The website has just been updated with about 300 new items.

Marcus Abused
Amazing Space Frogs
Angelic Upstarts
Arthur-2-Stroke
Basczax
The Beetles
Blitzkrieg Bop
The Carpettes
The Condemned
The Crime
The Cult
Crawling Chaos
Dementia Praecox
Discharge
Disorder
Fanheater
The Filth
Flesh
The Four Plugs
Frenzy Batallion
The Haemorrhages
Harry Hack & The Big G
King Crabs
The Lice
The MPs
Murder The Disturbed
Neon
Nicky Beat & The Beatniks
Nod
The Noise Toys
Nothing
No Way
Wavis O’Shave
Penetration
Pig Sani
The Police
The Proles
Public Sector
Punishment Of Luxury
Rebels
Red Alert
The Rejects
Sandgate
Scared Bananas
Scottish Polis Inspectors
Showbiz Kids
Soviet France
Spair Pair
The Spares
Speed
Suspect Device
Toy Dolls
Treatment Room
The Vomits

Marcus Abused was a bit later (I only know of his track on one vol. of Crass’ ‘Bullshit Detector’ comps.)
Basczax included members of Blitzkrieg Bop but were more Pop than Punk.
Crawling Chaos were more experimental but def with punk attitude: Kraut Punk?
Discharge: Not to be confused with the Stoke band of the same name.
Flesh were more experimental and incl Andrew McKenzie later of Hafler Trio.
King Crabs incl Jimmy Nail.
Nod: Punk poet.
Nothing incl members of Crawling Chaos.
Wavis O’Shave was an eccentric poet / singer. Tho not strictly Punk, he def had Punk attitude.
Soviet France (later Zoviet France) started as a Punk band.

NB: The first issue of ‘Smash Hits’ incl an article on the NE Punk scene (I kid ye not!)

Newsletter mailed to  subscribers, today, 1st February with 352 new items.

This update is a bit more ‘new wave’ and ‘indie’ than ‘punk’ and ‘hardcore’, but there’s still a very good selection.

The site will probably be updated on Friday with what’s left.

Just come my way is a very good Robyn Hitchcock collection, which was part of a much larger purchase, so it’ll take a few months to get everything onto the database, but already I’ve added some nice items including: The Bells Of Rhymney test pressing (pictured), One Long Pair Of Eyes (USA test pressing), The Man Who Invented Himself (Greek only compilation), Flesh Number One (USA blue vinyl promo), If You Were A Priest (USA promo) and a very nice condition Black Snake Diamond Roll LP.

They’ll all be on the next newsletter and what’s left on the site update.

The Star & Shadow Cinema in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is holding an evening of post-punk sounds 8pm until midnight on Saturday 25th February, at a very reasonable £3.

There’s a Facebook page here.

On a Sunday freezing January night in the unemployment blackspot of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, many hundreds of people turn out in an old Victorian music hall to watch punk rock’s equivalent of Sir Francis Drake talk for two and a half hours about his recent travels and a little about his past, whilst barley stopping for breath.

First coming to prominence as vocalist for the amazing Black Flag Henry Rollins before fronting his own band, he has long since given up making music preferring to appear onstage performing spoken word, acting – most recently in Sons of Anarchy, writing books, a newspaper column, hosting a weekly radio show and presenting various TV shows. Phew!

So fourth date on a fourteen month tour that starts in the UK, Henry tells us that last year was an inhaling year in which he travels and absorbs and this year he exhales and relays his experiences.

I’m not wanting to give too much away, but he starts with a very amusing observation of the typical UK chav tourist family he encountered when flying into Manchester (Shameless?) , then recalls some early Black Flag touring stories including a harrowing stage-diving story and when he met a certain household-name rock band. A trip to India where he was hosting a show for National Geographic  was relayed in great detail as were his visits to Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Haiti, Kentucky and Costco!

Wherever he visits Henry befriends the locals, keen to absorb as much information, knowledge and experience as possible, he’s refreshingly un-typical of many Americans and repeatedly echoed his belief that if people travelled more, engaged more and shared Ramones albums that war and conflict would be a thing of the past. Amen to that!

For someone with such a stern and serious reputation who admits he has “no jokes”, he recalls each experience with considerable humor and the laughter he receives he welcomes like a singer receiving applause.

At the end he looked privileged to have been able to share his experiences with us, and we felt privileged to have been in the audience.

For those of you vinyl addicts that enjoy a good blog about vinyl, I can recommend rarevinylandjustcoolrecords.blogspot , which recently came to my attention, which is totally dedicated to the subject.

There’s some great quotes about vinyl, a wonderful section about celebrities and their collections from which I lifted this Cramps photo, John Peel’s Record Box and much more.

The web site has been updated with 291 new items.

Always popular when I get them, so I’m pleased to let you know that a quantity of 80s anarcho-punk zines and some other interesting pieces of memorabilia have arrived and will be included on the next newsletter and update.

Back to normal again post Xmas and New Year holidays with the first newsletter of the year that was mailed today to all subscribers, with 334 new items.

Any subscriber swho didn’t receive it, which seems to happen a lot with spam filters, just drop me a line and I’ll re-send.

The site will be updated on Sunday with what’s left.

All the best for 2012!