Re-uploaded 7/14/2023.
Filed under "Glasgow Noise" in my arbitrary filing shambles
are some of my favorite post-punk bands: Dog Faced Hermans; 23 Skidoo;
Stretchheads; Badgewearer; DeSalvo; Whirling Pig Dervish; Archbishop Kebeb…but
number one in this group is Dawson. If you're not familiar with Barfmarket:
You're Ontae Plums then you should search it out. It changed my life, it
might change yours.
Dawson's four albums, various
singles & an EP were all released on Gruff Wit Records, a label run by Dawson main man Jer(emy) Reid
(labelmates included above mentioned Badgewearer & Whirling Pig Dervish
along with The Keatons & Nostril). The album cover is spray-painted &
inside is all kinds of crazy shite: posters; lyrics; political screeds.
Dawson's
sound is Scot post-punk, scratchy-guitar licks, funky bass lines & tight
faced paced drums. While side one is relatively straight forward Minutemenish
punk tuneage, though slightly twisted, side two really ups the weirdness
factor. I love this stuff.
Dawson
are: Jer Reid - guitar; Ali Begbie - bass; Richie Dempsey - drums.
Gruff Wit GRUFF 005, 1991.
decryption code in comments
Side One –
From Bearsden to Baghdad (Via
the Erskine Bridge)
Leaf Sweepers & Sandwich Men
Surface Tension
Crick
Records
Booger Hall
George Bush's Family Oil Business
Side Two –
Bodies Under the Floor
Pwep Dub
Barb
Datsun Panel Beating Co.
Neil Kinnock Graciously Accepts his £150,000 Pay Rise
Outro
Enjoy,
NØ