podcast | curious beast 3: death to trad rock

whoops, went a bit quiet there for a bit... back again with another podcast.

i've been hugely enjoying john robb's "death to trad rock" book. for the uninitiated it covers all those difficult, angular, wonky uk bands from the 1980s that small numbers of men can't talk about without getting slightly breathless and/or misty-eyed.

sarandon has the distinction of being the only contemporary band to be included*, and while we wait for the release of the accompanying compilation album, crayola has dun a podcast:

ac temple - all hail discordia
dandelion adventure - fly on the wall documentary
bogshed - the story of bogshed
the membranes - penal landscape gardener
colgates - annotations of brian
death by milkfloat - ttyf
world domination enterprises - hotsy girl
pigbros - the way things currently are
stretchheads - housewife up yr fuckin' arse music
dog faced hermans - yellow girls
dawson - white colonial
the ex - state of shock

get. *link fixed*

* edit: simon morris has corrected me - there's ceramic hobs too!

dog faced hermans | everyday timebomb

scronking bass, parping horns, scratchy guitar... what more could you want?

lp released by vinyl drip in 1989.

get me.

dog faced hermans | humans fly

debut album. blimey.

lp released by calculus in 1988.

get some.

dog faced hermans | unbend

if you read this blog regularly then chances are you're aware of a band called sarandon and the band's despotic leader crayola. he and i have been friends for quite a few years now, close enough not only that he put up with my bass playing for a good couple of years but he's also allowed me to plunder his massively enviable record collection. think of a highly collectible record released in the 80s or 90s, preferably one that involves lots of scratchy guitar and photocopied inserts, and he's got it, and has had it since it was released.

anyway, fortunately for you he's letting me post some choice cuts up here, and this is the first fruits of that.

i'd never heard of dog faced hermans before i met crayola, a crime given how great they were. hard to pin down, but they fit right into the ron johnson crowd of big*flame, bogshed etc - lots of trebley guitars, occasional breakneck pacing, booming bass, and add some trumpets and a general marxist air and you're sort of there.

here's their debut single.

7" released by demon radge in 1987.

get it.