For this release, NIXED revisited the studio to record new versions of older material alongside new tracks. Meanwhile, Paranoid Visions presents one of their most powerful recordings yet, captured during a live performance with in Dublin January 2024.
The Radiators were one of the first wave of bands who swept the UK and Europe with a revolutionary new sound. The LP (which came out 21 October 1977) leads with "Television Screen", a version slower than the single with a distinct T.Rex feel about it. This expanded version of the album is remastered from new transfers of the original tapes. Following the original 13 tracks are the "Live In The Studio" recordings, which feature some priceless commentary from the band as they ripped through their set. Next up are alternate versions of "Not Too Late" and "Blitzin' At The Ritz", previously only available on an Irish cassette compilation, and the "Live At The Vortex" recordings (Steve Pross recorded the band to cassette on 21 September 1977 on the band’s London debut). These tracks are rough, raw and very live, but a great document of the Irish outsiders' take of the London scene. This anniversary edition rounds off with three non-album 45 sides, including the coruscating single version of "Television Screen" - and 40 years later we still "don’t like what’s going down".
Feed The Good Dog’ is the third studio album from Belfast punk legends The Defects since they reformed in 2010. The Defects may still arguably be best known for the original incarnation of the band’s one and only album, the wonderful ‘Defective Breakdown’ in 1983, but the current incarnation have built a fearsome reputation of their own through incendiary live shows and the previous albums, and this one can only build on that. "Feed The Good Dog" pretty much picks up from where 2015’s rather fine ’45 Minutes’ left off, so if you liked that one, you’re guaranteed to like this one.
