Monthly Archives: November 2025

#702 – The 2000s Pt1

1 Reply

November 25, 2025

The first show in a new 8 week Gulls Window Circus series ‘The 2000s’. At the end of the 90s the guitar took a backseat to electronics, and influences from jazz, house, hiphop, dub and techno entered into popular music. We will look back at this time with a 2026 perspective and re-discover some really interesting music, as well as broaden our tastes in this once-again rock dominated underground world.

Sunscreem

Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page

Artist Song Release Label
The Wisdom Of Harry Coney Island Of Your Mind House Of Binary Matador
Ellis Island Sound Six Shooter Annex Ellis Island Sound Heavenly
James Yuill This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Edit) A-Trak – Infinity +1 Thrive Records
Mercury Rev So There The Hum Is Coming From Her Beggars Banquet
Micromars Trembling Sustain Filter International Pop Modulations AudioInformationPhenomena
mo’horizons Remember Tomorrow Remember Tomorrow Stereo Deluxe
Northern State Away Away Can I Keep This Pen? Ipecac Recordings
Only Child Space Disco Satellites And Constellations Grand Central Records
Princess Superstar My Life Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers The Corrupt Conglomerate
T.Raumschmiere Substrom Anti Hefty Records
Simian Mobile Disco Clock Attack Decay Sustain Release Interscope Records
Sunscreem Falling Ten Mile Bank Five AM
Rothko Breatharian Not Gone. Not Forgotten. Lo Recordings

Artist Song Release Label
Towa Tei A Ring Last Century Modern Elektra
Tipsy Neon Tetra Uh-Oh! Asphodel
Trüby Trio New Music Elevator Music Compost Records
Yonderboi Riders On The Storm / Pink Solidism Shallow And Profound Mole Listening Pearls
Fuzz Townshend Smash It Smash It Echo
Gotan Project Tríptico La Revancha Del Tango XL Recordings
Marcos Valle Besteiras Do Amor (Jazzanova Remix) Jazzanova – The Remixes 2002-2005 Sonar Kollektiv
Jazzanova Boom Clicky Boom Clack (Mr. Scruff Vocal Mix) Upside Down Sonar Kollektiv
Kid Loco Sister Curare Blues Project Yellow Productions
Tate’s Place Burnin’ (Jazzanova Mix) Jazzanova – The Remixes 1997-2000 Jazzanova Compost Records (JCR)

#701

Leave a reply

November 18, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that completes the recent run of CD rock shows before starting a new 8 week series ‘The 2000s’ next week. Aside from carefully chosen tracks by artists/bands we know, I dug out a few very under-the-radar discs by Gutterboy , ESS, Hellpop, and Johnny Barnes. They are fun to hear, but the main tracks are where the gold lies. The Ramones covering The Animals, Pale Man Made from Newcastle, Überhund from California, and a lot of others including among others Tin Machine, Harlan T. Bobo, The Rosslyns, Torn Sail, and The Stroppies.

Mark Fry

Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page

Artist Song Release Label
Malcolm Ross With The Delancy St. Group And The Magic Clan Home Street Low Shot The Bus Stop Label
The Mystery Trend Carl Street So Glad I Found You Big Beat Records
The Honey Pot Almost Exactly Beautiful Inside The Whale Mega Dodo
Lloyd Meadows False Senses Oxford Synthesiser Club The Beautiful Music
The Stroppies Sad Sorry Soul Look Alive Tough Love Records
Joe Kafka First Down In The Serengeti Too Young For The Blues Harriet Records
Holiday Just Follow Cafe Reggio spinART Records
Kevin Rowland Rag Doll My Beauty Cherry Red
Mazolewski / Porter Six Feet Under Philosophia Wydawnictwo Agora
Thin White Rope Ruby Sea When Worlds Collide Munster Records
Russ Tolman Do You Like The Way Goodbye El Dorado Lost Records
Harlan T. Bobo Sirens A History of Violence Goner Records
Hellpop Tin Can Honeymoon Penny Dreadful Waterproof Fish Records
The Goops Change Your Mind Lucky Warner Music Group
Johnny Dowd Shack Homemade Pie Mother Jinx Records

