http://www.trashwax.com/
Tell Me about the labels history?
Ok, in 2010 during a period of unemployment & intense boredom I started a youtube channel which i called 'Trasharama' & started uploading music from my late teens that seemed to have been ignored or overlooked. It was a mixture of 80's rockabilly,psychobilly,garage punk & beat music.
A wavy gravy monster mash mix
of Garage, Trash, Rock'n'Roll, Punk, Rockabilly, 80's Psychobilly, Surf, Mod,
Psychedelia, Freakbeat, Blues, Country, Folk & Ou...
One band we had
both really loved were 'The Vibes', & Darren had got hold of a raw, but
banging live recording from their 1985 tour of europe. The Vibes looked like
rockabillies with their quiffs & double, bass but they played 60's garage
punk covers & they along with bands like The Sting-Rays, Milkshakes, Prisoners,
Cannibals, X-Men, Tall Boys had been part of the Trash scene promoted by
Cannibals frontman Mike Spenser.
These Trash bands
fused elements of rock'n'roll, rockabilly, garage punk, beat music &
psychedelia into their music & although all sounding different to each
other, shared an ethos, attitude & ability to have cross appeal for their
music, much like The Cramps. In fact the Cramps are the ultimate Trash band,
their music was a mish mash of genres & they were loved by punks, goths,
psychobillies & garage fans.
Both myself & Darren
had got into the neo rockabilly/psychobilly scene where we encountered these
Trash bands who sometimes shared the same billing at gigs. I would sometimes
spend my weekends in Hammersmith, downstairs at the clarendon on friday nights
for the trash nights & upstairs on saturdays at the legendary klubfoot. In
the end, the only reason I went to the klubfoot was if one of the trash or
garage bands was on the bill. In fact bands like the sting-rays, x-men, tall
boys etc were Marmite to the klubfoot crowd, people either loved or hated them,
it all became rather purist in the end which is why i stopped going.
The vibes,
sting-rays etc were the bands that got me into garage music, they were the
first wave in the UK after punk, there was no garage scene until the 80's &
it was completely different to the purist stuff from the USA, this is why these
bands are special, they were innovators, ground breakers & there has been
nothing like them since. Anyways 2015 Trash Wax is born with a focus of paying homage to the
original UK trash & garage bands of the 1980's, plus whatever demented shit
from around the world Darren or I like now & believe share the trash ethos.
So on
31/5/2015..... exactly 30 years to the date of the recording, The Vibes -
Voodoo Juju (Live in Enger) is released - 200 copies green wax & 300 black.
The vinyl sells
well & a small cd run of 250 copies follows in July. In August we release
our 1st 7" by 'Vince Ripper & The Rodent Show' (who feature ex
'Turnpike Cruisers/Alien Sex Fiend' guitarist Ratty), a cover of 'I Was A
Teenage Werewolf' by The Cramps. By the end of 2015,
a further 3 Lp's are released, 'In Go-Go We Trust' by cult Scottish garage band
'Mondo A Go-Go', and two lp's previously only available on cd The Go Go Cults'
'Into The Valley Of' & The Guitaraculas' 'Two Bottles Of Blood'. The Guitaraculas
is the side project of Messer Chups main man Oleg Gitarkin. The rest is history https://www.discogs.com/label/845875-Trash-Wax
Whats on the cards for the new year?
2016 was a busy year, 2017 looks even busier including a new 'garbage grails' series of singles
2016 was a busy year, 2017 looks even busier including a new 'garbage grails' series of singles
