Friday 4 June 2010

Identity - Where's Everybody 7" EP




This purchase was a happy accident for me back in about 89 or 90. I loved the UK pop punk band Identity (who later became Funbug) and whilst browsing the latest distro list from Full Circle (UK distro ran by Andy from the Instigators) I saw this listed. Now the Full Circle distro list was a wee A5 booklet with thousands of records in it, no illustrations, just band name, record title, record label (in tiny text as well). There was no internet to look up info on either so you were sometimes flying blind on purchases. Anyway this was listed as being on Loony Tunes records which was a UK label and I knew of no other band called Identity, so ordered this on the presumption that it was Redditch's Descendents obsessed finest. A couple weeks later my package arrived back from Andy with this record in with a bunch of other 7"s and I was a tad dissapointed to find this wasn't the Identity I knew but some Swedes that went by the same moniker so listened to the other stuff I bought first and think it was a couple of weeks later that I decided that I may as well give this a spin. Now, with them being Swedish I was expecting it to sound a certain way, you know what I mean?
So i put the first song on "Where's Everybody?" and fuck me if I didn't think this was one of the best 7"s I bought, after about 30 seconds. To me it sounded like it was a slightly more melodic Swedish Minor Threat! The next song, "Turn Around", slowed it down but continued with the DC influence coming on more Dag Nasty. The third track on the first side "Looking For An Answer" is a live one and again treads the same ground as Minor Threat if maybe a bit slower.
Flip the disc and you get 2 tracks, "You Can Feel Alright" and "The Place". The first is a more melodic affair with a measured pace and echoey guitars the last is a more frantic and noisy number and also the shortest. I loved this EP at the time and I still do, it is awesome stuff, I never found anything else by them back then but I see on Swedish Punk there was an album and another EP and a split. If anyone has any of them and can upload them it'd be much appreciated. I have the Really Fast volume 5 on mp3 but only the track names not the bands, so that's cool I can update that from SP.
Sorry I didn't photo the sleeve when i ripped the vinyl. Now its in the bloody loft and I can't find a pic of it anywhere on the net so next time I'm up there I'll try and remember to fish it out and post it on here.
Anyway here's the music for you to hear:
Identity - Where's Everybody? 7"

Enjoy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ha Ha, I bought that 7" aswell.
All the best
Jason Funbug/Identity

Ps Thanks for nice things u said.