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BLAAMM 501 BLOW UP! 2004 ORIGINAL VERSION THE DIRECT HITS £10.99BLAAMM 502 SUNNY HONEY GIRL SOUNDTRACK VARIOUS ARTISTS £12.99BLAAMM 503 THE HOUSE OF SECRETS THE DIRECT HITS £10.99 BLAAMM 504 BLOW UP REVISITED THE DIRECT HITS £12.99 BLAAMM 505 ‘TONIGHT LETS ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON’ MOOD SIX WITHDRAWNBLAAMM 506 THE GREAT BRITISH BEAT! VARIOUS ARTISTS £12.99BLAAMM 507 THE LOST LOVE HOUSE RECORDINGS VARIOUS ARTISTS £12.99BLAAMM 508 REDIRECTED THE SONGS OF BUCKMASTER-SWAN VARIOUS ARTISTS £12.99BLAAMM 509 THE MISSING BITS OF THE DIRECT HITS THE DIRECT HITS £12.99BLAAMM 510 ‘IT’S A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD’ THIS HAPPY BREED! £12.99BLAAMM 511 ITS ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL! LIVE REUNION CONCERT THE DIRECT HITS £12.99 BLAAMM 512 BEDTIME STORIES DR BIRD £12.99

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LIMITED EDITION RELEASESBOX SET OF DIRECT HITS CD SINGLES 5 x CD SINGLES THE EXITS / THE DIRECT HITS £35.00Comes in a laminated presentation box, each individually numbered with 12 pp booklet. 5 singles 3 official Direct Hits singles, 1 previously cancelled single, and The Exits ‘Fashion Plague’ . Each CD single contains a bonus track as well as the original A and B Sides. All covers and centre labels are replicas of the original vinyl release.

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BLOW UP - ORIGINAL VERSION - PLUS 10 BONUS TRACKS - THE DIRECT HITS - BLAAMM 501 - 2004EVER READY PLAYTHING / A PLACE IN THE EIGHTIES / NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY / MIRANDA BERKLEY / WHAT KILLED ALEISTER CROWLEY? THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP / TOO SHY / THIS WAS MARC DEANS / MY BACK PAGES / HENRY, THE UNHAPPY INVENTOR /BONUS TRACKS: LEANDER, BY THE RIVER / THE ORDINARY GIRL / HENRY, THE UNHAPPY INVENTOR (DEMO VERSION) / RIDE MY BICYCLE SEE EMILY PLAY LIVE / DADDY ROLLIN’ STONE / RADIO LONDON JINGLES / THE TIME IT TAKES / WHAT KILLED ALEISTER CROWLEY / GIRL IN A PICTURE


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THEBLAAMM!THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE THAT WAS NEVER MADE..ORHOW ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’ ALMOST MADE IT INTO CELLULOID HISTORY.

