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Discography:
Radio Wunderbar 7-inch EP (Small Wonder SMALL 3 December 1977)
How About Me And You/Help I’m Trapped/Radio Wunderbar/Cream Of Youth
Small Wonder/2 Ne 1 7-inch single (Small Wonder SMALL 9 July 1978)
I Don’t Mean It/Easy Way Out 7-inch single (Beggars Banquet BEG 27 October 1979)
Frustration Paradise LP (Beggars Banquet BEGA 14 November 1979)
Frustration Paradise/Reach The Bottom/I Don’t Mean It/3 am/Away From It All/Johnny Won’t Hurt You/Lost Love/It Don’t Make Sense/A.B.C./Cruel Honesty/How To Handle A Woman/Indo-China
(reissued in 1988)
Johnny Won’t Hurt You/Frustration Paradise 7-inch (Beggars Banquet BEG 32 March 1980)
(came with free 7-inch, Total Insecurity/Keys To Your Heart, SAM 119)
Nothing Ever Changes/You Never Realise/Frustration Paradise 7-inch EP (Beggars Banquet August 1980)
Fight Amongst Yourselves LP (Beggars Banquet BEGA 21 October 1980)
Nothing Ever Changes/Since You Went Away/False Foundations/Fight Amongst Yourselves/Dead Or Alive/If Your Heart Stopped Now/Friday Night, Saturday Morning/The Last Lone Ranger/Youth Rebellion/The Reason I’m Lonely/Total Insecurity/Silly Games
The Last Lone Ranger/Love So Strong/Fan Club 7-inch EP (Beggars Banquet BEG 49 December 1980)
It Doesn’t Matter/No Chance 7-inch (Waveform WAVE 5 2002)
Fair Play To ‘Em CD (Waveform WAVE 6 2002)
Is Everybody Happy/Look No Further/Brains/It Doesn’t Matter/That Was Then, This Is Now/Cold Thoughts/It Makes Me Want To Cry/Love Is Blind/We Want Your Money/(I Still Remember) The First Time/No Respect/No Chance
I Just Called To Say I Love You 1-sided 7-inch single (Waveform 2003)
(the Stevie Wonder song annihilated at the sessions which produced Fair Play To ‘Em. Also released in Japan as a 1-track CD to coincide with their 2003 tour there)
Archive releases:
The Best Of The Carpettes CD (Anagram CD PUNK 80 1996)
How About Me And You/Radio Wunderbar/Small Wonder/2 Ne 1/I Don’t Mean It/Johnny Won’t Hurt You/Frustration Paradise/Reach The Bottom/3 am/Away From It All/Lost Love/Cruel Honesty/Nothing Ever Changes/You Never Realise/Since You Went Away/Fight Amongst Yourselves/Dead Or Alive/Friday Night, Saturday Morning/Last Lone Ranger/Silly Game/Fan Club
(liner notes from Mark Brennan)
Frustration Paradise/Fight Amongst Yourselves CD (Captain Oi! AHOY CD 65 1996)
(2 for 1 reissue of the band’s studio albums with extensive liner notes)
The Early Years CD (Overground OVER 68 CD 1997)
It..s All Put On/Radio Wunderbar/How About Me and You/Help I’m Trapped/Cream of the Youth/Small Wonder/TV Lady/Twenty One/Just What Do You Want?/Creep/Reach the Bottom/I Don’t Mean It/Away from It All/Indo China/Cruel Honesty/What Can I Do?/It Don’t Make Sense/Double Platinum/Routine
(comprises two unreleased John Peel sessions, seven previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions of their early Small Wonder efforts. Reissued in 2003 as The Early Years 1977-1978 with a new cover and booklet annotated by Neil Thompson)
Small Wonders – The Singles 1977- 1980 LP (Last Year’s Youth Records LAST BIG 6 2003)
How About Me And You/Help I..m Trapped/Radio Wunderbar/Cream of the Youth/Small Wonder/2ne/I Don..t Mean It/Easy Way Out/Johnny Won..t Hurt You/Keys to Your Heart/Total Insecurity/Nothing Ever Changes/You Never Realise/Frustration Paradise/The Last Lone Ranger/Love So Strong/Fan Club
(for the vinyl loyalists out there)
CARPETTES APRIL 2006 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
There have been a few changes but this is the final schedule
15.04.06
D / Giessen / AK44
16.04.06
D / D/ Schwbisch-Gmnd / Esperenza
17.04.06
Aus / Innsbruck/PKM
18.04.06
Aus / Vienna/ Movimento
19.04.06
D / Chemnitz / AJZ
20.04.06
D / Dusseldorf/Pretty Vacant
21.04.06
D / Lbeck / Treibsand
22.04.06
D / Berlin / Roadrunners Paradise
*Supported on all dates by Berlin band
THE NOT AMUSED
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NDN Records
Artist: The Carpettes
Title: The Carpettes
Cat. No.: NDN 42
Format: CD/LP
Other: 13 new tracks, recorded in 2005
THE CARPETTES - BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!
