tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post7519461858845509211..comments2024-03-22T11:40:16.743-07:00Comments on My Life's a Jigsaw: Gaffa - Normal Service Will Never Be Resumed EP (1977)bristolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09315619392790149524noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-74216920670684006222011-11-17T00:02:40.037-08:002011-11-17T00:02:40.037-08:00Thanks for the comments / linkThanks for the comments / linkbristolboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315619392790149524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-80757522742158260492011-11-16T13:24:37.043-08:002011-11-16T13:24:37.043-08:00Great post, you can find the album here http://ww...Great post, you can find the album here http://www.fade2grey.com/rip-it-up/gaffa/Suzy Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17494275024945493056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-50506991878431372182011-11-13T10:26:05.921-08:002011-11-13T10:26:05.921-08:00Excellent article above. May be you need more time...Excellent article above. May be you need more time to share all the knowledge that you have. <br />So, thanks for share this information with us, I always come across this amazing post.Enthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12319127008470824459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-78997347265242263522011-10-30T00:42:28.514-07:002011-10-30T00:42:28.514-07:00Cool stuff - already had mp3s of the LP but I'...Cool stuff - already had mp3s of the LP but I'd never seen or heard the Peel Session before. Anyone got any of the other singles?GraemeSTLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10178950337292976724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-53815969259665540762011-10-22T03:03:17.659-07:002011-10-22T03:03:17.659-07:00The prize goes to you sir! Ten years ago (or ther...The prize goes to you sir! Ten years ago (or thereabouts - I am too shamefaced to make puns at the moment) I spent a winter's week in Eindhoven with my brother, smoking funnel joints and watching the Isle of Wight film...the one where everything goes as badly as possible for the organizers. Ten Years After and Family stole the show of course - cheers for the Midlands. (And the Welsh, since I did know TYA's bassist was of the elect.) I'd certainly rate them with Jeff Beck or Chicken Shack's imagination lady and they are one "progressive" album band I can get me raunchier mates hooked on. I like their psych numbers too; "The Sounds" is even more underrated than Gaffa or the Warm! <br /><br />Until now I thought TYA was Wolver boys since Slade was doing "Hear Me Calling" (and then Swell Maps was doing "Get Up & Get With It"). That's exceptionally poor reasoning on my part. HOWEVER, I did pull out my trusty Hicks From The Sticks and found TWO more Notting-nutters: Art Failure and Medium Medium!<br /><br />It was then I used google and found, lo and behold, Plummet Airlines! Plus the two goth acts from Dead Good, Fatal Charm and B-Movie. (I expect so Maid Marian has something to listen to while Rob and his mates enjoy the forests' fine crop of metal bands and easily-spooked bobbies. If that don't cheer her up, she can switch to Ann Briggs...the siren of Nottingham.)<br /><br />So by this time I was wishing I'd paid more attention to the old scrub. Seconds later, the following, scientific impossibility had me packing a bindle and heading out for the merry men...for without Nottingham, not only would Witchfynde never risen to make Venom seem credible (to say nothing of their Rondelet enterprise putting more smiles on Gary Bushell's face than a day in the WC with a stack of Beanos and a packet of crisps.)<br /><br />Doubly shocking is that Nottingham could simultaneously throw up Paper Lace, that band that did "The Night Chicago Died" and "Billy Don't Be A Hero". Fitting themes in the hands of Joy Division, perhaps - but useless in the hands of these Buck's Fizz types...a Bucks Fizz that denudes itself of good grammar, rather than miniskirts! Maybe I'm wrong, and they've got better songs...I mean, I'd hate to forgo the Equals just because of that "Rub-a-Dub" song. <br /><br />Looks like I got carried away. I type fast and mindlessly. And while listening to Gaffa on repeat. ("Normal Service", and the Snivelling Shit's "Crossroads", means that two songs describing my old babysitter in cold-turkey terms were recorded in the same year?) <br /><br />My email is magmagoblin&gmail.com and I'll send you a list of links you might enjoy...like, have you heard the first song on the first Fans EP, the Georgia band?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407825395932360777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-38650407773512867352011-10-18T00:35:50.917-07:002011-10-18T00:35:50.917-07:00Hi Brian - thanks for the comment - As to great ba...Hi Brian - thanks for the comment - As to great bands from Nottingham "Ten Years After" jump to mind.<br />I've also sourced Gaffa's 2nd 45 (unfortunatly it hasn't got one of the many sleeve variations) which is much more powerpop/New wave - drop me an e-mail & I'll send a link<br /><br />You can also hear the B-side of the 3rd 45 if you follow the link on "Returned" abovebristolboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315619392790149524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1101972876152016601.post-78507337378248183602011-10-17T10:33:44.767-07:002011-10-17T10:33:44.767-07:00Fantastic that you tracked this down. I've be...Fantastic that you tracked this down. I've been intensely curious about Gaffa for long time and requested it...you certainly come through and I appreciate it. The title, which seemed so ominous and evocative of songs like "Reuters" and "Disorder" had me expecting doomy, student-y punk. (Also, gaffa is typically gray or black, and useful for goths playing dress-up). Hearing the song itself, it sounds more like the telly fritzed half through "Crossroads".<br /><br />I also like the fact they're from Nottingham; aside from the Favourites, Medium Medium, and Sparta, nothing comes to mind. Surely a Robin Hood-theme band would go down a storm.<br /><br />Having heard it, I can guess why they're so forgotten. It's quirky pub rock, with a clever singer and cheery bounce, like if XTC added Jools Holland and they did years of warm-up for Ian Dury & the Blockheads. Not exactly Dr. Feelgood, nor the Attractions...but the reality of midlands pub-ery should not merit condemnation. Especially as Gaffa seem quite clever, and at the very least D.I.Y. I'm intrigued as to the rest...although I too easily imagine them changing into ska.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407825395932360777noreply@blogger.com