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Press release
13/12/2006 21:53:52 By Sam
I FEAR NO ONE by THE TRANSMITTERS, Including full four-track JOHN PEEL SESSION. Peel recognised it. So did Fluff. In 1979 The Transmitters were several decades and decibels ahead of even the most hardened post punk rocker. Now we’ve had our urban ears syringed by the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Killers, we can all slip as comfortably into The Transmitters new compilation album, “I fear no one”, as if it was a comfy old pair of slippers. Only a lot louder.
“Ah transmit me baby” moaned an ecstatic John Peel in 1979 as the final bar crashed to a close on the first of the two full-throttle Peel Sessions the band were invited to record. The entire four-track session is featured on their new CD along with other belligerent memorables such as “Dead Siamese Sister” which Melody Maker’s Chris Roberts described at the time as “one of their frenetic mutant paranoid stream-of-consciousness bohemian jazz-noise anthems which like very much to grab you by the retinae and throw you across the doghouse walls”. Of “Ache”, also featured on the new CD, he said it was “their finest murky mope, which sorely tempts me to write out its lyrics in full.”
The compilation is anything but a souvenir of the seventies. This should come as no surprise since the band’s explosive live performances put the fear of god into the listening public. Whiplash from the impact of the first chord is just one of the complaints guitarist Sam Dodson recalls when he leafs through his overflowing scrapbook of reviews, press releases and flyers.
The Transmitters spent the late seventies and entire eighties reducing audiences to meltdown, performing as headline act, or supporting bands such as The Police, The Fall, Scritti Politti, The Human League, Alternative TV and The Slits. In the words of Paul Morley of the NME, following a gig at the Greenwich Theatre
“The Transmitters are the cheekiest group I’ve seen since the Mekons, the wackiest group I’ve seen since Public Image (and almost as sinister). They were, of course, great.”.....available March 5 2007
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Putting dates to the Tracks
25/05/2006 09:35:42 By Sam
Live at Greenwich and Ijax dub are from 1979.
The tracks Rent Girls, Lovers, Squadies, Clean White Clinic are from the Moonlight in 1981.
Beyote Zend Mode and Darker Than Mud are from 1986. These are the first ever Loop guru produced Tracks, notice the swivel to global fusion.
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LIVE AT THE MOONLIGHT 1981
24/05/2006 18:41:58 By Sam
The tracks just posted are Transmitters live at The Moonlight
Rent Girls
Joan of Ark
Lovers not Corpses
World War 3
Squadies
Love Factory
Clean White Clinic
The Beat Goes On
I've left bits of Auidiece applause just to prove we DID have one!!
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Pushing the system
24/05/2006 14:43:30 By Sam
New tracks posted.
The whole of Transmitters live at Greewich, about 8 minutes a track. + The infamous Ijax dub tape - originally sold through Rough Trade mail order. twas a top seller in it's day. each track is about 15 minutes long so it'll take a while to download!!
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Transmitters give away free album
02/05/2006 16:56:23 By Sam
Transmitters give away a free album on You Are Not Stealing Records. The album is called "Count Your Blessings" and features tracks from the 1986 - 1989 lineup. Members Jim Chase, Sam Dodson, Tim Whelan, Dave Mud-Demon, James Mqueen and Hami!
Two of these went on to become Loop Guru, and two others became Transglobal Underground.
http://www.stealingorchestra.com/releases.htm
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Memories are made of these!
02/05/2006 11:12:15 By Sam
Memories of Dexter O'Brien
Lyricist 1976-1979 (Chris Mchallem)
Bray-Co Wicklow...Feb 2006.
Dear Sam-Thanks for the cd which I listened to as soon
as it dropped through the letterbox. The oldest song
here is Person's Unknown, which I wrote one day in
school in 1976. That means it's 30 years old or if you
like its as if in 1976 we'd played a song written just
after the death of Glen Miller. 30 years-that's
probably older than all the Arctic Monkeys put
together...In honour of this occasion i'll tell you 30
things I remember about my time with The Transmitters.
Nearly being called The Locusts.
A bass player who auditioned by playing the theme of
the Cadbury's Flake TV adverts.
Sitting around your house listening to records when we
were supposed to be rehearsing-Lamonte Young/Sonny
Burgess/Wild Man Fisher/Dr Feelgood/Robert
Johnson/Ornette Coleman/999 and Marvin Gaye.
Writing 0.5 Alive in my bedroom in Hanwell while
listening to a recording of The Blood Doner from
Hancock's Half Hour.
Not wanting you to join the band because you were 23
and at the time that made you seem only slightly
younger than Noah.
Discovering when we got the pictures back from our
first photo session that Jim Chase had been wearing
flares.
Punters at a gig outside Swindon telling us that the
last band to play there had been Blackfoot Sioux.
Taking speed before our gig at Dingwalls.
Supporting The Cramps when Brian Gregory was still in
their line-up.
Meeting Jane Fenn at our gig in Hastings.
A letter my cousin sent me saying we reminded him of
Be Bop Deluxe...(I think he meant it as a compliment.)
Rehersals fuelled by I.P.A. and Anyl Nitrate.
The record company telling us that with the right
promotion we could be as big as The Motors.
You and John being invited to join Glen Matlock's new
band, later called The Rich Kids.
Supporting Squeeze and The Police at The Electric
Ballroom in Camden-A gig that drew a crowd of about 60
people.
John and I going up to the BBC to give John Peel a
copy of Nowhere Train.
When half the band left and we had all those stand in
guitarists including Steve Walsh of Manicured Noise,
John Gillani of The Decorators and for one sound check
at The White Hart-Me.
Writing Free Trade after a shoplifting spree on
Regent's Street.
Writing Uninvited Guest after supporting The Slits at
The Last Bastion.
Supporting The Human League at The Nashville.
Taking speed during The Ugly Man sessions in
Cambridge.
Getting Don Letts to plat Sanctus from the Misa Luba
before we went on stage at The Roxy.
Not wanting Sid Wells to join the band because he came
from Bristol. (Out voted again!)
Jim Chase's unfathomable obsession with Narada Michael
Waldren. (I'm not sure that I spelt that right-I'm not
sure that I care.)
Amanda drinking 2 bottles of Benylin a day-EVERY day.
Realising after a gig at The Park Royal Hotel that, In
Hanwell, which was written as a joke and only ever
performed as an encore was probably the best song I
ever wrote.
The bouncers at The Music Machine refusing to let John
Quinn into his own gig.
Supporting ATV in Greenwich-a gig that ended with The
Police arriving (not Sting and his mates) and an
upright piano being thrown off the stage.
Hating every moment, every note,every breath of our
John Peel session.
Leaving the band 2 days later.
Playing Bird In The House to Ray (aged 2 and a half)
this morning-
Ray:Daddy...What's that noise ?
Me:It's a song baby.
Ray:I don't like it.
Speak soon-Love always-Chris.
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Welcome to the new indiestore of Transmitters.
26/04/2006 17:47:39 By 7digital
Transmitters create an indiestore account with 7digital to showcase their music!
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