BACK IN EARLY 1983, THE DIRECT HITS BEGAN WORK ON A MOVIE SHORT THAT WAS TO BE USED AS A PROMOTIONAL EXERCISE, WITH A WORKING TITLE OF ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’. THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO ATTACH IT TO THE FAMOUS ‘GROOVY MOVIE’ WHICH FEATURED RIVERBOAT APPEARANCES AND AN OVERALL VIEW OF THE PYSCHEDELIC REVIVAL. THE FILM / DOCUMENTARY FEATURED BANDS LIKE MOOD SIX, THE MARBLE STAIRCASE, THE HIGH TIDE AND THE DOCTOR (FRONT MAN OF DR. & THE MEDICS) THIS WAS THE SUMMER OF LOVE REVISITED, AND TWIST N’ SHOUT RECORDS’ SUPREMO STEVE WEEKES HAD APPROACHED COLIN SWAN AND GENO BUCKMASTER TO COMPOSE SONGS FOR A TWENTY MINUTE VIDEO SHORT, WITH THE WORKING TITLE OF ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’. SET IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 1966, IT FEATURED THE DIRECT HITS AS UNDERCOVER SECRET AGENTS (NO LESS!) WITH PHIL WARD & TONY CONWAY FROM MOOD SIX SUPPOSEDLY MAKING CAMEO APPEARANCES, AND A MOD GIRL-FRIEND OF MINE AT THE TIME, JULIENNE CLARK APPEARING AS SUNNY (HONEY) RAWLINSON-JAMES, DAUGHTER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE! FROM A FICTIONAL SCRIPT THAT SUGGESTED THE TROPHY WAS STOLEN AFTER THE 1966 WORLD CUP INSTEAD OF BEFORE, (WHICH WAS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED) THE FILM DEPICTED SOMETHING LIKE THIRTY-SIX HOURS OF A MANIC CHASE AROUND LONDON IN THE BAND’S TRANSIT VAN, DRIVEN AT HIGH SPEEDS BY ROBBO THE BAND’S FAITHFUL ROADIE, TRYING DESPERATLY TO RECOVER THE JULES RIMET TROPHY, (THE WORLD CUP) WHICH HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION OFFICES FOLLOWING THE ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM’S HISTORIC WIN OVER WEST GERMANY EARLIER THAT YEAR. (IF THIS WASN’T BIZARRE ENOUGH, GEOFF HURST HAD REPORTEDLY BEEN APPROACHED TO MAKE A BRIEF APPEARANCE, PLAYING HIMSELF!)COLIN SWAN EMBRACED THE IDEA WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM, AND SET ABOUT WRITING AND DEMOING MATERIAL FOR THE SOUNDTRACK AND IT’S CAST, PUTTING FORWARD THE CONCEPT, WRITING PARTS OF THE STORY, AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE SCRIPT. EVERYONE AGREED THE FILM SHOULD BE A FIFTY-FIFTY SPLIT BETWEEN MUSIC AND STORY LINE. GENO BUCKMASTER HAD BEEN UNCONVINCED FROM THE OUTSET THAT THE DIRECT HITS WOULD BENEFIT FROM BEING INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT, AND CONTRIBUTED VERY LITTLE TO THE NEWER MATERIAL. IT WAS DECIDED SOME OF THE DIRECT HITS SONGS ‘IN THE CAN’ AT THE TIME, NAMELY ‘ENGLISH GIRLS’ AND THE TITLE TRACK, ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’ (FLIP SIDE OF THE ‘MODESTY BLAISE’ SINGLE) COULD BE OVERDUBBED, BEEFED UP A LITTLE, AND USED IN THE FILM. IN FACT FOOTAGE OF THESE TWO SONGS, ALONG WITH THE BAND MIMING TO ‘MODESTY BLAISE’ AND ‘WHAT KILLED ALEISTER CROWLEY’ WAS SHOT BY COLIN ROBINSON AT THE RIVERSIDE BY BATTERSEA BRIDGE AND EXISTED UNTIL 1995, WHEN SADLY THE FILM WAS DESTROYED IN A FIRE. THREE MONTHS INTO THE PROJECT, A COMBINATION OF THE AILING PYSCHEDELIC REVIVAL, THE DIRECT HITS EVOLUTION INTO A BONAFIDE MOD BAND, AND GENO BUCKMASTER’S REFUSAL TO HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO DO WITH THAT “FUCKING CRAP FILM IDEA” PUT PAID TO THE PROJECT EVER BEING COMPLETED. UNTIL NOVEMBER 2003, FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS, MUCH OF THIS MATERIAL HAD BEEN GATHERING DUST IN A DRAWER MARKED ‘FILM PROJECT - UNUSED’. ALISON TEMPLAR AND MYSELF FINALLY MANAGED TO TRACK DOWN STEVE WEEKES FOR PERMISSION TO PUT TOGETHER THE UNUSED OUT-TAKES AND OVERDUBS TO RELEASE AS NEAR AS DAMMIT, WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOVIE ‘SOUNDTRACK’. I WAS IMPRESSED WITH WHAT I HEARD, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE TOO.

