The Smashing Times - Come Along With Me DJ Maestro My own classmates proved themselves

My own classmates proved themselves the enemy so finding someone I could relate to was just great

full of bone-rattling energy which shakes the whole room”

• Originally released in 1981 ‘Carry On Oi

River Of Souls

including London’s Union Chapel and Scala

The Smashing Times - Come Along With Me DJ Maestro My own classmates proved themselvesWell knock me down with a feather. Here tis' in your lucky mitts lies the primordial cassette canoodlings that emanated up from some far flung Baltimore basement by those most surely now, near mythical, Smashing Times. Stately field recordings that seemingly straddle the void between a burgeoning subterranean folk rock renaissance, yet briefly encounter shimmering DIY jangle popisms of this old curmudgeon's youthquake, without a hint of revisionism