V2 - Speed Freak - Original UK 7" Single - Private Punk KBD Earwigs Panik Warsaw

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V2

Speed Freak

Original UK 7" Single (black vinyl) released on Bent Records in 1978. Picture sleeve.

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Band from the Manchester punk scene along with the Fall , Buzzcocks and Warsaw and containing ex-members of the Nosebleeds and Panik. Evolved from the early days of the Electric Circus and erred on the glam side of punk. Great single Speed Freak / Nothing To Do / That's It (Bent Records 1978). 

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Slaughter And The Dogs weren’t the only members of Manchester’s punk vanguard to absorb both style and image from the glam rock era. Almost as raucous and showy were V2, formed in December 1976 by Standely, who’d just left the RAF, and Wilks, the latter having attended the second Sex Pistols’ Lesser Free Trade Hall show, supported by the Dogs and Buzzcocks, in 1976. Both were veterans of Pips nightclub, where they’d bonded in the Bowie/Roxy room. They persuaded Stan to pick up the bass due to the fact that he was a fellow Bowie fan and had “good hair”. Ex-Panik and Warsaw drummer Steve Brotherdale met them on a bus, after asking him for directions to the Electric Circus, before inviting him to join the band after they got chatting.

They subsequently picked up supports to Slaughter, with whom Stan had struck up a long-standing friendship. Their second ever show was at a Dogs concert at the Middleton Hall, alongside Fast Breeder, featuring future members of the Durutti Column. Their debut single, ‘Speedfreak’ was the first song Standely ever wrote. It was released at the tail end of 1977 and immediately sold out of three separate pressings, despite a dismissive review from Tony Parsons in the NME, although pretty much everyone else seemed to like it.

There was a recording hiatus until the end of 1978, by which time Brotherdale had convinced the others to bring his former Panik colleague Ian Nance on lead guitar. By now they were a capable live attraction. There was some support in the media too, not least from the fickle pen of Paul Morley, writing in the NME in June 1978: “V2 think about presentation. Their music is stripped, effective, trebly punk – anachronistic if you will. They vigorously project this with garish musical homage to the ironical nursery surrealism of Alice Cooper, and the non stop colour barrage of the Damned. Any irony is perhaps destroyed by the apparent seriousness of their intentions, but their show is very flash, and very imposing. Lots of smoke, lights, make-up, glam(punk)rock, potentially extremely popular.”

The combination of glam and punk didn’t please all the purists, but it was an honest derivation of both Slaughter and V2’s influences, and in many ways helped Manchester punk a more varied ‘sound’ than its London counterpart.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Speed Freak
Nothing To Do

Side Two

That's It

Released on 'Bent Records' in 1978

Catalogue No. SMALL BENT ONE

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in EX condition (general light wear)

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1 LP £3.90
2 LP £3.90
3 LP £6.50
4 LP £6.50
5 LP £6.50
6 LP £6.50

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE RATES TO EUROPE FOR LPs & 12" SINGLES:

1 LP £6.10
2 LP £7.50
3 LP £9.00
4 LP £10.50
5 LP £12.00
6 LP £13.50

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2 LP £11.00
3 LP £13.50
4 LP £16.00
5 LP £18.50
6 LP £21.00

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