British Post Punk

The post punk explosion of the late 1970’s/early 1980’s is regarded as one of the most exciting periods of music making explorations in Bristol. The period is now being revisited, seen as being even more relevant to do so as there is the 2020’s surge of new acts reviving and mining the seam of the genre. Fast forward nearly half a century (gulp!) from that first post punk period and the ever-active chroniclers of West Country musical history, Bristol Archive Records, have focussed on this heady epoch with ‘The Bristol Post Punk Explosion (1978-82)’ compilation release, out on vinyl and digital.

In the wake of punk’s seismic and well recounted impact on the UK music scene, countless hitherto unavailable influences suddenly became available and de rigueur for the nation’s would-be pop stars. Enabled by a new kind of record shop that began to appear across the country in Rough Trade’s image, and encouraged by an absolute disregard for ‘the rules’, interested young people were quickly exposed to a broad spectrum of music from beyond the realm of three chord rock ‘n roll. Nowhere was the outcome more notable than on the dancefloors of the day.

This re-issue of the 2007 album Reformation Post TLC comes with two bonus discs of demos, early rough mixes and alternate versions, as well as a fourth disc; the Live at Hammersmith Palais album – as with the other Fall reissues these have notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce.

A series of live performances of original songs and covers recorded at Otterhead Studios in 2021 by British post-punk band Squid.

Six CD set from the British post-punk band containing albums, singles, sessions, alternate versions and 22 previously unreleased recordings. Theatre of Hate burned briefly but brightly during the first couple of years of the 1980s, leaving behind the seminal Westworld album, a handful of highly regarded Peel sessions and independent hit singles and a then-unreleased second album, Aria Of The Devil. Omens brings together those classic recordings alongside main man Kirk Brandon's Stone In The Rain album (recorded by Brandon and fellow Theatre Of Hate man Stan Stammers and issued in the US as a Theatre Of Hate album), and Yonjuuichi, a band-curated collection of more recent sessions and versions, bringing the Theatre Of Hate story into the present day.

Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder and Baader Meinhof) returns with his glorious new solo record… Setting The Dogs On The Post Punk Postman follows 2020's critically acclaimed collabor-ation with R. E. M's Peter Buck - Beat Poetry For Survivalists. The new album features Peter Buck (REM) on the opening anthem 'Ex Stasi Spy'. Also featuring Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley) on 'Yes, Mr Pumpkin'… Setting The Dogs On The Post Punk Postman is a full of wit and satire record, that covers everything from U Boats and Scarecrows to Andrea Dworkin's Knees and Nixon. The album's release coincides with Luke's first ever art exhibition featuring his original artworks of wrestlers and rock stars.

4CD / 80 track set exploring the independent side of the UK’s post-punk synth-pop boom.