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Collectors Vinyl Summer Festivals, New Video JC's Celtic Album
We have been working away behind the scenes on various projects that are now coming to fruition. JC has been in France recording his Celtic Record provisionally entitle "Celtique" The Band are doing only a few festival shows this year so catch us when you can detail below. The Big news is the Archive material!
We are not doing the usual punk festivals this summer but you can catch us these eclectic interesting festivals
THE MEMBERS SHOWS FOR 2025
17.08.2025 - New Days Festival Faversham Tickets
24.08.2025 - Sunshine Festival Upton on Severn Tickets
04.01.2026 - Rockaway Beach Bognor Regis Tickets
Preview the Original Version of Suburbs here !
Explosive Archive
Material set for release on Vinyl in August 2025
1.At the Coach House Studio. (Containing the original recording of "Suburbs"
2. The Lost Masters an incredible story of tapes found at a car boot sale
Win a CD of the Coach House by entering the competition at the bottom of this page .. or ... just BUY ONE :)
preview the original version of the Sound of the Suburbs on the Video above or here
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ONLY A FEW BOX SETS LEFT
Two important pieces of Members history are being released on Vinyl and CD in August . Both the result of the discovery of early master tapes . At the Coach House is a recording session in 1978 which contains most of the material that would become The Members debut album "At the Chelsea Nightclub" including the first recording of their anthem "the Sound of the Suburbs"
At the End of Term is a recording from 1979 for what was to be the follow up to "suburbs" a schools out style anthem plus three tracks that would eventually feature on their second album. This second tape was incredibly the result of a chance conversation at a car boot fair in 2012.
Will be available on 12" 33 1/3 rpm coloured vinyl and gatefold Digipac CD
Two separate covers "the Haynes Cover" "The Punk Cover"
18 page Fanzine "The Surrey Vomit"
Box Set containing fanzine 2 vinyl records Plectrums 3 limited edition vintage Posters, Gatefold Digipac CD and Tee Shirt
At The End of Term
Will be available on 10" 45 Rpm coloured vinyl
Gatefold cover
AT THE COACH HOUSE DETAILS
In 1978 The Members were one of the hottest bands on the London circuit the unique post punk sound a dual guitar attack Reggae basslines and incendiary drum work add to this mix the pocket rocket that was Nick Tesco you get an unique band, a Mixture of Surf Guitar, Dub Reggae and New Wave Rock . They were on the cusp of smashing through into the big time, and they went into the studio with soon to be superstar producer. Steve Lillywhite to make a recording of their best numbers. This recording would ultimately get them a record deal, and subsequently lay in a cupboard untouched for 45 years. but it also stands as a record of their unique sound recorded at The first black owned studios in UK, Eddy Grant’s coach house studios. This record has it all, the first studio recording of Sound of the suburbs and most of the tracks from the first album. There is something of the crossroads of this record. The band was standing on the edge of their biggest record. The studio was standing on the edge of the biggest hit and Steve Lillywhite was at the beginning of a huge career. Because he was working in a bank at the time..JC couldn’t make it to the backing vocal sessions, so his brother Meesh and future World domination enterprises bass player, Steve Jameson sang backing vocals !
AT THE COACH HOUSE TRACK LIST
Electricity
Soho a Go Go
At the Chelsea Nightclub
Sally
Solitary Confinement
Dont Push
The Sound of the Suburbs
Phone in Show
Physical Love
Stand up and Spit
Love inna Lift
AT THE END OF TERM details Tracklist
Mastered from 8 track 1 Inch tape
Some people who criticised the production of our second album as too polished. Here are four tracks with The Members at their raucous rowdy best. The first three tracks are all under 3 minutes yet are packed with lyrics drum fills guitar solos and chris’s throbbing bass lines. This is the sound of a band that came up the hard way through the tough punk pub circuit . No X factor lottery winners ! I have tried to present the band as you would have heard them live Enjoy!
JC Carroll 2025
At The End of Term
Mazak Machine
Normal People
Gang War
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This is a rough for the cover of JC's upcoming celtic album due in the Autumn
Here is a Preview of a piece from JC's Celtic Album... the project is very varied but it features a lot of the Uilleann pipes of Dicky Deegan....some interesting versions of some traditional songs and some new material....
