Pumf Records

27/11/2024

A couple of months back I told you of a Nil by Nose CD album release called 'Pictures On Trains Repainted', featuring a remix by Howl in the Typewriter. Carl (The Dullbedsitblogger) tells me that the digital version of the album is now on BandCamp, so I'm telling you the same - go listen!

34 track album

07/11/2024

PRESS RELEASE - Pumf Records Competition, closing date November 7th

Well, here we are at the end of the most eagerly-awaited promotional event in history, namely winning a 40-year-old-plus copy of Stanzine #5, and with a staggering three entries to process, you can imagine how long it's taken to make our decision.
All three entrants gave the correct answer to the question (asking what the Chief Medical Officer's Warning was - answer, 'Smoking will make your bo****ks drop off'), so the decision was based on their tiebreaker statement as to why they should win, as follows:

Ade Rowe - "I deserve to win because I fu***ng deserve to win and anyone else who wins is a fu***ng c**t that will probably just leave the zine to gather dust or use it as emergency bog roll. F**k them. I deserve to win. No one else. Only me. The rest are fu***ng cumstains. F**k them all."
Spencer Wakeling - "Morrissey has a nose - this answer, in response to a competition to name Morrissey in four words, was good enough for me to win Hatful of Hollow from Jamming magazine in the 1980’s. A girlfriend of mine inadvertently later sold said prize for 20p at a car boot sale, which is, (coincidentally?) exactly the cover price of the Stanzine prize, so it seems that fate has already willed it so."
John Howard - "I deserve this, I really do, I like Pumf stuff, & I like you too."

It was a difficult decision, but we felt that a 40-year old answer to a completely different competition wasn't strictly contemporary enough in Spencer's case, and a short poem based on flattery in John's case, though very much appreciated, wasn't quite as apt as Ade's heartfelt plea.
Therefore, Ade wins the copy of Stanzine #5!
Spencer and John will be receiving consolation prizes of whatever we find lying around that won't cost too much to post.
As ever, sincere thanks go to the other nearly-eight-billion of you who completely ignored what Pumf Records was doing.

To see the original competition, click: https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=f4fdf704c1b577cd0dee54a6e&id=9dbf99ad29

22/10/2024

Shaun Robert asked if I would like to submit another Howl in the Typewriter recording to his long-running musique concrete compilation album series, and, of course, yessirree!
He's just alerted me to the album release - it's called Audio Report E and is out now on Bandcamp (https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/audio-report-e). The Howl in the Typewriter track 'Echolalia' off the album is here: https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/track/echolalia

from the album Audio Report E

19/10/2024

Darrell Draeger has e-mailed me again (one week since the last one) to say he's now he's now posted about the latest godspunk compilation album, as well as the Howl one:
https://1980scassetteculture.blogspot.com/2024/10/godspunk-volume-twenty-six-two-disc.html
Like I said last post, His blog is full of pointers to great obscure bands and albums, and if you search a bit you'll find loads of other Pumf releases featured up there.

Pumf Records also recently released number twenty-six in their long and ongoing Godspunk series. Believe it or don't,Volume one in this G...

11/10/2024

Darrell Draeger has e-mailed me to say he's done a post about the latest Howl in the Typewriter album 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind' on his blog (https://1980scassetteculture.blogspot.com/). It's dated Friday, October 11, 2024, should you visit at some future time when he's posted more stuff and knocked Howl off the top of the page. His blog is full of pointers to great obscure bands and albums, and if you search a bit you'll find loads of other Pumf releases featured up there.

 I started trading tapes back in about 1987, and one of the first international artists I came in contact with was a funny guy in Berlin named Lord Litter. It was quite a process before the internet came along, and sometimes it took weeks for mail to pass back and forth. I had also been trading tap...

26/09/2024

Carl (The Dullbedsitblogger) has just sent me a copy of the 'Pictures On Trains Repainted' CD. It features loads of short recordings made by Nil by Nose to accompany videos of graffiti-adorned trains that Carl had filmed, and each of those recordings has been remixed by A. N. Other. One of those remixes is by Howl in the Typewriter, and I've made a video for it which features loads of Blackpool graffiti (though none from on a train - this is all brick wall art). It's up on YouTube now - click/view!

'First Capital Connect Runner (Aword Zemoe Jaws)' is a song written and recorded by Nil by Nose, and which was remixed in 2023 by Howl in the Typewriter. Bot...

08/09/2024

Great video review of the godspunk series here:

In this video we take a look at the excellent "godspunk" series from the Blackpool-based label Pumf Records. One of the longest running and most eclectic com...

