Damaged Goods Books

26/11/2024

A reminder that our white vinyl Christmas compilation is out of Friday and shipping now!

A DAMAGED CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU from DAMAGED GOODS is now on SNOWY WHITE VINYL!

BUY HERE - https://shop.damagedgoods.co.uk/products/a-damaged-christmas-gift-for-you?Format=12%22+WHITE+Vinyl+LP

As we said back in 2018...

Can Fifteen Great Christmas Songs be collected together on one lovely 12-inch vinyl disc featuring bands and artists from the Damaged Goods archives? …you betcha bottom dollar they can!

Each song has been recorded with the Christmas spirit in full flow and we’d guess the odd mince pie was consumed along the way as well. The full-on Christmas feeling that is flowing through these wonderful tracks is a joy to behold and we implore you to not just read these sleeve notes but to go crimble-crumble-crazy and actually buy this record and treasure it, not only this year but for many years to come.

We are very proud to have put this album together as Christmas is our favourite time of the year. We love the feeling at special Christmas gigs – the over-inflated people and prices of things and the way everyone just has to go out and drink as much as they possibly can in the name of the good old lord Jesus. We did this for you, and only for you because we really, really care and want to share the joy that only Damaged Goods Records can bring you at this special time of the year.

So enjoy some great music from the likes of Wild Billy Childish, Miss Holly Golightly, Helen Love, Goldblade & Poly Styrene, The Courettes and so many more and remember, this LP is not just for Christmas it’s for LIFE!

Peas on Earth

Ian & Duncan Damaged, on the National Elf

19/11/2024

SPECIAL XMAS OFFER!

Get London's Lost Music Venues Volumes 1 & 2 for the special price of £25

Great Christmas reading for the music lover in your life!

BUY HERE - https://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/buy/2-books-for/

19/11/2024

OUT NOW!

Four days to FHtH2024 - and a pre order link is in the comments...

Four years into their existence and New Order were nearing the end of their first ‘proper’ UK tour. To date they hadn’t strung more than three dates together on home soil but Portsmouth (Aug ’84) was the seventh of eight dates and as such, the tour that finally beat me. Margate and Chippenham Goldiggers sounded like they could have been a hoot but I’d only made it to Hull and Gloucester and it was all too much. To be fair, ever since mid ’81, with the cost factor kicking in the band had regularly larger tours abroad (Europe, US and Australia) but in the UK this was a noticeable push and very Factory-like… as there was no album or single to promote. :)

The day before Portsmouth had probably felt more strenuous than a normal gig for the band, as they had crawled along massive traffic jams traveling up to London from Cornwall to perform for half an hour live mid afternoon on the BBC 2 music marathon, Rock Around The Clock. Being a Saturday, after a lunchtime pub session I’d hauled a bunch of friends back to my house to watch it and as the band had arrived to the Beeb very late they’d played out a frustrating, technically hampered session, heard in full stereo clarity via a link up with Radio 2. I then went on a bender for the rest of the day, not ideal preparation to head to Portsmouth Guildhall the next lunchtime. After the TV misfire Barney might have felt like going on a bender, too but the next day he’d be heading to Portsmouth Guildhall, too…. which was handy.

Five of us drove down to find our guest list tickets were seats up in the balcony, which after that new experience at the Royal Festival Hall I remember being fine with. It was punchy loud, I remember that. Thumping clearly through the speakers and again like the RFH night, it seemed perfect for anyone up a floor. The crowd were loud too. I bet those chanting ‘Here we go’ following opener Confusion would have been jumping big time when Face Up arrived two tracks later, as the line ‘Oh, how I cannot bear the thought of you’ seemed to take on a life of its own with the audience. From Heaven in 1981 to well… the gig to come, any wind of change has maybe blown stronger through them than through the band.

Buried somewhere I have the very large tour poster. Unusually, especially for the era, I got it signed by a couple of our heroes in Portsmouth… in weedy biro. Rookie mistake.

05/11/2024

In the shops Friday

Four days to FHtH2024 - and a pre order link is in the comments...

Four years into their existence and New Order were nearing the end of their first ‘proper’ UK tour. To date they hadn’t strung more than three dates together on home soil but Portsmouth (Aug ’84) was the seventh of eight dates and as such, the tour that finally beat me. Margate and Chippenham Goldiggers sounded like they could have been a hoot but I’d only made it to Hull and Gloucester and it was all too much. To be fair, ever since mid ’81, with the cost factor kicking in the band had regularly larger tours abroad (Europe, US and Australia) but in the UK this was a noticeable push and very Factory-like… as there was no album or single to promote. :)

The day before Portsmouth had probably felt more strenuous than a normal gig for the band, as they had crawled along massive traffic jams traveling up to London from Cornwall to perform for half an hour live mid afternoon on the BBC 2 music marathon, Rock Around The Clock. Being a Saturday, after a lunchtime pub session I’d hauled a bunch of friends back to my house to watch it and as the band had arrived to the Beeb very late they’d played out a frustrating, technically hampered session, heard in full stereo clarity via a link up with Radio 2. I then went on a bender for the rest of the day, not ideal preparation to head to Portsmouth Guildhall the next lunchtime. After the TV misfire Barney might have felt like going on a bender, too but the next day he’d be heading to Portsmouth Guildhall, too…. which was handy.

