{"id":4258,"date":"2014-04-22T04:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/uk-punk-legends-the-deviants-back-catalog-gets-reissued\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T04:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:57:43","slug":"uk-punk-legends-the-deviants-back-catalog-gets-reissued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/uk-punk-legends-the-deviants-back-catalog-gets-reissued\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Punk Legends The Deviants Back Catalog Gets Reissued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much to the excitement of punk rock fans around the globe, Gonzo Multimedia is reissuing the legendary Deviants back catalog. The Social Deviants were founded by singer\/writer Mick Farren in 1967 out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground community, featuring Pete Munro on bass; Clive Muldoon on guitar, Mike Robinson on guitar and Russell Hunter on drums. The band shortened their name to The Deviants after Munro and Muldoon left and were replaced by Sid Bishop on guitar and Cord Rees on bass. With the financial backing of Nigel Samuel, the 21-year-old son of a millionaire, whom Farren had befriended, the group independently recorded their debut album ‘Ptooff!’, selling copies through the UK Underground press before it was picked up by Decca Records. <\/div>\n
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Rees left the band in June 1967 to be replaced by Farren’s flatmate Duncan Sanderson and the band released a second album ‘Disposable’ through the independent label Stable Records. When Bishop married and left the band, Farren recruited Canadian guitarist Paul Rudolph, at the suggestion of Jamie Mandelkau. This band recorded and released the album ‘The Deviants 3’ through Transatlantic Records.<\/div>\n
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During a tour of North America’s west coast the relationship between Farren and the musicians became personally and musically strained, and the band decided to continue without Farren, who returned to England where he teamed up with ex-Pretty Things drummer Twink and Steve Peregrin Took to record the album ‘Mona \u2013 The Carnivorous Circus’, an album interspersed with interviews with members of the UK Hells Angels, before concentrating on music journalism. The three remaining musicians – Rudolph, Sanderson and Hunter – returned to England, and teamed up with Twink to form the Pink Fairies.<\/div>\n
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In the mid-1970s, Farren was offered a one-off deal by Stiff Records to record an EP, ‘Screwed Up’, which was released under the name Mick Farren and the Deviants. The musicians on this record included Rudolph, former Pink Fairies\/Mot\u00f6rhead guitarist Larry Wallis, former Warsaw Pakt guitarist Andy Colquhoun and former Hawkwind drummer Alan Powell. This band, without Rudolph, went on to record the album ‘Vampires Stole My Lunch Money’ and the non-album single \u201cBroken Statue\u201d, both credited to Mick Farren rather than The Deviants.<\/div>\n
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The Deviants – ‘Barbarian Princes Live In Japan 1999’:<\/div>\n
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At the end of the 1970s Farren again concentrated on his writing and relocated to New York. He would resurrect The Deviants name for occasional live performances, such as these shows recorded in Japan with long-time friend and collaborator Andy Colquhoun.\u00a0(To be released on April 28, 2014)<\/div>\n
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Tracks:<\/div>\n
Track Listing:<\/div>\n
1. Aztec Calender<\/div>\n
2. Eating Jello With A Heated Fork<\/div>\n
3. Disgruntled Employee<\/div>\n
4. It’s Alright Ma<\/div>\n
5. God’s Worst Nightmare<\/div>\n
6. Leader Hotel<\/div>\n
7. Lennon Song<\/div>\n
8. Thunder On The Mountain<\/div>\n
9. Lurid Night<\/div>\n
10. Dogpoet<\/div>\n
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The Deviants ‘Dr Crow’:<\/div>\n
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<\/a> The \tlegendary Mick Farren, for nearly forty years their singer and \tguiding light has stated that The Deviants were originally a \tcommunity band which “did things every now and then\u2014it was a \ttotal assault thing with a great deal of inter-relation and \tinterdependence”. Musically, Farren described their sound as \t“teeth-grinding, psychedelic rock” somewhere between The \tStooges and The Mothers of Invention. The Deviants have been \tdescribed as a transition between classic British psych and the \tpunk\/heavy metal aesthetic of the 1970s.<\/div>\n
