| MCH002 Stack Waddy/Spider King HUNT THE STAG/ANIMALS Tracklist |
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Finders Keepers Records and Oi Polloi collaborate to bring you two rare
slices of testosterone fuelled heavy Mancunian "hunting songs" previewing
a new archive of unreleased Mancunian rock for the forthcoming MAN
CHEST HAIR compilation and taken from the limited collaboration mixtape
Plight Of The Hunter.
Finders Keepers in conjunction with Mancunian friends Oi Polloi give
fans of both hard rock and malformed punk with a double-sided 7” vinyl
single of two lost recordings from the virile and self-sufficient Manc rock
scene that eluded major label domination throughout the 1970s.
Proudly advertised as Manchester’s prime purveyors of "The f***ing
heaviest music you ever heard" Stack Waddy were born out of the threepiece
combo New Religion who cut their teeth on the French hard rock
club circuit in the early 1970s before returning to Timperley and enlisting
the bizarre yearning vocals of local bricklayer John Knail who instantly
complimented the uninhibited axe-ministry of Mick Stott (a man locally
known to have been using guitar feed back "way before Hendrix").
Eventually signed to John Peel’s Dandelion label this previously
unpressed studio demo captures a Sabbatical War Pig of a riff while Knail
sings the contents of his local chip shop menu in this tuff-love serenade.
This double whammy also snares a rare homemade punk track called
Animals by Manchester’s omnipresent Spider Mike King, whose loyalty to
the local DIY scene began with his first band Jacko Ogg with best bud
Martin Hannett and soon saw him join Nico's post-Velvet’s band and play
a one man fuzz guitar show with AC/DC. The track’s rumbling bassline
and synthetic drum clatters treads a path between early Fall and a
microwaved Spaghetti Western with Mikes unique songwriting pushing
this no-fi nugget to the front of Manc pop’s most wanted/lost property
inventory.