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25/07/2018
EPISODE 04: I Don't Want To Go To Class (1978-1988)

New episode of Doggy Bag Radio, presented by one of the Awkward Sons.

60 mins of obscure post punk 7"s, lost DIY bangers and weirdo lo-fi filth from 1978-1988.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Doggy_Bag/episode-04-i-dont-want-to-go-to-class-1978-1988/

To hear the fourth release on the Doggy Bag label, go here: https://doggingbag.bandcamp.com/album/anti-human-interaction TRACKLIST: The Skodas - Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad (1981) Extremes - Ephemeral Living (1979) Xao Seffcheque & Der Rest - Mir Fehlen Die Worte (1982) Anima - Logic...

17/07/2018
EPISODE 03: I Hate America (1977-1988)

New episode of Doggy Bag Radio.

60 minutes of self-released/rare post punk, DIY and experimental 7"s and forgotten classics from 1977-1988.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Doggy_Bag/episode-03-i-hate-america-1977-1988/

TRACKLIST: The Work - I Hate America (1981) Fancy Rosy - Punk Police (1977) Nuclear Crayons - Catwalk (1983) Anna Blüm - Mourning In Yellow (1980) D-Mark - Geld S*x Macht Gewalt (1980) Kain - Dadamerica (1985) Glorious Strangers - Why Don't You Join The Army? (1980) Model Citizens - Shift The Blame...

25/02/2018
Episode 02: Times of Panic

The second episode of Doggy Bag Radio (a new show from one of The Awkward Sons) is good to go!

Just over an hour of obscure post punk 7"s and oddball DIY from the late 70s/early 80s.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Doggy_Bag/episode-02-times-of-panic/

This one was put together to celebrate our second release, by the Belfast Chapter of The Verboden Boys. There's a link to The Verboden Boys release in the description on the Mixcloud page.

Rinse it.

To hear the second release on the Doggy Bag label, go here: https://doggingbag.bandcamp.com/album/band-from-reality-the-complete-demos TRACKLIST: Jimmy Smack - Hating Life (1983) Eddie Stanton - Lucifer Wants Me For A Sunbeam (1980) Men - Bi***es Dance (1982) Quite Ridiculous Nonsense - General Atti...

19/02/2018
Band From Reality: The Complete Demos, by The Verboden Boys (Belfast Chapter)

The second release on Doggy Bag (a new DIY label run by one of the Awkward Sons) is now available.

The Verboden Boys is an international punk band, co-founded by Dennis Tyfus (Ultra Eczema) in Antwerp in 2015.

The Verboden Boys operates as a chapter-network franchise, with variations of the band existing in different cities, countries or continents. All chapters work from the same list of song titles, but are free to interpret the content and meaning of those songs as they see fit.

Band From Reality collects all known recordings made by the Belfast chapter of The Verboden Boys during their brief two-year existence. DIY synthetic hypergrind is the best description we could come up with (which doesn't help anyone), but if you love Sm**ma and you love blast beats, just dive straight in. With 15 songs in 18 minutes, it'll be over before you know it.

"[Band From Reality] ..is either an attempt to take "punk" at its word as plainly as possible, or to take a dump on the genre as a whole. Genuinely quite hard to tell." (Some T**t on the Internet)

The second episode of Doggy Bag Radio will be online by the end of the week.

Rinse it.

https://doggingbag.bandcamp.com/album/band-from-reality-the-complete-demos

15 track album

14/02/2018
Episode 01: Violence Grows

One of the Awkward Sons has a new radio show - check it out!

Episode One of Doggy Bag Radio was put together to celebrate the launch of a new Glasgow DIY label (Doggy Bag).

If an hour of post punk 7"s and oddball DIY from the late 70s/early 80s sounds like your thing, dive on in.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Doggy_Bag/episode-01-violence-grows/

There's also a link to first release on the label in the description on the Mixcloud page.

Rinse it.

To hear the debut release on the Doggy Bag label, go here: https://doggingbag.bandcamp.com/album/shut-in-leper-water-version TRACKLIST: Psychotic Tanks – Let’s Have a Party (1980) No Trend – Mass Sterilization Caused By Venereal Disease (1983) Mission for Christ – Pennies from Hell (Dub Mix)...

