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HEADCAT Unseal Two Live Albums

 Titled “Dreamcatcher: Live In Alpine” and "Live i Berlin"” and documenting the ensemble’s concerts of, respectively, 2008 and 2011, these albums commemorate similar sets that, nevertheless, are also as different as those musicians’ disregard for behavioral order is well known. Quite a treat… and, by the way, on the same day the HEADCATS’ "walk the walk talksthe tlk aswell.

Says Danny B. Harvey, “I’m so glad to see these be released. Lemmy wanted to press up the ‘Dreamcatcher’ live CD 15 years ago to sell at shows as a collectors item; unfortunately we never did. He thought our performance in Berlin at Huxleys was our best live show ever. So I know he’d be as proud as I am that these concerts are out and available to everyone

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The 8th of May "World Motorhead Day"

 This year for Motorhead Day is a one-sided single, featuring a Metallica cover. black vinyl purchased in Europe, but red vinyl found in the US is much more expensive with shipping and import taxes. The references are different.the B side is an etching of the warpig

Warfare: The Lemmy Sessions

A newly curated 3CD set featuring the unreleased Lemmy Kilmister mix of Warfare’s influential 1985 opus, ‘Metal Anarchy’.

The truly anarchic Warfare, widely considered to have been the original “metal punks”, were formed by drummer Evo in early 1984. Evo had learned his trade in legendary droog band Major Accident, he then moved to London to join The Blood, with a spell drumming for the legendary Angelic Upstarts, before forming Warfare. A fresh and much needed shot in the arm for the UK metal scene of the mid-80s, Warfare signed to Neat Records for a series of highly influential and original LPs and EPs. In 1992 Evo called it a day, having played professionally since the age of 18, retiring from the music business completely. After a hiatus of more than a quarter of a century, Evo returned with ‘The Songbook Of Filth’, a 3CD collection featuring many special guests, but with an even more brutal and angry sound than before.

One band that was equally revered by the punks and metal-heads alike was Motörhead, being a major influence on Warfare. ‘The Lemmy Sessions’ is a newly curated 3CD set featuring the unreleased Lemmy Kilmister mix of Warfare’s influential 1985 opus, ‘Metal Anarchy’. As the only band that Lemmy produced (outside of Motörhead and The Ramones), this recently discovered “rough mix” is presented from the original cassette for Evo to approve before the final mix down (Drop outs and all) on Disc One and in the original album running order

The second disc is a new fully polished version of 1985’s brutal full on ‘Metal Anarchy’ album.

The second disc is a new fully polished version of 1985’s brutal full on‘Metal Anarchy’ album.

The third disc rounds off this era of Warfare by featuring the ‘Two Tribes EP’, the ‘Total Death EP’, plus bonus track ‘Two Tribes (From Hell Mix)’

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Another Perfect Day -- 40 years in Patches

 

The War of 1916

 The War of 1916.

 Before we get into the meat of this story, we have to take a quick background trip through history. to 1812 and the assassination  of  Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the spark that set off  world war one.

   Austria-Hungary, with German encouragement, declared war on Serbia on 28 July. Russia's support of Serbia brought France into the conflict. Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and France on 3 August.

Fast forward to 1991, enter our heroes, Motorhead, release their 16th album "1916" -- A fucking bombshell of music not to be trifled with. And gorgeous artwork to boot! But wait, something is amiss. Decorated with all of the flags of the countries who were part of the war. All except France! Which Lemmy was quick to bring to light.. 

 THE FUCKING FRENCH FLAG WAS NOWHERE ON THE FUCKING ALBUM!!! This sent Lemmy into a frenzy of outrage. until...

Enter Philly Lamf and it is his words that follow: 