Five of us drove down to find our guest list tickets were seats up in the balcony, which after that new experience at the Royal Festival Hall I remember being fine with. It was punchy loud, I remember that. Thumping clearly through the speakers and again like the RFH night, it seemed perfect for anyone up a floor. The crowd were loud too. I bet those chanting ‘Here we go’ following opener Confusion would have been jumping big time when Face Up arrived two tracks later, as the line ‘Oh, how I cannot bear the thought of you’ seemed to take on a life of its own with the audience. From Heaven in 1981 to well… the gig to come, any wind of change has maybe blown stronger through them than through the band.

Buried somewhere I have the very large tour poster. Unusually, especially for the era, I got it signed by a couple of our heroes in Portsmouth… in weedy biro. Rookie mistake.

01/11/2024

MONDAY 11th NOVEMBER @ 7pm

Conversation and signing event with author Dec Hickery at Rough Trade East!

TICKETS HERE - https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/ry3k3r-dec-hickey-in-conversation-signing-11th-nov-rough-trade-east-london-tickets

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an in-store conversation and signing from Dec Hickey (From Heaven to Heaven… author, New Order Definitive Edition Boxsets contributor) with Dave Simpson (Guardian music critic, author, New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies Definitive Edition Boxset writer), Jon Marsh (The Beloved) and Jon Wozencroft (Touch label founder (Feature Mist inc Video 5-8-6), Joy Division's Heart and Soul boxset (co-curator and photography).

This is a standing event, in-conversation is due to last around 60 minutes.

This unique event celebrates the release of 'From Heaven to Heaven: New Order Live - The Early Years (1981-1984) at Close Quarters', Dec Hickey's book, released via Damaged Goods Books.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show.

If you can't make it to Rough Trade you can buy the book direct from our mail order here -

https://shop.damagedgoods.co.uk/products/from-heaven-to-heaven

31/10/2024

OUT NEXT FRIDAY! Author Dec Hickey's book about the early days of New Order live!

From Heaven to Heaven: New Order Live - The Early Years (1981-1984) at Close Quarters By Dec Hickey

Out of print since its initial 2012 very limited first edition run. Contains exclusive 7” featuring previously unreleased 1983 interview with Bernard Sumner conducted by the author. Over 400 unique-to-this-publication photos of the band and 200 plus images of rare memorabilia.

AVAILABLE FROM ALL GOOOD BOOK STORES OR BUY DIRECT FROM US HERE -

https://shop.damagedgoods.co.uk/products/from-heaven-to-heaven

07/10/2024

The two volumes of London's Lost Music Venues, plus 1-2 Cut YourHair: The Sory of Johnny Moped are all available via the NEW DG online shop.

Get your copies here - https://shop.damagedgoods.co.uk/collections/books

07/10/2024

From Heaven to Heaven: New Order Live - The Early Years (1981-1984) at Close Quarters By Dec Hickey

OUR NEXT BOOK IS OUT IN NOVEMBER!

Hardback in slipcase + 7” vinyl. Out of print since its initial 2012 very limited first edition run. Contains exclusive 7” featuring previously unreleased 1983 interview with Bernard Sumner conducted by the author. Over 400 unique-to-this-publication photos of the band and 200 plus images of rare memorabilia.

PREORDER HERE - https://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/buy/from-heaven-to-heaven-new-order/

USA CUSTOMERS can save postage by purchasing via our US distributor MVD -

https://mvdshop.com/products/dec-hickey-from-heaven-to-heaven-new-order-live-the-early-years-1981-1984-at-close-quarters-book

A truly unique biography that documents in detail the early live career of an iconic band as never before. Including every UK gig between Feb ’81 and June ’84 - some fifty plus nights - Dec Hickey witnessed New Order’s first formative steps on from the demise of Joy Division.

Forewords by Peter Hook and Stephen Morris
Introductions by Moby and Paul Morley

16/05/2024

Gotta say, this is pretty great...ALBUM OUT TOMORROW! Get it here https://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/johnny-moped/

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Johnny Moped products available at Damaged Goods