Athletico Spizz 80 - Hot Deserts
One of the many name changes for Spizz. (Spizz Oil, Spizz Energi, Spizz Energi 2 etc.) Best known for "Where's Captain Kirk?".
Sounds very similar in style to some ot the Anarcho bands of the same period this, think Zounds, Poison Girls with a bit of U.K. Decay in the mix and your somewhere near. The B side of this 'Legal Proceedings', is great song indeed.
This was released on A&M records in 1980 under the monicker Athletico Spizz 80 & was produced by former Gong bass player Mike Howlett.
Spizz changed the name annually, in a bid to get in the Guinness Book of Records claiming he had recorded and released the greatest number of recordings under different names."Too Specialised" was the response of the then deputy editor Shelagh Thomas who confessed to owning "Where's Captain Kirk?" As should everyone.
Can't recommend this one enough.
Athletico Spizz 80 - Hot Deserts
posted by John Liedown at 12:09 AM
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The band started had a personal influence on me by making me think about the environment. They sang about global warming back in the '70s and I remember not using aerosol deodorants from then on. Back then most aerosols had CFCs
Hi pogel,
yeah they were quite ahead of their time in both style & substance Spizz. Always remember them turning up in Smash Hits quite a bit as well. Used to be quite good when it first came out that.
J
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