Artist Song Release Label
The Rosslyns There’s Always Next Year All We Ever Did Was Try Harriet Records
Überhund The Referee Terrible Obstacles Cream Cloud Records
Johnny Barnes I Got Plans for You Plan B from Outer Space Nightcrawler
Ramones When I Was Young Acid Eaters Radioactive
Torn Sail Consider Your Position The Horizon Is On The Horizon Delia Recordings
Bonnie Dobson The Bonnie Lass Of Kenmore Town Dear Companion Big Beat Records
Everything But The Girl Troubled Mind Amplified Heart Atlantic
Mark Fry Down Narrow Streets Dreaming With Alice Now-Again Reserve
ESS Rossfield Rossfield ESS
The Ferocious Few Crying Shame Juices Birdman Records
Pale Man Made Fluoride Inchberry Sweet Rocket Pinch Records
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Suave And Suffocated Are You Normal? Chaos
Gutterboy A Rainy Day On Mulberry St. A Rainy Day On Mulberry St. DGC
Tin Machine Amlapura Tin Machine II Victory

#700

1 Reply

November 11, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that starts off in a pop melodic mode, then has a brief foray into Downtown art scene rock, before settling on punky stuff that keeps the melodies strong even as the loudness goes up. Special attention to the Angel Corpus Christi cover of Theme From Taxi Driver, Robert Gordon’s Eddie Cochran cover, Chris Stamey’s Beach Boys cover, Jeff Dahl’s Dead Boys cover (and Dead Boys themselves with the Cheetah Chrome mix of Big City), The Damned’s version of Help, Eddie And The Hot Rods with MC5’s Rob Tyner as lead vocalist, Peter Bagge’s band Can You Imagine?, Defunkt’s track In The Good Times, and the Dictators/BOC-related band David Roter Method.

Can You Imagine?

Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page

Artist Song Release Label
The Flames Fine Line The Flames Hit Records
Artful Dodger Think Think The Complete Columbia Recordings Real Gone Music
The Hollywood Stars Sleeping Giant Starstruck Sioux
Can You Imagine? Steve Says Can You Imagine? Can You Imagine?
The Social Icons Stay I’m There…You’re Here The Beautiful Music
The Mommyheads Race Car Brain No Quietus Fanfar!
Chris Stamey Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) Anything Is Possible Label 51 Recordings
Roy Moller Belong Hindsight The Beautiful Music
Dream Unit A Drop In The Ocean All The Young Droids – Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 NIGHT SCHOOL
Defunkt In The Good Times Defunkt+ Thermonuclear Sweat+ Hannibal Records
Dog Eat Dog Rollover Dog Eat Dog Claremont 56
The Flying Lizards The Window The Flying Lizards / Fourth Wall RPM retrodisc
Crushed Butler High School Dropout Uncrushed: First Punks From The British Underground 1969-1971 RPM Records
Jeff Dahl Ain’t Nothin’ To Do I Kill Me Triple X Records
The Damned Help The Stiff Singles 1976-1977 Castle Music
Dawson Chuckleberry Cheese Market Gruff Wit Records

Artist Song Release Label
Dead Boys Big City 3rd Generation Nation Bad Boy Records
Debris’ One Way Spit Debris’ Anopheles
Dicks Sidewalk Begging These People Alternative Tentacles
The Dictators Weekend Go Girl Crazy! Epic
David Roter Method Coney Island Baby Find Something Beautiful Unknown Tongue Music
Dim Stars Monkey Dim Stars Caroline Records
Ian Dury & The Blockheads Sweet Gene Vincent Warts ‘N’ Audience (Live: 22 December 1990.) Demon Records
The Hammersmith Gorillas Shame Shame Shame Gorilla Got Me Big Beat Records
Angel Corpus Christi Theme From Taxi Driver / New York New York The 80’s Gulcher Records
Robert Gordon Twenty Flight Rock Black Slacks Bear Family Records
The Flatmates Turning You Blue Heaven Knows The Subway Organization
Gruppo Sportivo Rock ‘n Roll Back To 19 Mistakes Ariola
Eddie And The Hot Rods Till The Night Is Gone (Let’s Rock) Life On The Line Captain Oi!
Hard-Ons Sorry Hard-Ons & The Celibate Rifles – Where The Wild Things Are Festival Records
The Gizmos Mean Screen 1976/1977: The Studio Recordings Gulcher Records
Eater My Business The Album Anagram Records

