STRAW DOGS - Dog's Life EP 1981

Now a rare EP by the Straw Dogs, Turky (vocals/bass), Deke (guitars/vocals), Mick (guitars), Bert (drums), an early Scottish Oi!/Punk combo who made their only 7Inch in 1981 and brought this four piece track vinyl in self-produced/released to the folks and they put two more songs on vinyl on the Kikrock Volume One Compilation and that's it. Spanish label Evil Records discovered the band and it took them nearly two years to be able to contact one of the band's members after a lot searching, and they agreed to re-issue this rare Oi! & Punk gem, but there was a problem, the band didn't keep the master, so the label and one of the band members tried to get a copy of the master from the original studio where they recorded back in 1981, but the lads didn't keep the tapes, so the label had to take one of the 7" to the studio and re-master it. Mick, one of the band members who also played in the Exploited for two years or so, had some old pictures so there was stuff to work with for the artwork. This release is limited to 350 copies on black vinyl and includes insert with lyrics and pictures. There are four different cover versions, two of them limited to thirty copies with a cloth screen printed patch, collectors certificate... but even if its limited to 30 only 20 copies were put on sale as the rest was for band members and label close friends. There is also a limited to ten copies with collage handmade cover. Forgot to mention Evil Records did a special edition limited to twenty-five copies for the first pre-sales which included a numbered.

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