The Mummies & Supercharger - Tour '93 - Pin Up Records flexidisc 93006.

A nice little Mad Mummies March rarity here. As the bag above testifies, this was sold only on the joint Mummies Supercharger European tour in 1993. I'm not sure when The Mummies tracks were recorded, but they are both excellent quality. Band original, I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight, is backed up with I Should Better Be Looking For Dangerman, originally recorded in Germany by The Pack. You'll be seeing them again when I upload Runnin' On Empty Volume Two. The Supercharger tracks are no slouch, either. Enjoy.

The Mummies & Supercharger - Tour '93 - Pin Up Records flexidisc 93006.

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Man Or Astro-Man? - Creature Feature Flexi-disc. Kronophonic Records SEXI FLEXI 002.

No image for this one as flexi-discs don't scan very well. Instead, here's a picture of last night's 'Super Moon' emerging from behind the trees. This flexi came free with a split issue of Highball Magazine and Monsters International. I no longer own the magazine. At least one of the tracks on here has, as far as I know, never been reissued - the cover of Joe South's Creature In The Surfers Lagoon.

While I was trying to find out more about this release I found this tremendous blog cataloguing all the vinyl output of Man Or Astro-Man? More importantly, I found out that current Man Or Astro-Man? operative Victor Vector fell ill with pneumonia and was hospitalised, very seriously ill, at the end of the band's last tour. Like most musicians working at grass roots level, Victor does not have health insurance so an appeal has been set up to raise funds for him. I would ask that if you have been enjoying this blog, the Man Or Astro-Man? stuff in particular (and there is plenty more to come), you go to the band's Facebook page and follow the link to donate towards his medical fees via Paypal.

Man Or Astro-Man? - Creatue Feature Flexi-disc. Kronophonic Records SEXI FLEXI 002.

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Heaven Seventeen - Something's Wrong. Bubastis Records flexi-disc.

No, not that Heaven Seventeen. This one precedes the Human League spin-off, but was, interestingly, also from Yorkshire. Bradford, as opposed to Heaven Seventeen's Sheffield. Adding more White Rosery Hosiery into the mix, I got this from Red Rhino Records in York. It apparently came with issue twelve of Wool City Rocker fanzine, a magazine I don't remember buying, but could well have done so given that I was interested in a lot of bands from that area at the time. I believe I also bought I'm So Hollow's 'Dreams That Fill The Vacuum' single that day having heard it on Peel.

As far as I know nothing else was ever heard from this version of Heaven Seventeen. They got into a spat with the Virgin-backed Heaven 17 and that was that. Gone. This one-track flexi is a real treat and very, very Buzzcocks-influenced, but with that pharp pharp cheap keyboard sound so prevalent in the day.

Heaven Seventeen - Something's Wrong. Bubastis Records flexi-disc.

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