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Andy \tColquhoun, long-time\u00a0Deviants\u00a0guitarist \texplained,\u00a0 \u201cIt was recorded in LA. It was mostly recorded at \tsome studio up in The Valley\u201d. He went on to explain \tthat there were actually two versions of the original album, and \tthat the Gonzo release included two tracks that originally only \tappeared in Japan.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Tracks:<\/div>\n
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The \tDeviants – Dr. Crow\u00a0
1. When Dr Crow Turns on the Radio\u00a0
2. \tStrawberry Fields Forever\u00a0
3. The Murdering Officer\u00a0
4. \tTaste The Blue\u00a0
5. Bela Lugosi 2002\u00a0
6. You’re Gonna \tNeed Somebody On Your Bond\u00a0
7. Diabolo’s Cadillac\u00a0
8. \tSong of The Hired Guns\u00a0
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty \tValance\u00a0
10. Sold To Babylon
11. A Long Dry \tSeason\u00a0
12. What Do You Want?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The \tDeviants Have Left The Planet:<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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At \t\tthe end of the 1970s, Mick Farren would resurrect The Deviants name \t\tfor occasional live performances, such as in February 1984 when he \t\tteamed up with Wayne Kramer and Wallis’ band which featured \t\tSanderson and drummer George Butler. This set was released as Human \t\tGarbage. In 2002, a new line-up of the band (featuring bassist Doug \t\tLunn, drummer Rick Parnell and vocalist Michael Simmons) released \t\t‘Dr. Crow’.<\/div>\n
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Farren \t\tthen continued to perform and record sporadically under the name \t\tThe Deviants, using a pool of musicians which include Colquhoun and \t\tformer Blodwyn Pig saxophonist Jack Lancaster. ‘Eating Jello With A \t\tHeated Fork’ was released in 1996, credited to Deviants IXVI, \t\tfollowed by 2002’s ‘Dr Crow’. On June 25, 2011, after returning to \t\tlive in the UK, Farren performed on the ‘Spirit of 71’ stage at \t\tGlastonbury Festival with ‘The Last Men Standing’. The band \t\tincluded Colquhoun and the Deviants late-1960s rhythm section of \t\tSanderson and Hunter. During a rare performance by The Deviants at \t\tThe Borderline in Central London on 27 July, 2013, Farren collapsed \t\ton stage. He died later in hospital.<\/div>\n
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This \t\talbum was originally released in 1999. Critic Dave Thompson writes: \t\t\u201cHalf live, half-studio Left the Planet bristles with the highest \t\toctane intake of new Mick Farren songs in years – and anyone armed \t\twith the ‘Barbarian Princes’ live album will already know what that \t\tmeans. The bulk of the album was recorded with Farren’s Deviants \t\tlineup of guitarist\/bassist Andy Colquhoin and former Mot\u00f6rhead \t\tdrummer Phil Taylor – itself an aggregation to make your skin \t\tcrawl. Four live tracks from sundry Terrastock and L.A. shows, \t\thowever, add a shapeless shadow to any sense of well-being which \t\tfamiliarity might conjure up…the overall mood of the album \t\tremains fearful, foreboding, and absolutely poisonous, a kick in \t\tthe small of the back to propel you into a world which restructures \t\tthe sound of the rock revolution before the media middlemen tacked \t\ttheir percentage on top – and it proves that some things really \t\tcan’t be bought or sold. Peace of mind is one of them.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Tracks:<\/div>\n
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<\/a> 1: Aztec \t\tCalender\u00a0
2: Gunfire in the Night\u00a0
3. It’s Alright \t\tMa (I’m only bleeding)\u00a0
4. God’s Worst Nightmare\u00a0
5. \t\tPeople are Afraid of Reality\u00a0
6. Love Among the Zombies\u00a0
7. \t\tLet’s Loot the Supermarket again Like we did Last Summer\u00a0
8. \t\tYellow Dog\u00a0
9. Mick Farren has Left the Planet\u00a0
10 \t\tTwilight of the Gods\u00a0
11. Memphis Psychosis<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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