Subway Sect/ Port Sulphur - Split

SUBWAY SECT It’s hard to find any words that have not been written about the band, being one of the most influential bands of the late seventies and early eighties. Jon Savage writer of ENGLAND’S DREAMING once said “For a short moment the SUBWAY SECT were the most important band of the world” When the SUBWAY SECT supported THE CLASH on their White Riot Tour in 1977, audience members included future members of Orange Juice, Josef K, and Fire Engines. The Postcard – era groups were besotted by the Sect, whose frontman Vic Godard seemed to have more in common with Satre and Camus than the prevailing 1977 aesthetic.

 Stool Pigeon was originally recorded in 1978 for their “lost” debut album. This version has been re - recorded recently alongwith all the tracks from the “lost” album, and released as 1978 NOW on the Overground label. The mix of VELVET UNDERGOUND guitars with NORTHERN SOUL beats gives this track a unique style. PORT SULPHUR Is a studio collective project co – ordinated by producer Douglas MacIntyre from the Creeping Bent Organisation. Port Sulphur currently dj on the first Saturday of every month at New Breed in the Glasgow School of Art, playing everything from Albert Ayler to the Archies.  Discord is an avant-techno version of the Fire Engines song, which features Fire Engines’ drummer Russell Burn on drums and cowbell. The track is the second part of a diptych chronicling their favourite Scottish artists from 1970`-1980`s, the Fire Engines being Port Sulphur’s favourite Scottish artist of the 1980`s. The first Port Sulphur 7” was a version of The Faith Healer by SAHB, Sulphur’s favourite Scottish artist of the 1970’s, which featured Postcard’s punk – poet Jock Scot on narration and the Pop Group’s Gareth Sager on electronic - noise clarinet.  Finsbury Park samples and holds random notes and foundsound from 1983. These are twisted and torn to form a brand new thrill.

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