Various Artists - New Wave From The Heart (Doncaster Punk 1979)

Various Artists - New Wave From The Heart

Planet Records PR003

1979.

Track Listing:

01. The Squad – Suicide

02. The Diks – Only You Can Choose

03. The Subliminal Cuts – They Don't Care

04. Eyes At Risk – Night Life

05. Negatives – Metallic Thread Shirt

06. The Prams – Indigestion

07. Vice Squad – Prison Girls

08. Negatives – Don't Say Goodbye

09. The Prams – Night Fever

10. Vice Squad – Words And Pictures

11. The Squad – Walking Through The City

12. The Diks – Out On The Game

13. The Subliminal Cuts – Masque Of The Red Death

14. Eyes At Risk – Sane Problems 

 Planet was a record label started here in Doncaster by David Moffitt in 1978.

It was a short lived lable producing one "rock" album by 'Pagan Bo' a "Folk" album by Charlie Webster and a "Punk" album.

Legend tells that 1000 copies were pressed, yet 200 copies were sold. Eventually in 1990 the rest of the albums were taken to the local dump!

Doncaster a fine heritage for rock music from John McLaughlin (Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc) to Lady June (Gong, Brian Eno, Vivian Stanshall, etc) But it is Punk that Doncaster is well known for. The Sex Pistols played at the Outlook club in september 1976 and as 'Tax Exiles' played an infamous show on 24.08.77 on the SPOTS tour. A good year for Punk in Doncaster as The Ramones, Adverts, Damned, Talking Heads, Sham 69 and a host of other well known names. There was even a local fanzine called 'The Lookout'.

Local band Vice Squad (NOT the Beki Bondage band) would headline the venue in March 78, also in 78 The Diks formed and had a small degree of success including a support slot for The Adverts and another band on this album The Negatives.

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Sauna Youth - Distractions (CD Review)

01.End Loop
02.Transmitters
03.New Fear
04.Monotony
05.Cosmos Seeker
06.Modern Living
07.Leather
08.Paul
09.Abstract Notions
10.The Bridge
11.Try To Leave
12.Future Tense
13.Taking A Walk
14.Creeping

Richard Phoenix (Drums/Vocals)
Lindsay Corstorphine (Guitar)
Jen Calleja (Vocals/Sampler)
Christopher Murphy (Bass)

 Having started out in 2009 in Brighton, Sauna Youth ended up moving to London and changing line up to its current constellation in 2011. Attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy, the band self-recorded and self-released their own music until the release of their first LP, Dreamlands on Faux Discx/Gringo Records in 2012, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes.

The band have naturally developed its sound in the three years since Dreamlands and is now in its ultimate form. All four members are also the band Monotony, which they formed while writing Distractions in 2014. Later in the year, they did two sessions over two days as both bands for Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music, and both Sauna Youth and Monotony were invited to play DRILL Festival by Wire. As well as playing in Monotony, members of Sauna Youth are also in the bands Tense Men, Primitive Parts, Feature and Cold Pumas

After an intresting seventeen seconds first track of well a feedback loop we blast straight into 'Transmitters' which is a good old fashioned new wave pop punk tune circa 1978, not art or experimental, just straight forward and really rather good.

Now thing is next bunch of tracks also fit that bill, just good old fashioned new wave, all sound like the Buzzcocks meets Wire, wheres this art stuff gone?

Up next is 'Paul' which is 52 seconds of talking over a bassline, could this lead into something weirder?
No is the answer back to 1978 again, as is everything else except 'Taking A Walk' which is more talking.

So somewhat dissapointed and at the same time a nice surprise, thought i may be getting some Throbbing Gristle meets Sonic Youth, got some well executed harmless punk tunes instead!

Rating 8/10
For fans Of: Monotony, Buzzcocks, Wire, Magazine, Vibrators