{"id":13209,"date":"2020-09-03T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2020-08-31T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:23:28","slug":"slaughter-and-the-dogs-do-it-dog-style-3cd-set-cherry-red-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13209","title":{"rendered":"Slaughter And The Dogs \u2013 \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 (3CD Set) ‘Cherry Red Records \/ Captain Oi!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rumour has it that that well-worn adage of \u201cif you know, you know\u201d was actually written especially for Wythenshawe\u2019s finest Slaughter And The Dogs.<\/p>\n

Having played the legendary 1976 Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall show with the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks they were actually one of the first UK punk bands to sign to a major label (Decca), and in 1978 (along with their then labelmates Cock Sparrer) they released their debut album \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019. To this day though it\u2019s hardly ever Slaughter & The Dogs (or for that matter Sparrer) who get name-checked in any punk nostalgia pieces run by the mainstream media, and always the likes of The Clash, The Damned, and of course the compulsory Sex Pistols.\u00a0 I wonder why? As \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 really is something of a stone-cold \u201cclassic\u201d album from that first wave of UK punk.<\/p>\n

Formed in 1976 around the creative axis of school mates (singer) Wayne Barrett and (guitarist) Mick Rossi, Slaughter And The Dogs actually took their name from two of Barrett\u2019s favourite albums Mick Ronson\u2019s \u2018Slaughter on 10th Avenue\u2019 and \u2018David Bowie\u2019s \u2018Diamond Dogs\u2019 and after adding bassist Howard \u2018Zip\u2019 Bates and drummer Brian \u2018Mad Muffet\u2019 Grantham to their line up it wasn\u2019t long before they were playing shows like the aforementioned Free Trade Hall gamechanger along with the likes of The Hope & Anchor and the Roxy in London.<\/p>\n

Releasing their blistering debut single \u2018Cranked Up Really High\u2019 through indie label Rabid Records in May 1977 it was this important stepping stone that saw Dogs snapped up by Decca and almost immediately they had \u2018Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone\u2019 released as a single and were sent out on tour with fellow Manchurians The Drones offering up the prospect of Slaughter On The Streets for those lucky enough to snap up a ticket.<\/p>\n

Two singles later \u2018Dame To Blame\u2019 and \u2018Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)\u2019 (the latter featuring their hero Mick Ronson) and an early 1978 tour of the UK with the also criminally underrated Eater in support it was finally in June of that year that \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 hit the shelves\u2026.a week after (well, if legend is to be believed) the band split up.<\/p>\n

And herein is the reason why I think Slaughter And The Dogs are not looked upon with the same sense of reverence as many of their punk rock peers. With the guys never achieving any of the sales figures or tabloid infamy of their former gig mates the UK music press always seemed to stop well short of affording them the rightful respect they deserved. Hence this 3CD set (from the always reliable Captain Oi!\/Cherry Red joint venture) which finally fully celebrates the \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 album in all its expanded glory should be an immediate addition to any music fan\u2019s collection. I\u2019ve had it on vinyl for years \u2013 but here with an additional 29 tracks added in the shape of early singles, demos and live performances I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever been afforded such an in-depth or (in fact) loving tribute.<\/p>\n

Disc one is \u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 in full, kicking off with the frantic bass driven \u2018Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone\u2019 which for me is still right up there with \u2018Neat Neat Neat\u2019 as a true anthem of 1977 and along with tracks like \u2018Boston Babies\u2019, \u2018\u2019I\u2019m Mad\u2019 and \u2018We Don\u2019t Care\u2019 the glam meets punk riffing and lyrics of Rossi and Barrett truly shine\u2026and again if I\u2019m totally honest it has more than a little in common with the early days of their then label mates Cock Sparrer.\u00a0 For the uninitiated it\u2019s perhaps the band\u2019s choice of covers that best exemplify their sound and influences with Velvet Underground\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m Waiting For The Man\u2019 and New York Dolls\u2019 \u2018Who Are The Mystery Girls\u2019 (once again complete with Ronno on guitar) both given a \u201cDog Style\u201d makeover, the latter being perhaps one of the best Dolls cover versions of all time. I kid you not.<\/p>\n

Disc two brings together 19 non-album tracks which includes the \u2018Cranked Up Really High\u2019 debut single, plus their two song contribution (\u2018Run Away\u2019 and a truly savage Boston Babies\u2019) to the seminal \u2018Live At The Roxy WC2\u2019 LP. Plus, there\u2019s a whole host of non-LP B-sides, the scarce \u2018It\u2019s Alright\u2019 EP and studio demos to keep even the diehards happy.<\/p>\n

If this wasn\u2019t enough there\u2019s also the raw sounding third disc \u2018Live Slaughter Rabid Dogs\u2019 to help round things off. This ten song, 38 minute blast of live energy was recorded in Manchester in 1977 and originally released the following year by Rabid Records and sound wise it is streets ahead of most live recordings from that period \u2013 I swear you can almost hear the whistle of the pint glasses flying at the band prior to \u2018Victims Of The Vampire\u2019. \u00a0It\u2019s brutal stuff that\u2019s for sure and also a fitting way to bring this most handsome of deluxe CD sets to a close, as during a reprise of \u2018We Don\u2019t Care\u2019 the gig appears to end in total chaos, not unlike the band themselves would seemed to make a habit of it in the decades that followed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Do It Dog Style\u2019 \u2013 if you know, you know.<\/p>\n

Buy it Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n

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Rumour has it that that well-worn adage of \u201cif you know, you know\u201d was actually written especially for Wythenshawe\u2019s finest Slaughter And The Dogs. Having played the legendary 1976 Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall show with the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks they were actually one of the first UK punk bands to sign to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4797,3031,2785],"class_list":["post-13209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-captain-oi","tag-cherry-red-records","tag-slaughter-and-the-dogs","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13212,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions\/13212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}