Despair (UK)

Before The Vibrators, before British Punk became the soundtrack of life for generations of disaffected, rebellious youth, before the Sex Pistols swindled the whole world – there was DESPAIR. Future Vibrator, Ian “Knox” Carnochan began honing his songwriting and guitar playing chops in an English cottage just outside of London where he and a group of fellow outsider musicians formed a tight knit pack of no nonsense Punk Rockers. Taking their name from a comic book by iconic American artist R. Crumb, DESPAIR gigged regularly around London, including one show with a young Joe Strummer and his 101ers, while intermittently laying down tracks in a recording studio. Two of the songs from those early sessions – “Sweet Sweet Heart and “Dance To The Music (Whips ‘n’ Furs)” – would live on in the repertoire of The Vibrators, while the others remain just as you will hear them here, raw and raucous, with echoes of what was to come (The Vibrators debut album Pure Mania was just around the corner) and, perhaps, what could have been.

The Birth Of The Vibrators 1973-1975

01 - Andy Warhol

02 - I Can See It In Your Eyes

03 - She's Bringing You Down

04 - Country Girl

05 - Losing My Reason

06 - Sailors On The Sea

07 - Dance To The Music (Whips 'N' Furs)

08 - Love Is

09 - Sweet Sweet Heart

10 - Lady Easy Action

11 - Claws In My Brain

12 - Poor Lil' Baby

13 - Vipers In The Dark

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