The Realists

I've Got A Heart/Living In The City (Stiff One Off OFF4) 1978

Another Stiff Records one-off release, June 78. Others on the Stiff one-off roster included the debut singles by The Members and The Subs, great New Wave singles all.

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/Realists01.mp3

The Duggie Briggs Band

Punk Rockin' Granny!/I'm A Flasher (It Records IT3) 1978

Released Belfast, February 78. Novelty single – think this one will also make it onto the Punkertainment Blog, where I'm aiming to cover a range of comedy punk singles together with various releases which don't come under the Hitsville UK umbrella.

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/DuggieBriggsBand01.mp3

Downliners Sect

Showbiz/Killing Me (Raw RAW10) 1977

London, November 77, released on the wonderful Raw Records label. A bit of a cash in from some professional musicians on the live circuit: Downliners Sect had been a successful British rhythm and blues band in the early 1960s, and renewed interest during the punk boom led to their reformation. Worth a listen all the same.

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/DownlinersSect01.mp3

The D.P.'s

Television Romeo/Born To Win (Barn 2014129) 1978

Final single release from the Depressions/D.P.'s. This was released in November 78, again without a picture sleeve.

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/Depressions05.mp3

The D.P.'s

If You Know What I Mean/Running Away (Barn 2014126) 1978

Brighton, August 78 release. Don't know why they decided to go without picture sleeves on their final run of singles – I'm sure it would have affected sales at that point in time (as the Television Personalities said, "we didn't want to, but what else do we do?").

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/Depressions04.mp3

The Depressions

Get Out Of This Town/Basement Daze (Barn 2014122) 1978

Never issued in a picture sleeve, this was the final Depressions single before they changed names to The D.P.'s and released two further 7"ers in late 1978. Good band this, featured in Stewart Home's 'Cranked Up Really High' as a classic example of dumb street punk rock for their debut album. They went New Wave after a couple of singles and their eponymous debut, but I have to say the later singles are all growers in my opinion, and even the name change to the D.P.'s and the glossy production of the second album don't take too much away from it in retrospect.

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/Depressions03.mp3

The Denizens

Ammonia Subway/People Of The Night (Big Records SOLD5) 1979

First single by The Denizens from Birmingham, released April 79. Great, angular Post Punk, surprising they weren't more successful. If only they had come from Sheffield, Leeds or Manchester...

Sound clip:-

http://punksleeves.com/sounds/Denizens01.mp3