From their early days of spraying stencilled anti-war , anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist graffiti messages in the London Underground and on billboards, Crass was involved in politically motivated direct action and musical activities. On 18 December 1982, the band helped coordinate a 24-hour squat in the empty West London Zig…
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In December 1982, the band began recording their third album, Whammy! According to Pierson, Strickland no longer wanted to play the drums, so the band switched to drum machines for this album, with Strickland and Ricky Wilson playing all the music on the album, and the rest of the band…
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Albini named his new musical project Big Black, calling the moniker “just sort of a reduction of the concept of a large, scary, ominous figure. All the historical images of fear and all the things that kids are afraid of are all big and black, basically.” He used the Lungs…
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In December 1982, the Raincoats recorded a live album at the arts space The Kitchen in New York. The Kitchen Tapes was released on cassette by ROIR in 1983.
The band’s demo got the band a support slot for Flux of Pink Indians in November 1982, and they recorded two further demos, all three getting released on a cassette on Halmshaw’s Peaceville Records label, gaining the band more fans.
In early 1982, Fresh Records collapsed, and UK Decay were caught up in the ensuing management buyout by what would become Jungle Records. With the help of John Loder and Southern Studios, they managed to buy up the rights to their back catalogue and set up their own label, UK…
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The band’s first proper gig was at the Swan pub in Kingston in July 1982 with the band Riot/Clone. The two bands starting working together regularly, leading to the first official Lost Cherrees single release, “No Fighting, No War, No Trouble, No More” on Riot/Clone’s label in late 1983. John…
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The Stalin were one of the bands to star in Sogo Ishii ‘s movie Burst City , released on March 13, 1982. Their concert on June 24 was the last with drummer Jun, however he still appears on their major label debut album Stop Jap , as well as their…
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The lead single in the US was ” Should I Stay or Should I Go “, which was released in June 1982 and received significant airplay on Album-oriented rock (AOR) stations.
For the recording of their debut album Milo Goes to College in June 1982, the band worked at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California , with Spot , who had also engineered and produced the Fat EP . While still short and fast, the songs on Milo Goes to…
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