Monday, 14 January 2008

Gallini - Mr Travel (1987 I Think)


Finally!!!!!! Horsehead ripped this from Twin's tape. What can I say? What can I remember? Recorded in Twin's Garage in the summer of 1987. Probably has something to offend most people, but you know, we were young, impressionable and fucking stupid. Line Up was:


John "Horsehead" Hayward - Vocals, Casio, Guitar, Drums
Sutton - Guitar, Vocals, Drums
Twin (Grumpy) - Bandsaw, Casio
Greavesy - Guitar, Drums


Produced and Recorded by Twin on his dad's big fuck off Hitachi beatbox.
Sound quality isn't too bad considering.
The picture's obviously not the original cover because there wasn't one, it was just a Memorex tape inlay card. Looked for anything relating to the Mr Travel the song is about (Some wierd looking travel agent from Swansea who used to do adverts on HTV Wales whilst surrounded by little kids - you'd never get away with it today) but couldn't find a thing so this pic will have to do.


Track Listing:
01 Driving Lesson
02 Rugby Boys
03 Wispy's Keyboard Talk
04 Chiphead
05 Bucket Job
06 Mr Travel
07 Joody
08 Piggy Style
09 I Love Sodom
10 Hello, My Name's Andrew Smith
11 I Hate The English
12 Erection-Septic Knob, Pussy Pissflaps
13 Bench Boy
14 D.O.S. (Dollops of Shit)
15 Shithead
16 Trudy's Knickers
17 Uncle Jack Says
18 On The Buses
19 Wanker's Cramp
20 Speccy Wanks
21 Vuss
22 Hazel's Frigid Now
23 Shit Shute
24 Youth Club
25 The Dap
26 Spunkchops
27 Bean's A Boring Bastard
28 E
29 E Again
30 E 3 Times-Bean's Bent Shoes
31 Two Months Late And I'm Starting To Panic
32 Wham Medley(Careless Whisper-Freedom-Wake Me Up Before You Gogo)

Hoping to get hold of Greavesy some time to hopefully get the rest of the tapes ripped. Then the world can enjoy (?) the wonders of Gallini, Busted John, Shithouse Peeper, Mencap Madness, Pretty Peaches, Nigel, Barking Toads and Virgin Arsehole. Horse is also going to see if Killer has still got the video of the very brief gig at Six Bells Workmens from Christmas 86 or 87, when we were chucked off after half a song.
Anyway here's the link for the download - it's a RAR file of the entire album ripped at 320, not that sound quality really matters.
Cheers
Sutton

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Welcome to Gallini

Gallini

To anyone who was anyone in the 80's Gallini was synonymous with pretty shite T-Shirts from Burtons (or better still; copies from Blackwood Market).

To those in the know it meant possibly one of the worst bands in existence.

This blog is dedicated to the spirit of Gallini and will contain music related posts which will in all likelihood be for Punk, Grind, D-Beat, Crust and anything else noisy.

Hope to get some old school Blaenau Gwent/South Wales noise on here as well.

Cheers

Sutton