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Platform Shoes (1977): British Pathé newsreel discussing the health hazards of wearing platform shoes.

https://youtu.be/Y0HMNZNG1Cs “Girls and men walking. Reporter interviewing various people about the claims that platform shoes being health hazard. An expert talks about it but is not very good in convincing a girl not to wear them. More people on the street being interviewed. Some people say they look ridiculous, shoe salesman defences them with bizarre explanations etc. The end of an item shows the reporter wearing platform shoes and having difficulty walking. Voiceover informs that most of the injuries happen in the first few days of wearing them. Reporter walks off with difficulty.”

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Epic Soundtracks - I Wanna Be Free

With Max Edie (Lizard) on vocals and Jim Dickson on guitar, this is Epic's cover of the Monkees  Boyce & Hart penned "I Wanna Be Free".It was pencilled in to appear on issue 7 of What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen back in 1987 under the band name The Lizards. No video I'm afraid just a selection of photos of Epic. Who of course plays the drums........

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Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites - Death Is Hanging Over Me

from the album "Texas" 

 Lyrics: Death is hanging over me Though this room is seldom cold Rosewood candles light the way Along this tarnished road. Death is hanging over me In it's empty covered shroud Death is hanging over me And it could never seem too loud. It's waiting in my arms Like a perfect glimpse of white A thousand islands twist and fall In the morning light. Death is hanging over me It merely twists and falls Death is hanging over me But I can't hear it at all. My death waits there

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Max Wall (Ian Dury cover) - Englands Glory.

“The great star of the music hall doing a version of Ian’s tribute to Englands jewels”

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The Pirates "Lonesome Train" 1977

The Pirates Live At Dingwalls, 1977  MICK GREEN R.I.P. 2010  FRANK FARLEY R.I.P. 2018

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Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Limit Club, Sheffield, 1978. Photo by Pete Hill.

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Rat Scabies - Grailhunter (3 min taster film)

Rat Scabies goes off in search of the Holy Grail...and other oddities along the way

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48 years ago today

The Damned at the Roxy, London, January 17, 1977

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Thee Headcoatees - All My Feelings Denied (1994)

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Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts

“Gary Gilmore was a murderer who donated his eyes to science and The Adverts made a great song on this theme.”

Utah executed Gary Gilmore by firing squad on January 18, 1977, initiating the modern era of capital punishment.

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1979

This is from the Raincoats' first album, a ground-breaking post-punk record.

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In memory of Ariane Daniela Forster aka Ari Up, singer and founding member of the English punk band The Slits, born on this day in 1962, Munich, Germany.

Photo Caroline Coon

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Jet - My River (Davy O'List)

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The Nice "Dawn"

Davy O'List guitar

From THE THOUGHTS OF EMERLIST DAVJACK © 1967 Immediate Record Co. Ltd.

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Robyn Hitchcock - Linctus House (1990)

And if we understood each other, there'd be no need to talk

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Robyn Hitchcock - Love In The Garden of Light (unreleased video footage)

"Robyn's been searching through his video archives. This installment is a never-before-seen video from the Respect sessions in 1992, filmed in his back garden on the Isle of Wight, where he was living at the time. There's a short interview clip after the video."

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Robyn Hitchcock - Dancing On God's Thumb - 1981

Armageddon Records B-Side from The Man Who Invented Himself 7" 45