About Us

Since 1983 UGLY THINGS magazine has brought its readers unparalleled coverage of WILD SOUNDS FROM PAST DIMENSIONS: the best lost, unknown and overlooked music of the 1960s and beyond. Published twice a year, each issues features 160-200 pages of in-depth features, exclusive interviews, rare photos and more, as well as a massive review section sifting through hundreds of vinyl and CD reissues, music-related books and DVDs. UGLY THINGS is not a hobbyist publication for trainspotting elitists, it is a high energy rock & roll fanzine about the music and the stories of the people that made it happen.

UT RECORDS was started as a sideline to the magazine, presenting high quality vinyl and CD releases of rare and previously unreleased garage, beat and psychedelia from the 1960s.

You can contact us at: uglythingsmag@gmail.com

UGLY THINGS, PO Box 3021, La Mesa, CA 91944, USA

Telephone: 619-337-1966

Thanks for your interest,

Mike Stax

Editor/Publisher

 

 

Where to buy Ugly Things

Ugly Things magazine can be purchased online at our webstore: http://webstore.ugly-things.com

It can also be found at many good record stores, book stores and magazine stands, including the ones listed below. This list is by no means comprehensive. If your store carries Ugly Things and is not listed below, please contact us at uglythingsmag@gmail.com and we’ll add you to the list.

If you’re interested in carrying Ugly Things at your store, please call or email us for details.

  

USA

CALIFORNIA

 

Carlsbad

SPIN RECORDS
370 Grand Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-434-0807
www.facebook.com/spinrecords

 

Fullerton

BURGER RECORDS
645 S State College #A
Fullerton, CA 92831
714-447-4280
http://burgerrecords.org/

  

Hollywood

AMOEBA MUSIC
6400 Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028
323-245-6400
http://www.amoeba.com/

 

Long Beach

FINGERPRINTS
420 E. 4^th Street
Long Beach CA. 90802
562-433-4996
http://www.fingerprintsmusic.com/

 

Los Angeles

CAVEMAN MUSIC
Attn: Eric Stollsteimer
650 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-625-9999
http://caveman-vintage.com/

THE DAILY PLANET
5931 1/2 Franklin Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-957-0061
http://www.thedailyplanetbookstore.com/

ROCKAWAY RECORDS
2395 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
(323) 664-3232
http://www.rockaway.com/

 

Oakland

ISSUES
20 Glen Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
510-652-5700
http://www.issuesshop.com/

 

Sacramento

BEERS BOOKS
915 S Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
916-442-9475
http://www.beersbooks.com/

 

PHONO SELECT RECORDS
2312 K Street
Sacramento, CA. 95816
916-400-3164
http://www.phonoselect.com/

 

San Diego

M-THEORY MUSIC
915 W Washington Street
San Diego, CA 92103
619-220-0485
http://www.mtheorymusic.com/

RECORD CITY
3757 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103
619-291-5313

 

San Francisco

AMOEBA MUSIC
1855 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-831-1200
http://www.amoeba.com/

AQUARIUS RECORDS
1055 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-647-2272
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-362-8193
http://www.citylights.com/

 

Santa Ana

LEFT OF THE DIAL RECORDS
320 French Street, Suite B
Santa Ana, CA 92701
http://www.leftofthedialrecords.com/

 

Sherman Oaks

FREAKBEAT RECORDS
13616 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
http://freakbeatrecords.com/

Ventura

GRADY’S RECORD REFUGE
2546 E Main Street
Ventura, CA 93003
805-648-5565
http://www.gradysrecordrefuge.com/

 

COLORADO

TWIST AND SHOUT
2508 E Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
303-722-1943
http://www.twistandshout.com/

 

ILLINOIS

Chicago

DUSTY GROOVE
1120 N Ashland
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-5800
http://www.dustygroove.com/

LAURIE’S PLANET OF SOUND
4639 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
773-271-3569
http://lauriesplanetofsound.com/

LOGAN HARDWARE
2410 W Fullerton Ave
Chicago IL 60647
773-235-5030
http://www.logan-hardware.com/

QUIMBY’S
1854 West North Avenue
Chicago IL 60622
773-342-0910
http://www.quimbys.com/

RECKLESS RECORDS
26 East Madison Street
Chicago IL 60602
http://www.reckless.com/

RECKLESS RECORDS
3126 N Broadway St
Chicago IL 60657
http://www.reckless.com/

RECKLESS RECORDS
1532 N Milwaukee Ave # 1
Chicago IL 60622
http://www.reckless.com/

SAKI
3716 W Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
773-486-3997
http://sakistore.net/

SHAKE, RATTLE & READ
4812 N Broadway St
Chicago IL 60640
773-334-5311

VINTAGE VINYL
925 Davis St
Evanstown IL 60201
847-328-2899
http://vvmo.com/

 

