3CD / DVD HARDBACK BOOK SET EXPLORING PUNK AND THE POST-PUNK LANDSCAPE IN NORTHERN IRELAND. 74 TRACKS PLUS THE SEMINAL JOHN T. DAVIS FILM SHELLSHOCK ROCK ON DVD.

INCLUDES THE UNDERTONES, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, RUDI, PROTEX, THE OUTCASTS, THE MOONDOGS, VICTIM, THE IDIOTS AND MANY MORE.

FEATURES INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY STUART BAILIE (AUTHOR OF TROUBLED SONGS), FIRST-HAND ARTIST SLEEVENOTES AND BIOGRAPHIES COURTESY OF LEADING HISTORIANS OF PUNK CULTURE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, SPIT RECORDS. ALSO INCLUDES JOHN T. DAVIES OWN RECOLLECTIONS ON THE SHELLSHOCK ROCK

The plight of Northern Ireland throughout the 1970s and 1980s is well documented. Less widely acknowledged, though, is the unifying impact that punk rock and everything that came in its wake had on the countrys youth. Whilst violence, disenchantment and danger became everyday obstacles, punk provided an outlet, a means of expression and something beyond the political landscape in a way few other cities on earth could have understood.

The Shellshock Rock film first captured this in 1978, and we proudly extend that account with three discs of tracks recorded during a period that breathed new life into the countrys musical culture. The bands of Belfast and beyond created a scene entirely of their own, without the aid of an existent network of venues and publications. Punk forged alliances that reached across sectarian boundaries, and pushed back against a culture of traditions and establishment which seemed to offer very little to the countrys youth.

Featuring in-depth sleeve-notes, essays by both Stuart Bailie and John T. Davis, unseen imagery and, for the first time outside of Japan, the seminal Shellshock Rock film, this latest addition to our series of deep, geographically focused sets promises to be the most vital of them all. Nowhere was punk as necessary and as life-changing as it was in Northern Ireland.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: CD

1. TRUE CONFESSIONS The Undertones
2. RICH BITCH Midnite Cruiser
3. STRIKER Midnite Cruiser
4. PUNK ROCKIN GRANNY Duggie Briggs Band
5. 42 HOURS LATE Duggie Briggs Band
6. DANCE AWAY LOVE Xdreamysts
7. PARENTS The Idiots
8. ANY DANGER LOVE Starjets
9. WAR STORIES Starjets
10. CRUISIN The Detonators
11. START ALL OVER AGAIN No Sweat
12. ROUGH, TOUGH, PRETTY TOO
Pretty Boy Floyd and The Gems
13. SHARON Pretty Boy Floyd and The Gems
14. LIZARD KING Blue Steam
15. BABY CMON Jumpers
16. LOOKING FOR A LADY Cobra
17. IM NOT YOUR TYPE Tinopeners

18. I DONT WANNA BE Tinopeners
19. BUSY SIGNAL Clive Culbertson
20. KISS ME Clive Culbertson
21. SUZY LIE DOWN Cramp
22. ME & BOBBY MCGEE
Lenny And The Lawbreakers
23. NINE TO FIVE The Androids
24. LIPSTICK HEROES The Androids
25. CONTRAST DISORDER (DEMO) The Doubt
26. LOOKAWAY (DEMO) The Doubt

DISC TWO: CD

1. SUSPECT DEVICE Stiff Little Fingers
2. GOTTA GET AWAY (SINGLE VERSION) Stiff Little Fingers
3. STRANGE THINGS Protex
4. STRANGE OBSESSIONS Protex
5. ONE BY ONE Ruefrex
6. THE PERFECT CRIME Ruefrex
7. IN IT FOR THE KICKS The Faders
8. DONT TELL THE DETECTIVES The Zipps
9. SELF-CONSCIOUS OVER YOU
The Outcasts
10. MAGNUM FORCE The Outcasts
11. I NEED YOU Victim
12. THE TEEN AGE Victim
13. YA DONT DO YA The Moondogs
14. SHES NINETEEN The Moondogs
15. METAL LOVE Rod Vey
16. SOLDIER BOY Rod Vey
17. WHYD YA HAVE TO LIE? The Sweat
18. LIGHT ON THE HILLSIDE Stage B
19. HEART ON THE LINE The Tearjerkers
20. MIXED UP KID Aftermath
21. FOR THE NIGHT Male Caucasians
22. SPIES Reflex Action
23. RECESSION Reflex Action
24. THE WHISTLE SONG
The Rattling Throntons

DISC THREE: CD

1. 14 STEPS (SESSION VERSION) Rudi
2. WHEN I WAS DEAD Rudi
3. THE SYSTEM IS HERE- Ex-Producers
4. DANCE (UNTIL YOU DROP) The Defects
5. GUILTY CONSCIENCE The Defects
6. RADIO SONGS Strike
7. TEENAGE REBEL Strike
8. TV DECEIVES The Singles
9. IM ONLY ASKING (DEMO) The Singles
10. I DONT LIKE GIRLS Minor Classics
11. YOULL NEVER FIND LOVE Minor Classics
12. MR MYSTERY MAN Shock Treatment
13. PUT IT AROUND The Nerves
14. HERE SHE COMES The Peasants
15. JEALOUSY Acme
16. SURPRISE, SURPRISE Big Self
17. JAGGED EDGES Big Self
18. GET MY ACT TOGETHER Katmandu
19. BLOODY BOUNCERS Control Zone
20. JOHNNY JOHNNY Control Zone
21. CONSCIOUS Electro-Motive Force
22. SPIDERMEN Electro-Motive Force
23. JUST FRIENDS Dogmatic Element
24. STRANGE PASSION Dogmatic Element

DISC FOUR: DVD

Shellshock Rock:
The award winning film by
John T. Davis.

Featuring The Undertones, Rudi,
Stiff Little Fingers, Protex,
The Outcasts, Victim, The Idiots,
The Parasites and Rhesus Negative.

A Holywood Films Production.

NTSC REGION FREE