Ltd CD: Caroline True Records (CTRUE2)
“I will always remember that show: it’s as Punk Rock as Nirvana at New York’s Roseland ballroom in July 1993, when Kurt Cobain refused to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and, to the roars of a hostile crowd, brought on a cello player and played Leadbelly songs. “
(Jon Savage on the Prefects live experience- sleeve notes 2005)
"Their music is as bleak, cynical and loveless as their personalities, with a perverse humour.”
(The NME Book Of Modern Music 1978)
The Prefects occupy a very special place in the rich heritage of UK punk and Post-Punk music.
Guesting on the incendiary white-riot tour of 1977 with the Clash and the Subway Sect-the band were famously called “amateur wankers” by Clash manager Bernie Rhodes.
Their music was a melange of Krautrock, Beefheart, glam and the Pistols. All the things that PIL were to be later-the Prefects were there first-groundbreaking and unconsciously rewriting the rules.
Carpark records 2004 “Amateur Wankers” release collected together the 2 Peel sessions and some live odds and ends-to go with the posthumous Rough Trade 7” that was released after the split.
Now, February 2006 sees the long awaited release of a recently uncovered 1978 live set from the Co-Op Suite in Birmingham. Featuring all the classic Prefects moments, Faults, Barbarellas and Escort Girls, along with the addition of a live cover-Disco Stomp.
A great live document, it’s like being back there.
Exclusive liner notes by England’s Dreaming/Time Travel/MOJO writer Jon Savage are included inside a special package.
As he suggests:
“Who’d have guessed that, in the 21st century, the Prefex would find their time. “
Indeed…
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