 

INDIANA

HEIRLOOM RECORDS
516 Wilson Square
Evansville, IN 47715
812-228-7456
http://www.facebook.com/HeirloomRecords

 

MARYLAND

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS
Towson Circle
1 E. Joppa Rd
Towson MD 21286

EL SUPRIMO! RECORDS
1709 Aliceanna St
Baltimore MD 21231
443-226-9628
http://elsuprimo.com/

GURU TOO RECORDS
1635 Lancaster St
Baltimore MD 21231
443-844-5896

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BOOK CENTER
3330 St Paul Street
Baltimore MD 21218

JOJOSOUTH RECORD SHOP
718 W. 36th St.
Baltimore MD 21211
410-889-1759
http://www.facebook.com/jojosouth.recordshop

NORMALS BOOKS AND RECORDS
425 E. 31st St
Baltimore MD 21218
410-243-6888
http://www.normals.com/

THE SOUND GARDEN
1616 Thames St
Baltimore MD 21231
410-563-9011
http://www.cdjoint.com/

 

MASSACHUSETTS

RED LION SMOKE SHOP
94 Washington Street
Salem MA 01970
978-745-2050
http://www.redlionsmoke.com/

NEWBURY COMICS
240 Andover Street, Rte 114
Peabody, MA 01960
978-531-9713
http://www.newburycomics.com/

 

MICHIGAN

WAZOO RECORDS
336 1/2 S State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-761-8686

 

MINNESOTA

ROADRUNNER RECORDS
4304 Nicollet Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55409
612-822-0613    

 

NEW YORK

ACADEMY RECORDS ANNEX
96 N 6^th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-218-8200
http://www.academyannex.com/blog/

BOP SHOP
1460 Monroe Ave.
Rochester, NY 14618
585-271-3354
http://www.bopshop.com/

ROUGH TRADE NYC
54 N 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
718-388-4111

 

NORTH CAROLINA

BULL CITY RECORDS
2600 Hillsborough Road
Durham, NC 27705
http://www.bullcityrecords.com
919-286-9640

 

OHIO

CULTURE CLASH RECORDS
4020 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623
http://www.thecultureclash.com/
419-536-LOVE

 

OREGON

JACKPOT RECORDS DOWNTOWN
203 SW 9th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
503-222-0990
http://www.jackpotrecords.com/

JACKPOT RECORDS HAWTHORNE
3574 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
503-239-7561
http://www.jackpotrecords.com/

MUSIC MILLENNIUM
3158 East Burnside Street
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 231-8926
http://www.musicmillennium.com/

POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS
1005 W Burnside St
Portland OR 97209
http://www.powells.com/

READING FRENZY
921 SW Oak St.
Portland, OR 97205
info@readingfrenzy.com
http://readingfrenzy.com/index.php

  

PENNSYLVANIA

POSITIVELY RECORDS
4153 Woerner Ave
Levittown, PA 19057
215-945-8063

  

TENNESSEE

GONER RECORDS
2152 Young Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901-722-0095
http://www.goner-records.com/

 

TEXAS

WATERLOO RECORDS
600-A N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 474-2500
http://waterloorecords.com/Home

 

WASHINGTON

BULLDOG NEWS
4208 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-632-6397
http://bulldognewsstand.blogspot.com/

 

WASHINGTON DC

CROOKED BEAT RECORDS
2116 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
http://www.crookedbeat.com/

SMASH RECORDS
2314 18th ST NW 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20009
202-38-SMASH
http://www.smashrecords.com

 

WISCONSIN

RUSH MOR RECORDS
2635 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-481-6040
http://www.rushmor.com/

 

AUSTRALIA

BIG STAR CDS & RECORDS
160 Magill Road
Norwood SA 5067
http://www.facebook.com/bigstarrecords

 

CANADA

NEPTOON RECORDS
3651 Main Street
Vancouver, BC V5V 3N4
http://neptoon.com/

ZAP RECORDS
14 King St East,
Cobourg, Ontario K9A 1K7
http://www.zaprecords.com/

 

 FRANCE

BIMBO TOWER
5, passage Saint-Antoine
Paris 75011
http://bimbo.tower.free.fr/

BORN BAD
17 rue Keller
Paris 75011
01 43 38 41 78
http://www.bornbad.fr/

DANGERHOUSE
3 rue Thimonnier
69001 LYON
http://www.dangerhouse.fr/

GIBERT JOSEPH
26-34 Boulevard St-Michel
Paris 75006
http://www.gibertjoseph.com/

SONIC IMPORT
15 avenue du Maréchal Foch
Nice 06000
04 93 53 48 39
http://www.sonic-import.com/

 

GERMANY

ROCKINFO SHOP
www.rockinfo.de

 