The Carpettes are back with The Carpettes, their brand new and first States-side released album.
This is one of those rare cases where a band gets back together and is as good, if not even better than before (Alan Wright, Cosmik Debris).
Having started in the now magical year of 1977, The Carpettes all but invented pop-punk, debuting on the Small Wonder Records label with the classic 77 7 How About Me And You. After a couple of albums on Beggars Banquet, the group eventually split up in 1981.
Having played some festivals and the occasional gig, The Carpettes released Fair Play To Em (2002), their first album in some 2 decades, on a small Japanese label.
Fair Play To Em gained critical acclaim from all corners of the globe and The Carpettes suddenly found themselves with a new lease of life. Fans in droves, new and old, tuned in to the super catchy pop-punk sound that has always been the bands trademark. Make no mistake about it, The Carpettes invented the sound that put Green Day & Co. in the charts.
The Carpettes, named so as the band believes it perfectly captures everything they stand for, comprises 13 new self-penned songs.
Mick Mercer: Its funny. The Carpettes still have all the bounce and commercial verve they always did during halcyon Punk daze, but you might say that lyrically they are finally coming to terms with matters of age. Matters of dignity. As guitars crunch melodically and the rhythm hums along, George does a light snarl through Dont Throw It All Away. Cheerful buggers. Oh, it all ends on a slightly more defiant note, but really! And youd be wrong to think theyd changed with age, as theyve always had a cynical view. A Yeah, whatever, you bastard-view on life, and thats what still crackles through the new tracks on offer. Thats one of the reasons theyre one of my favourite bands, still.
What might strike people as a familiar style, listening to this, wasnt actually something terribly common back then. And The Carpettes did the Punk and Pop thing better than the other UK punk bands because it was all Punk energy. They didnt make the songs lighter or jolly because they were a Punk band suddenly doing a poppy number. And they werent weak shite like the Powerpop rubbish of the time.
The Carpettes is produced by the band themselves:
George Maddison: Bass, vocals
Jimmy Devlin: Guitar, vocals
Skinny Cosgrove: Drums
Hey!They were showing it at 3 or 4 am, sometimes in the night you can see old programs...but i couldn't believe they were you, playing for that italian program. It was funny!U didn't answer to any question and run away as soon as you finished playing!
hey guys!I saw u playing nothing ever changes live on TV last week,u were guests in a 80s italian TV program called "pop corn"...Great!but I did'nt recognise you! Greetings from Italy
Ciao from Italy ! Another impossible release out : GERHARD HELMUT/RIPPER - Live LP - Ultra limited edition of 40 COPIES!! Only 20 available from snaps music available soon. Works in progress for other releases with LOOKALIKES, STIFFS, REACTION, SANITY ASSASSINS, DISPOSSESSED and many more. More information soon in our myspace page. Bybye
