A small independent concern from Paisley run by printer Tommy Kayes, a member of a Clydeside Anarchist group. The Groucho Marxist Record Co-operative issued two Various Artist EPs, an EP by XS Discharge and a single by Defiant Pose during the period 1979-81; another EP was planned but it never appeared. Numbering was in a COMMUNIQUE-0 series. Titles such as Defiant Pose's 'Fight' and Urban Enemies 'Who Do You Hate', both from the 'Ha! Ha! Polis' EP (COMMUNIQUE-2; 2/80), suggest hardcore Punk, but the music on that particular record has been described by one source as 'poppish but garagey'. Mike Clarke, whose article about the label and about the Paisley Punk scene can be found here, sums up the five tracks on the first EP, 'Spectacular Commodity', as being 'defiantly shambolic and irrepressible'. Thanks to Sam Mauger for bringing the label to my attention and for supplying the illustration - it's been heavily doctored, but it gives a good idea of the label design.
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