About Attrix Records & Shop

ATTRIX RECORDS
Attrix Records, the label, began with a single entitled Hard Times b/w Lost Lenore by the band Attrix. This was prefixed RB01. The letters being an abbreviation of the man's name who formed the label, Rick Blair.

Only 500 copies were pressed at a cost of £250, which was made up of savings and a loan from a friend. Rick had a band called Attrix, a threepiece, in which he was guitarist and vocalist. He also wrote the two songs on the record.

Next step was a compilation LP called Vaultage 78, made up of local bands, an innovative move at the time. A further three singles by local bands followed and in December 1979 a second Brighton music compilation, Vaultage 79, was released using more new local bands.

Then came a 12 inch single by Rick's next band, the Parrots, and an EP by the Chefs.

By the end of the year Vaultage 80, the third and final volume of local music was released.

ATTRIX SHOP
Attrix Records, the shop, was situated in Sydney Street in the North Laine, the throbbing heart of creative Brighton then as it is now, only it was less upmarket, though always ahead of its time.

You could buy all the cool albums: New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, the B52's, Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. This was the new music from the USA. aThe cool stuff from the UK at the time included Sex Pistols, Stranglers, The Clash, The Jam, The Damned, Sham 69, UK Subs and Ian Dury, as well as a lot of more obscure stuff that would also later go mainstream.

Attrix Records Shop sold cheaper than any other outlets, a measure of Rick and his philosophy, 'music for the people, by the people'.

• For the full story read Stuart Jones' Attrix Memoirs
• Browse the complete Attrix Discography
originally compiled and sent in by Weed, updated by Jon Betteridge in 2010
• Download The 1981 Attrix Calender compiled by David Roughton
• Read a handwritten note from Rick Blair to Terry Newbery, Attrix Engineer/Producer at Graphic Sound Studios, Catford, Lomdon



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The Attrix Trilogy of Vaultage albums








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VAULTAGE 78

VAULTAGE 79

VAULTAGE 80

Side 1
NICKY & THE DOTS
Girl gets nervous
I find that really surprises me
Wrong Street
THE DODGEMS
I don't care
DEVILS DYKES
Fruitless
Plastic flowers
PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES
Elvis is dead

Side 2
THE PARROTS
Larger than life
Vicious circle
THE VITAMINS
New town
THE DODGEMS
Lord Lucan is missing
THE PIRANHAS
Tension
Virginity
I don't want my body

Vaultage 78: additional tracks by Nicky & The Dots, Piranhas, Dodgems and Peter & The Test Tube Babies from the Vaultage Punk Collection CD, are available for purchase at Cherry Red Records

John Peel Vaultage 78 review and report from the Alhambra

Bushell gets in on the Brighton acts

Side 1
THE VANDELLS
Bank holiday
Another girl
THE CHEFS  
You get everywhere
Food
GOLINKSI BROTHERS
Bloody
Too scared

Side 2
THE LILLETTES
Hey operator
Nervous wreck
IJAX ALLSTARS
Sounchek
Reggaed rumble
WOODY & THE SPLINTERS
I want you to be my girl
I must be mad

Vaultage 79: additional tracks by The Chefs, Lillettes, Goilnski Bros and Woody & the Splinters from the Vaultage Punk Collection CD, are available for purchase at
Cherry Red Records




Side 1
BIRDS WITH EARS
Head in my bag
OBJEKS
Negative conversation
EMMA SHARPE & THE FEATURES
Motorway
REWARD SYSTEM
Extradition
THE HOLLOW MEN
Never Again
IDRENES
Red gold and green
DICK DAMAGE & THE DILEMMA
Do the winklepicker

Side 2
THE RED SQUARES
The Russians are coming
THE MOCKINGBIRDS
Money
THE EXCLUSIVES
Sinking gondola
APRIL & THE FOOLS
You do
THE AMMONITES
Blue lagoon
BRIGHT GIRLS
Hidden from history
LIFE SIZE MODELS
Have you seen my friend

Vaultage 80: additional tracks by Reward System and The Exclusives from the Vaultage Punk Collection CD, are available for purchase at Cherry Red Records


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Attrix Records & Shop scrapbook


Rick outside 3 Sidney Street





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