Band: MASTERSWITCH

Title: MORE ACTION REPLAY

Formats: 12 Track CD ONLY RELEASE

Catalogue No: OFFTB 011

Barcode: CD— 5032733001493

UNLEASHED ON THE PUBLIC ON MONDAY 3rd MAY 2010 

MASTERSWITCH

“More Action Replay”

Fronted by the talented ‘Jimmy Edwards’ who was already a veteran on the scene back in 1976 due to the fact he was a little older them most of his fellow scensters… He’d already served time in the FIRST ever Skinhead band formed in 1968 from outta London called the NEAT CHANGE who released a mega and highly collectable single on the ’Decca’ label “I Lied To Auntie May”. This highly rated band played the  Marque Club more then any other band and apparently blew some of the top bands off stage       including the Small Faces & The Who.

Then came a stint in ENGLISH ROSE in 1970 who then went into star in Film ‘Groupie Girl’, followed by working and producing FLINTLOCK.

By 1975, Jimmy had itchy feet and wanted to form a totally different sounding band. So the seed to Masterswitch was sown. He started writing songs and went about forming a band. By the time the summer of ‘76 was here the band was already up and     running in the newly formed PUNK ROCK SCENE!

Masterswitch was right there at the front. Like we said previous, because Jimmy was a little older then the rest of his counterparts many of the bands looked to him for inspiration and he taught a lot of them his skills. Showing them how to play drums or how to play guitar. On many occasions he would be seen down at the Roxy putting this into practice or even playing with them on stage.

By early 1978 MASTERSWITCH had enough tracks written and went about recording them as demos so they had something to tout around the record companies. After a short time Epic picked them up and gave the band a MILLION POUNDS advance to record an album for them. The single “Action Replay” had a rushed release but sunk without trace due to bad promotion and publicity. Then an internal struggle broke out within the band and Jimmy decided to sack his band. Then US Epic had a big fight with UK Epic over who owned MASTERSWITCH.

Jimmy was then asked to form a new MASTERSWITCH but by this time he was deflated and called it a day and the album was never recorded.  He then toured with FLINTLOCK as the lead singer and then fronted the MOD Super Group TIME UK alongside Rick Buckler.

Fast forwarded 32 years and when moving house, Jimmy found the original tapes that the band had demoed.

For the very first time, we are proud to give you the UNRELEASED ALBUM of MASTERSWITCH.

 Show Business

Hide In Dark Corners (For Love)

Who Are The Targets

(That’s) Light Entertainment

Exiles

We Were Only Dancing (The End)

We’re Heading For A Breakdown

Action Replay

Here Come The Dumb

Baby Be My Main Line

It’s The Rush, That’s The Hit

Mass Media Meditation