VISITORS - 3 X 7"

It has been long overdue since I posted, primarily as I was saturated with new music, and almost felt I was losing sensitivity to it, and of secondary reasoning was a slew of jumped up precious little people attempting to dictate how to do this 'blog' : anything ranging from telling me what is too precious to share (Artica of all things fucking purleeze!!), through to other very tedious, mind numbing and intensely boring shit, etc. You get the picture. If you want to do that kind of thang become a p a r e n t (heaven forbid), or an autocratic dictator of a banana republic, in short 'fuck yourself'. BYE BYE.

If not, well keep on reading......

Visitors released a brace of three seven inches between 1979 and 1981, and dissolved. They played with The Freeze (pre Cindytalk) and  Ultravox I believe, morphing from a quite agitated postish punk sound to a more grim sounding and claustrophobic little beast, roughly the same time as Joy Division mutated out of Warsaw. As a lot of great bands did, most of whom are annoyingly compared to the omnipotent Joy Division - how original! This reminds me more of Crisis' transformation into Death In June, definitely an influence on the young ears of Tom Ashton, from The March Violets, prior to the formation of their sound, and a group that now are sadly virtually unknown. If you look on discogs under 'Visitors' you have to wade through about 19 different crappy evangelical, folk rock, dubstep, dunno what the fuck it is' to find these rather precious jewels.

So if you wish to they are affectionately catalogued 'Visitors (8)'. How charming is that?

Visitors - Electric Heat / Moth / One Line 7"

(Deep Cuts Records, Deep-1. 1979)

Visitors - Empty Rooms / The Orcadian / Visitors 7"

(Departure Music, Rapture One, 1980)

Visitors - Compatibility / Poet's End 7"

(Rational Records, RATE 2, 1981)

For Tom ... ;-)