Music for Pleasure is the second studio album by the English punk rock band the Damned. It was released on 18 November 1977 by Stiff Records.

Music for Pleasure was produced by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. The Damned originally sought out former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett, but were unsuccessful due to his reclusive lifestyle. In a brief interview for the documentary The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015), Mason reported the band were accustomed to a much faster recording schedule than he was familiar with from Pink Floyd. The Damned hoped to record several songs on their first day in studio, when Nick Mason would still be fine-tuning the microphone set-up and tuning the drums.

The album featured new member Lu Edmonds on guitar alongside original guitarist Brian James, as well as guest saxophonist Lol Coxhill.

The sleeve was designed by Barney Bubbles. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdo0-77d5ZQ&list=PLF0yIDuA63HWrIW6B-gA7jZNrcps1YXl_&index=11

#TheDamned #PunkRock #Music #LolCoxhill #BarneyBubbles #StiffRecords

Welfare State / Lol Coxhill by Welfare State / Lol Coxhill, released on Caroline Records in 1975

Inconstant Sol wrote:

"This is something of an oddity in the Lol Coxhill discography, but a delightful record all the same. Coxhill was the musical director for this travelling troupe from 1973 to 1975... Welfare State was a nomadic consortium of artists, makers, musicians and performers...the WS envisaged themselves as Civic Magicians and Engineers of the Imagination, devising rituals and constructing images for particular times, places and seasons. They travelled throughout Europe with a mobile village of lorries and caravans, creating and animating outdoor events with sculptures, theatre pieces, celebrations, dances and processions. Consisting of 16 adults and 7 children, WS would stop for shorter or longer residences, whenever the opportunity arose to "make poetry concrete..."

https://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2012/08/welfare-statelol-coxhill.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie8UjqLee3o&list=RDIe8UjqLee3o&start_radio=1

#LolCoxhill #WelfareState #Music #CarolineRecords

No Roses is an album by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. It was recorded in the summer of 1971..

.."Poor Murdered Woman" and "Murder of Maria Marten", feature large parts of the Fairport Convention line-up of late 1969 ...

Claudy Banks includes a composed duo performance by Alan Cave on bassoon and British free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill – his only performance ever in the context of British folk music. Hal-An-Tow features members of the two acclaimed folk vocal groups The Watersons (Lal and Mike Waterson) and The Young Tradition (Royston Wood)...

The album title No Roses are the last words of the first verse of the folk song "The False Bride" ("I went down to the forest to gather fine flowers, but the forest won't yield me no roses.") - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezld1u4V6bE&list=PL19kp5Xy8sYAWU0uGdrMCvr5qoAjgKPQU&index=4

#ShirleyCollins #AlbionCountryBand #FolkRock #Folk #MurderBallads #Music #LolCoxhill #RichardThompson #AshleyHutchings #Watersons #BarryDransfield #SimonNicol #MaddyPrior

Lovely to see this post by George Burt on his site about how he and Raymond MacDonald met the late, great Lol Coxhill and gave him one of their CDs:

“I’ll give it a listen”, he said. “And if I like it, I’ll give you a call. If I don’t, you’ll never hear from me again.”

Luckily he did call them, and all 6 of the releases they did with Coxhill are on George’s Bandcamp site, linked in the post.

https://gburt.blog/2025/09/03/burt-macdonald-lol-coxhill/

#GeorgeBurt #RaymondMacDonald #LolCoxhill #ImprovisedMusic @improvisedmusic

1984 by Hugh Hopper released on CBS in 1973

"Bassist/composer Hugh has been involved in many projects during his more than 40 years in music. 1984, originally released in 1973, & his first solo release, remains perhaps his most singular. This combines Hugh's unique fuzz bass & compositions with tapework, multiple overdubs, & a very avant esthetic & then contrasts those works with short, weirdly devolved James Brown-inspired pieces." Cuneiform Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiknLR5ENEo

#1984 #hughhopper #softmachine #canterburyscene #fuzzbass #lolcoxhill #garywindo