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"Its hard curbing my enthusiasm for this
album...Influences abound here... Eddie
& Sheena starts off as tongue in cheek
50's rock'n'roll ballad...Blues, quite strongly, and even doo wop
show their faces, 28" Model T
being a hilarious vocal harmony number about a...car. The one group
written song is Big Black Window
that slides along supported by a crawling bass riff,
Max's Kansas City
is done again... giving a name check to some of the artists who
gig/gigged there....Wayne turns fearsome for
Rockn'n'Roll Resurrection,
about dead rock'n'rollers like Hendrix, Joplin and Brian Jones
'Rock me Jesus/roll me lord/ wash me in
the blood of rock'n'roll'... Squeezer
Jools Holland appears on Hot Blood,
adding slick bar room piano backing......Val
Haller - Bass & JJ Johnson - Drums really know their stuff, always
spot on on all the songs...Cook is perhaps the main ingredient
always keeping a grip on riffs but also making space for solos and
hooks...this band have humour (and) skill..."
Pete Maggs
Summer Salt No3 Fanzine 1978 |
The Electric
Chairs
Safari
February 1978 |
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Storm The
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Safari August 1978 |
No longer The Electric Chairs but Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
and now featuring two guitars. Though the cover would suggest a return to theatrics and
transvestites the album was more complex..
"Analyse this record and it begins to sound like a total farce. But
just listen to it and its fun, angry and committed, its witty, its
tacky its awful and finally and somehow its brilliant...and the
Electric Chairs now with Eliott Michaels and Henry Padovani on
guitars do a great job carrying the album along on pure surging
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Storm The Gates Of Heaven
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With the more
adventurous David Cunningham of the Flying Lizards at the helm, . Freed
from the rock'n' roll boogie, the ribald and the over top entertainership
this LP is a combination of a group and of its leader in transition. The
latter literally as Wayne was now firmly on the road to being a she and Jayne.
The sides are separated into 'Them' & 'Us' indicative of how Wayne viewed his
place in Rock and his feelings as a transsexual. For me not his best album
but it does contain one of, if not his finest song, the title tack Things
Your Mother Never Told You. Punky, rocky, even a little reggaeish but sung
like a punk Marlene Dietrich diva and fucking catchy. |
Things Your Mother Never Told You
Safari
May 1979 |
Wayne appears in
3 films from the time - 'Jubilee' the film by Derek Jarman, 'Punk The Movie' by Done Letts and
'Punk In London'.
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