UK PUNK/NEW WAVE 1980 LISTING Thr- (cont.) = 'continued from 70's UK punk/new wave listings'.
00.3 Minutes/ Thrust/ Thunderboys/ Tiger Tails/ Steve Torch/ Toyah/ Toys/ Toys/ Toys/ Toytown Gamblers/ Tranzista/
Trend/ Tuniks/ TV 21/ Twilight Zoners/ Twist & Shout/ Type
00.3 MINUTES
XPRES-40 Automatic Kids (Rocket 1980) -power pop. Pronounced Three Minutes.
THRUST
EJSP-9341 The Thrust EP: Society/ Fed Up (Own label 1980) on BT2. only 500 copies. (100 w/ sleeve)
EP line up) v-Pete Simpson g-Mick Griffiths, Ivan Thomas, Richard Battye
Band lasted 12/77-12/80 w/ unstable line up of bass and drums. (bio. from BT2)
v-Carmel McCourt v-Danny Thunderboy g-Terry Baker b-Chris Hall d-Alan Adler
Power pop.
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NELCOL-2 Words Without Conviction/
Norman/ Fashion Fool (Snotty Snail 1980) -1 on LDK17. Hard punk |
STEVE TORCH
RR-005 Live In Fear// Fear/ Smoke Your Own (Redball 1980?)
TOYAH (cont.)
SAFE-28 Ieya (Safari 1980)
TOYS (cont.)
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TOYS-2 Still Dancing: The
Things I Say/ Blanket To Blanket// Pretty Girl/ Johnny
Head-In-Air (Toys 1980) -2 on TT9/ LDK13. |
TOYS
Go To The Police/ Breakdown (Red Bus 1980)
Power pop. Another Toys.
TOYS
RAK-313 Doctor Doctor/ Sweet Magdalene (RAK 1980)
Pop new wave. And here's one more Toys.
Surf City/ Dancin' On Graves (Frog Prince
1980) -punk/power pop. 1 on LDK21.
TRANZISTA
Better Beware/ Time Of My Life/ (Are You) In The Mood? (1980)
TREND (cont.)
This Dance Hall Must Have A Back Way Out (MCA 1980)
TUNIKS
GO-386 Favourite Positions (Logo 1980)
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AAARGH-1 Playing With Fire/
Shattered By It All (Powbeat 1980) -1 on PP1/ LDK13 AAARGH-2 Ambition/ Ticking Away/ This Is Zero (Powbeat 9/80) From Edinburgh. Power pop. |
TWILIGHT ZONERS (cont.)
ZIP-002 Brighton Rock/ Diversion (Z.I.P./Dining-Out 1980)
TWIST & SHOUT
Bounce Back (Wessex 1980) -listed as power pop.
Bright Green Angels/ Won't You Be Mine!
Fast (Broken 1980) -1 on LDK15.