#699

Leave a reply

November 4, 2025

A CD rock Gulls Window Circus show that further (yes, Further is played) digs out stuff I only have access to on CD. Aside from me loving all the tracks here, I want to draw attention to Richie Parson’s recent Eater cover, Uberhund, who take the art of the whammy bar to new levels, The Nettelles that have two members of the 80s band Sally Skull, 45 Grave, who I have recently been enjoying in conjunction with my re-discovery of TSOL, Good Rats, a 70s band from my native Long Island that I knew about but never heard till recently, ESG from their 2002 reunion CD that sounds great today, Benett that used to front Charles Brown Superstar, and Mats Wawa, a contemporary Norwegian band that I love all releases of, and hope their new digital-only album gets a physical release.

The Saints

Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page

Artist Song Release Label
Lmnop Disappear LMNO3 Deluxe Think Like A Key Music
Julian Cope You Gotta Keep Your Halfwits About You Friar Tuck Head Heritage
Richie Parsons Outside View Rhymes With Rock RUM BAR Records
Überhund No Fur The Tarp Isota Records
The Nettelles You Better Go Do You Believe In… Back To Beat Records
Greg ‘Stackhouse’ Prevost Get Myself Home Mississippi Murderer Mean Disposition
The Gun Club Bad Indian (Alternate Version) Fire Of Love Blixa Sounds
Holly Golightly Run Cold Painted On Sympathy For The Record Industry
Certain General Red Ledge Signals From The Source CBGB
Wojciech Mazolewski Czas Odrodzenia Yugen 2 Jestem WMQ Records
Giant Sand Romance Of Falling Ramp Fire Records
Gala Drop Ital Gala Drop GDRecords
Rank And File Rank And File (Alternate Version) Chip & Tony Kinman – Sounds Like Music Omnivore Recordings
JODI Take Me Higher Pop Espontáneo (Homemade Psychedelic Funk & Fuzz-pop From Paraguay, 1969 – 1975) Out-Sider
45 Grave Insurance From God Sleep In Safety Real Gone Music
Josef K Heart Of Song Endless Soul Marina Records
The Saints Take This Heart Of Mine Prehistoric Sounds EMI

Artist Song Release Label
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Cut Me Down 1984-1989 Capitol Records
Fanny Walked The Earth One Fanny Walked The Earth Blue Élan Records
Fotomaker Name Of The Game The Fotomaker Collection Rhino Records
Band Of Outsiders The Graveyard Sound Beach Time Hanky Panky Records
Mud Boy & The Neutrons Codine They Walk Among Us Koch International
Good Rats Tasty Tasty Mondo Records Corporation
John Du Cann Fashion Fantasy The World’s Not Big Enough Angel Air Records
Churchill’s Living Loving Churchill’s = צ’רצ’ילים Hed-Arzi
ESG Talk It Step Off Soul Jazz Records
Benett Must Be The Whiskey Welcome To The Jungle March Records
Further Victim Rock Next Time West Coast 100 Guitar Mania Records
New Math Johnny’s On Top Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds [1979 – 1983] Propeller Sound Recordings
Mats Wawa Good Time Mild Nights Flake Records
Vanilla Fudge Come By Day, Come By Night Psychedelic Sundae (The Best Of) Rhino Records
Ten Benson Sweat Part 2 Benson Burner Jetset Records
The 39 Clocks Shake The Hippie Pain It Dark Bureau B