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THE MEKONS Where Were You
ROUGE Have You Seen Gene
JERKS Cool
RATS AND DELICIOUS No Time
AGONY COLUMN (I Had It) All Worked Out
THE NEAT Hormones In Action (In My Heart)
GANG OF FOUR Damaged Goods (EMI Version)
SCRITTI POLITTI Messthetics
THE CITY LIMITS Morse- Code Messages
EXPELAIRES Sympathy (Don't Be Taken In)
THE ALWOODLEY JETS Crash ‘N Burn
GIRLS AT OUR BEST Getting Nowhere Fast
SHAKE APPEAL My Own Way
DELTA 5 You
KNIFE EDGE Favourite Girl
MUSIC FOR PLEASURE The Human Factor
THE SQUARES Buddy Holly
MIRROR BOYS At Tiffanys
DANCE CHAPTER Anonymity
THE BOYS Let It Rain
SOFT CELL A Man Can Get Lost
ABRASIVE WHEELS Army Song
ICON A.D. Fight For Peace
THE EXPELLED Government Policy
THE UNDERDOGS East Of Dachau
THE SISTERS OF MERCY Temple Of Love
THE MARCH VIOLETS Religious As Hell
RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY Beating My Head
ANABAS Barricades
THE THREE JOHNS Do The Square Thing (7” Version)
VICIOUS PINK Cccan’t You See
TOM FAZZINI 6 Vessels
ANNIE HOGAN Executioners Song (Kickabye)
DÉJÀ VU Cut The Cross
FLOWERS FOR AGATHA Presentation
XERO SLINGSBY AND THE WORKS Hurricane Damage In Leeds (Live)
THE HOLLOW MEN Late Flowering Lust
ROSE OF AVALANCHE Goddess
THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX Moscow Idaho
SURFIN DAVE AND THE ABSENT LEGENDS Stateside Centre
AGE OF CHANCE I Don't Know and I Don't Care
THIRD CIRCLE Last Night Was The Best Night Of My Life
THE WEDDING PRESENT You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
PINK PEG SLAX Boy From Leeds
DUSTDEVILS Seeds In The Spoil
THE MISSION Wasteland
SALVATION Thunderbird
THE RHYTHM SISTERS Saturday Sunday Lazy Leeds Afternoons
RITZUN RATZUN ROTZER Noodleman
THE SINISTER CLEANERS Longing For Next Year
THE PROWLERS Life’s A Mystery
SON OF SAM Goodbye Junkie Jim…
LEN LIGGINS Life In Leeds City
GOOD SHEPHERDS Wallpaper Man
WMTID Go Big Red
MDMA Evidence
DRUG FREE AMERICA Day- Glo Pussycat
THE VAYNES Lick The Dirt
BAZOOKA JOE Hiding From The Rentman
CUD I've Had It With Blondes
THE SNAPDRAGONS The Things You Want
GROOVIN’ WITH LUCY Lenny’s Lament
PURPLE ETERNAL Trip#67 (live)
BRIDEWELL TAXIS Wild Boar
GHOST DANCE Celebrate
PALE SAINTS Sight Of You
GOLD FRANKINCENSE & DISK DRIVE Character Assassinator
THE EDSEL AUCTIONEER Our New Skin

WHERE WERE YOU - INDEPENDENT MUSIC FROM LEEDS (1978-1989)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

cherry red

3cd in clamshell box

Released: 28th Jul 2023

£25.99

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68 track 3CD box set celebrating the Leeds’ independent scene of the 1980s.

Featuring Soft Cell, Sisters Of Mercy, Gang Of Four, The Wedding Present, Scritti Politti, The Mission, and many more. Including The Mekons, CUD, Delta 5, The Pale Saints, Girls At Our Best, Age Of Chance, The Bridewell Taxis who all stamped their mark on the indie charts and were regulars/favourites on John Peel’s radio show. Co-compiled by Benoit Farvak (Salvation) and Richard Rouska (Rouska Records), ‘Where Were You’ also boasts numerous obscurities which make their debut on CD – including many tracks taken from records now worth a small fortune on the collector’s scene. Overall, this is a fitting tribute to the legacy from one of the UK’s finest northern musical cities.