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| The Lipstick Killers show at Adelaide's Marryatville Hotel from 1979 is now available for Oz punk fans to enjoy. |
Here's the scoop...
It was all incredible. and it was all put together a few years ago on Grown Up Wrong!'s 2CD set Strange Flash! And while the 2LP version of that release included all the studio stuff and the live in LA 1981 set, there was no room for this brain-burning, chaotic live set from '79.
Tour De Force, which was recorded for local radio station 5UV – Radio Adelaide, captures the band as they were still emerging from the cocoon that was the Psycho Surgeons.
The Nuggets influences are there, but it's a Stooges influences which dominate proceedings, and definitive readings of both sides of the Psycho Surgeons classic 45 "Wild Weekend"/"Horizontal Action" are included alongside early Killers killers like "Teen Police" and "Sockman" and later faves like "Hindu Gods of Love', "Shakedown USA" and "Dying Boy's Crawl". The band's hot take on the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' "I've Got Levitation" is also featured. There's also plenty of tunes that were only ever captured on tape on this wild night, including "Human Crash", "Crush On You", "Head Off" and "Bully"!
Get a copy of the Lipstick Killers' "Tour De Force" album via Bandcamp right here or in North America, via Midheaven Mailorder right here. While you're at it, pick up a copy of the excellent Lipstick Killers anthology "Strange Flash: Studio & Live '78-'81 (also released by Grown Up Wrong) right here. Read more about the group in a feature article written by Ian McFarlane by following the link below. And check out the 45 version of their classic "Hindu Gods Of Love" single.
LINKS
Third Stone Press Lipstick Killers: Hindu Gods Are Calling You!
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