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THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE THAT WAS NEVER MADE!....

IN 1966 ENGLAND WON THE WORLD CUP...THEN PROMPTLY LOST IT. NOW THE DIRECT HITS HAVE JUST 36 HOURS TO FIND IT!

PHIL WARD

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FEATURES GREAT TRACKS BY THE DIRECT HITS...COLIN SWAN....JULIENNE CLARK .... THE NORTHWOODS .......THE DIRECT ORS

SOUNDTRACK TO THE FILM ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’ - THE DIRECT HITS AND VARIOUS ARTISTS - BLAAMM 502 2004THEME FROM ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL - THE DIRECTORS / JULES RIMET IS MISSING - COLIN SWAN / ENGLISH GIRLS - DIRECT HITSMY SCHOOL FRIEND, CHELSEA - JULIENNE CLARK / MIRACLES DON’T COME EASY - THE NORTHWOODS / JULIA - LE BEATGROUPSUNNY AFTERNOON THEME - THE DIRECTORS / THREE GOAL GEOFF - JULIENNE CLARK / I TRUST MY DOG! - COLIN SWAN SUNNY HONEY GIRL - DIRECT HITS

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THE HOUSE OF SECRETS

THE HOUSE OF SECRETS - THE DIRECT HITS - BLAAMM 503 - 2005MY CAR / I START COUNTING / I’VE GOT EYES / SHE’S NOT HERSELF TODAY / MILES AWAY / (JUST LIKE AN) ABACUS SHE’S NOT HERE, THERE OR ANYWHERE / IS THERE ANYONE THERE? / LAST NIGHT I SAW THE SUNRISE / HEAT AND SUN / CHRISTINA THE LIGHT THAT SHINES IN / BONUS TRACKS: SO SAD, I DONT FEEL TOO BAD / LAST NIGHT I SAW THE SUNRISE / SHE REALLY DIDN’T CARE I’VE GOT EYES / I START COUNTING / ANGELINA / FROM THE UNDERWORLD

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BLOW UP REVISITED- THE DIRECT HITS - BLAAMM 504 - 2005START LIVING / MY BACK PAGES / DR. BEN / EVER READY PLAYTHING / I’D RATHER STAY THAN GO / THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOPMIRANDA BERKLEY / TOO SHY / HENRY, THE UNHAPPY INVENTOR / HENRY’S DEAD (FINALE)

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20 GREAT TRACKS!

DIGITALLY REMASTERED FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM THE ORIGINAL REEL TO REEL AND CASSETTE RECORDINGS BY COLIN SWAN. FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS.

PRESENTING A RARE COLLECTION OF BRITISH POP, PSYCHEDELIA, BUBBLEGUM AND MOD RECORDINGS FROM THE DIRECT TAPES ARCHIVES. FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL, ORIGINAL 1980’S HISTORIC RECORDINGS, WITH 12pp FOLD OUT BOOKLET, ORIGINAL REPRODUCTION ARTWORK AND A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF DIRECT TAPES CASSETTE ONLY RELEASES IN THE UK.

THE GREAT BRITISH BEAT VOLUME ONE - VARIOUS ARTISTS - BLAAMM 506 - 2014DADDY ROLLING STONE - THE DIRECT HITS / MODESTY BLAISE - KEV FREEMAN / TILL I FOUND YOU - GENO BUCKMASTERMEMORIES - MOOD SIX / ALISON, PLEASE - RICKY AND THE TEENDREAMS / THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD - THE NORTHWOODS LOVERS DIFFERENT COLOURS - COLIN SWAN / WOLFMAN EVERYDAY - NEW FRIENDS OF CARLOTTA / DANCING WITH THE DEAD - THE MAD HATTERS JIGSAW PIECE - JENNY BRETT / ANDREA - PHIL WARD / NEVER FIND TIME - THE MIXERS / I STAND ACCUSED - THE ACTIVATION / IN LOVE WITH YOU - THE PAGE BOYS / THE FASHION PLAGUE (LIVE) - THE DIRECT HITS / THIS WAS MARC DEANS - THE OPEN DOOR / A GIRL FOR ALL SEASONS - THE TREE HOUSE PEOPLE / ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS - THE BEAT-A-LEEZE / JOHNNY NONE - SHEILA TAKES A TRIP! / LEAVING THIS MORNING - THE BLUE INDRA


