Barricades And Angels by The Stray Trolleys, released on Man At The Off License in 1980.

In May of 1979, UK native Martin Newell was 26 years old and in transition. He’d just split up with his girlfriend and moved out of the Colchester house they’d shared for four years. ..

...Calling themselves The Stray Trolleys, the music here predates Newell's work as The Cleaners from Venus and the bulk of the sessions on their sole album, Barricades and Angels, were recorded at Octopus Studios during spring and summer of 1980. Amazingly, although they had little to no rehearsals, all backing tracks were recorded fairly quickly and everyone got on well, especially in the pub afterwards.

https://thecleanersfromvenus.bandcamp.com/album/barricades-and-angels-remastered-bonus

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTiBGmz64hsPQeGClPL3qpaLpcdyLDmjg

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Mistodon: to the vulgarian, it's just pixelart of a teapot. But anyone with a bellyfull of the lore of early computer graphics will appreciate the subject of this #teletext screen by Illarterate, the foundational and ubiquitous Melitta teapot that #MartinNewell modelled at the University of Utah in 1975 -- nearly 50 years ago!

Also it pours a mean cuppa. This piece was included in the foolish MIST0418 artpack collection.

Here's a new-to-me album that I'm obsessed with: Martin Newell's Greatest Living Englishman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ErfOyF0o0&list=PLms9ySZ50qwKAIgfjHKDRcFCeU9VKqxKY

I've been listening to Cleaners From Venus for a few years, but for some reason I never wandered over to Newell's stuff under his own name. Imho "Jangling Man" is one of the Cleaners' best songs; the version of it on Greatest Living Englishman is different enough it threw me for a loop (much more psychedelic.)

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