I recently discovered the rather awesome Bristol Archive Records.
Lots of info about bands from around Bristol in the post-punk late 70’s, early 80’s era. Nothing directly Pigbag-related but lots of bands who were around before and at the same time.
So if you want to find out about The Cortinas, Glaxo Babies, The Hybrids and loads more bands from that time and place, have a look at the site, and maybe buy some of the re-issued tracks from the iTunes Store.
I’m sure you’ll have heard this track and I’ve been meaning to include it here for a while.
It’s an electronic dance track which samples the main riff from “Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag”. It reached number 16 in the UK charts last week.
More info at Alex Gaudino’s website – www.alexgaudino.com – which currently has the track playing in the background on the front page.
Here’s the video from YouTube:
Here’s hoping the Pigbag guys are getting their royalties on this.
I recently had an email from Jim to say that he’s resumed his electronic music making after a 10 year break.
You can check out a couple of his new tracks at the ATOMM MySpace page or play with the whizzy Flash page at www.atomm.co.uk.
Starekits – the band that Angela Jaeger was in in New York City in 1979 have a MySpace page.
Go to http://www.myspace.com/starekits for some retro-Angela sounds!
Two tracks by Hardware (James Johnstone’s pre-Pigbag band) are available on a compilation CD by Chuck Warner of hyped2death.com. The tracks “Speed Unit” and “Face the Flag” taken from Hardware’s EP’s. The CD’s come with a very comprehensive booklet with details and images of all the bands featured, the conversion to digital is managed really well. The CD is available by mail order – Messthetics 103.
To celebrate the CD’s availability, Hardware have a website where you can listen to the tracks – http://www.hardware79.co.uk/
My thanks to Mike Chandler for the info
Angela sent me the photo above and the following info about the performance:-
angela jaeger
jutta koether
GRACE / WING will be performed by Angela Jaeger through voice – text – drawings, accompanied by tapes and a snare drum.Angela Jaeger is a New York-based singer who has recorded and performed with a diverse group of musicians including PigBag, The Drowning Craze, Bush Tetras, Billy McKenzie, David Cunningham, Amy Rigby, Jim Sclavunos and Alan Licht. She recently gave a debut joint reading of her Punk Diary project with writer/journalist Byron Coley at Issue Project Room and is currently shaping this material into book form.
METALIST MOMENT (extended version 2007), a presentation with text, music and video-projection by Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether is a New York-based German painter, writer, rock and art critic, musician and performance artist, with projects often interlacing all of these assumed roles. She has exhibited widely at a range of international galleries including Galerie Daniel Buchloz (Cologne), Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York), White Columns (New York), Kunstlerhaus Vienna, The Swiss Institute (New York), and is a contributor to publications such as Artforum and Afterall. Koether regularly collaborates with Kim Gordon on installations and performance projects.
8:00 p.m.; $10
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ISSUE Project Room
400 Carroll Street – Brooklyn, NY 11231
www.issueprojectroom.org
My apologies for the short notice but I just got this:
Angela Jaeger and Byron Coley: NOUVELLE VAGUE…JAMAIS!
Angela Jaeger and Byron Coley met at Hampshire College in 1977. Both flush with excitement from the incipient punk movement, Jaeger’s trajectory carried her through a series of musical groups in both New York and London (Stare Kits, Drowning Craze, Pigbag etc.), Coley’s into a world of underground journalism (NY Rocker, Forced Exposure, Arthur).
Tonight they summon the spirit of the period through records, eyewitness testimony and memoirs. Angela will read from her extensive punk diaries, which are currently being shaped into book form; Byron will read from The Moisture of Diapers, a bilingual collection due soon from Montreal’s l’Oie de Cravan. The records they play will not be chosen by committee!
8:00 p.m.; $10
If anyone makes it to the show, please let me know how it goes/went. And good to hear that Angela’s diaries may well turn into a book.
Found on YouTube, Pigbag miming along to their hit single from 1982.
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I’ve finally uploaded the 3 Instinct tracks from their Radio 1 Janice Long session. The MP3 files can be found on the Instinct page.
My friend and creator of The Pop Group website, Dixon Coulbourn died on 31st July 2005. Dixon shared my enthusiasm for the Bristol music scene of the late 70’s and early 80’s and we kept in touch with news etc. We met a couple of times when he ventured over to the UK and got on well.
As well as his interest in The Pop Group, Dixon was well-known in his native Austin, Texas for his Idle Time fanzine of the early 80’s Austin punk scene. He will be greatly missed
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