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THE LOST LOVE HOUSE RECORDINGS - VARIOUS ARTISTS - BLAAMM 507 - 2016JULIENNE CLARK - THREE GOAL GEOFF! / SAMANTHA PRIDE - THE END OF THE LINE / THE NORTHWOODS - SOMETHING BLEW MY MINDCHRIS BORRO - YOU’LL KNOW LOVE / PETE BIRD - FORTUNE TELLING FOOL / JENNY BRETT - THE GAME / COLIN ROBINSON - WASN’T IT YOU?CEE & DEE - I’M SO GLAD IT’S OVER / COLIN SWAN - TELL ME THAT YOU’RE MINE! / PAULINE MARTIN - NOTHING IN THIS WORLDTHE OPEN DOOR - SURRENDEN FIELD / LILL’ NESSA! - YOU BEEN GOOD TODAY? / THE RPM EXPERIENCE - RUMOURS (ARE BREAKING MY HEART)HILARY WHITESIDE SWAN - EVERYTHING CHANGES / SUZIE MANAKAVICH - COME BACK BABY! / NORTHERN NOISE CLUB -IT MAKES FOR MOVIESTHE ACTIVATION - MIRACLES DON’T COME EASY

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REDIRECTED - THE SONGS OF BUCKMASTER / SWAN - VARIOUS ARTISTS - BLAAMM 508 - 2016SHES NOT HERE, THERE OR ANYWHERE - MADDIE CARTY / MODESTY BLAISE - COLIN ROBINSON / EVER READY PLAYTHING - PHILIP SWANSHE REALLY DIDNT CARE - PAUL BEVOIR / SHES NOT HERSELF TODAY - HILARY WHITESIDE SWAN / ENGLISH GIRLS - TONY CONWAY MILES AWAY - MATTHEW SWAN / THIS WAS MARC DEANS - PHIL WARD / WHAT KILLED ALEISTER CROWLEY? - YELLOWCAYKE CHRISTINA - GRAHAM HEWISON WITH LINDA LANUZZI / SNAKES AND LADDERS - THE GLASS HEARTS / MY BACK PAGES - NICK MASON / MIRANDA BERKLEY - THE VOID / MY CAR - RALPH MILLINGTON / A PLACE IN THE EIGHTIES - FLAGWAVERS

PRESENTING A RARE COLLECTION OF BRITISH POP, PSYCHEDELIA, BUBBLEGUM AND MOD RECORDINGS FROM THE DIRECT TAPES ARCHIVES. FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL, ORIGINAL 1980’S HISTORIC RECORDINGS, WITH 12pp FOLD OUT BOOKLET, ORIGINAL REPRODUCTION ARTWORK AND A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF DIRECT TAPES CASSETTE ONLY RELEASES IN THE UK.

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THE MISSING BITS OF THE DIRECT HITS - THE DIRECT HITS - BLAAMM 509 2017NO ONE WILL / 52 SECONDS / REGGAE TROT / ROOM NUMBER 7 / MODERN GIRLS / NERVE TONIC / THE RADIO / LEANDER, BY THE RIVER EVER READY PLAYTHING / CHRISTOPHER COOPER / CAN’T KEEP A SECRET (DEMO) / I START COUNTING / IT’S ONLY LOVE / NO TIME FOR NICEITIESSNAKES AND LADDERS / TOY SOLDIER / FROM THE UNDERWORLD

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IT’S A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD - THIS HAPPY BREED! - BLAAMM 510 - 2018TELL ME THAT YOU’RE MINE! / MY UNCLE JACK / THE WORLD INSIDE MY HEAD / LOOKING GLASS WAR /LOVIN YOU AINT EASY THE GAME / APPLEDORE CLOSE / FELICITY MACKIE / AND WHEN SHE CRIED / IT’S A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD / FORGET ME NOT ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC / DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING / HOW ABOUT THAT / SHE LOVES YOU / SERIOUS FUN!

