Like many other provincial towns in the UK, Swansea was no exception when the first rumblings of a thing called ‘Punk’ started to appear in the music press of 1976/77. Thereafter, a small group of kids, dissatisfied with the currently held belief that forming a band required a degree of musical virtuosity, scoured the classified ads in the local Evening Post. Having procured their instrument of choice they started their own bands, wherein the DIY clothing and even more DIY music scratched an itch that the national charts could not. Fast forward 30-odd years and some of those same individuals realised that, unlike many of the more recognised epicentres of Punk, Swansea’s musical output from 1978-1983 was poorly documented and in danger of disappearing altogether as the people who made that music lost track of the master tapes of the only recordings from that time.

 

Since 2013 Punkhouse Records have been attempting to unearth, restore, and release what music can be found and recovered from the Swansea music scene of that era on both vinyl and cassette. Get in touch if you have anything!

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Click HERE for the Punkhouse catalogue list

 

Or click band names below for details and images of releases and availability

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• The Autonomes

• The Dodos

• The Lost Boys

• The Noise

• The Tunnelrunners

• The Urge

• The Venom​

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Recognising also that there were some local releases back in the day, primarily through the support of Steve Mitchell and the Sonic International label before Steve moved onto Fierce Recordings and the birth of Indiepop with music press darlings The Pooh Sticks:

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• What To Wear – Casual But Smart E.P. [Basic And Typical]

• The Tunnelrunners – Plastic Land E.P. [Sonic International]

• The DC10s – Bermuda/I Can See Thru Walls [A Certain Euphoria]

• The Venom, The Dodos and The Lost Boys on the “Sex, Violence And The Eternal Truth” E.P. [Sonic International]