70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =Ma

Machines/ Mad Dog/ Magazine/ Mag/Spys/ Malcolm Practice/ Mike Malignant & The Parasites/ Manchester Mekon/

Maneaters/ Maniacs/ Martian Schoolgirls/ Martin & The Brownshirts/ Bill Mason Band/ Masterswitch/ Andrew Matheson/

Maxim's Trash


MACHINES

EAR-1 True Life/ Everything's Technical// You Better Hear/ Evening Radio (Wax 4/78) -Punk.

 

MAD DOG

comp.)

4.Killer 5.Someone Here Must Like Me on 'Is The War Over?' -5 on LDK24/TT8.

 

v-Eddy g-M g-Busby v, b-George d-Tonto

From Cardiff. Hard punk.

 

MAGAZINE

VS-200 Shot By Both Sides/ My Mind Ain't So Open (Virgin 1/78) -A-side= diff. vers.

VS-207 Touch And Go/ Goldfinger (Virgin 4/78)

VS-237 Give Me Everything/ I Love You Big Dummy (Virgin 11/78)

VS-251 Rhythm Of Cruelty/ TV Baby (Virgin 3/79) -A-side= diff. vers.

LP)

V-2100 Real Life (Virgin 6/78)

1.Definitive Gaze 2.My Tulpa 3.Shot By Both Sides 4.Recoil 5.Burst// 6.Motorcade 7.The Great Beautician In The Sky

8.The Light Pours Out Of Me 9.Parade -rec. 3-4/78

 

V-2121 Secondhand Daylight (Virgin 30/3/79)

1.Feed The Enemy 2.Rhythm Of Cruelty 3.Cut-out Shapes 4.Talk To The Body 5.I Wanted Your Heart// 6.The Thin Air

7.Back To Nature 8.Believe That I Understand 9.Permafrost -rec. 1/79

 

v-Howard Devote (ex.Buzzcocks) g-John McGeoch b-Barry Adamson k-Dave Formula d-John Doyle

Punk/ Modern pop new wave. Org. k-Bob Dickinson left after 1st single. Org. d-Martin Jackson left after 1st LP.

3rd LP= 'The Corrcet Use Of Soap' (V-2156 5/80).

 

MAG/SPYS

GLITCH-1 (Yeh Yeh Yeh/ Pussy Wussy by the OBTAINERS)// Lifeblood/ Bombs (Fools Dance 1979) -only 100 copies.

 

v-Gary g-Stuart g-Stuart b-Rick d-Martin

Punk. On Robert Smith's (Cure) own label. Matthiew Hartley (later Cure) once in the band.

 

MALCOLM PRACTICE

comp.)

4.Kicking Up A Fuss 8.Sex Object on '499 2139'

 

v, k-Ross Baillie v, b-Dave Pitt + guest d-John Dropik

From Portsmouth. Pop new wave.

 

MIKE MALIGNANT & THE PARASITES

PM-001/002 These Things Are Sent To Try Us EP: (other side by the PINK FLAMINGOS)//

Is Death Best/ O.D. Baby/ Terminal Fracture (Para-mingo 1979?)

 

v-Mike Malignant g-Ziggy Parasite b-Plog Parasite d-Nick Parasite

Alternative Punk.

 

MANCHESTER MEKON

NEW-102 No Forgetting// Have A-Go Go/ Jonathan Livingston Seafood (New Market 1979)

comp.)

12.The Cake Shop Device on 'A Manchester Collection'

 

Instrumental pop new wave w/ keyboard.

 

MANEATERS

comp.)

4.Nine To Five on 'Jubilee Cert.X'

 

Punk.

 

MANIACS

UP-36327 Chelsea 77/ Ain't No Legend (UA 4/11/77)

comp.)

11.You Don't Break My Heart 12.I Ain't Gonna Be History on 'Live At The Vortex'

 

v, g-Alan Lee Shaw (ex.Rings, later Physicals) b-Robert Crash d-Rod Latter (ex.Rings)

Punk. Org. 4 pieces w/ g-Henry Paul, who later joined the Living Dead, a session band of Johnny Thunders and Sid Vicious.

Paul returned the band shortly before broke up.

 

MARTIAN SCHOOLGIRLS

RPR-1 Life In The 1980's/ Lonely Nights (Red Planet 11/79)

 

v, b-Steve Smith g-Steve Burdon d-Paul Olar

Punk. Formed by Dan Kelleher (ex.101'ers). 2nd single= 'Motion/ The La-La Song' (Theme One/ Albion ION-1015 5/81).

 

MARTIN & THE BROWNSHIRTS

GIL-507 Taxi Driver/ Boring (Lightning 3/78)

 

Punk.

 

BILL MASON BAND

Out On The Streets (Kingsway 1979) -on LDK13

LP)

KMR-311 No Sham (Kingsway 1979)

1.Billy & The Rota's 2.Detectives 3.Out On The Streets 4.I Don't Want You 5.Stand Up And Be Counted// 6.Radio

7.I Got The Answers 8.Mr.G 9.Get Inside 10.Last Years -also on US Star Song.

 

Bill, Dave, Si, Iain

Christian punk.

 

MASTERSWITCH

EPC-6259 Action Replay/ Mass Media Meditation (Epic 5/78)

 

Power pop.

 

ANDREW MATHESON

LP) Monterey Shoes (Ariola 1979)

 

Ex.Hollywood Brats v.

 

MAXIM'S TRASH

Disco Girls (Gimp 1979)

 

From Croydon. Pop new wave, featuring Captain Sensible. Just found on LDK4. Also known as the Sunset Boys,

who released a single 'Wreck My Bed// Tutti Frutti/ Copy Cat/ Wreck My Bed (Gimp GIM-1234).

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