Adventure
(2016)
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Track 1-1 to 1-13 taken from original album.
Track 2-1 to 2-11 taken B-sides
Track 2-12 to 2-16 taken from BBC John Peel Session - 17 February 1996 (Previously unreleased).
60ft Dolls were a rock trio from Newport, South Wales, in the style of punk / pub garage rock / power pop with a dash of mod. Their songs and approach embodied elements of The Jam and Dr. Feelgood, classic UK stripped-down guitar rock. Mike Cole and Richard Parfitt were originally introduced to each other in 1992 by Donna Matthews (later of Elastica), who was dating Cole at the time while also working at a pizza restaurant with Parfitt. The group released two albums in the mid-nineties and supported the Sex Pistols at that group's comeback gig in Finsbury Park in 1996 before splitting in 1998.
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The Adverts pulled the masterstroke of releasing a debut album that executed on the potential suggested by their early singles. Directly influenced by the immediate first wave, TV Smith assembled a rampaging set of strikingly simple, and strikingly effective songs for Crossing the Red Seas with the Adverts.
In fact, tracks like “Bored Teenagers” and “New Church” were even more simple than the first Sex Pistols, Damned, and Clash tunes, and just as fast, if not faster. Smith seemed determined to whittle songs down into their most Spartan form and then jack them up with powerful strikes and the energy of a young man… and he did just that.
Perhaps in contrast to the Clash and Pistols, the Adverts focused on hyper-personal issues. Jones and Strummer would often use youthful detachment as a way to describe bigger economic issues, and Rotten started at the very top by smacking around the queen herself, but Smith and crew keep their perspective very ground level. “Bored Teenagers” served as a mandate and short explanation of why the band was so jumpy. Meanwhile, “On the Roof” detailed the sort of loneliness and wanting that only young people have. The record was at once youthful and wizened. these guys were young, but they were smart enough to have a perspective that whittled the experience of young Brits down to three, two, or even one chord.
Mention needs to also be given to Gaye Advert on bass. The British punk scene did have some standout female musicians- the Slits, Raincoats, and X-Ray Spex all come to mind. Still, Gaye Advert was notable both for her amazing musicianship – the driving slam of the Adverts owes a huge debt to her rumbling, but sprinting bass- but also for making herself known and respected in the male dominated scene. That’s no easy task now and certainly it wasn’t easy then, either.
After this release, the adverts would evolve to a more post-punk sound. Still, Red Sea perhaps like no other record before it, found a band focusing on the established ideals of punk, fashioning those tools to their sharpest points possible, and striking with sheer force. (PunkNews.og)
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Here's my latest monthly mix to help you survive the heat of this summer with all the new and newly re-released indie gems that have been coming out this past month. This month I have 58 tracks for your listening pleasure this time. Exclusively new (and newly reissued) indie releases from mid May to mid June 2026, featuring: Ducks, Ltd., Sweeping Promises, Loose Fit, Crabber, The Laughing Chimes, Real Numbers, My Raining Stars, Attic Ocean, Soft Vein, Total Pleasure, Black Marble, Soft Kill, BLACK REVERIE, Gnoomes, Waves Crashing, The Asteroid No.4, Heaven, A Place To Bury Strangers, Gift, She Past Away, Sailor Honeymoon, CEREMONY east coast, DEAD CAN DANCE, The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Widowspeak, The Chills, Dean & Britta, A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Mike D, Telehealth, JAUS, The City Gates, Ile de Garde, Station Model Violence, Swallow, Ecca Vandal, The Alarm, Iceage, Guided By Voices, Death Cab for Cutie, The Coral, Jah Wobble, Lee Scratch Perry & Mouse On Mars, The Chemical Brothers, Follytechnic Music Library, Kraftwerk, The Stooges, Dead Boys, The Shirts, The Fall, Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair, The Early Years, feeble little horse, Modest Mouse, Tomorrow Tomorrow, The Durutti Column, Boards of Canada, and Bonobo