“New Church” / “Livin’ On Livin’ (Illegal ILS 0028) March 1982
The Lords Of The New Church | New Church | (Illegal) 1982 | This snarling slice of aggravation would’ve made it to the top were it not for the quivering excesses of Ms Bondage’s bottom.
Brian James (ex-Damned, Tanz der Youth, Brains Ad infinitum) and Stiv Bators (ex Dead Boys) have penned a vicious, violent anthem that steams with frame-bruising indignancy out of the windy hinterlands of redundancy.
It’s a mean sort of a bitch of a single, and it’s a winner. More gritty than a wedge of sandstone, it prowls like school of sharks just itching to chomp off a limb.
Stiv, the perennial snot, drawls with a conviction that more than compensates for his unfortunate ramblings with the ill fated Wanderers and James looks as if he’s found a workable band at last. (Sounds, 24/04/82)
The Lords Of The New Church | New Church | (Illegal) 1982
Sounds pretty much what you’d expect from an aggregation of former Damned, Sham 69, and Dead Boys bodies. That appeals to you? Go and buy it then, since you’re clearly a lost cause. (Record Mirror, 24/04/82)
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