 "Ah, the ‘1916’ artwork saga…… it still brings me out in night sweats thinking back to it! As I recently had to go clear out my old Storage Unit, I found a few bits that I thought had been long-lost, but there they are, so to clear out the mildew in my old brain cells, it went something like this…… Lem loved the work I’d one on the reissue of the earlier Motorhead stuff. Over a stiff drink or three after a show, he told me (again) how pissed off he was with Sony and their artwork for the 1916 album. ‘How the fu*k can you have an album about the horrors of the Somme without the French flag on it?!’ I got my thinking cap on. I contacted Sony to see about licensing the album. I had three different artists come up with a re-imagining of the sleeve. It looked like a done deal. I recall we even had some promo posters printed. Done deal…. Or so I thought. Then Sony got in touch again. Apparently, there was another UK label that had first refusal on vinyl reissues of Sony back-catalogue. This was at the time when Vinyl had supposedly ‘died’, remember, so Sony weren’t interested in doing it themselves. Anyhoo, it wasn’t all bad news, as I knew the owner of the label that had first dibs, Pure Pleasure. I knew their mastering (Ray Staff, legendary Master Engineer) and pressing (Pallas, Germany, the greatest pressing plant in Europe) was the best in the business, so ‘happy days’! I offered them the revised artwork (for free), but one stumbling block – they told me Sony wouldn’t allow ANY change of front cover. Wouldn’t budge. Bummed out. So me (and my trusty interns) got to work thinking of ways around the problem. I did manage to get my sleeve notes into the inner packaging of the reissues. Ultimately, it led to the ‘Art Print’ edition, limited to 150 copies and only available through DJB mailorder. We tried different card stocks, and different styles of printing. It was either going to be over-priced, so nobody would buy it, or I was going to have to lose money. It was important to Lem, it was important to me, so the 150 copies was a nice compromise to allow it to happen, albeit on a small scale, and whereby I’d only lose a little. I was worried at the time that when we launched it on the website, it wouldn’t sell, so we’d prepared ‘Promo Packs’ to send out to the press to get some interest, but the 7”s for the packs were delayed (!!!!), so by the time we launched it, it sold out overnight so the promo packs weren’t needed. They just got boxed up and lost in the chaos that was the DJB racking. I do remember the promo 7” (of the ‘Almost 1916’ promo interview) caused me a whole bunch of headaches. I know we had around 30 made - Lem got 1, I got 1, 5 went with the promo pack LPS and the other 10 or so were produced for f*k knows what reason!), and had to have them made at a dubplate plant – who had no idea how to etch catalog numbers– why would they, they normally did one-off 12”s for shit*y dance music DJs, and tried to push us into changing from 12” to 7”! – their first attempt, they etched the catalog number into the body of the f**king 7”! Aaaargh. After my near-coronary, they did it properly after that! Anyhoo, I found a few of each oddity, and also a pile of proof prints that had been printed on costlier stock, but which we’d had to reject because of the price. Also found a few of the press releases that had both sets of artwork on – these are slightly different to the ones that came with the PP test pressings. There ya go, there it is, the ‘1916’ artwork saga. Somewhere, in the mists of time, I remember the original artwork for this being on a 3’ x 3’ canvas, as well as a digital file."  

There you have it. If you were lucky enough to own one of these pieces of gold as it was a first come first serve situation, you were at the right place at the right time! I was lucky enough to score a 7", but promo packs, at the time they came to market, were snatched up like piranha feast. the total I think comes out to 20 or so the 7", and only 5 (!!!) lucky bastards got the promo pack

Ahhhhh... to be a collector

The Promo pack #3

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The Boys Of Ladbroke Grove

 

The Boys Of Ladbroke Grove compilation 

A mix-up of a bunch of stuff from all over from Pink Fairies to HeadCat,.. .

A unique compilation that tells the story of two rock legends from a small West London neighborhood called Ladbroke Grove, metal icon Lemmy Kilmister and guitar renegade Larry Wallis!

• Features the essential family tree of bands and projects from Kilmister and Wallis including Motörhead, Pink Fairies, and The Head Cat plus brand new mixes of solo tracks by psychobilly heroes The Brains that have never before appeared on physical media!

• Packaged with loads of photos and detailed liner notes tracing the remarkable history of these two pivotal figures!

Now Available on clear, blue , red marlbled or haze splatter vinyl

Genre:	Rock
Style:	Hard Rock, Rock & Roll
Year:

Tracklist

	Lemmy & The Upsetters–	Paradise (The Brains Mix)
	Motörhead–	Keep Us On The Road (The Brains Mix)
	Larry Wallis–	Police Car
	The Pink Fairies–	Lone Wolf
	Lemmy–	Shout It Out Loud
	Larry Wallis–	Crying All Night
	The Head Cat–	Good Rockin’ Tonight (Alt Take)
	Motörhead–	On Parole (The Brains Mix)
	Lemmy–	Twist & Shout
	Larry Wallis–	Leather Forever (The Brains Mix)
	Lemmy & The Upsetters–	Blue Suede Shoes
	Larry Wallis–	I Think It’s Coming Back Again
	Larry Wallis–	Old Enough To Know Better
	The Head Cat–	Stuck On You

"Smoke on the water"

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 "We ALL WENT DOWN TO MONTREUX  by the Lake Geneva shoreline"

Well, this time the fire in the sky was made by was the blistering sounds of MOTORHEAD.  

and "The set played this night would be the sounds of:

“ Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival 07” 

• Snaggletooth.
• Stay Clean.
• Be My Baby.
• Killers.
• Metropolis.
• Over The Top.
• One Night Stand.
• I Got Mine         

• Pressed on black vinyl as a double album in a gatefold. Includes the full live show recorded on 7th July 2007 as part of the Montreux Jazz Festival and released for the first time ever. 

  Motörhead loved playing live and never ever judged their audiences. Everyone was encouraged, all were welcome. And that included people who like jazz! So when the Montreux Festival called requesting them, it made perfect sense in its own, unique way. ‘Tis worth noting, too, that the Festival has always been about stepping beyond the boundaries of that ‘J’ word, and embracing unique artists of all genres, styles and sensibilities, the only true consistent requirement being that they represent the best and most adventurous of their ilks. This now legendary performance from 2007 is now released to the world in all its greasy-biker glory and includes the first official release of their cover of Thin Lizzy’s, ‘Rosalie’.
  
  

  PREORDER: This item is currently on pre-order and will begin shipping after the street date of June 16, 2023.  All other items purchased with this item will be held until that time. Items will not ship separat

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