11/09/2015
S04 E06 - Lungbutter Breakfast (All-vinyl show)

Another new episode of The Awkward Sons!

It's an all-vinyl show this time, inspired by the mixtapes I used to make for folks when I was a kid. Dive on in for 80 minutes of crackly bangers and surface noise a-plenty.

Expect drugged nocturnal reggae, oddball garage, raging back-porch blues, surreal stream-of-consciousness hip hop, wild Japanese hardcore, weirdo '80s electronics, dubby one-riff psych and a lost classic of American minimalism scored for brass sextet and foghorns.

Butter up.

https://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e06-lungbutter-breakfast-all-vinyl-show/

A vinyl-only show this time, inspired by the mixtapes I used to make for folks as a kid. Nearly all of them opened with Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas - still pretty much the perfect compilation mood-setter. Brooding, slow, spacious, instrumental - after that, you can go absolutely anywhere. So, this epis…

01/04/2015
Buy from Awkward_Sons at Discogs Marketplace

Shutting up shop for a while as of tomorrow (not gonna be in the same place as the records), so if anybody wants anything (like a cheap Harry P***y record!), now's the time. Last trip to the post office is tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Rinse it!

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26/01/2015

New episode of The Awkward Sons, put together in light of Volcanic Tongue closing their doors for good. 44 tracks and nearly three hours long, this one. Dive on in!

It’s always sad when an independent record store decides to call it a day. Even sadder when it’s a great one. Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue, in my opinion, was the greatest.

The breadth and depth of what they carried was unparalleled, and their weekly updates contained some of the most exhilarating and informative album reviews I’d ever read. Almost everything I picked up became a firm favourite, and/or pointed me in directions I previously didn't even know existed.

This episode is made up of music that probably wouldn't have been on my radar if it wasn't for Volcanic Tongue. Some of it would have landed on my shelves without VT’s input, but that’s not the point. The way in provided by the amazing writing, the chats in the shop and the gigs they put on resulted in a cumulative epiphany that changed the way I listen to and think about music for good.

Alex Neilson put it best – “Its closure hasn't just left a gaping hole in Glasgow's cultural landscape, but that of the world.”

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e05-for-volcanic-tongue-highest-possible-recommendation/

18/01/2015
Stumbling through 2014 - a year in flashes and in review (part 1 - the music)

Totally chuffed to see the Splashy the Blame-Shifter, Lenina and Ship Canal cassette on Herhalen (a cassette/download label run by The Awkward Sons) getting a mention in Misfit City's rundown of 2014 musical highlights. Great wee blog.

"One slice of noisiness which particularly appealed to me was the Herhalen label’s triple-artist cassette ‘Bourgeois Kerb Stomp’, which was split between the bouncing distortions, little mechanisms and samples of Splashy the Blame-Shifter, the torrential drum-machines-and-feedback onslaught of Lenina, and the downbeat Salford dole-life sound-paintings of Ship Canal (one of which was a lo-fi, dirty-Proustian ramble through the artist’s old takeaway food bills)."

Looking for a little authority? I have as little as anyone. However, in a year in which I personally failed to keep up with many things – developments, any number of fast-flying cutting edges, revi...

18/01/2015

Bit of Sunday afternoon listening, for anyone who missed it going up on Friday night.

60s baroque psychedelia, Ennio Morricone in late night jazz noir mode, Shining-inspired haunted ballroom schmaltz, Mark Fell's ridiculous take on house music, long-lost no wave named after Lee Harvey Oswald's assassin, Raymond Scott advertising washing detergent, amazing post-Velvets downer rock from a bunch of New Zealand criminals, Bill Orcutt covering Ornette Coleman, crusty punks playing Irish folk music, full force oddball hip hop and Ship Canal's moving tribute to Just Eat.

Dive on in.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e04-co-opted-by-c***s/

16/01/2015

Bloody hell, it’s been a while. So to make up for months of neglect (what’s new?), it's time for a bumper Awkward special – over 90 minutes of high end, low brow underground stink.

If you’ve always wanted to hear Ennio Morricone in minimalist jazz noir mode rubbing shoulders with caustic, asbestos-obsessed ‘80s post punk, you’re in the right place.

