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Jenny Talls
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 Posted - 2026/02/10 : 12:50:31
Good afternoon chaps and ladies.
I'm hoping someone here can help.
A long time ago - we're talking decades - I bought a tune from Dance 2 in Brighton. The handwritten label details of this 12" are:
A: Druid & Sharkey "Nose Dive" Bonkers 8 45rpm A
B: blank white
The runout etchings read:
A: BONK 8 A-1-1- l [the last character looks like a hand-done lowercase 'L'] and then by hand: RAMO'S (THE CHUFF CHEIF) [HEART]'S DJ I LOVE ARSENAL SLAM... [Note: the heart is a hand-done heart shape, not the word]
B: BONK 8 B-1-1- l [again, the last character looks like a hand-done lowercase 'L'] and then by hand: LOVE FROM SHARKY & SyC then underneath the '& SyC', by hand: TZT
Note the misspelling of 'chief' and I presume 'Sharkey' and the superfluous apostrophe in 'Ramos'.
I seem to remember emailing someone about it (possibly Kevin Energy) who said they'd asked Sharkey if he'd made it, and apparently Sharkey said he didn't remember it.
I've periodically googled the details but nothing ever comes up. Nothing on Discogs. YouTube comes back empty as well. And I've never heard it on any tapes or CDs.
Unfortunately, without turntables anymore, I don't have any way of uploading samples at the moment.
Given the above, does anyone have any ideas? Or is anyone with contacts able to find anything out?
Thanks in advance.
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Samination
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Posted - 2026/02/10 : 16:15:21
Guess it must have been a test pressing, because the BONK 8 that got released isnt as Sharkey or Druid:
https://www.discogs.com/release/125230-Digital-Manouvers-EP-Part-1
B track is made by Druid though
Edit: nope, it appears it was the correct tracks:
Test pressing for Bonk 8 has the info you provided
https://www.discogs.com/release/2407690-Digital-Manouvers-Dont-Stall-Monkeys-Punk
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Jenny Talls
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Posted - 2026/02/10 : 17:31:17
Nice one. Thanks very much, Samination.
Makes a bit more sense now. Not sure how I missed the connection, though.
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