28/08/2024

. . . and the second of two new album releases here at Pumf Records is a new album by Howl in the Typewriter, 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind'. You can buy your copy on the Pumf website at http://www.batcow.co.uk/pumf/pumf.htm #889, or there's a digital version on BandCamp at https://pumf.bandcamp.com/album/shut-your-mouth-and-open-your-mind.
These are the songs that started life back in June 2022 with drumtrack and percussion recordings by dJohn (you might remember a timelapse video of those sessions being posted here - I bet if you scroll down, it'll still be there!). I started adding guitars and other sounds to those recordings around springtime this year, and the result is this psychedelic explosion of thrash - a true thrashadelic experience.

23/08/2024

The first of two new album releases here at Pumf Records is another installment of godspunk, volume twenty-six. You can buy your copy on the Pumf website at http://www.batcow.co.uk/pumf/pumf.htm #882, or there's a digital version on BandCamp at https://pumf.bandcamp.com/album/godspunk-volume-twenty-six-double-album. (you can listen for free, you cheapskate).
It's a double-CD compilation with 38 tracks by 20 bands (Howl in the Typewriter, UNIT, The Large Veiny Members, Nil by Nose, dr awkward, Awkward Geisha, shaun robert, NostrilFlair, DOORGASM, Alan Ward, Lud Waste, Tom Antona, DJ Makochin, DJ Sid James, Food Fortunata, The Big Busker, Jeffrey Dwayne, Larry Boothroyd, Molly McClelland and Proud F**koo Band).

11/08/2024

Despite most of my recent listening time being taken up with repeatedly hearing the tracks for godspunk volume twenty-six compilation album and the new Howl in the Typewriter album 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind' (both at the pressing plant as I type), I've managed to make time to listen to the new Dodo Resurrection II album (from The Golden Gonk) several times now. It's an impressive listen. Imagine that a late 1960's / early 1970's prog rock band have somehow fallen through a timehole into the 2020's and created a monster instrumental album using some guitar sounds they wouldn't have had back in their own time. I would heartily recommend that you take the time to check it out. The Discogs link is below, but I just googled the album and loads of hits came up - it's for sale on eBay (with some tasty bundles of extras as well) as well as Bandcamp.
Is this my album of the year? Well, not counting the obvious Pumf Records releases, I'd say that it is. Go and see if it's yours, too!

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2024 CDr release of "Secret Rites Of Self-Purification" on Discogs.

07/08/2024

Back in 1990 Dandelion Adventure (the band I was in) recorded a session for John Peel's Radio One show, which was broadcast twice and then largely forgotten - though was rebroadcast a couple of times on BBC Radio 6 in more recent times. It's just been released on vinyl, however, with our first demo tape and a couple of rehearsal recordings on the flipside. If you fancy getting hold of a copy you can buy it at Action Records (https://www.actionrecords.co.uk/shop/dandelion-adventure_b00.htm). If you'd like to read a review of it, there's a very personal account by Andrew Neal at https://www.silentradio.co.uk/06/19/album-review-dandelion-adventure-john-peel-session/.

For those of us who live in small towns with often inconsequential music scenes, the arrival of a band whose ambitions and talents stretched beyond playing the local pub rock venues was always a cause for celebration. The Dandelion Adventure emerged from Preston and its surrounds, initially in 1986....

02/07/2024

Ade Cowzone sent me an e-mail to say that his latest compilation album is now up on Bandcamp, at https://awkwardgeisha.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-dada-a-geisha-sun-cookies-compilation?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ebTz7798AfJtAbARzq3_uwivbLYy6sMJdExm21yaf980hG4zLs5Z2qaM_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw. I'm listening to it as I type, and so far it's very entertaining (not least because there's a Howl in the Typewriter song 'Dot Co Dot Co Dot UK' at position two in the tracklist). Click the link, have a listen!

30 track album

14/06/2024

Just a few words to remember the inimitable Lord Litter, who died on May 1st this year. There's a lengthy article about him on The Magic Net at http://www.mickmagic.net/Lord%20Litter%20RIP%201.htm, detailing his musical output. I remember him more, though, for his tireless support and the publicity he generated for other bands. I've been sending him Pumf Records promo albums for years, and he was always incredibly enthusiastic, always sent a quick response thanking me and followed up with playlists for his radioshows that featured Pumf songs. He created an archive of those radioshows (https://archive.org/details/) - if you want to hear new and interesting music, have a listen. He also featured as a guest vocalist on the Howl in the Typewriter album 'Manifesto', about which I was delighted. He was due to do more vocals for Howl's 'The Sound Of Musick' album, too, but ill health stopped him from doing so. We're going to miss such a champion of the underground.

15/05/2024

WFMU radio in the USofA played a Howl in the Typewriter track ('I Only Have Eyes For You') off the 'Old Man Sings' album a couple of weeks back, April 29th. Today the same station has a broadcast a clutch of versions of the same song by different artists, again including Howl. WFMU displays extreme good taste, is what we say here at Pumf Records!