Throw in some New Zealand criminals, a rabid Catalan lullaby, mangled contemporary no wave, an Ornette Coleman cover, spiders from the ‘60s, oddball house music sourced straight from Satan’s synths, haunted ballroom schmaltz and some post-Whitehouse electronics (the source of this week’s charming episode appellation), and you’ve picked yourself a winner.

Standard home-baked, rough around the edges feel.

Suit up, di****ad.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e04-co-opted-by-c***s/

28/08/2014
Various artists - Bourgeois Kerb Stomp

Huge thanks to Matt Ev and The List for their kind words on the latest Herhalen release - a three-way split documenting the solo projects and needless self-indulgences of tramp juice power trio, Ex-Servicemen.

"Bourgeois Kerb Stomp is an inspiring, varied triumvirate, proving that DIY’s outer fringes offer not only gloriously intoxicating noise, but subtlety, depth and naked, grubby humanity."

Industrial dub power trio Ex-Servicemen split three ways for this experimental/noise cassette release

26/08/2014
Bourgeois Kerb Stomp, by Splashy the Blame-Shifter, Lenina and Ship Canal

Only 8 physical copies of the latest Herhalen release left!

Make a move if there's a gaping void on your shelf, desperately crying out for, "the sound of receipts and wrappers, fading back into pulp and mud, in the gutters of decaying cityscapes, that themselves are fading back into the earth." (Forest Punk)

Screen-printed artwork, unique, hand-numbered Polaroid and hand-stamped cardboard outer sleeve as standard.

Sense of over-whelming emptiness optional.

8 track album

06/07/2014
Bourgeois Kerb Stomp, by Herhalen

The Awkward Sons are prone to a bit of noise-making, and we've got a new split release out with the always brilliant Ship Canal. Check it out!

Bourgeois Kerb Stomp is a new three-way split between members of Ex-Servicemen, Glasgow’s only industrial dub power trio. From gruelling fast food confessionals and air-burning amp abuse, to piano-led laments and pitiless digital dread, this hackneyed pageant of lack is a sprawling, tasteless slog through the long, lonely blank.

Splashy the Blame-Shifter works piano, banjo and microphones into detailed mutant drones and screaming hard drive psych. Utterly joyless - a lot like that Patty Waters/Pan Sonic/Prurient record you’ve heard so much about. Built for headphones.

Lenina uses drum machines and feedback to generate torrential grid-locked anti-rock. Refusing anything other than endless climax, this is feral, sense-melting excess with its eyes on the heavens and its hands round your throat.

Ship Canal stole most of his gear, and it shows. Grimy, broken Britain slop caked in dole queue gloom and the stench of rising damp. The kind that leads to lung infections. Think Storm Bugs fronted by The Bohman Brothers. Or Scott & Co with synths.

Each tape comes with original screen-printed artwork by Vickie McDonald, a unique, hand-numbered Polaroid photograph by Victoria Stevenson, and a hand-stamped cardboard outer sleeve.

8 track album

15/06/2014
Extra Normal Records: Mixes

The Awkward Sons recently put a mix together for Extra Normal Records - check it out!

Just under an hour of dark, twisted, punishing death/black/doom metal, with a bit of grind chucked in for good measure. You can stream or download it from their site.

Tracklist in the comments.

Extra Normal Records: independent label.

27/05/2014

The new episode of The Awkward Sons is now up on Mixcloud.

This week, there's a small feature on Dub S*x, one of the UK's greatest bands, along with all the usual night time psychedelia, echo-heavy post punk, ridiculous dub, private press folk obscurities, wild jazz and heart-breaking blues.

Get inside it.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e03-the-dreadnought-hoax/

21/05/2014

The next episode in The Awkward Sons' on-going quest for internet domination is now online.

It's a slightly longer show this time, mainly due to the teetering heap of rinsers that couldn't wait another week.

So, strap your arses in for nearly 80 minutes of lo-fi Canadian private press folk, amp-wrecking French proto punk, two wildly different settings of biblical Psalms, droning midnight blues, a quick look at Rodd Keith and the Song Poem scene, free jazz that sounds like a fleet of African drummers, off-the-radar west coast psych and a healthy hit of dub-damaged post punk obscurities.

