Hey punks! As you might have noticed we have not been active over the last few months. We decided to lay low for a while. The term ‘kbd’ or ‘rare’ nowadays seems to stand for any general punk record, plus you can find practically every real rare record for download. Do we really add something to that? Not really. So goodbye for now. I am thinking about doing something completely new and different with this site, hopefully we can launch something new later this year on this same spot.
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by h-bomb in punk | 3 Comments » | 258 views
Public Toys – Safety-pins on television 7″ (Dirty Faces, 1998)
This is the 4th release on the German Dirty Faces label and the first release of Public Toys (1990-2000) with a new singer. The music is catchy and melodic, at times almost poppy. Pascal (the 2nd seinger) and Uwe also played in District which in turn became 2nd District.
A way to spend your life 12″ (NV Boy Records, 1983)
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We have not been posting a lot lately cos we’ve been busy with other things. Good things, really good things, but still…
This one has been waiting forever to get posted, I wrote it over a month ago and I was going to scan more of the inlay and say a lot of interesting things extra but here it is for now.
This record comes with a promotional poster for Ralbör Releases, a joint effort of a number of bands as “a form of taking care of publicity together”. There’s funny things to notice. The poster lists a few addresses of the bands. The Ex and the Wanda’s live in the same house, and a lot of the bands from Wormer live really close together. Considering the fact that Wormer only had a few thousand inhabitants at the time, there you go: an intimate and active punk scene in the early days. I’m sure there’s a lot of untold stories to be told. Drop them in the comments!
I just read that old Rotterdam punks the Rondo’s will have a realase show on april 11th in Worm, Rotterdam.
A CD with all their recordings + book will be released, as well as an double LP with their work. Also they went into the studio the other week to record songs for a split 7″ with ‘de Kift’, which will also be available this evening. Rondos music will be brought ‘Het elektronische gezelschap Coolhaven’, G.W. Sok (ex-singer of The Ex), Herr Seele + Dorpsoudste De Jong. All will happen on april 11th, check here for details.
Not too long ago, h-bomb and me played a show with Antidote (not the Antidote form Hoorn!) as support for the UK Subs. The show was on a Sunday afternoon in a town called Zaandam in Holland. Not surprisingly, a lot of older people showed up. That particular area of Holland had a big influential punk scene in the 80s, and N.V. Boys (ex-members of N.V. Le Anderen) were from that area, too.
There’s an interview (in Dutch) with the singer for N.V. Le Anderen on nederpunk.nl. Here’s some band members history: after the break up of N.V. Le Anderen in 1986, drummer Tjakko and guitar player Rob went on to form N.V. Boys with Peter Verdam (De Groeten, Grrrr, The Filth) and Ad Jongewaard. N.V. Boys quit in 1991 and Tjakko played in Teenage Warning.
I got to know this band when my band at the time (Slapstick) did two shows with them in Holland, one in Amsterdam and one in Den Haag at the North Sea Punk Festival, I think it was in 1996. They were really fucking tight and they had ex-members of bands I looked up to at that time (Chaos UK and Ripcord). I picked up the 2 EPs they had out but I never really heard anything from them again. Both EPs were released on the guitar players label. I know he did releases for Concrete Sox, Broken and the Restarts but I can’t seem to find anything on either Spite or the label except for no longer existing websites. Anyway, here’s the 2 EPs. Enjoy!
Last orders E.P. 7″ (Blind destruction records, 1996)
Red Flag ‘77 / Special Duties split 7″ (Knock-out records, 1997)
This record came out in the mid ’90s when the second wave of UK punk was quite popular again. Practically every band from the early days started playing again and bands like Oxymoron and the Casualties were either really big or on the way there. So, how excited do you get when you find out that you get to see all those long lost bands after all…. and what a deception it turns out to be when you realize that most of them are crap. Or that they still play today, well over 15 years later, with still the same old songs and if you are lucky, one original drummer remaining. I remember the first time I got to see Special Duties in 1996 at the “Complete punk rock disaster” in Den Haag, Holland. Fun to watch and sing along to, but then you find that since then they have played practically every festival with a hint of UK82 and then you realize they are just a generic crappy shitband. Decent songs on this record, though one of the songs is a Lurkers cover.
Such is not the case with Red Flag ‘77! First of all they never were a reunion band but just a bunch of friends who happened to play in a band that fit well within that whole revival thing, second they have never been the most original band in the world but most certainly one of the better ones to do it! Always lots of fun to see these guys play live, they truly are ‘77 in ‘09! So if you get the chance, go see and tell them I said hi!
Visions of War – Olho de Gato split LP (Angry Records, 2002)
When h-bomb and me come home drunk from a bar we like to play our old crustie favorites really loud (our favorite: ENT/Chaos UK split). This one could be one of the records we’d play, at least the Visions of War side: raging ENT-like noise from Belgium. I liked Olho de Gato (RIP) better live than on record so I’d like to focus this post on Visions of War. I added the Olho de Gato-songs as an mp3 for those interested.
My scanner is being an asshole so I stole the image of the sleeve off the Angry Records website.
Last week I ripped the great “punk live in Brouwershoeck” LP again on request. (thanks for the cd Tijn!)It made me spin the Softies singles again this week. The ‘Suicide pilot’ single is awesome. I love playing it as loud as possible, both sides rock so hard they make my ears bleed. The songs on the “punk live in Brouwershoeck” LP are the same songs that are on the other Softies’ single. They did a full lenght, but it does not rock as hard as this single. By far.
Nice to knows: Frank(enstein) plays bass on the “Suicide pilot” single. He played on more early Dutch classics like Helmettes and later Speedtwins. The songs with Captain were produced by Jan Rietman, who played piano in Arnhem rockabilly band ‘Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers’ and became somekind of famous in Holland as a pianoplayer, songwriter and TV host.
Here’s both singles and the best song of their LP. Play at maximum volume!
I had these lying around for a while. They are from Holland and so they have my interest, but there’s tons of other records that are some much cooler. Tonight though I was watching this items on traffic jams, and it slipped my mind I could use that as a little bridge…
I have no clue about Hansje what so ever, but it seems pretty clear this is big labels trying to make a little money out of the punk wave. Introduce a Dutch ‘Blondie’ and milk that cow…the milk must have tasted sour, because I don’t think they came to milk a full lenght. Nevertheless you can hear they did a little homework and that paid off.
Where the first single seems to be heavily leaning on Plastic Bertrand, the second single sounds more inspired by Blondie. It makes both a-sides pretty catchy actually. The b-sides are simply crap. I wonder what the producers + management had in mind with those songs…If anyone has any info, I am interested as always!
12-12-08 update: Turns out ‘Hansje Ravesteijn’ was a 70’s photomodel with many ambitions. Besides a musician, she was a dancer and painter. She entered a “Blondie look-a-like contest” and won. The winning price was a meet and greet with Blondie in NYC. After she returned a record contract followed. Much more info on her, like a fan page, is found here. Sweet. Dutchies might wanna read this most interesting article, too.
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