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.)
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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.
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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.