Grandpa’s Whistling Tunes

After the previous part of Grandpa’s Whistling here is the third one.
Clever people have noticed that GW Twist is part four of a set.
Late eighties I received a few homemade compilation tapes from the bass player of Buy Off The Bar  (I will make a compilation of that band later, probably combined with Golden String, another great band from the lowlands)
This third part consists of leftovers from the first two (you will get those at a later date) tapes and a tape with Buy Off The Bar’s 3rd Peel Session.
This one, again, filled to the brim with classic pleasure punk,and other great youthful and mostly guitear driven energy.
Some of these bands are quite famous like The Fall, while others have had minor success and semi cult status.
999, The Wonder Stuff, The Outcasts or The Wedding Present might need no introduction.
35-40 years after most of these bands have seen a rerelease of some sort, where they previously released only one (or two) items in their active years. 
The Big Gun (one 7” and a split flexi) 
The Meanies (Not to be  confused with an Australian band from the 90s) one EP 
Tours (2 singles) 
This Poison (3 singles/ep’s) with the utterly beautiful Poised over the Pause button 
Stitched-Back Foot Airman (a handful of singles) 
Baby Lemonade (one album, one single, one split-flexi) 
Some of these bands have brought to life artists we all might know 
Killjoys (Gil Weston from Girlschool) 
The Prefects (Robert Lloyd from Nightingales) 
The Creepers (Marc Riley former The Fall) 
Others have made quite a few albums, just check out 
Cud, Bogshed, Blurt, I Ludicrous, Newton Neurotics or The Rezillos 


My favorite track on this one is Dilyn Dylan by the Welsh band Fflaps
I, ludicous – Preposterous Tales (in the life of Ken MacKenzie) deserves a special mention. 
I cannot check everybody’s grant tale how they saw the first Prince concert, or how they shook hands with an old man who definitely shook hands with Robert Johnson, but this song takes the biscuit. 
The first time Prince was in The Netherlands, only a few hundred people were there.
Same with the first time Joy Division came here. 
When Radiohead first toured Europe they were rejected at our local venue… 
Talking about Joy Division, there was a secret tape with them performing Madison Square Garden (they say they never went there, but what about this tape I have)….., to be continued!