The Dials - All I Hear… 7″
April 24th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Emanuel sez: “I know nothing”. I have to agree. The Dials? Well they remind me alot of Neon Hearts. Great punk rock with an energetic saxophone. Turn the speakers up and enjoy.
Country: UK
Year: 1979
Label: Scene
Format: 7″
Songs:
All I Hear.mp3
Running
April 25th, 2006 at 7:57 am
The Dials were from SW London, there’s rumoured to be another single “She Thought Her Nose Was Bleeding, But It’s Snot” either withdrawn or unreleased. The single listed in Volume on the Wessex label is (I think) a different band.
April 26th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
This has similarities to The Cravats. My first band tried to sound like this but my friend on sax couldn’t get it to sound quirky enough. We got rid of him and went in a harder direction.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:10 am
The second single was “Get Up And Dance”/”She Thought Her Nose Was Bleeding But It’s Not”, a kinda ska/instrumental combo. I’ve never seen one, so how much it actually hit the shops I don’t know. Main Dial-bloke was later in Thirteen At Midnight, on Survival. Can’t remember what they sounded like.
April 28th, 2006 at 8:20 am
So much for rumours! “Snot” would have been way cooler!
May 4th, 2006 at 2:16 am
Ah! This was a blast from the past! I used to have it back when it came out but it’s vanished over all those years of living in squats (along with swo many records that people seem to go apeshit about these days)…
Great to hear it again though! Thanks!
I’m loving the blog by the way, and was a big appreciator of RT back in the 1980’s…
April 9th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Very first punk record I ever owned. Thought I’d never hear it again. Thanks!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:26 am
From Staines/Whitton way. Used to support The Members a lot. Matt, lead singer died from tumour on his arm. Cunt still had my early sixties leather bumfreezer when he died. Couldn’t go round and say “Sorry, Matt’s mum - stop crying and go and dig out my jacket from your dead son’s room”, could I? Saw bass player Jamie in Tottenham Court Road around 1980. He told me Matt was dead. I was a bit upset. He said “Didn’t know you liked him”. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I was weepy about my jacket. Cunt.
True.