Some Chicken - New Religion 7″
August 2nd, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Ha ha ha Galway Kinnel the drummer of Some Chicken is hilariously bad. But bad in a good way. How he struggles to be in beat and pace with the music. But you can clearly hear he loves what he’s doing. They also released a 12inch on RAW called Arabian Daze which I haven’t heard. Anyone know what happened to these guys?
This is so refreshing to put on after listening to Rush or Yes. On the almighty RAW label.
Country: UK
Year: 1977
Label: RAW
Format: 7″
Songs:
New Religion.mp3
Blood On The Wall.mp3
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:06 pm
“Arabian Daze” came along with Lockjaws “Journalist Jive” on RAW’s “78-series”, I had it on a 7″ with no p/s. Sold it a long time a go, though, but I think that at least the A-side was quite OK. With a little arabian twist on the guitar, don’t know anything whatever these blokes did after that but who really cares….?
Thanx for a fuckin’ great site, guys. Donations will come in sooner than later from me. Keep up the good work!!
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:59 am
Great Single!
The second, Arabian daze/Number Seven, is less cliché Punk, but in a way better!
They even recorded an album for Raw, hopefully it will see the light of day sometimes…
As The Users Album!!!
cheers
Tim
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 am
Arabian Daze sucks compared to this completely awesome 7″ and is a big boring letdown. Man, it’s amazing how much great stuff Raw Records put out between 77 and 79– Killjoys, Sick Things, Some Chicken, Users, Now, Soft Boys, etc… and even a reissue of the Creation “Making Time” 7″ from ‘66! Most of their stuff has this amazing addictive guitar sound– maybe the same guy produced them all (?).
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Blood On The Wall is my favourite track from them by far! Amazing speed, great lyrics! I have the Arabian Daze 12″ but I have to agree with Tony it really does suck unfortunatly.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Thanks for posting this. I got these tracks on a tape that I got in a trade several years back. I always loved the agression and snarling vocals, but it’s a lot clearer on these MP3s. I’ll look up what else was on that tape and return for mosre comments;)
August 16th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
WOOWWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWOWOW
BLOOD ON THE WALL!!!!!!
WONDERFUL!
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWWOWWOOWOWOWOWOWOW
PRAISE CHARLIE. The punk movement should surly have become a Charlie Manson movement.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I HAD A CASSETTE WITH ‘NEW RELIGION AND ANOTHER SONG.
I THINK ‘SOME CHICKEN ARE RAW AND JUST A GREAT TIME CAPSULE OF MUSIC.
ANY ONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THIS STUFF ON CD OR REPRINT VYNIL???
ITS SO DAMN GOOD I JUST WANNA JUMP OUTTA MY SKIN!!!
THANX
September 1st, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Some Chicken pops up at eBay every know and then. There’s a copy up right now. And Damaged Goods Records have done a repress if too.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
this right here has got to be one of my favirote kbd postings.kick-ass!
November 27th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Some Chicken were from Nottingham.
They recorded 2 singles, New Religion / Blood on the Wall, and Number 7 / Arabian Daze.
New religion made number 16 on John Peels Festive Fifty in 1978.
The band gigged around the UK during 1978 and 79, their biggest gigs were supporting XTC, Tom Robinson, X-Ray Spex, Adam And The Ants and Cheap Trick.
They regularly played residencies in Nottingham, at the Sandpiper Club and The Imperial Hotel, where they held (and I believe still do) the attendance record for a single gig.
They were a top bunch of blokes.
I was proud to be their roadie.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Yeah, I remember seeing SC quite a few times at he Sandipier and I think also at The Imperial Hotel. In fact, in the late 1980’s I worked with Mark (guitarist) at Gedling Borough Council.
They were the days - great site.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:08 am
Fuckin’ great to hear that again! I’m from Nottingham and might be biased, but I’m proud to say I was at the Imperial many times to see Some Chicken (and Gaffa!) and stood there along with everyone else with my jaw on the floor.
Punk had hit the headlines, but these guys must have picked up the flag really quickly, we’d never seen anything like it then.
Any news on them now?
Also, what the fuck are the lyrics? I’d love to see them written out….New Religion could make an ACE psychobilly cover!
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Yeah, right. Attempt by the Kursaals to cash-in on
whatever was flavour of the month, and get on Top of the Pops. Glam WAS indeed a big influence on punk,but glam, sadly, was just another bandwagon that the Kursaals failed to grab a hitch on.
If you really want to find out what exactly rocked their boat (and the record buying public in the uk)then check out 1974’s “little does she know” (a top 40 hit) from the band’s “golden mile” lp - a CBS top tip as opposed to any small distributer.
About as “punk” as a poke in the weepy eye of any fat tourist madly snapping any sad cunt with a mohawk in an Exploited t-shirt.
January 24th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I heard the New Religion ep fisrt and liked it. When I heard the Arabian Daze ep, I was blown away. Great 50s style Punk on both sides. They should have reissued that one! Arabian Daze Suck?!! Not to this generally fussy listener. Get your ears checked guys.