The Gangsters (vinyl rip)
WAV - Covers are included
In 1978 a group of individuals from local bands inspired by the DIY ethic of punk started their own record label. They were Richard Holgarth and Billy Meadows from The Gangsters, Kevin Jones and Shane Roe from The Sods with Colin Babb who did the accounts.
STORTBEAT began life in 1978 with a £1000 overdraft from a bank. The first release was "Record Company"/"Harlow Town" by The Gangsters. It got good reviews and was played by John Peel on his Radio 1 show. The main venues in the area were The Triad in Stortford and The Square in Harlow. In a couple of months the initial pressing had sold out which enabled more releases to be made. The Harlow Playhouse bar on Saturdays became Stortbeats central meeting point.
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WAV - Covers are included
In 1978 a group of individuals from local bands inspired by the DIY ethic of punk started their own record label. They were Richard Holgarth and Billy Meadows from The Gangsters, Kevin Jones and Shane Roe from The Sods with Colin Babb who did the accounts.
STORTBEAT began life in 1978 with a £1000 overdraft from a bank. The first release was "Record Company"/"Harlow Town" by The Gangsters. It got good reviews and was played by John Peel on his Radio 1 show. The main venues in the area were The Triad in Stortford and The Square in Harlow. In a couple of months the initial pressing had sold out which enabled more releases to be made. The Harlow Playhouse bar on Saturdays became Stortbeats central meeting point.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HPXT6PSK
5 comments:
I have the record it`s amazing .Thank you !!!
me too! and it is! Request ratboy: Would you please consider re-upping stocking stuffers by The Fleshtones. That'd be a hell of a gift for this season. Sorry I missed it last year but the links are dead and I just learned of yer blog a few months ago. Which, by the way is top-notch!
Great. Thankx a lot for this. Unknow for me.
Nice one, ratboy, your blog never fails to amaze! For your info, you'll find more re Stortbeat, the Sods, the Epileptics/Licks/Flux of Pink Indians etc at http://killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?p=637 which posts the Epileptics' "Last Bud to Debden" EP recorded at Triad. In the comments there, I have just upped the Licks' "1970s" Stortbeat single and the Sods' "No Pictures of Us". Search the site for more.
Cheers, Dave Sez (a Triad teenager)
And just to keep on the Stortbeat theme, Jeffen has kindly posted the 2 LP Stortbeat compilation here:
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2011/11/va-stortbeat-1978-1982-volume-one.html
(the singles by the Gangsters, the Sods and the Licks)
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2011/11/va-stortbeat-1978-1982-volume-two.html
(two live Gangsters tracks and two Sods tracks not on their single)
Cheers, Dave Sez.
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