Andfurthermoreagain
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 13:18
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Not sure if they fall exactly within the remit but does anyone remember Warrington's Poisoned Electrick Head - 99 miles an hour prog-punk-psych with about as many tempo changes in each song. Like the Cardiacs playing Pete Hamill, that's how I remember them anyway.
Their first album on Probe Plus was a belter though their later albums never really stood up to the promise (or how good they were live - 2 vocalists bouncing alternate lines off each other)
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ToneStone
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 14:49
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Renegade Soundwave were never on the festival scene.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 15:41
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I haven't read all of these posts, but have Litmus been mentioned?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6eWoZHU14&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF4YB7YwEwc&feature=related
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Edited Jul 28, 2011, 15:44
Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 15:42
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I remember Poisoned Electrik Head well- completely mental!
This thread is bringing back from very hazy memories....
Culture Shock and Citizen Fish were never psychedelic.
There was a festival band called Head Games I thought were very good, dunno if they made any records...
Slightly outside the crusty / festy scene, but similar time and sound:
Stretchheads
Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations
And a band I saw the other week, opening for Mick Farren and the Last Men Standing in Brighton, called Paradise Nine. Very Inner City Unit, punky Hawkwind feel.
And of course, if it's punky Hawkwind yer after, check out New York's own White Hills!
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Robot Emperor
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 15:59
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Hunter T Wolfe wrote: Culture Shock and Citizen Fish were never psychedelic.
Yeah, alongside the stuff balbulus is looking for there was a lot of half assed hippie cod dub (is that harsh?). I havn't listened to any of it since about '89 but it irritated me back then.
Citizen Fish particularly pissed me off, but also RDF, who were kind of "big" but for no good reason I could fathom. Shit, Back to the planet, Revolutionary Dub Warriors, how it all comes flooding back. At the time they all persuaded me to start eating meat again. And to build a nuclear power plant in my garden.
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ToneStone
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 16:00
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Terminal Cheesecake if you like your space rock very damaged like a taking a bad microdot . . . . which i do . . .
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ToneStone
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 16:03
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R.D.F were the better of the crusty digidub scene their LP "Borderline Cases" still sounds quite fresh and unique apart from having someone in a monotone west country accent waxing lyrical its like the Troggs gone dub :)
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ToneStone
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 16:05
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I have their 1st Lp !!! I can send it ya in about a week im off travelling.
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Robot Emperor
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 16:19
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ToneStone wrote: Terminal Cheesecake if you like your space rock very damaged like a taking a bad microdot . . . . which i do . . .
Fantastic band, ever hear their cover of Hello Skinny? Out weird The Residents, respect. Bud Alzir, them under a different name I think, was the good bit of the dub stuff (digidub did you call it?).
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Space-rock/psych-punk bands from the UK festival/squat scene
Jul 28, 2011, 16:24
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I was just about to suggest Terminal Cheesecake!
I have to admit a soft spot for RDF and still have their first two albums- they had some heavy bass and some interesting guitar lines live... but yeah I can do without all the Culture Shock / Citizen Fish stuff and certainly the dreadful Back to the Planet... whose guitarist, Fraggle, is now a millionaire property developer, I'm told...
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