Label: Fan Club; Year: 200?; Format: Vinyl 7"
What we've got here is a bootleg pressing of an incredibly rare, and incredibly good 7" that was originally released on Lightning Records in 1978. Horrorcomic are a bit of a mystery when it comes to their band history, and in the past it has been said that the band actually recorded these tracks as '60s R&B act Downliners Sect in disguise. I could not find any information backing this up, but rather found facts that before becoming Horrorcomic, these fine gentlemen were active as the Crackers since the early '70s, and released a pretty good glam influenced 7" in 1975 with "Judy, Judy, Judy" on it. Since they didn't see any future in continuing playing that type of sound, they jumped on the punk wagon, and as a result of that released three 7"s, with the last one having been withdrawn and resulting to be the rarest of all of them as only a handful were pressed. The one herein reviewed was the middle one, and often viewed as their best one. Both tracks are stomping '77 punk hits at their very best with choruses and chords that will definitely get you out of your armchair to pogo around like crazy. The singer, Roger Rep aka Roger Semor, is an executive of the Sanctuary Records company and therefore it should be of no surprise that a compilation CD of the entire Horrorcomic catalogue was released on said label a few years back.
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