The Rosslyns

The Rosslyns, Central Park, Chelmsford, 1990: photo © Matt Rowson 

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Unbelievably obscure band alert. The Rosslyns were an (un)popular teenage beat combo from Billericay, in Essex who were all at school at the time and in other bands too (primarily the Albinos and Casual Death, later Xabbortschz). Think proto-pop scrambled bedroom impro mess on baby guitar amps and you're probably there, the sort of music where you know they should be doing their maths homework instead but the textbooks are still sitting, unopened on the floor.

They did get featured in a couple of international fanzines - Spain’s Illuvia Velocidad Y Vapor and Massachusetts’ fantastic Incite! A scan of that interview by Tim Alborn, who also founded Harriet Records, can be found in issue #18 here, with a knowing but perhaps overly generous review of their "On The Beach" tape in the previous issue. This fanzine's all-too brief nod to Harriet’s legacy, btw, is here.

Casual Death, live at Danbury Village Hall, 1990

We thought the Rosslyns should be documented somewhere - nobody else was going to do it, so we've put up the Spanish interview and 'discography' ourselves. (Edit: the YouTube and Discogs came later, so now we're not completely alone). Enjoy, if you're one of the 100 people who owns Rosslyns 'product' - or who once owned it, and donated it to landfill...

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Other Rosslyns pages on the blog:

Illuvia Vapor Y Velocidad interview, 1989
Discography