UK PUNK/NEW WAVE 1980 LISTING Di (cont.) = 'continued from 70's UK punk/new wave listings'.

Diagram Brothers/ Discharge/ Dislocation Dance/ Disco Zombies/ Disorder/ Distractions/ Distributors/ Dodgems/ Doll/

Doll By Doll/ Dolly Mixture/ Donkeys/ Doubt/ Drop/ John Duart/ Dumb Blondes/ Dummies


DIAGRAM BROTHERS

CON-1 We Are All Animals/ There Is No Shower (Construct 10/80)

 

v, g-Fraser Diagram g-Lawrence Diagram b-Andy Diagram d-Simon Diagram

From Manchester. Alternative. Formed 10/77. More singles in '81.

 

DISCHARGE

ROUND-001 Any Town/ Hardcore Punx// (split w/ the Filth) (Go Round 1980) -only 500 copies.

 

Punk. Formed early '78. Org. called the Squelch Vaginas.

 

DISLOCATION DANCE

4 cuts on Four Ways Out comp. 12 EP (Defensive PACT-1 9/80)

ISSUE-1/ORG-7 It's So Difficult/ Familiar View// Birthday Outlook/ Perfectly In Control

(Delicate Issues/New Hormones 10/80)

 

v, trumpet-Andy Diagram v, g-Ian Runacres b-Paul Emmerson d-Dick Harrison

From Manchester. Formed late '78.

 

DISCO ZOMBIES (cont.)

TUX-2 Here Comes The Buts/ Mary Milington (Dining Out 1980)

 

Also listed 'Where Have You Been' (TUX-12). Broke up '80.

 

DISORDER

ACE-012 Air-Raid/ Law And Disorder (Ace 5/4/80) - rec. 2/80. only 750 copies (100 copies w/ sleeve).

both on CN/ 1 on BT2.

DUMBLE-1 Reality Crisis/ 1984 (Durham Book Centre 15/10/80) -rec. 31/8/80. 2 on EBM4.

 

v-Mark 'Roughy' Rough g-Steve 'Holly' Halstead b-David 'Leroy' O'Leary d-Malcolm 'Coomby' Comb

From Sunderland. Punk. Formed late '78 as 'Cranium Disorder'. O'Leary repl. by Paul Coates on 2nd single.

Halstead left 9/80, repl. by Jim McCulloch. Disbanded 12/80. (bio. from BT2)

 

DISTRACTIONS (cont.)

WIP-6568 Boys Cry/ Paracetamol Paralysis (Island 1980)

WIP-6650 Something For The Weekend/ ---- (Island 1980)

LP)

ILPS-9604 Nobody's Perfect (Island 1980)

1.Waiting For Lorraine 2.Something For The Weekend 3.Boys Cry (Where No One Can See Them) 4.Sick And Tired

5.Leave You To Dream 6.Louise 7.Paracetamol Paralysis// 8.(Stuck In A) Fantasy 9.Nothing 10.Wonder Girl 11.Untitled

12.Still It Doesn't Ring 13.Looking For A Ghost 14.Valerie -rec. 14/1-6/2/80

 

DISTRIBUTORS (cont.)

REC-5 Lean On Me/ Never Never (Red Rhino 9/80)

 

DODGEMS (cont.)

SWAG-12 Lord Lucan Is Missing/ ---- (Criminal 1980)

 

DOLL (cont.)

BEG-38 Burning Up Like A Fire/ Frozen Fire (Beggars Banquet 4/80)

 

DOLL BY DOLL (cont.)

K-17559 Gypsy Blood/ Lose Myself (Automatic 2/80)

 

DOLLY MIXTURE

Baby It's You/ New Look Baby (Chrysalis 1980)

 

v, g-Rachel v, b-Debsey d-Hester

Girls mod band. Issued two more singles '81-'82. LP= 'Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes' (DMLP-1, 2LP, rec. '79-'83)

 

DONKEYS (cont.)

DOOR-006 No Way/ You Jane (Rhesus/Back Door 2/80) -1 on PP3.

GO APE-5 Don't Go/ Living Legends (Rhesus 1980) -also on MCA (MCA-682 1981).

1 on LDK22. pic.= Dutch issue.

 

DOUBT

Contrast Disorder/ Time Out/ Fringes/ Lookaway (Solo 1980) -2 on PP6.

 

From Ireland. Later called Palace Of Variety.

 

DROP

SRTS-81 He Doesn't Know He's A Trendy/ Death In The Afternoon/ I'm Wearing An Appliance (Dropped 1980)

-1 on TT9. Punk.

 

JOHN DUART

DR-1 Motorbike/ Frederika (Dresden 1980)

Lying In The Face Of Death (Dresden 1980)

 

DUMB BLONDES

FRESH-21 Strangelove/ Sorrow (Fresh 1980)

 

New romantic.

 

DUMMIES

When The Lights Are Out (Pye 1980) on PP7.