Genres Punk rock Active until 1978 Albums I Can't Come | Years active 1977 – 1978 Genre Punk rock Members Giovanni Dadomo | |
Labels Ghetto Rockers, Damaged Goods Past members Giovanni DadomoPete MakowskiDave FudgerBarry MyersSteve NicolSteve LillywhiteAde LillywhiteLou SalvoniNick Howell (Ratbite)John Ellis Similar The Art Attacks, Fruit Eating Bears, The Panik, The Vacants, The Carpettes | ||
i can t come by the snivelling shits
The Snivelling Shits were a punk rock group formed in London in 1977, and centred on Giovanni Dadomo.
Contents
- i can t come by the snivelling shits
- The snivelling shits crossroads peel session
- History
- Singles EPs
- Albums
- Compilation appearances
- Songs
- References
The snivelling shits crossroads peel session
History
Giovanni Dadomo was a music journalist who wrote for publications such as ZigZag, Sounds, and The Face and New Music News. In 1977 he recorded the novelty punk record "Terminal Stupid"/"I Can't Come", the latter described as "an iconoclastic mantra of amphetamine-induced sexual dysfunction", backed by guitarist and fellow journalist Dave Fudger and various musicians including members of Eddie and the Hot Rods, and engineered by Steve Lillywhite, who also played bass guitar for the band. Lillywhite's career as a record producer began to take off and Barry Myers, aka punk and reggae disc jockey DJ Scratchy took over on bass. The single was released in late 1977. Dadomo resurfaced in 1978 under the guise of Arthur Comix, with "Isgodaman?" on the Beggars Banquet label compilation Streets. By 1979 The Snivelling Shits had become The Hits and were billed as such on the London club scene. "I thought we'd just shorten the name" said Dadomo to French musician, cartoonist and writer Bruno Blum, whose Motörhead Rock Commando comic strips (first published in France in Best) he translated to English for publication in New Music News and as a full colour comic book by Motörhead in 1980. He recorded more material which was discovered in the late 1980s and released in 1989 as the I Can't Come album by Damaged Goods Records, described by Maximumrocknroll as "essential for music lovers and music haters alike". He also co-wrote two songs with The Damned - "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and "There Ain't No Sanity Clause", the latter of which appeared in demo form on I Can't Come.
Dadomo also co-wrote the book New Women in Rock (1982, Delilah/Putnam) with Liz Thompson.
The I Can't Come collection has been described as "punk at its most pristinely putrid", with Allmusic writer Dave Thompson going on to say "the Snivelling Shits reduced every cliché of the era to as few chords as possible, then spattered them with a stupidity that would have been rank if it wasn't so magnificent".
Dadomo died in 1997.
Singles, EPs
Albums
Compilation appearances
Songs
Terminal StupidI Can't Come · 1989
isgodamanI Can't Come · 1989
I Can't ComeI Can't Come · 1989