Sick Things - Bondage Boy

 

Thanks to everyone who had a read of my top 30 tracks of 2014, in 24 hours it's already had more than twice as many views as any other post on here, hopefully some of your favourites were included. For newcomers to the blog, hang around, it's not just new music that gets posted, I also like to feature great songs from yesteryear. Today's update is one of those.
  I'm no expert on these oldies, I just post songs that I like and try to add a bit of info so if anyone knows more please feel free to share your knowledge in the comments section, it's your blog as much as mine.
  Today's song was recorded at Spacewood Studios in Cambridge in 1977 and was originally intended for release on Raw Records (as Raw 28) but didn't in fact see the light of day (an appearance on a compilation album aside) until Chaos Records put it out in 1983. Following the release of The Killjoys' Johnny Won't Get To Heaven single, The owner of Raw Records put an advert in the classifieds section of Music Maker asking for demo tapes. He says "The telephone never stopped ringing. One of the phone calls came from a girl who called herself Charlie (Greene). She worked for a record pressing plant in the West London area. In a call that probably lasted 45 minutes her personality was so sparkling that I agreed to record her band without ever seeing or hearing them. They were called The Sick Things!"
  The Chaos records release was a 4 track ep entitled The Legendary Sick Things E.P. As far as I'm aware it was the band's only release, it contained the tracks Bondage Boy, Street Kids, Anti-Social Disease and Sleeping With The Dead. It's pretty fast paced, in your face, female fronted punk rock with lyrics about dodgy sexual practices. The band had split by 1978, Charlie Greene briefly joined up with ex Drone Gus Gangrene in a Manchester band called Bitch but after a single called Big City she went off to Sweden and helped form a band called Chatterbox.
  The Sick Things ep was re released in 2000 on Damaged Goods Records. A song about s&m, this is Bondage Boy.......