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Another 77 band formed by journalist Giovanni Dadamo.
The line up was....
Giovanni Dadamo - Vox
Dave Fudger, Pete Makowski - Git
Steve Lillywhite, Barry Myers - Bass
Steve Nicol, Ade Lillywhite, Lou Salvoni
& Nick Ratbite - Drums
I always loved their single 'Terminal Stupid' that
came out on Ghetto Rockers records in late 77 but
I knew nothing about them, so when I started Damaged
Goods it was something I wanted to unearth and possibly
re-issue. I asked around and eventually someone mentioned
that the main person behind the band was Giovanni Dadamo
and that he worked in Records & Tape Exchange at Notting
Hill, so I headed down there and eventually met him. We
arranged to meet for a beer after he finished work and that's
how the album came about. I showed him the Slaughter
album and said I wanted to re-issue the 7" and he said
did I want any other tracks, we met up at his parents house
and searched through old boxes and dug up a whole load of
cassettes and even an acetate or two.
We then went over to Dave Goodmans house and cleaned
everything up and eventually put the album together. Photo's
were found at Ray Stevenson's house and we had a
cover. Gio put together a mock review of the album
and we were away. One thing i never knew was that the Shits
did have a second release called 'isgodaman?' as
Arthur Comix on the Beggars Banquet compilation
'Streets'. The reason it was under a pseudonym was
because Beggars didn't want the word SHITS
on the cover!! how punk!.
Giovanni also co wrote a couple of Damned
songs 'I Just Can't Be Happy Today' and 'They're
Aint No Sanity Claus'.
Gio died a few years back, it was a pleasure to
have met him and recover a few great tracks.
This is from the Trouser Press site....
'The hazard of anyone-can-do-it musical movements is what
might get dragged in. Fortunately, the jokey Snivelling
Shits - two London rock critics (singer Giovanni
Dadomo and guitarist Dave Fudger) and such musician
friends as Steve Nicol of the Hot Rods and
bassist Steve Lillywhite - were sharply skilled at
smuttily satirising the sounds of '77. As anthologised in
this archival colored-vinyl document, the band's brief recording
career (eight whole tracks, including the viciously irreverent
"isgodaman?," originally released on a
Beggars Banquet compilation LP under the name Arthur
Comics?) included incisive swipes at the Sex Pistols,
John Cooper Clarke ("I Wanna Be Your Biro")
and the Velvet Underground. That's history for you.'
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