PROTEX - Don't Ring Me Up ORIGINAL GOOD VIBRATIONS 1978
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PROTEX
Don't Ring Me Up/(Just Want) Your Attention/Listening In
Good Vibrations Records : GOT 6
Here is a VERY GOOD copy of Protex's debut single release on the Good Vibrations Records label, based in Belfast dating from 1978.
Formed in 1977 after The Clash's first Belfast gig and originally called Protex Blue after a song on that seminal punk bands first LP. The name was later shortened to Protex to avoid comparisons with The Clash. Aidan Murtagh (guitar) and Owen McFadden (drums) had both previously been in a pre-punk school band called The Incredibly Boring Band which also yielded The Peasants. After some well received radio sessions and a successful debut single on Good Vibrations Records which was licensed and reissued by Rough Trade to meet demand, Protex signed to Polydor Records UK in early 1979 along with another Northern band The Xdreamysts who were scouted at the same gig. Protex relocated to London in the summer of 1979 after their first Polydor single, released another one shortly thereafter and began work on an album provisionally titled "Strange Obsessions" with Chas Chandler producing. But this LP never came out (the Xdreamysts meanwhile only managed to get their Polydor LP released in Holland). Despite touring successfully in America (as captured by John T.Davis on film) and a 4th single in 1980, the band lost momentum after the shelving of their LP and had split by 1981.
The record is in VERY GOOD condition and plays well with surface noise as you would expect. The poster picture sleeve is in GOOD condition, bearing in mind it is thin paper and a bit chewed at one corner, and has faded in the sun along one fold as can be seen in the scan. It is in one piece with creasing and ring wear.
All records are well packaged in quality mailers and sent recorded delivery in the UK and with adequate compensation, depending on selling price, if sent abroad.
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