http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah Just some stuff you might find interesting Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I was adding  the original copy of The Banned 'Little Girl' on Can't Eat Records to the database when I remembered seeing them on Top Of Pops performing the track, so I looked on You Tube and there it was, introduced by Tony Blackburn. They were certainly old then! Click ... http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/the-banned-little-girl/ Here's something I'd not seen before, but remembering hearing about many years ago, it's a copy of The Fall's 1987 newspaper Sinister Times. I'm pretty sure this was the only issue and there can't have been many that survived. This lovely piece of history will be on the next newsletter. http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/the-fall-sinister-times-newspaper/ Following the hopeless unreliability of our last web hosts which resulted in endless outages and the site frequently running very slowly, www.vinylonthe.net has moved to a dedicated server. This means that it's the only site on that server and already we've had 100% uptime and noticed how much faster the pages are ... http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/web-site-improvements/ This Sunday 4th May sees the annual Academy in the UK show in Birmingham, at the Academy. The Damned and Buzzcocks headline plus The Rezillos, The Beat, Mad Sin, GBH, Zounds, Spunge, UK Subs, Deadline, The Grit, Drongos for Europe, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack, Dragster, 4ft Fingers, Stevie Nix & ... http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/academy-in-the-uk-birmingham-sunday/ I've just been adding a load of of Blyth Power records to the database so I thought I'd add images to the ones on the site. If you're not familiar with Blyth Power they are Joseph Porter's post-The Mob band. http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/blyth-power/ Web site was been updated today with many new items. http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/site-updated-30th-april/ Subscribers should have received their newsletter today with 328 new additions.  Anyone not having received it and there's always some due to spam filters etc. drop me a line and I'll email it to you. http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/newsletter-mailed-29th-april/ There's a new web site Hitsville UK giving a detailed review of the development of UK punk and graphic design in the wider regions of the UK, is finally online. The site, based on successful exhibitions in Southampton and London during 2007, includes a range of free download material, punk ... http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/web-site-detailing-uk-punk-through-7-covers/ Those of you that know me will know that I'm a huge fan of the Television Personalities. They've a new 7" only single out on Elefant Records that's, well different from previous TVPs records, but a fine effort nevertheless.  There's a video for it here. http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/television-personalities-the-good-anarchist/ Got a few nice Damned original posters, some promo, some sold at gigs, some commercially available and some gig posters. The pick of the bunch is this mega rare screen printed 'Love Song' promo poster. This very rarely turns up. They'll all be on the next newsletter. Got some other interesting Damned memorabilia ... http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/damned-posters/