BULLSHIT DETECTED

Special Duties are featured on the latest update at Worthless Trash. Having a pop at everyones favourite anarchists brought them quite a bit of heat. The song Bullshit Crass isn't that hot though, so we'll avoid that and let you hear the much better B-side You're Doing Yourself No Good.

Special Duties vocalist Steve Arrogant made this tongue in cheek comment when interviewed for the book Burning Britain a couple of years back...

'It sold quite well, but that may have been because it looked a bit like a Crass record, and their fans were so stupid they thought it was one.'

SMALL WONDER MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE, MAY 1983 (part 2)

Here's pages 7-9 from the May '83 Small Wonder catalogue, again click on the pictures below to get readable versions. Back then no one cared about the Fast Cars so Mari reduced it to 25p ...or how about a Fire Exit for 50p ...or some cheap Homosexuals?

TOO MUCH INFORMATION

A much under-rated single is Silex Pistols by Belgian female duo Too Much. The french pressing on Pathe Marconi is fairly easy to find (and usually cheap). Much more elusive is this German issue on EMI...


It's common knowledge that the Lacomblez/Vanholme songwriting and production credits link the record to some of the people behind Plastic Bertrand's early work. This promo insert, that came with the German copy I have, gives us a little insight into who the girls were...


It's all in German, mind you, but various online tools can help out there. The story goes that Cathy and Francoise met each other in 1975 at Photographic School and later formed Too Much to help fund their studies. Not at lot, but at least it's something. Now, who's got the goods on Johnny Palermo? ...or better still, can anyone tell us what possessed Bobby Ranger to totally trash his past with the sublime Flemish punk classic Punke Punke?

QUEENS ON THE CORNER

A rare trip across the Atlantic for the latest update at the Worthless Trash website, where you can now listen to Josie Cotton's powerpop classic Johnny Are You Queer?

ANTI-SOCIAL ...WORTHLESS

£3 said Record Collector back in 1990, listing Traffic Lights together with the Blackpool UK82 band's output (duh!).

Back then I was wondering does it actually exist?, is it any good?, what's it look like? and does anyone else but me care?. Fast forward 5 years and those questions were answered when it was comp'd on the Short Sharp Shock CD, all except what's it look like?. Didn't look like this...

...cos that's the late 90's bogus looking bootleg, probably sourced from the Short Sharp Shock CD.

...who's got an original for sale at the 1990 price?