The Spitfire Boys - 1979 recordings

After the Spitfire Boys mk I split in December 1977, and members went their separate ways (Ruthersford in the Opium Eater, Peter Griffiths in Nova Mob, Budgie in Nova Mob, Big in Japan, Opium Eaters, The Secrets, The Planets, then the Slits and ultimately the Banshees) David Littler (aka David Francis, David Jones) moved to London and played for a while with ‘The Photons’ (featuring Vince Ely on drums, later to become the Psychedelic Furs’ drummer, and Steve Strange, future Visage, on vocals), until he was sacked in September 1978. In November 1978 he moved to Cardiff where he joined The Nylonz then to be renamed The White Boys. With them he recorded a couple of tracks, Funtime and Trascendental Changing, which were only released in 1979 under the Spitfire Boys name:

Funtime (1979)
Funtime
Trascendental Changing

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Here’s David Jones’s recollection of that time: "The second single came about with a totally different line up. I wrote, sang and recorded ‘Funtime’ whilst in Wales in 1979 with a scratch band. I did not want to use the Spitfire Boys name on it but was persuaded by the guy who financed it to use the name because he thought it would sell better. It only had a short run of a thousand copies. The original band was well finished at that point and I sort of owned the name as it was all my own making. Budgie was with the Banshees by then and the other two doing their own things."
After the single, Jones, Millman and Prasser formed Trier 3(December 1979), after which Jones would join the White Brothers.

Spitfire 1979

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