Love Collector - Music For Morons

  

  I've played a few songs by Austin, Texas band Love Collector on the show in the last year or so (they released a very fine ep last August https://sweettime.bandcamp.com/album/first-night-last-night-of-leather) but I'd forgotten I'd featured them on the blog back in 2020 when I posted their cover of Good Throb's Toner Loner.  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/08/love-collector-toner-loner.html

  The song you'll find below is taken from a compilation album from Fake Sex Tape titled FST Compilation #1. It features "Various Motherfuckers From Around The World Playing Punk And Garage Music" and you can find it here : https://fakesextape.bandcamp.com/album/fst-compilation-1

  This is Music For Morons... 

Cold Meat - Prick at the Pub

  

  It was only a couple of weeks ago when I was telling you about a new Demo from Amerol (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2025/03/amerol-security-breach.html) that I was getting all nostalgic over Perth band Cold Meat. Amerol feature vocalist Ashley Ack and guitarist K-Hole from Cold Meat so in my mind I was resigned to Cold Meat being no more.

  So I'm overjoyed to be proven wrong. There's a new ep out on 18th April and it's gloriously titled Cake And Arse Party. It'll be available from Static Shock Records on vinyl and digital download :  https://staticshockrecords.limitedrun.com/products/866001-cold-meat-cake-and-arse-party-7-preorder-ships-april-18th  

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cake-and-arse-party

      Showcasing Ashley's superbly strident vocal delivery (she's this generation's Eve Libertine and one of my favourite current vocalists), this is the lead track. It's called Prick at the Pub... 

BIG MESS - Terry

    

  Big Mess (https://www.facebook.com/bigmessdk) are from Copenhagen and yes, you guessed it they've featured on here previously (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/11/big-mess-venus-in-bovver-boots.html / https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2023/10/big-mess-walk-all-over-me.html) with a cover of a Nips song and also a track that had me describing them as big, brash and bouncy. 

  Today sees them return in equally ebullient form with a teaser for their new 7". Available via Specialist Subject Records and Bandcamp in several different packages you'll find more details here :     https://specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/big-mess-terry-ep-7 and here :   https://bigmessdk.bandcamp.com/album/terry-ep

  They've also a few UK gigs lined up this week : 

 3RD APRIL - The Lughole, Sheffield with Coughin Vicars, The Dogs & Desired Effect

 4TH APRIL - The Waiting Room, London with Trash Culture & Leigh Arthur

 5TH APRIL - The Royal Oak, Bath with Gimic & Hektics

 6TH APRIL - Exchange, Bristol (matinee) with Gimic & Bruno and the Outrageous Methods of   Presentation

  You know how some songs have a highly infectious chorus? Well the title track is pretty much like that all the way through. It's a high energy cover of this 1983 Kirsty MacColl single (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivL4QdtiuM) which was also covered by Tracy Ullman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uhz9sGJLqcA) and it's called Terry... 

Sympos - boots & ballads

    

  It's been 5 years since Waterford oi! outfit Sympos (https://www.facebook.com/sympathychips) first featured on Just Some Punk Songs (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/12/sympos-on-scratcher.html) but they're back today with a track from their new album. 

  The album's titled To The Dogs and it's rather grand. A dozen tracks and not a duff one amongst them. You can get it on vinyl here : https://linktr.ee/sympos and as a digital download here :  https://sympos.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-dogs

  They've released a video to accompany the title track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tr3jboQd1M) but as I often do I'm not going with the obvious choice. I'm highlighting the one that was written by and features a guest contribution from Ryan O'Keefe and is named after a 2009 album by Irish legends Runnin' Riot. Modern day Oi doesn't get much better than this. This is Boots & Ballads....