It’s a Black and White World!

HAPPYBREED!

REMASTERED BY PHILIP SWAN FROM THE ORIGINAL LITTLE TEDDY RECORDINGS FEATURES 5 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS TRACKS.

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IT’S ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL! THE DIRECT HITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE CONCERT - BLAAMM 511 - 2017ROBBO ANNOUNCEMENT / OLD CURIOSITY SHOP / MIRANDA BERKLEY / TOO SHY / MODESTY BLAISE / SUNNY HONEY GIRL / IVE GOT EYES JUST LIKE AN ABACUS / I START COUNTING / SHE WASNT HERSELF TODAY / GIRL IN A PICTURE / THIS WAS MARC DEANSSHE REALLY DIDNT CARE / ENGLISH GIRLS


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BEDTIME STORIES - DR BIRD - BLAAMM 512 - 2018THERE’S NO FOOL (LIKE AN OLD FOOL) / ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO / ROLL THE DICE / SHUT UP AND DANCE / IN TOWN WITH ALICE / WHAT’S A BOY TO DO? / BEDTIME STORIES / UPSTAIRS AND MAKE LOVE / WHEN TOMORROW COMES MONTH OF SUNDAYS (EXTENDED MIX)

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PART OF MY PLAN - DR BIRD CD EP BAMM 100 - MAY 2018RECONSIDER / SMALL FLAT BESIDE THE SEA / EAST LONDON CLEOPATRA / TINY ACORNS

RECONSIDER . SMALL FLAT BESIDE THE SEAEAST LONDON CLEOPATRA . TINY ACORNS

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BOX SET OF DIRECT HITS CD SINGLES 5 x CD SINGLES THE EXITS / THE DIRECT HITS AS THE EXITS - THE FASHION PLAGUE’ / ‘CHEAM’ /

AS THE DIRECT HITS - ‘MODESTY BLAISE’ / ‘SUNNY HONEY GIRL’ / SHE REALLY DIDN’T CARE’ / ‘CHRISTOPHER COOPER’ / ‘EVER READY PLAYTHING’

‘THE ORDINARY GIRL’ / ’LEANDER BY THE RIVER’ / ’I’VE GOT EYES’ / ’HEAT AND SUN’ / ‘I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE’

Comes in a laminated presentation box, each individually hand numbered and 12pp booklet. 5 CD singles, 3 official Direct Hits singles, one cancelled release, and The Exits one and only Lightning Records single. Each CD single contains a bonus track as well as the original A and B Sides. All covers and centre labels are replicas of the original vinyl release. Released in a limited edition of 1000 sets.

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HERE, THERE OR ANYWHERE - CHERRY RED RECORDS 20141. Modesty Blaise2. English Girls3. Girl In A Picture4. The Old Curiosity Shop (Featuring Dan Treacy on Piano)5. My Back Pages (Previously Unreleased Version) 6. What Killed Aleister Crowley?7. Miranda Berkley 8. This Was Marc Deans9. Captivating Eyes (Previously Unreleased ‘Blow Up’ Demo) 10. Henry The Unhappy Inventor11. Theme From The Munsters (Live Version Berlin 1985) 12. My Car 13. I Start Counting14. So Sad, I Don’t Feel Too Bad (Live Version Berlin 1985)15. I've Got Eyes16. She's Not Herself Today 17. Miles Away 18. (Just Like An) Abacus 19. She's Not Here, There Or Anywhere20. Last Night I Saw The Sunrise21. Heat And Sun22. Christina23. She Really Didn’t Care