Crank it.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e02-dandy-jacobite-hero/

15/05/2014

It's been a fu***ng long time coming, but The Awkward Sons are back!

We'll be using Mixcloud from now on, just cos it's easier than trekking all the way down to the Subcity studios. Plus my living room sofa is really, really comfy. It might all be a bit rough round the edges, but nobody said you deserved the best. if they did, they were lying.

Since it's our first show back, we've lined up a total monster. A ca****la prison minimalism from John Fahey's Takoma label, OTT Australian post punk, Thatcher-era British bedsit dread, Mexican dancefloor garage/psych, dead-eyed venereal techno, brittle shotgun blues, Eastern-influenced jazz and a huge slab of sunshine dub.

And if that's whet your appetite for more, more, more, you can find all of our old shows here - http://www.subcity.org/shows/patricks...

Suit up, di****ad.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s04-e01-the-khrushchev-thaw/

13/02/2014
SYS Records Vol2 Warzone Benefit Compilation, by Savour Your Scene Records

Ex-Servicemen, the tramp juice power trio I f**k around in with Daniel Baker and Anthony Morrow, have a track featured on this staggering 64-track digital compilation.

It's a benefit comp for the Warzone Collective in Belfast - a genuinely amazing grassroots DIY gig venue/social space with all the right ideals. Also home to some of the most amazing underground gigs I went to as a teenager. It'll be pretty tragic if it has to close, leaving a real gap in the Belfast music scene.

The compilation is £1. You should definitely fu***ng get it. There's tons of Irish/UK underground rinsers on it, and you're guaranteed to find something new/incredible.

64 track album

11/02/2014
http://www.bookshelfboyfriend.com/introduction-to-jazz-part-one/

One half of The Awkward Sons has put together a five-part Introduction to Jazz for Bookshelf Boyfriend. It's pretty fu***ng subjective and as free of technical nonsense/abrasive brutality as possible - nothing but songs, songs, songs.

First three parts are going up today, tomorrow and Thursday, with the final two appearing some time next week. Fire on in!

13/01/2014
7 Awkward Inches: F. Clark - No Darkness

It's been a long time coming, but the first 7 Awkward Inches post of the year is a reggae-heavy mix from Fergus Clark (So Weit So Gut / 12th Isle Transmissions) - the perfect antidote to Glasgow's indomitable season of sorrow!

As ever, it's all 7"s all the time, and there's a full visual tracklist to get your face around.

We've got a ton of new and exclusive 7" mixes from our favourite DJs in the pipeline, so keep a fu***ng eye out. But for now, crank the living s**t out of this.

25/10/2013
7 Awkward Inches: Ship Canal presents 'The Rise Of Potato Fascism'

Here's the c**t you've all been waiting for - Daniel Ship Canal's incredible 7"-only mix, put together exclusively for 7 Awkward Inches.

This one's got the lot - raging '90s hardcore, impotent alcho-folk, The Residents, Japanese sound art, Richard Youngs, hefty dub abuse, Tubby Hayes, and a bunch of kids all strung out on fu***ng Lemon Jelly.

Free download, full visual tracklist, a write-up for each track used... You couldn't ask for more, could you? Well, YOU probably could. Wind your fu***ng neck in, eh?

Also, feel free to check out the other mixes up on the blog, including Duncan Harvey's cinematic schmaltz masterpiece, Make Yourself Comfortable, and my own post punk/blunt industrial punishment session, Size Matters.

And there'll be more exclusive vinyl-only 7" mixes to come - keep an eye out!

07/08/2013
7 Awkward Inches: Duncan Harvey - Make Yourself Comfortable

This month's 7 Awkward Inches mix comes courtesy of Duncan Harvey, and it's a total rinse out. Just under 40 minutes of schmaltzy cinematic jazz, late night French pop and American oddball harmonica noir.

There's a whole load of off-the-beaten-track s**t here, mixed with some well-worn sultry bangers. And some Scott Walker. Classic Duncan.

27/06/2013
The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart // Summer Special - The Awkward Sons in Berlin

A one-off extended episode of The Awkward Sons, recorded in Berlin and featuring a ton of new gear bought in the finest record shops the city has to offer.