JAPAN

WAREHOUSE
Shinmei Bld. 2F 7-7-33
Nishi-Shinjyuku, Shinjyuku,
Tokyo 160-0023
http://warehouse.shop-pro.jp/

 

NORWAY

BOOGALOO
Skostredet 16
5017 Bergen
boogaloobergen@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/boogaloobergen

 

SPAIN / PORTUGAL

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM

BLACK VINYL RECORDS
47 Main Street
Symington
Biggar ML12 6LL
Scotland
http://www.blackvinylrecords.com/

 

ROUGH TRADE SHOP
130 Talbot Road
London W11 1JA
http://www.roughtrade.com/

 

ROUGH TRADE EAST
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
http://www.roughtrade.com/

George Gallacher – 1943-2012

It is with deep sorrow and incredible sadness that we learned of the death of our dear friend George Gallacher, lead vocalist and founder member of the Poets, who died suddenly from a heart attack while driving home from watching his favorite football team, Partick Thistle, on Saturday August 25, 2012. On the day “The Jags”, as Thistle are known by their fans, won 3-0 against Dumbarton at their home ground Firhill, in Glasgow, so George would’ve been pretty ecstatic. He was such an avid supporter that, unusually, the club held a half-time tribute to him on the day of his funeral, playing Poets songs, while former Scotland player Alan Rough read out tributes.

George was born in the Garngad (later Royston) area of Glasgow and would’ve celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday on 21 October.

In 1964, The Poets were quickly signed to Decca by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who produced for them a brace of highly-innovative singles, all co-written by Gallacher, and guitarists Hume Paton and Tony Myles. Forever etched in the minds of beat fans is the group’s scorching February 1965 single, “That’s The Way It’s Got To Be,” and its sublime, truly haunting counterpart, “I’ll Cry With The Moon.” This showcased both the tough and romantic sides of the young Gallacher’s talent, across intense, creative, and thoroughly mesmerizing material. The weird baroque-beat stomp of “Now We’re Thru,” their debut from late the previous year, would give them their only Top 30 placing. The Poets followed manager Oldham into his new Immediate label venture, cutting two singles there including the spellbinding “Some Things I Can’t Forget,” the group’s preferred choice for the topside. This was over-ruled by ALO in favor of “Call Again”—“depressing stuff… and we were depressed that it was going to be our single,” recalled Gallacher in 2011.

In early ’66 after “Baby Don’t You Do It,” Gallacher left the Poets, disillusioned by lack of direction and momentum within the group, and the mess of ongoing management wrangles. He stayed in London until the end of the ‘60s singing back-up on sessions for such as Keith Relf and Spencer Davis, doing A&R work, writing and recording for labels including United Artists, Fontana and Major Minor. Gallacher also taped some excellent songs of his own with backing by the pre-White Trash group, the Pathfinders, who included former Poets guitarist (and by then Gallacher’s brother-in-law) Fraser Watson. At least four titles exist on acetate only including “The Tailor,” “A Weathercock’s View Of Life,” and the more well-known “Dawn (A Portrait).” A little-known fact, however, is that in 1968 Gallacher also supplied lead vocals for an album project by a group called the Illusive Dream which remains unreleased to this day.

When George returned to Glasgow, married with children, much of his free time was spent playing junior league football. As early as 1963, before the Poets broke out, George’s prowess on the football park had already been noted and he signed up for trials with Leicester City’s youth team alongside England’s future goalkeeping hero Gordon Banks.

But music was in Gallacher’s soul, and after a brief stint playing with old pal Alex Harvey, he and Watson formed the hard rocking, politically aware Dead Loss Band, also the Dansettes, The Blues Poets and, more recently, the Nearly Men. His friend, award-winning author James Kelman, had also cast him as the leading role in his acclaimed 1994 play One Two Hey!, the story of a struggling blues group, mirroring that of the Poets.

Gallacher also returned to education, gaining degrees in both English and Philosophy at the University of Strathclyde, before becoming a teacher, and mentoring to asylum seekers, many from war-torn Kosovo.

A unique vocalist until the very end, George was blessed with a thoroughly commanding stage presence, as evidenced by those in attendance at recent concerts given by the reconstituted Poets line-up where George and Fraser were backed by longtime friends and fans, the Thanes, in Glasgow, London, and at what would turn out to be their last ever appearance, at Festival Beat in Italy on 30 June, playing almost all of the group’s ‘60s repertoire before jubilant, receptive audiences.

On a very personal note, as one of George’s and his family’s friends for the last twenty five years, I’d like to say that life has been richer by far having known him. George Gallacher was a very generous, gracious, wryly funny, heart-thinking individual, an extraordinary spirit with an astonishing musical gift. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him. He journeys on leaving behind his dear wife Anne, and their two sons, Craig and Fraser. RIP George, you were some man. (Lenny Helsing)

http://www.the-poets.co.uk/