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Keeping Control - Independent Music From Manchester 1977-1981

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76 track celebration of all things Manchester from 1977 to 1981.

A comprehensive look at the city’s sounds featuring Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, John Cooper Clark, Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, The Freshies, Slaughter & The Dogs, Magazine and many more.

Includes tracks featuring many future stars of the Manchester music scene, such as Mick Hucknall (Simply Red), Martin Coogan (The Mock Turtles), Graham Massey (808 State), Mike Joyce (The Smiths) and Chris Sievey (Frank Sidebottom).

Back in 2017, Cherry Red unveiled a mammoth 7-CD compendium entitled ‘Manchester North Of England’, which attempted to document the city’s vibrant music scene from punk to Britpop. Six years on, ‘Keeping Control’ is the sequel, a modest triple-disc retrospective concentrating on music from the punk and post-punk years.

‘Keeping Control’ boasts the “name” bands out of Greater Manchester from that period, however, the underlying musical story of this box set lies with the lesser-known Manchester Musicians Collective. A catalyst for many musicians at the time, the MMC organised gigs, other activities and encouragement to the many and varied talents emerging in the region during punk and its aftershocks.

Louise Alderman, co-founder of the Manchester Musicians Collective, has written a foreword for the box set, which is named after the MMC’s short-lived fanzine. Via Louise’s band mate in Manchester Mekon, Frank Ewart, we also have a few previously unissued tracks by acts closely affiliated with the organization. At the time, the Collective was celebrated across two albums, ‘A Manchester Collection’ and ‘Unzipping The Abstract’ (both 1980) – and most of the artists from these releases are represented.

Beyond the MMC, Manchester enjoyed a thriving independent scene from 1977 onwards, inspired by Buzzcocks’ debut EP on New Hormones, Rabid, TJM, Object Music, Absurd, Bent and last but certainly not least Factory … each of them carved a different furrow. Outside of the gravitational pull of London, which exerted such a strong pull across the South of England, Manchester evolved its own unique identity, often mixing sharp humour with seemingly bleak, desolate-sounding music (reflecting the city’s hardship during that time).

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. BUZZCOCKS Orgasm Addict
  2. SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS The Bitch
  3. THE NOSEBLEEDS Fascist Pigs
  4. THE DRONES City Drones
  5. THE PANIK Murder
  6. V2 Nothing To Do
  7. JILTED JOHN Jilted John
  8. GYRO Central Detention Centre
  9. SALFORD JETS Lookin' At The Squares
  10. JOHN THE POSTMAN'S PUERILE Kawalski Of The Seaview Has Got The Best Hairstyle I've Ever Seen
  11. ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS Fuck You
  12. JOHN COOPER CLARKE I Don't Want To Be Nice
  13. THE TEARDROPS Pompous
  14. PASSAGE Slit Machine
  15. SPHERICAL OBJECTS Sweet Tooth
  16. STEVE MIRO Smiling in Reverse
  17. JOY DIVISION Digital
  18. THE SMIRKS American Patriots
  19. NOTSENSIBLES Lying On The Sofa
  20. 48 CHAIRS Psycle Sluts
  21. EDDIE FICTION UFO Part 2
  22. MELLOTRON Warriors From Space
  23. SPEED She’s All There
  24. GENOCIDE Renegade
  25. SISTER RAY Suicide
  26. EDDIE MOONEY & THE GRAVE I Bought Three Eggs
  27. GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS
Disc 2:
  1. THE FALL Flat Of Angles
  2. STEROID KIDDIES Seaside Teaser
  3. DIRECT HITS Back To The Sixties
  4. FOREIGN PRESS Crossfire
  5. CRISPY AMBULANCE Motorway Boys
  6. I.Q. ZERO Insects
  7. ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCS. We Want It Legalized
  8. THE OUT Who is Innocent?
  9. GODS GIFT These Days
  10. MUD HUTTERS Danger
  11. PATHETIX Love in Decay
  12. PRIVATE SECTOR Just Wanna Stay Free
  13. THE FRANTIC ELEVATORS Hunchback Of Notre Dame
  14. FAST CARS You're So Funny
  15. MISS KATE Ebony Eyes
  16. GROW-UP The Best Thing
  17. PROPERTY OF... Dance Like You’re Dead *
  18. THE DISTRACTIONS Doesn't Bother Me
  19. THE DURUTTI COLUMN Sketch For Summer
  20. BET LYNCH’S LEGS Riders In The Sky
  21. THE HOAX Storm Trooper
  22. MANICURED NOISE Metronome
  23. MAGAZINE A Song From Under The Floorboards
  24. VIBRANT THIGH Walking Away
  25. ENIGMA Play With Fire
  26. THE STILL 9.5
  27. SPURTZ Boyfriends Or Your Money Back
  28. THE CHARLIE PARKAS Space Invaders
Disc 3:
  1. IF ONLY Puppet Masters
  2. THE CHEATERS (I Wanna Be A) Policeman
  3. MANCHESTER MEKON Must Have More Wheels
  4. BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Apathetic Hell
  5. THE LIGGERS Recorded Or Live *
  6. SECTION 25 Knew Noise
  7. THE DIAGRAM BROS. There IsNo Shower
  8. THE THINGS Pieces Of You
  9. DISLOCATION DANCE Familiar View
  10. MARTIN HANNETT The Music Room
  11. BLUE ORCHIDS The Flood (Demo) *
  12. KEVIN HEWICK Haystack
  13. ELECTRA COMPLEX Magic *
  14. HAMSTERS Animal
  15. BITING TONGUES You Can Choke Like That
  16. THE FRESHIES Wrap Up The Rockets
  17. LUDUS Hugo Blanco
  18. MOTHMEN Temptation
  19. A CERTAIN RATIO Waterline
  20. BEE VAMP Lucky Grills
  21. NEW ORDER Everything's Gone Green
Release date Australia
June 2nd, 2023
Label
Cherry Red Records
Number of Discs
3
UPC
5013929114593
Product ID
36658926

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