DUNCAN REDMONDS - Bubble & Squeak 2009

Original front runner Duncan Redmonds of Snuff / The Toy Dolls / Billy No Mates is releasing his solo project "Bubble & Squeak" on World Records in 2009. This 22 song compilation features the likes of Snuff, NoFX, Leatherface, Hardskin, NoMeansNo, Guns N Wankers and MORE! "Recorded at many places and in front rooms, back rooms, kitchens, office rooms and the odd studio. Because of this the recordings are sometimes lo-fi but the important thing was to catch the songs any way possible. The project was started in 2004 by handing out a load of riffs to people met over the years touring and playing with Snuff and asking them to add their ideas to them. Then finished in 2008 when Jools picked up his bass and shouted a few short sharp profanities. Sometimes it was the other way around and riffs were offered, sometimes melodies were suggested and a lyric fitted to it, sometimes old songs were reworked and sometimes new songs jammed out, all topped off with a Donovan cover and a mix by Nick Philpin in Kilburn NW London." (Duncan Redmonds) - Rocks perfectly!

1.Allotment No.44 (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface" & Loz Wong "Snuff")

2.Homosexual WWIII (Feat. Jens Rachut "Blumen Am Arsch Der Hölle")

3.Guilty (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

4.Vultures Tapping On A Brain (Feat. "NOMEANSNO")

5.I Got The Fear (Feat. "Visions of Change")

6.La La La La Dickhead (Feat. Fat Mike "NoFX" & Ken Yokoyama "Hi-Standard")

7.That’s Bollocks Mate (Feat. "Hard Skin")

8.Bushfire (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface")

9.Catch The Wind [Originally by Donovan] (Feat. "Billy No Mates UK")

10.Might See You Later (Feat. "Guns 'n' Wankers")

11.There Goes "The Men In Black" (Feat. Lee Erinmez "Snuff")

12.Blah Blah Blah (CHAT)

13.Romford (Feat. "Hard Skin")

14.Compulsion (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

15.Sake Bomb (Feat. Ken Yokoyama "Hi-Standard" & "Billy No Mates Japan")

16.Norman Hunter (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

17.Dreamlike (Feat. "The Pissmops")

18.Don't Leave The Planet Without Me (Feat. Dickie Hammond "Leatherface")

19.Scilacci

20.Spooky (Feat. "Billy No Mates Japan")

21.Working Class Smell (Feat. "Hard Skin")

22.Tea (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface")

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LEATHERFACE / HOT WATER MUSIC - BYO Split Vol.1 1999

After six years of respite, Frankie Stubbs reformed Leatherface, it was inevitable because he needed to give musical expression to all of his thoughts. And before the skull burst, Leighton (guitar), David (bass), and Andrew (drums) were mobilized and out of over nineteen new songs, six were sent to BYO Records, who fell heartily off the chair, creating the idea of this mini-split serie, which immediately changed their minds and immediately a new fresh band was found for the flip, Hot Water Music from Gainesville, Florida which was formed 1993 by Chuck & Chris (both lead vocals & guitar), Jason (bass) and George (drums). Here's a perfect review by Jack Rabid (All Music Guide): "This split LP, recorded in three days in 1999, seems as miraculous as it is a godsend. Because they were one of those truly astonishing modern groups that spontaneously combusted in the midst of an attenuated creative peak, Leatherface's unexpected 1993 bust-up seemed particularly cruel. Thousands of scattered souls openly mourned when the news came down that the punk/post-punk powerhouse had vanished. Perhaps after listening to the sea of old live recordings and B-sides, Leatherface's members realized what they'd thrown away, buried what hatchets needed burying, and pulled a Lazarus. The sound of this new recording recalls the spark, the lift-off, and the balls-out clear smack of Mush and The Last. Though Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs' vocals are mixed just a little too low to totally match those older detonations -- you have to go down into the two guitars a little to find him, making the words harder to get -- it's still such a corker, it completely corrects the muddy mixes on Stubbs' Jesse and Pope albums. And though this record also finds the quartet retreating to a stylistic territory closer to Mush and Minx, backing away from the more adventurous turf of The Last, it's too intense and exciting to even remotely quibble with. That this unexpected recording is a reality is that rarest of things: a long-shot wish fulfilled. More recent American emo stars Hot Water Music surprisingly put up a good fight, trying to be in the same ballpark with Leatherface's ashen attack, but they lack a singer of Stubbs' caliber to be appearing on the same LP as him or a tightness in playing that takes one's breath away. Better to try them on their own records, because out of this context they would sound rather powerful." With that, all has been said and I recommend you to buy this fantastic melodic killer record by two fantastic bands.

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FRANKIE STUBBS - Unhinged EP 1995

Always a good choice and a permanent guest on my turntable is this gentleman: Frankie Stubbs, known by his rough voice in Leatherface, Jesse, Pope, N.R.F.B.... and he released two solo records, first the Unhinged EP on Rugger Bugger and in 2000 a 10'' via Sounds Of Subterrania and both goodies in this post. Nine acoustic beautiful melodic songs, some covers plus an unpublished one, made to come down and refuel new strength. There are only a few people who can transport such emotions and Frankie does it in an impressive way and too bad that he obviously stopped making music. Well, eventually it is enough - Thanks!

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LEATHERFACE - The Last 1994

Today I've been scouring my CDs and discovering some treasures and I have to admit, I don't hear enough of them. That's because I only listen via computer and that's really fuck and I guess you know what I'm talking about but I change that and the next postis belong to the silverlings and a constant guest in my house is Sunderland's four piece #1: Leatherface and after the album "Minx" the band broke up and the 5th chapter 'The Last' closed the file temporarily and eight typical emotional delis were pressed onto vinyl and published by Domino, a worthy farewell to this brilliant band around Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammond (R.I.P.). Five years later the great comeback with the split album together with Hot Water Music. Three more records followed, many gigs and 2012 the band was finally buried. I can only say thx for all the peerless awesome songs that brought me many beautiful moments, unforgettable & unique!!!

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DACKELBLUT - Fluten & Tauchen 1997

Now an older rip and some of you may be familiar with the sound of Hamburg's Dackelblut, sprouted from the rest of the seeds of Blumen Am Arsch Der Hölle, which in turn were the successor band to the legendary Angeschissen. With a slightly different line-up, the band consisted of Jens (vocals), Andreas (guitars), Wieland (bass), Heiner (drums) and this is their second & last album on Schiffen Records. In terms of lyrics, haunting everyday observations are written in witty words and musically packed in brilliant perfection. As with the debut, Frankie Stubbs managed to give the songs the right polish. All records of the band are only available on vinyl and in 2022 the complete discography (two albums & one single) were re-released as a double LP which I can only recommend (buy here). Fluten & Tauchen has thirteen great, cynically refreshing Punkrock attacks that hardly any other combo can write and anything but botched! A very good record that shouldn't be miss in any decent collection.

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