48 Chairs - 70% Paranoid

Documenting the unlikely coupling of British free jazz bastion Lol Coxhill and the scary synth pop don't-wannabes known as Gerry And The Holograms this rare incognito full-length album bridges the micro-niches of electronic jazz and punk jazz from a band formed in 1979 at an axis where DIY and new wave hadn't quite collided! With sprinklings of post-punk female vocals worthy of PragVEC and Suburban Lawns, featuring angular art rock paeans to voodoo dolls and closed-circuit TV, this privately pressed LP comes directly from the man who gave Martin Hannett some of his best ideas and wrote the "Blue"print for Manchester's new musical order. Imagine if Talking Heads became Mark E Smith’s backing band for a week before being sacked for wearing a Frank Zappa t-shirt while Eric Dolphy forgot to take his headphones off… If that sounds up your street, then you should be paying double. A genuine lost moment from the post-punk era with progressive pop credentials from the University of Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias before everyone got a job at the local Factory. Why are you the only person who doesn't know about this?

48 Chairs - Snap It Around 7”

48 Chairs was a post-punk band from Manchester. One of its members (possibly its only core member) was John Scott, who was involved with Manchester artists John Cooper Clarke and Jilted John, and was one half of Gerry & The Holograms. This is a new wave single from the beginning of the era and if you like 1st generation new wave on the low down, 48 Chairs “Snap It Around” (1979 UK 7" single) is an ultra-catchy, snappy little new wave number on Manchester's most peculiar post-punk label, Absurd Records.