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Transmitters played many gigs in support of, amongst others, The Slits, Alternative TV, The Police, The Fall, Scritti Politti, Human League, The Birthday Party, Blurt and many more!
Recorded two sessions for the mighty John Peel. "Ah! transmit me baby!" to quote John Peel 1979.
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Stop press!! 'I Fear No-One...'compilation release date March 5th 2007
Live at the Roxy 1977
Live at the Marquee 1977-78
Marquee dressing room
Released singles and an album for Ebony records, Step Foreward Records and Cherry Red.
Here's the first single, B side '0.5 Alave' on new compilation 'I Fear No-One..'
Here's the 24 Hours album sleeve.
The 24 HOURS TOUR 1978
12th July inside the Speakeasy
13th July outside...(on the back of a lorry) The Rainbow, The Roundhouse, Dingwalls, The Lyceum,The Nashville Rooms, Hammersmith Odeon, Albert Hall, The London Palladium, The Marquee (where it all stopped due to stupid policeman!- who was later arrested (citizens arrest!) for blocking the normal flow of traffic.)
sam drink beer!
Here's the 'Nowhere Train' Single.
Noel Edmunds from the TV Times with his copy!! Note the lyrics typed over the image!
Melody Maker September 30th, 1978, Space Oddities
THE TRANSMITTERS "Nowhere Train" (Ebony EYE 12)
And The Transmitters, in an eerie, dronal tune, call up the ghosts of serpent power, an neat bit of seance, just following tracks . . .LENNY KAYE
what a line-up!!
Gigging about town '79
fissionchips? Hastings, Cambridge.
John at the Ugly Man cut! + cutting man. The Fall at one end of the room Transmitters at the other - all scowling!! The Lemon Kittens looking rather afraid!
Still Hunting For the Ugly Man 12" 1979
THE TRANSMITTERS: Still Hunting For The Ugly Man, (Step Forward). Ealings Transmitters are an insular sort of a group. As is typical of those who for whatever reason, develop out of sight and mind of media scrutiny, they have developed a powerfully idiosyncratic sound. The group uses the same line-up as their labelmates The Fall, and it's not irrelevant to point out certain similarities.
Both groups are cynics and critics. Both groups are fronted by hurried, mocking inciters. Both groups deal with instabilities, abnormalities, ambitious truths....and make demented shell-shocked music.
This 12" four-track is an obsessive, frustrated record. Consistently effective and annoying, it rummages restlessly out on lunatic fringes. It's difficult, discomforting and oppressively manic, but worth exploring. PAUL MORLEY.
Then EXPLODED!! and did some explorative gigs as 'Tranmitters Presumed Dead' they were very good and very drunk! reformed and.....( The beat goes on! )
Here's the 'And We Call That Leisure Time' Sleeve 1981.
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Recorded two John Peel Sessions, one in 1979 and one in 1981.The 1979 session is due for release on the 'I Fear No-One compilation, early next year.
This is where Loop Guru produce the Transmitters in 1985/86
Live in 87 or 88
Subterania, London 1988
"LIKE a dead Siamese sister I carry your weight around." Well it beats "I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky".The first is the opening line of the Transmitters' song "Dead Siamese Sister", one of their frenetic mutant paranoid stream-of-consciousness bohemian jazz-noise anthems which like very much to grab you by the retinae and throw you across the doghouse walls. It's a truly great globule of self-expression and nearly as bitterly poignant as "Ache", their finest murky mope, which sorely temp me to write out it's entire lyrics in full. However.
Tim Whelan is the most restless man alive and demonstrates this by dancing like a young Jackson. pacing like Mark E Smith, and huling himself at the floor like any-age Iggy. He spits forth his topical angst ("there's a hole in the world") while his lanky henchemen beat manifold drums, extract Haitian war chants from keyboard thingies, and scratch shrill guitars like jaguars assualting sandpaper. They tangle with the Velvets' "Ferryboat Bill" quite swimmingly and, all things assimilated, are a cathartic anglepoise on the heart of darkness. Highly wrecked and mended. CHRIS ROBERTS
Count Your Blessings, oil on canvas, Christopher Custons Cole 1989
12" single The Mechanic 1989
WELL IT was just the other day that someone called me up claiming to be a "Transmitter", and what do you know. that mid-Seventies combo have a new release. Yes the group that recorded and released an album within 24 hours, that were mercilessly avant garde on Step Foreward are back on 9CC (Craving Co Productions) with a 12- inch four track EP led off by The Mechanic, which is like Stump never happened, wanton artiness, expressing-yourself tendencies and other such angles are exposed. Oh yes you can get seriously avant Transmitter bits through Backs. DAVE HENDERSON. MUSIC WEEK.
THE TRANSMITTERS ARE GIVING AWAY 'COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS' on YOU ARE NOT STEALING RECORDS. This is from the 1986-89 line-up.
You Are Not Stealing Records Click Here for youarenotstealingrecords myspace
It's the remanants of this line-up that go on to form the so called 'global techno' or 'world fusion' bands Transglobal Undergroud and Loop Guru. And you could here this coming, a long way off!! Click Here for Transglobal Underground Click Here for Loop Guru
THE TRANSMITTERS LIVE AT GREENWICH - IJAX DUB - LIVE AT THE MOONLIGHT - AND MORE AVAILABLE HERE!