Wednesday, March 17, 2021

NEWS - Dirty Lies 7'' 1978

Modest little 7inch from Down Under now: Formed in Melbourne by Gavin (vocals), Jaryl (guitars), Joy (bass) and John (drums) as Babeez but quickly changed into News, they had always been a non-image band, playing in jeans, T-shirts and leather jackets. On their side was a healthy cynicism about punk itself, especially when rock & roll success and fashionable interests encroached on the revolution. This is their first record I think, self-released and most with one-sided lyric insert. The sleeves were hand screened by the band using black and fluoro yellow ink on cheap inner bags with the record inside. Two awesome killer tunes!


2 comments:

  1. Nice one. Thanks for this.
    Would love to see a good quality version of this one show up somewhere.
    https://www.discogs.com/News-Punk-Never-Happened/release/6769205

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  2. Oha, you're asking for the impossible, would appeal to me as well :)

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