The Snivelling Shits – Shits Live!

Out on 15th April, this Snivelling Shits album is live and oh so very alive, recorded during the reunion gigs of 2018/2019, this is a special limited addition coloured vinyl release too, being a rainbow of colour and not the original intention of Brown, which the late Pete Makowski would have insisted on, but as it looks now “as the shit hits the fan” the band are sure Pete would have approved.

So what do we get from this, what sadly turns out to be a fitting dedication to an original member album, 6 live tracks and two demo’s is what we get.   It kicks off with ‘Terminal Stupid’ which reminds so much in style of Johnny Moped, who just happens to be the headline at the Damaged Goods 30th Anniversary gig that was one of that was recorded, but then Snivelling Shits always do have that quality for myself, a down to earth of the estate type band.

This is swiftly followed up by ‘Only 13’ which I’m sure has the audience feeling exactly like I did when I was actually that age, it takes you all the way back to when that age was the awakening period, sung in a way that sits perfectly with that “i’m only 13, please leave me grow up in my way”.

So now who remembers ‘Crossroads’? yep this truly is a song that about an 80’s or was it 70’s soap opera, time passes so quickly for us oldies, does what it say on the tin this one.

Next up is a song that gets two outings on the album, ‘Bring Me The Head Of Yokio Mishima’ first the live version and then the Demo, a title that the Dickies would be proud of maybe, in fact if you speeded it up by 5x, you might just get it. What would a Snivelling Shits album be without ‘I Wanna Be Your Biro’ in which Tom Crossley dedicates it to Giovanni Dadamo the original singer “who couldn’t make it tonight, on account of being dead”  says Tom, with it’s simple but perfect riff that like a metronome sits at the heart of it, this is a song that anyone of an age and time will always enjoy hearing, and live, it just has that earthy get up and play DIY sound.

To end this tribute to a band, and lets not beat around the bush, this is what it is, and good on them for just throwing it out and not apologising for it, anyway ‘Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi’ “and me, and me, and me” is the only translation I’m capable of, who cares its a great song that still has you bouncing around like you would to Plastic Bertrand…. 

Live is always the best way to hear music and this is, as far as live albums go, a pretty decent recording. It takes you all the way back to when you were a kid and punk was growing up in its many different forms. Thank you to Damaged Goods Records for releasing something that is very 70’s yet perfectly 2022.

Out now, get over to Damaged Goods Records and check out your options.

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