THE LEGENDARY LOST EXITS ALBUM - CHERRY RED RECORDS/REVOLA 2007

1 The Fashion Plague 2 Cheam 3 Fool To Fall In Love 4 Holiday Shots 5 We Broke Up Today 6 School Of Intrigue 7 Index Linked 8 Mood Walk 9 Revolt Into Style 10 This Toytown World 11 The Fashion Page 12 Lovers Talk 13 Chantelle

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archaic concept. A kind of acceptable sectionalismand alienating of the two genders. Then, when weleft to get back into the human race, we knew fuckall about women and go fumbling around in thedark, thinking that girls are remote, unreasonableand bad tempered every month for no good reason.I learnt a everything I knew about girls from readingmy mum's Cosmopolitan magazine, which wasconsidered highly un-hip by my mates at the time.

We Broke Up TodayThis one dates from around 1979, just as The Exitshad split, and Geno and I were writing stuff for whatwould eventually become The Direct Hits. This ispure Merseybeat, which features Geno on guitarsand handclaps and I'm on the bass and drums there!I love this track actually, and am really glad wemanaged to unearth it, and give it the digitalmakeover it deserves. Pure pop for then people, andsounds like the song Elvis Costello left off ThisYear's Model.

Lovers TalkThis is actually the first recording we ever made asThe Direct Hits. It features Steve Warburton ondrums plus Geno and myself doing the usual guitarand bass honours. Recorded around 1980, 'live' inGeno's tiny box room studio in Thessaly Road,Battersea, though the vocals weren't added untilabout a year later. I think it's a great song, and I'mnot sure why we didn't go on to re-record it at theModesty Blaise sessions the following year. Has agreat chorus, and a really cranked up guitar sound,which Geno's neighbours remember to this day! Foranyone who's interested, there are at least anothersix or seven songs from these sessions, which we'restill trying to track down. Hopefully, these will seethe light of day some time in the future.

ChantelleRecorded over the same period. This time I played allthe instruments on this, hence the frighteningly badguitar solo. The keyboards, were done by anengineer who had a bad cocaine habit and almosttook me under with him. Geno refused to haveanything to do with this song and, as it turned out,wisely so. Our songwriting deal and theplugging/selling of our songs to other artists had

proved thus fruitless.But it looked likethings were about toimprove, when oneweekend a friend ofour song pluggercalled up and asked ifhe could get one ofhis bands orsongwriters to comeup with a theme song(for free, unless itwas used, in whichcase we would makea few bob!) For a newBBC2 fictionaldetective seriesabout to be piloted,set in Marseille inthe 1960s. Well, Isaw this as a realchance to earnsome money, but aswe didn't reallyfancy beingassociated withanything on BBC2(nothing had beengood on BBC2since Monty Pythonand Marty Feldman inthe very early 70s) was to write it under a differentname, which was Colin Edwards. That's me,combined with my dad's first name. That way, we getthe money, and we keep our credibilty (for what itwas worth). This song has a really catchy hook,although it does sound a might silly almost, what isit, something like 27 years on? The French detective,Inspector Chantelle, that was the character name Ihad to work with. Even worse, the song was rejectedout of hand as it was considered overlong! Now I'dreally like to hear what Tony Christie could do withthis! Very French, though. I seem to remember therewas actually an accordion on this, but I guess it waswiped 'cause there was no evidence of it on themaster. Amazing that we were able to find it at alland still in one piece too. Interesting, because I'dnever written to order before.

Revolt Into Style (A.K.A. The Strangest Feeling)To be brutally honest this song's complete shite.And really only included here to get the completepicture. I'm ashamed of the pretentious lyrics aboutthe superiority of being working class compared tobeing born into money, and how grand and great itwas that we had fuck all, because that's what madeus a cut above everyone else. Unlike "Cheam" whichwas a genuine 19 year old's angry-about-nothing-in-particular-but-every-reason-to-be-angry stance atthe time, this seems completely fake, repression putto a nice bouncy little pop tune. We didn't get out ofEngland until we were 26 years old. Nowhere wasbetter than Wandsworth to live. How cool was thatthen? File under pretentious nonsense.