Expect Shackleton-approved '70s British folk, obscure psych/garage masterpieces, late night synth threat from Pseudo Code at their most Coil-damaged, two wildly different approaches to broken blues from Bill Orcutt (one track featuring Chris Corsano, one with Loren Connors), a cut from Holly Hendron's amazing album, spooked New York DIY minimalism featuring a home-made wooden organ and a former member of Fus**tsusha, Glasgow's greatest ever post punk unit and Regis' minimal wave alter ego, Sandra Plays Electronics.

There won't be any other Awkward Sons episodes for the rest of the summer, so get it while it's hot!

An episode of The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart on Subcity Radio

26/06/2013
The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart // Summer Special - The Awkward Sons in Berlin

A few Awkward months in Berlin has resulted in some seriously swollen record crates, so it's only fair that we share the fruits of our inevitable financial deterioration.

This one was recorded in my living room in Berlin using some pretty ropey gear, so you'll have to excuse the lo-fi feel.

Just call it intimacy.

Expect the following...

Old '70s folk songs that would eventually end up as Shackleton samples.

Mind-blowing emotional wipe-outs from long-lost occult garage/psych loners.

A double-dip into Bill Orcutt's most recent collaborative rinse outs (one involving Chris Corsano, one with Loren Connors).

An archival banger from Regis' minimal wave alter ego, Sandra Plays Electronics.

Brutally under-appreciated '90s post punk from the greatest band Glasgow ever produced.

Mika Vainio pumping out some subtly brain-bending minimalist bleep techno.

The metal record of the fu***ng year.

Stunning post-Beefheart/Royal Trux riff-abuse from Ron House of Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and Jared Phillips of Times New Viking.

A heart-bursting account of seeing the ocean for the first time, taken from De Stijl's recent digital reissues of the still peerless Poetry Out Loud series.

And Sonny Day bringing the '50s to the future with some totally unprecedented sax/synth action.

Crank the utter f**k out of it.

An episode of The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart on Subcity Radio

21/06/2013
7 Awkward Inches

A new mix I put together recently using nothing but a bunch of battered 7" records. Prime Friday night listening, ready to be streamed/downloaded. As an added bonus, there's a full visual tracklist and a brief write-up for each tune used.

Expect unlikely top ten chart smashes from the 70s, oddball minimal synth, a Roland Rat record, otherworldly Mauritian folk/psych, Italian punks singing about sanitary towels, Noam Chomsky talking about Iraq, a cover of Fever, a German language lesson record and some lo-fi jazz.

Crank it.

17/06/2013
7 Awkward Inches

7 Awkward Inches is a new blog devoted to exclusive vinyl-only 7" mixes.

The first mix is up there and ready to be streamed/downloaded, so fire on over. As an added bonus, there's a full visual tracklist and a brief write-up for each tune used. Expect everything from oddball post punk and unearthly Mauritian psych to drugged minimal synth abuse and some crap I picked up in Oxfam Music.

I'll be adding more mixes from some of my favourite DJs as and when they come in, so keep an eye out. It'll be fascinating to see what c***s come up with when they're stuck with nothing but 7"s.

22/02/2013

Prime weekend listening, innit.

Get your mouths around Tony's latest mix - warped anti-dancefloor electronics, fuzzed out improvised blues, off-the-radar/wall industrial anthems and glorious New Zealand garage.

Nice and heavy on the digital effects abuse as well. Easily my favourite Morrow mix. Rinse it.

http://www.mixcloud.com/chris-storey/s**t-empty-bookcase/

29/01/2013

DJs - anybody got a flight case for 100 records I could borrow this weekend? Will post it back to you next week. Any help would be a lifesaver - sick of buying flight cases!

26/01/2013
The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart // S03 E10: A Skull Full of Maggots

Here's the last ever episode of The Awkward Sons, just in case you missed it this week.

This one's a non-stop grinding metal assault - Sarcófago, Confessor, Brutal Truth, Bathory, Demigod, Holy Terror etc. Pretty sure there'll be something for everyone in there, regardless of what type of metal you're into. Tracklist is in the link.

Prime Saturday afternoon booze tunes. Get on it.

An episode of The Awkward Sons of Patrick Stewart on Subcity Radio

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