Back To The Wall..... 1977
Co written by Colin Harkness and Brian Burrows- mainly to appease the demands of Spiders followers in their home town of Wallasey who were always asking when would Spider be releasing a single. The Band duly obliged and set off to Oldham to record Back To The Wall ,and Down and Out, the latter re-appearing on two further Spider releases as b sides in later years ..one of which was a live recording at The Bull Inn ,Hornchurch 1980 as the b side to 'Children of The Street. on Alien Records.
It was the year of The Queens Silver Jubilee.. And Spider played this track at street partys in The Wallasey area at the time.
Posters around town proclaimed 'Spider have perfected the Two minute Rocker' 'Banging your head will damage your health.!
Spider moved on from the days of 1977 to better things..and in truth 'Back To The Wall became a long forgotten memory..or so we thought..... Here is a write up from May 2006..nearly thirty years on.. Click on the title to hear the song.
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UK punk and powerpop 1976-1982
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Spider 
Spider
Back To The Wall (Pennine, 1977)
Merseyside boogie-metal band Spider went through a couple of independent releases on the Alien and City labels, amongst others, before hooking their thumbs in the belt-loops of RCA for a prolonged heads-down-no-nonsense boogie in the 80s. "Children Of The Street", their 'debut' on Alien, was naturally an instant collectable for Spider fans, who'd almost to a man think that's as far back as it goes. Nope.
In 1977 our future rocker-heroes were be-suited teens on a workingmens-club path to local giggery and long before the hair got longer and the guitars got pointier they put their hands in their pockets and went for the spend of a day at Pennine Studios and some vinyl (look, you can see in the picture that it pretty much cleaned them out). 500 copies, by all accounts, but far less than half of those are thought to have been festooned with this classic sleeve.
The record doesn't feature in the band's official discogs: why? Embarrassed at the suits or the clean cut powerpop in the grooves? Who knows. Still, for those attuned to the LDK-vibe this is a glorious record.
