Description
•First ever release of this long-lost UK post-punk classic
•Comes with poster insert with archive band photos and sleeve notes by the Good Missionaries’ Keith Rodway.
“The hipness and success of London punk-explosion photocopy fanzine Sniffin’ Glue was almost entirely due to the irreverent, pugnacious sincerity of its founder/spark-plug Mark Perry. That Perry should form a band (Alternative TV) seemed a natural progression; that it was any good at all a surprise; that it maintained a stance utterly disdainful of compromise a small miracle.”
The Good Missionaries emerged, phoenix-like, from the ashes of Alternative TV (ATV). They released one live album “Fire From Heaven,” before ATV founder Mark Perry left. Ex-ATV guitarist/vocalist Dave George and bassist Keith Rodway continued the band, with several line-up changes during those days. The Good Missionaries toured and gigged with such bands as The Fall, The Pop Group, Crass, Scritti Politti, Delta Five, Poison Girls, Nik Turner’s Inner City Unit and The Transmitters. Which in retrospect makes sense, as their post-punk/dub/experimental inclinations dovetail perfectly with the music those more storied bands (more successful bands) were making at the time. The Good Missionaries released several singles on their own Unnormality label, before splitting in 1982.
Import edition limited to 125x copies that come with a poster insert which includes archive band photos and sleeve notes by the Good Missionaries’ Keith Rodway.
Side one:
01. Call To Arms
02. The Final Solution
03. Outlook
04. Reactions
05. Keep Going Backwards
Side two:
01. The Power and the Fog
02. Bending a Border (Dub Version)
03. Through My Window
04. Protect and Survive
05. Snapshot
GENRE: Post Punk/Dub/Experimental
BARCODE: 778578999919
RELEASE DATE: 23/08/2024
