LONDON ZOO - Who's Driving This Car +1 DIY Ltd.1000 '80
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LONDON ZOO
Who's Driving This Car/You And Your Great Ideas
Gramaphone Records : STB 80
Here is a VERY GOOD copy of London Zoo's single, Who's Driving This Car, released on the DIY Gramaphone Records label, dating from 1980. This is a LIMITED EDITION pressing of 1000, this copy is numbered 799.
London Zoo formed, under the distinctly punk-era name of Blunt Instrument, in London in May 1977. Drummer David Sinclair had recently moved to London from Giffnock, Scotland, and was the only person who turned up to an audition conducted by guitarist/vocalist Robert Sandall and bassist Ed Shaw. Even the other guitarist, Bill Benfield, was absent.
The unnamed band rehearsed for a week, becoming Blunt Instrument on the eve of their first show, seven days after Sinclair joined. Equally rapid was the recording and release of their debut single, the thunderous "No Excuse," which soared to number two on the new wave chart published weekly inSounds newspaper. Blunt Instrument had the world at their feet, but tragedy struck at a Kings Cross street party show in July 1978, when Sinclair was hit on the head by a flying cider bottle, fell off his drum stool, and fractured his wrist. Two months worth of shows were cancelled and, as the momentum fell away, Benfield quit the band.
With Sinclair still in plaster, auditions for a replacement brought in Nick Aldridge, with the band taking the opportunity to change their name as well -- they chose London Zoo because everyone had heard of it.
Early in 1979, London Zoo signed to the Edinburgh-based Zoom Records, home to the infant Simple Minds and the Zones; their debut single, "Receiving End," followed, while the band itself embarked upon what Sinclair described as "an incredibly fertile period of songwriting." By the spring of 1980, London Zoo had a repertoire of 50-plus new songs. But that did not prevent them from being dropped when Arista swallowed up Zoom in late 1979, and the band's next single, "Who's Driving This Car," was self-released on the band's own (deliberately misspelled) Gramaphone label.
The record is in VERY GOOD condition and plays very well, with surface noise and the odd click as you would expect. The sleeve, which is a white paper sleeve with the number stamped in the corner and a London Zoo sticker is in VERY GOOD condition with creasing and yellowing with age as shown.
All records are well packaged in quality mailers and sent recorded delivery in the UK and with adequate compensation, depending on selling price, if sent abroad.
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