The Grout - Do It Yourself E.P. 7″
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:52 am
Totaly messed up amateurish punk rock that is one you truly love or hate. To me this is as close to punk rock perfection you can get. Out of tuned guitars and want-to-play-faster-but-can’t but played with the right attitude so you can hear that these guys are for real and really enjoy what they’re doing. Hey kids! Get inspired and stop wanking around with trying to become better at your instruments. Record your shit now and release it!
Country: UK
Year: 1979
Label: Urinating Vicar
Format: 7″
Songs:
Cremation At Belsen.mp3
Stiff Thing.mp3
Nothing To Do.mp3
Fast Cars.mp3
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:27 am
My oh my, never thought I’d get to hear this one. Rowdy, inept, essential! Fantastic post.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:33 am
Rich, I’m glad to see someone so exited like you :). enjoy!
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Some may think the name Grout has the meaning of the masonery material you put between tiles, but could it also be a reference to the devious con Harry Grout form the clasic sitcom Porridge?
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:46 am
I’d agree with Pogel, but I think they’d then’ve been called Grouty, more like. I bet the band have been quizzed endlessly on how many copies they pressed (100?) and if they’ve got an auntie who might have one she’d sell, but hasn’t anybody asked the band about the name? And wasn’t there some 90s indie UK and called Godber, while we’re at it?
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:04 pm
i love this record. i heard it for the first time ever after it finished downloading, and its really really GOOD!
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:04 am
We’re glad to make you happy Dylan :).
July 5th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
To my ears the best of the rare ones from the UK.
July 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
July 31st, 2006 at 6:16 am
Yes! Fuckin’ raw and tasty! Thanks.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Tone Deaf hear from The Grout. Glad you like our “output” from many years ago. The records cost us £160 for 100 and we sold them at a loss, made the sleeves ourselves. The Disc on this blog is the re-released EP from a year or ago. It was released without our consent, but we did sod-all about it. Detour Records are not “licenced” to issue the EP as the label on each one states.
The band all live now within a 3 mile radius of each other. 4 of us meet up at least once a week. Chris and Ian still make music and sometimes perform. The style is very different! We were getting a website together but nothing has happened, I think we have the domane name, but not much else. Tone Deaf, Lancashire, England.
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Hi Tone Deaf! Nice hearing from you. Yes, it’s the re-release posted here. Too bad Dizzy didn’t contact the band about doing a proper reissue. If you want the tracks taken down here I’ll do it! Keep me informed about what’s happening with the band.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Hello Flakes Drummer,
No problem with the tracks being on here. Ta.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:34 am
I have the reissue and it is NOT on Detour.It is Last year’s youth records.I seriously thought this label only released legal records! As for Detour,they say they are fighting the bootleggers! I was cionvinced that all there release were done with consent of the bands! Was the Grout tracks on the first Bored Teenagers volume illegally used? Weird!
By the way,i totally love this 7″.Pure and authentic punk rock monster.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Same with THE NOW- into the 80s. Seems this wasn’t legit either.
October 14th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
The 2 Grout tracks on the first (detour) Bored Teenagers album were legit. The other 2 tracks from the EP, as on the re-release by Last years Youth, were the 2 that were without our consent. Although the re-release was on “Last Years Youth” label, the stickers on them “Licenced by Detour Records”, quite surprised us!
Glad you like the tracks. We have some other un-released studio tapes that are pretty poor shape now due to possibly faulty “Ampex” tapes in the early 80’s. Also some cassette recordings of a local gig or two.
October 16th, 2006 at 6:36 am
As a friend of Last Years Youth and The Now, let me inform you, that the „Into the 80s“ reissue was 100% official!!! LYY did 2 deitions of the single, the Album and a Japan CD later on and helped recording the new stuff, so no bootlegging here!
As for The Grout, LYY got the licence from Detour, sad to hear, that Detour wasnt allowed to do so…but I dont know more about that, as I got to know them later…
November 11th, 2006 at 3:18 am
What a great record, impossible to get the original for under $1000! Tone Deaf (drums?) I have a question: where in the UK were Grout from? I’ve always wanted to know.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Roundabout Lancashire, North England
December 27th, 2006 at 11:06 am
hi paul paint ere! i was guitarist in the grout
most of the tracks we did then used up all of about 4 chords we knew at the time,my best memories are when we played the live at the hut gigs at simmys farm knee deep in hen shit every saturday night a few fights and at least one rape!in a recent copy of record collector magazine we were in the top 8 rarest and most valuable punk releases alongside the pistols etc.not sure about the legality of l.y.youth but who gives a fuck?
January 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
awesome this record is.
Im currently in a band with the drummers son, didnt know his dad had such a fuckin cool band :P