics

An utterly ridiculous album from South Park and Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo. There's not much to say about this album really... it's from South Park so you can guess what it's about :)

For all you people who have no idea who Mr Hankey is you can watch the full episode at www.southparkstudios.co.uk.

Here's the tracklisting (192kbps)...
01) Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
02) Merry Fucking Christmas
03) O Holy Night
04) Dead, Dead, Dead
05) Carol Of The Bells
06) The Lonely Jew On Christmas
07) I Saw Three Ships
08) It Happened In Sun Valley
09) O Tannenbaum
10) Christmas Time In Hell
11) What The Hell Child Is This
12) Santa Claus Is On His Way
13) Swiss Colony Beef Log
14) Hark The Herald Angels Sing
15) Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
16) The Most Offensive Song Ever
17) We Three Kings
18) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

DOWNLOAD MR HANKEY'S CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

The Cravats (Crass Records)

Here's another single from my recent sort out. The Cravats were a punk rock band from Redditch near Birmingham, England. They only released one single on Crass Records but had a few other releases on Small Wonder Records and the like. Again this is not your standard anarcho-punk fare but something a little different and definitely worth hearing. You can check out the wikipedia page for The Cravats here.

Here's the tracklisting (320kbps)...
01) Rub Me Out
02) When Will We Fall

DOWNLOAD THE CRAVATS - RUB ME OUT EP

Hit Parade (Crass Records)

Hit Parade was Dave Hyndman from Belfast, with occassional assistance by members of Crass on backing vocals but mostly it was Dave. This EP was released in 1982 on Crass Records & rather than guitars, bass & drums it is anarcho-dance!?!, using drum boxes & samplers. I've also included a rip of the Plastic Culture 12" EP, which was released in 84.

(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.

[FLAC FORMAT] DOWNLOAD THE HIT PARADE COLLECTION
[MP3 FORMAT] DOWNLOAD THE HIT PARADE COLLECTION

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

[FLAC FORMAT] DOWNLOAD THE HIT PARADE COLLECTION
[MP3 FORMAT] DOWNLOAD THE HIT PARADE COLLECTION

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Note: If the above links don't work try the following from Rapidshare...
[FLAC] DOWNLOAD HIT PARADE COLLECTION [RAPIDSHARE]
[MP3] DOWNLOAD HIT PARADE COLLECTION [RAPIDSHARE]

Sleeping Dogs (Crass Records)

I've been digging through some old singles recently so I thought I'd post a few up. The "Beware Sleeping Dogs" EP was released on Crass Records in 1982 and rather than being your standard anarcho-punk this is definitely more of an experimental style. The Sleeping Dogs were the first American band on Crass Records though the American singer/poet Annie Anxiety had released the Barbed Wire Halo EP in 1981 (Cheers to SP for reminding me). Although this EP was released over 25 years ago the lyrics are still valid today covering subjects like American imperialism and war.

Here's the tracklisting (256kbps)...
01) Same Old Story
02) Concrete
03) Suzy's Song
04) (I Got My Tan In) El Salvador
05) Soldier

DOWNLOAD BEWARE SLEEPING DOGS EP

Ivor Cutler - Dandruff

Okay then... here's an album from a true eccentric. Ivor Cutler was a singer / poet / musician / writer / oddball from Glasgow in Scotland. This album was originally released in 1974 and even though I've heard a few of his other albums this is the one I know best. It contains such classics as Fremsley, I Believe In Bugs & If All The Cornflakes. Let's be honest, this isn't the kind of thing you'll be listening to everyday (respect to you if you do tho :) but every once in a while it's a lovely thing to hear.

There's a full discography/bibliography at his wikipedia page. I won't show the full track list here as there's 45 songs, view them here.

DOWNLOAD IVOR CUTLER - DANDRUFF (160kbps - 55MB)

Five Day Rain

This post is to wish my mate Leon a happy birthday :)

Here's a copy of the Five Day Rain album (Leon's dad was the keyboard player). This was originally released in 1970 and is one of the best 60s-style (hippies ;) albums you've never heard.

Five Day Rain were basically a studio band. They never toured or did any gigs but spent their time with Homegrown Music writing songs either at Grahams cottage or in the studio. The line up was Graham Maitland (keyboards/organ/Mellotron), Rick Sharpe (lead guitar), Clive Burgess (bass) and the drummer who’s name was Kim (apparently). Added to this line up was John Holbrook who was another engineer at IBC at the time of the recordings.

DOWNLOAD FIVE DAY RAIN (TRACKS 1 - 6)
DOWNLOAD FIVE DAY RAIN (TRACKS 7 - 14)

(following text from phrockblog.blogspot.com)
This band formed in late '68 as Iron Prophet, a heavy trio comprising Rick Sharpe, Clive Burgess and Dick Hawkes. They changed their name to Five Day Rain in early 1970 with the arrival of Graham Maitland. This is one of the rarest UK albums; just 15 copies of this album were put out but soon after someone circulated 'white label' copies of it so beware of these. The album was recorded at IBC Studios in Portland Place, London, during 1970. Some of the best albums and singles of the 60's and 70's come out of there but sadly the premises are now offices. Brian Carroll and the legendary engineer Damon Lyon-Shaw produced and mixed for their own 'HOMEGROWN MUSIC' company. Brian started as a disc cutter there, and cut the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Small Faces, and 'Live at Leeds' for the Who. Damon engineered all the major LP's of the late 60's and early 70's for everyone from The Who, The Small Faces, Status Quo, Cream and the Rolling Stones & albums such as Tommy and Farewell Cream. The incredibly talented Sharon Tandy was on backing vocals, along with Lynn Maitland (hello Leon's mum :), as were Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell & Dan Peek from the band America.

Here's the tracklisting (320kbps)...
01) Marie's A Woman
02) Leave It At That
03) Don't Be Misled
04) Rough Cut Marmalade
05) Good Year
06) Sea Song
07) Lay Me Down
08) The Reason Why
09) Fallout
[Bonus tracks from remastered album (256kbps)]
10) Too Much Of Nothing
11) Antonia
12) So Don't Worry
13) The Boy
14) Wanna Make Love To You

DOWNLOAD FIVE DAY RAIN (TRACKS 1 - 6)
DOWNLOAD FIVE DAY RAIN (TRACKS 7 - 14)