Elsewhen Records

Press release

My press release announcing the long-awaited compilation CD from post-punk band, The Transmitters, required a very specific tone: explosive, manic and in-yer-face. It achieved cover in The Sunday Times, Record Collector, Mojo, DJ Mag, plan B, Rock Sound, The Morning Star and many many more.

Peel recognised it. So did Fluff. In 1979 The Transmitters were several decades and decibels ahead of even the most hardened post punk rocker. Now we’ve had our urban ears syringed by the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Killers, we can all slip as comfortably into The Transmitters new compilation album, “I fear no one”, as if it was a comfy old pair of slippers. Only a lot louder.

“Ah transmit me baby” moaned an ecstatic John Peel in 1979 as the final bar crashed to a close on the first of the two full-throttle Peel Sessions the band were invited to record. The entire four-track session is featured on their new CD along with other belligerent memorables such as “Dead Siamese Sister”.