Here's The Mick Trouble LP
Label | Emotional Response – ER87 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album |
Barcode | 0600607753776 |
Country | UK & US |
Released | 26 Jul 2019 |
Genre | Rock, Pop |
Style | Indie Pop |
Lost legends of pop music seem a dime a dozen these days, with internet ghouls stalking history's graveyard exhuming the forgotten, under-heard, or never heard opus of some suburban recluse every minute, but few of them can match the bizarre story of the rise and snail-paced stumbled of one Michael Tooney-Head, born Muswell, London August 1963-- otherwise known as lost post-punk troubadour Mick Trouble. It's easy to forget that for a brief time in 1981, Mick Trouble was on the verge of becoming The Band That Saves Britain. But Trouble was just that- poised to make the leap from the esteemed bard in hallowed hip circles including the likes of post-punk trailblazers Swell Maps and Television Personalities to that of a superstar that would give Declan McManus a run for his money. But a week before Trouble and his band were to make their seventh appearance on John Peel in just two years, something happened. Trouble disappeared. And so, seemingly, did his music- until now. Emotional Response is proud to present the long-coveted 1980 Trouble EP- "It's The Mick Trouble E.P.", cut directly from a master reel discovered earlier this year under a cookie jar in his basement, along with a never-before-heard jam, year unknown, featuring The Glitter Band, Lemmy Kilmister, and Damo Suzuki. (Stay tuned.) The result is what will be for many the first time they've heard Trouble's music- spiky, sarcastic, often louche two-minute bursts of pure pop which recall both Dan Tracey and Nick Lowe at their sodden best.
A1 | Bloody Blighty | |
A2 | End Of The Lion | |
A3 | Similar Kicks | |
A4 | He's Frank | |
A5 | A Council Boy | |
A6 | Weekends At The Wag | |
B1 | Not 'Alf Bad | |
B2 | Second Sky | |
B3 | Pity For A Pale Boy | |
B4 | Hung Up On A Dram | |
B5 | Tales Of Hank Marvin | |
B6 | Wounded World |
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout) – 10 - 85788 / ER87 - A 185426M1/B
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout) – 10 - 85788 / ER87 - B 185426M2/A