THE SHAPES Part Of The Furniture - Original UK 7" EP - Private DIY Punk KBD

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THE SHAPES

Part Of The Furniture EP

Original UK 7" EP released on Sofa Records in 1979. Plain paper sleeve with printed insert.

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In the planets that revolve around planet punk The Shapes are definitely far out there along with planet Pluto. Fellow travellers would include the TV Personalities, Swell Maps and later on The Sconeheads and a whole host of indies. An antidote to the gothic splendour of Siouxsie, the intensity of The Clash, the rebellion of the Pistols and the growl of a thousand other punk bands. Basically the Shapes made music that you could jump to and at the same time make you smile and they played it in the places like The Vortex and The Roxy and they played it with bands such as The Killjoys, The Saints and The Cure.

The Shapes were undeniably English and also the masters of parenthesis. In the white hot anger of '78 they gave us 'Wots for lunch mum? (not beans again!)' and '(I saw) Batman (in The Launderette)'. It's not yer 1234 punk more but a sound more akin to ATV but with humour. Never ones to take themselves seriously, one of their last recordings was 'Jennifer Connifer' but that doesn't excuse naming a song Leamington (after Leamington Spa). If they don't make you smile then something's missing.

In their own words:

After a little rehearsal, we return to Woodbine Mobile Recording Studios and record what is to become the Part Of The Furniture EP on our own label Sofa Records. We record four songs, (I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette), College Girls, What's For Lunch Mum (Not Beans Again), and Chatterbox. The versions are faster and more urgent with two guitarists and we retire well pleased by the whole affair. Our money is duly spent on pressing and sleeve inserts and we dutifully spend an evening stuffing the inserts into the records. That took us up to the point that we knew, so after persuading everyone we knew to buy one, we sent one to just about every DJ at every radio station we could think of. We never really expected anyone would play it, especially not John Peel, because we had played a road show of his not long previously  and had quite frankly gone down like a fart in a space suit. But play it he did, not once, not twice, but incessantly. The phone started to ring and suddenly we were a hot property. We couldn't get rid of the records fast enough. We would drive to London and starting at Westbourne Grove, start unloading them at Virgin, Rough Trade, Fresh, Cherry Red, and all the way up to Small Wonder in Walthamstow to hawk them to the lovely Pete Stennet and his even lovelier wife Marie. A cup of tea would be cadged and then off home again. The week would see trips to all the other major distributors, Red Rhino, Dead Good, and a host of others. Suddenly, places that wouldn't let us in were calling us, and the gigging never stopped. We started scoring supports all over, and so began the never ending swathe of gigs that became the Part Of The Furniture tour of 1979. 

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Wot's For Lunch Mum? (Not B****s Again!)
College Girls

Side Two

(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)
Chatterboks

Released on 'Sofa Records' in 1979

Catalogue No. SEAT 1

Record is in EX+ condition

Comes in a paper sleeve with printed insert EX+

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3 LP £13.50
4 LP £16.00
5 LP £18.50
6 LP £21.00

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