This Toytown World (A.K.A. Keep On Tryin')This was planned as our follow up single, recordedvirtually a year after "The Fashion Plague", un-mixedand left unattended when the record label told usthey were not going to make an album after all, andthat the recording costs incurred for several of thedemos weren't going to be covered after all...great.The extreme disappointment we suffered after thatbroke the band up, at the time we blamed Altheaand Donna. Sounds great this, with some niceharmonies, and a sparkling middle eight that Genoand I wrote together on the spot. "Keep her earsaway from that phone" was something my dad usedto say when my sister used to leave make up on thetelephone earpiece. On the track sheet, it says "KeepOn Tryin'", but "This Toytown World" was its birthname.

School Of IntrigueWe were all into reggae at this time. We used to goto Stamford Bridge to see Chelsea a fair bit in thosedays. If you came from Wandsworth, there was noother team. It was all ska and blue beat at Chelseain those days, and Prince Buster. Geno and I knewPrince Buster long before Madness came along.Later, when new wave happened and all the Islandand Virgin stuff came out, we went mad on that. Wewere ahead of our time with reggae. In the lateseventies there was a record shop in Balham thatimported a lot of Jamaican records. We would be inthere looking for Who bootlegs or whatever, justhanging out, or bunking off school. We'd hear a lot

of that stuff and really got into it.Lovers Rock. Oh, and the Front Line album, but Ithink that was later. Anyway, we tried to play it, andrecorded this at first light in Penge, south London,to see what it would sound like. I like this but wecan't play reggae all that well. We do the ElvisCostello reggae, which is great but not the realthing, is it? It lacks the conviction. I'd like to hearsomebody black record it.

Mood WalkBit of a pot-boiling Elvis Costello type ballad allabout trying to work out why your girlfriendsuddenly became so unreasonable at a certain timeof the month. That was a shock to me, I can tell you.We went to an all boys school, which is a completely

1. THE FASHION PLAGUE (Swan/Buckmaster/Clarkson/Hurley)2. CHEAM (Swan/Buckmaster/Clarkson/Hurley)3. FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE (Buckmaster/Swan)

4. HOLIDAY SHOTS (Buckmaster/Swan)5. WE BROKE UP TODAY (Buckmaster/Swan)6. SCHOOL OF INTRIGUE (Buckmaster/Swan)

7. INDEX LINKED (Buckmaster/Swan)8. MOOD WALK (Buckmaster/Swan)

9. REVOLT INTO STYLE (Buckmaster/Swan)10. THIS TOYTOWN WORLD (Swan/Buckmaster/Clarkson/Hurley)

11. THE FASHION PAGE (Colin Swan)12. LOVERS TALK (Buckmaster/Swan)

13. CHANTELLE (Colin Edwards)

All songs published by Broken Glass Music,Hilltop House, 180 Swievelands Road, Biggin Hill, Kent TN16 3QS

Tracks 1 and 2 originally released as Lightning Records single GIL 519 in 1978Tracks 3-13 previously unreleased

Geno Buckmaster - Vocals, guitarColin Swan - Vocals, bassJohn Clarkson - keyboards

Gary Hurley - drums

“This CD is dedicated to my dad, Ted Swan who passed away on May 23rd, 2006”

Produced for compact disc by Joe Foster, Andy Morten and Colin SwanSound recreation by XXXXXXXXXXXX and Joe Foster at Sound Mastering, London

Compiled and annotated by Colin SwanDesign and layout by Andy Morten for PepperboxFront cover artwork and drawings by Colin Swan

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INVOICE - BLAAMM RECORDS RECORDS NEW CATA… · dr bird the northwoods hilary whiteside colin robinson the open door the activation julienne clark pauline martin the beat -a -leeze