The Bureaucrats - S/T 7″
June 18th, 2008 at 11:31 am
This is a re-post from October the 2nd 2006. Added better scans and new rips in higher quality.
Lovely punk rock from hockeyplaying(?) Canadians. The only thing I don’t like about this 7″ is the oversized sleeve that makes it hard to fit into a plastic sleeve for protection.
Canada had its good share of outstading punk bands like Bureaucrats beeing one of them The Modern Minds another. Most people associate early punk from Canada with D.O.A and don’t tend to know anymore bands. A shame really.
Country: Canada
Year: 1980
Label: Vip
Format: 7″
Songs:
Feel The Pain.mp3
Grown Up Age.mp3
October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25 pm
This was not punk. It was Mod. And what’s with the fake English accents?
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 pm
This is quite simply one of the top 7″s ever. If this is Mod then I’m gonna buy me a scooter and a parka tomorrow.
The posthumouis CD “Roi” is killer too with more Mod (and some Reggae). And loads and loads of accent during the live cuts.
October 3rd, 2006 at 12:52 am
It was mod? Says who? Fake english accent? Not all Canadians have a clear fake american accent.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:37 am
Nice one! one of my favourite local 45’s. They played a reunion show around the time of the “Roi” CD release which was pretty killer
October 4th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
2 members were from the UK…
October 29th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Caught them at the Rotter’s Club couple of times and at a local high school when at Carleton U. (77-81). The boys kicked ass. Probably broke up because Gaz couldn’t beat the booze. He’d chug from a pitcher between verses and chuck it up between songs. They brought in a pretty boy lead singer later. That killed the band for good.
PS. I think Gaz and Mitch (brothers) were originally from Manchester.
PPS. Gaz worked at a Radio Shack. Might explain the booze.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:47 am
The Sidwell brothers are from Leicester, I think. Mitch works for the same company I work for so I see him around regularly. Their CD is worth tracking down. I missed them in their day because I was nowhere near Ottawa then, but their reunion gig was a lot of fun nonetheless.
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:36 am
The drummer, Wayne Johnson, works for Statistics Canada, a government agency. So yes, he’s actually working as a bureaucrat (:)~).
December 4th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Back in 2000 around the same time their great “roi” CD came out, one of the band members- Wayne Johnson, I think- was selling original copies of the Bureaucrats 7″ (with sleeve!). I picked up a copy but should have gotten a couple. Oh well…
January 31st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
You can find more from The Bureaucrats at my (cue shameless self-promotion) blog.
February 9th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I put up a website some 7-8 years ago….www.thebureuacrats.com which has since been taken down. But…..the site where I created the site…..still has the site up for some strange reason. It is http://www.openfrontier.com/david/bureau if anyone is still interested.
The label of the 7″….was not VIP records…..it actually is MP records……but like roi….noone can read it properly.
Cheers
Wayne
The Bureaucrats
February 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
A voice from the past here, some-time light man for the band,friend of Mitch and Gaz. ‘79-80
Memories still come back when I listen to the two tracks on the 7″ single. Wish I could re-live some of that time again.
Cheers from Spike.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
if anyone has anything by The Bureaucrats they would trade/give/sell me it would be VERY appreciated, i was way to young to get to see them play but one of my friends who got me into music introduced them to me and they are one of my favourite bands. any way if anyone has anything they would be willing to part with please email me at eightysix_bridgeandmill@hotmail.com
THANKS ALOT!
-Finner
June 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
After teasing us (or the likes of me), please post the Modern Minds. As far as “Canadian” bands go, I only know Slapshot.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Here’s a whole bunch of Canadian bands to please you in the meantime:
http://www.kbdrecords.com/index.php?s=Canada
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
OH yes, some Modern Minds please and where the hell can i get The Bureaucrats cd from?
October 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am
If you want to hear some of the bureaucrats music they have a myspace page up now.
http://www.myspace.com/thebureaucratsmusic