Open fire

[TheMotorcycleBoy]

Very little reason at all for posting this, except that I'm listening to it, it's awesome, and you lot should listen to it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7fZl9Rfn0

[Peltiq]

It sounds to me like a ripoff of She Sells Sanctuary.........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA

[AleisterCrowley]

Definitely has a whiff of 'Love' era Cult about it, which is no bad thing..

[BrummieDave]

It sounds to me like a ripoff of She Sells Sanctuary.........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA

I know which I prefer...

[TheMotorcycleBoy]

Must admit I'm good with The Cult (and Death Cult, and even Southern Death Cult in the goth days!), but I never heard any resemblance to She Sells Sanctuary!

All good stuff, to me, mind.

[BrummieDave]

Must admit I'm good with The Cult (and Death Cult, and even Southern Death Cult in the goth days!), but I never heard any resemblance to She Sells Sanctuary!

All good stuff, to me, mind.

Never seen The Cult or Death Cult but I remember enjoying Southern Death Cult in 1982 at three different concerts when they supported Theatre of Hate and Bauhaus.

In an obtuse link, I saw 'The Doors Alive' tribute band last night, and Ian Astbury of course sang with Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore during their reunion in 2000. I missed seeing that, and wished I had.

[TheMotorcycleBoy]

Must admit I'm good with The Cult (and Death Cult, and even Southern Death Cult in the goth days!), but I never heard any resemblance to She Sells Sanctuary!

All good stuff, to me, mind.

Never seen The Cult or Death Cult but I remember enjoying Southern Death Cult in 1982 at three different concerts when they supported Theatre of Hate and Bauhaus.

In an obtuse link, I saw 'The Doors Alive' tribute band last night, and Ian Astbury of course sang with Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore during their reunion in 2000. I missed seeing that, and wished I had.

Wow! Bauhaus.....we were crackers on them in our teens!

[AleisterCrowley]

I've got an 'early' 12" of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' somewhere, sadly not the white vinyl one

Undead, undead.....

[BrummieDave]

I've got an 'early' 12" of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' somewhere, sadly not the white vinyl one

Undead, undead.....

I stopped watching them after the first album but still have the black vinyl 12" of Bela Lugosi (probably the same as you, on Small Wonder), plus the next two singles issued by 4AD, Dark Entries and Terror Couple Kill Colonel, resplendent in their picture covers. All three capture the essence of the music scene (aagh!) around 1980, a wonderfully creative time for British music IMHO, with new independent labels, bands, record shops and venues popping up throughout the country. As the mainly live scene of pub rock of the mid 70s spawned punk, which itself made way for New Wave, then Indie, you can trace it back to Stiff, Small Wonder, Zoo, Factory, Postcard, Cherry Red and a host of other brilliantly innovative labels.

I also have a red vinyl single that Bauhaus put out as a four track EP, sometime around 1983 I think, with each member singing/performing a track, Pete Murphy's being a rendition of the recipe for his favourite food (I assume): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDzsnV22Ok I'd add a poached egg on top myself, but perhaps that wouldn't rhyme.