N.B. This is now DAMGOOD413 – Expanded version (This is for reference) This is Holly’s 11th album in a nine year career and by far her most commercial and Accessible so far. Over the last eighteen months Holly has toured America three times (once with The White Stripes) , played select dates in the UK and […]
Raw Records was one of the UK’s first ever independent labels, having been formed in 1977 by Lee Wood. This was the second compilation they issued in early 1978 following up the ‘Raw Deal!’ album (Damgood 209). This reissue includes 4 bonus tracks including the ultra rare ‘Into the 80’s’ by The Now. 16 of […]
Holly was an original member of Thee Headcoatees and she was also the first one to do her own records away from the band releasing her first single on Vinyl Japan, the ‘Jiggy-Jiggy‘ E.P. in 1994. Her first album ‘The Good Things‘ was released on Damaged Goods and what an album, still one of my […]
Billy Childish has been releasing records, painting, writing poetry and generally doing his own thing for the last 25 years. He first took to the stage back in October 1977 with seminal punk garage band The Pop Rivets, The first song they ever played was ‘Watcha Gonna Do About it’ and that (actual recording) is […]
Raw Records was one of the UK’s first ever independent labels, having been formed in early 1977 in Cambridge by Lee Wood, the owner of the local oldies record shop. Raw bands such as The Users, Killjoys, Lockjaw and The Unwanted later provided members for the likes of The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, UK Subs and […]
Mister Childish (Buff Medways / Headcoats / Milkshakes) and Mister Ming (Diamond Gussets / Tasty Ones / TV Personalities) have been writing poetry, playing music and painting pictures together since 1979 when they formed Phyroid Press. Their work together, documented by several LP’s and 25 small press publications, is inspired by the early DaDaists, Edward […]
Singer Mika arrived London in 1998, with only one thing on her mind – playing in a cool punk band. Recruitment for the now legendary line-up, began with the arrival in London of a teenage brat from Beijing who had everything you could want in a guitarist – Agi joined the band. The second Mika […]
The first brand new release from the very un-prolific Helen Love, their first recordings since leaving Che records and returning to Damaged Goods. ‘Merry Christmas’ is a cover of the Ramones classic done in the Helen Love style, lots of very naughty samples too. It’s a one sided 7” with a inscribed b-side. They are […]
2017 REISSUE on WHITE vinyl – OUT 21/7/2017 With added photos from Paul Slatterys archives. The third ever release on Damaged Goods was the original vinyl version of this Album. ‘Terminal Stupid’, their one and only single was one of my favourite singles from 1977 and in 1988 I searched out lead singer Giovanni […]
Formed: Crawley, Sussex, England, UK Raw Records band, from Crawley, Sussex, Lockjaw began life as The Guernsey Flowers and then The Amazing Doctor Octopuss. They recorded two singles, both for Raw. The first of these is middling but moderately entertaining MOR punk with no standout features, although the shambolic destruction of The Young Ones on […]