Some Records

OFF! - Four EPs

I picked this up at Rebellion Fest in Blackpool after they played (they were fucking ace). Unfortunately, when I actually opened it and took it out of the packaging there were duplicate EPs. I've been trying to get a hold of someone to sort out a replacement for about a month now, frustrating.

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood

Found this at a market stall in my city centre for £5 I think. I really love the dreamy psychedelic qualities of the Nancy/Lee songs and they sound all the better on vinyl.

Fugazi - Fugazi EP

Picked this up at the same stall for £8. It's one of my favourite punk EPs of all time (along with the Nervous Breakdown EP, Discharge's first, Multi Death Corporations etc.) and what an iconic cover. Pretty sure it's an original, no idea how many made it over the pond.

Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones (green vinyl)

This is Frank's latest album. It came with a CD too, rather than just a download slip which was nice. I've been a big fan of his for a few years, caught him live 5 times now (recommended, his shows are some of the best I've ever seen).

Million Dead - A Song To Ruin & Harmony No Harmony

To call Million Dead simply a hardcore band wouldn't really do them justice. Founded in 2001, the Anglo-Australian band took the blueprint of Refused's 1999 manifesto "The Shape of Punk To Come" (even taking their name from a line in "The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax") and expanded on it. Fusing vocalist Frank Turner's wry and thoroughly British socio-political commentary with the band's post-hardcore bite, they created two very fine albums. From short punk thrashes like "Pornography for Cowards" & "Bovine Spungiform Economics" to sprawling epics like "Carthego Est Delenda" & "The Rise and Fall" the band didn't really miss a step. Turner's vocals and Tom Fowler's guitar kept the songs melodic on top of the rhythm section of Julia Ruzicka's thumping basslines and Ben Dawson's energetic drumming.

The band split amicably in 2005, only a few months after Harmony No Harmony was released. All of the band members have since been in musical projects of some kind, most notably Turner who turned his hand to punk-tinged folk (he had been playing solo for a time before the break up). More on him later!




A Song To Ruin


Harmony No Harmony