Lo- Fi Electric Excursions - Mike Badger & Friends
(gen 11) 2006

Extracts from a Liverpool Subculture recorded between 1985 & 2000
Previously unreleased , Finished articles, Live Takes and Dub Versions.

1 Weeping Willow – the Kachinas 1997
2 Midnight Shift (Practice) – The La’s 1985
3 Underworld (alt.mix) –Mike Badger 2000
4 Painting Dub – The La’s 1985
5 Time Bomb (Live) –The Onset 1989
6 Red Cloud – The Kachinas 1997
7 Shadow Dub – Mike Badger 2000
8 What Say You ? - The Onset 1991
9 Take Effect – The Kachinas 1996
10 Space Rocketry (instrumental) – The La’s 1986
11 Pick Me Up – The Kachinas 1996
12 What Do You Do ? (Live) – The La’s 1986
13 Let’s Go Home – The Onset 1987
14 Hear my Call – The Onset 1993

The Onset - The Onset (1989-1995) (Gen10) 2005

A collection of previously unreleased studio recordings .
For more informtion see the Onset page.

A Compilation album featuring a track by The Onset-( the Pool Of Life Revisited) from the Probe Plus archives.

Another Mans Crime -The Onset

A Compilation album featuring archive sounds from the Liverpool underground .This is the only release by the Kachinas recorded in 1996 featuring Mike Badger, Danny Dean and Tony Mc.

Weeping Willow - The Kachinas

Lo Fi Acoustic Excursions by Mike Badger & Friends (GEN 9) 2004

A collection of songs,outtakes,ideas,and sketches from 1983-2003 -Lo-Fi ,high flying,inter planetary -previously unreleased,ballads, rockers and laments.A collection of Songs ,Out-Takes ,Ideas and Sketches from 1983 to 2003

A Collection of contemporary acoustic music by Liverpool Based artists.

Memphis Egypt - Mike Badger.

A Compilation album featuring archive sounds from the Liverpool underground.

Precious Love -The Onset

More unreleased demos and recordings , Mike plays guitar and sings backing on the first eight tracks as well as co-writing the title track.Released on Vinyl and CD.

Callin'All- The La's

Double Zero- Mike Badger (Viper 004) 2000

This album was played with a band of musician friends and recorded in the first month of the new Millennium, different from the gentle acoustic album 'Volume' - 'Double Zero' is heavy on the drums and electric guitars.

1 Bottom Of The Hill
2 Fashion Victim
3 Field Of Heartache
4 Shadow Of The Real World
5 Clear Night For Love (Roky Erickson)
6 Chasing Shadows7 Autumn In The Mind
8 Daddy's Inside
9 Underworld
10 No Doubt About It
11 With You
12 Hear Me Calling You

Breakloose The La's (Viper 002) 1999

A collection of 'Lost La's'1984-1986 demos and recordings. Appeared on Vinyl/CD.

Open Your Heart - The La's - Featured on:
Unconditionally Guaranteed (Volume 10) Uncut Magazine Compilation (Nov1999)

1 Breakloose(live)
2 Open Your Heart
3 Sweet 35
4 Trees and Plants
5 Red Deer Stalk
6 Dovecot Dub
7 Night Walk
8 Get Down Over
9 What Do You Do ?
10 I did The Painting
11 My Girl Sits Like A Reindeer
12 Money In Your Talk
13 You Blue
14 Moonlight

Volume - Mike Badger (Viper 001) 1999

A collection of acoustic songs recorded in the Summer of 1998 and released in January '99.This was the first 'Viper' release and the first Mike Badger solo album.

1 Where Love Is
2 Silhouette
3 Rhapsody
4 James Earl Ray
5 Silent Secrets
6 Piano Sativa (Instrumental)
7 Poverty Of The Heart
8 Reach For The Stars
9 Perpetual Emotion
10 Turn To Her
11When We're Alone
12 Twilight in D (instrumental)

The Pool Of Life Revisited - The Onset (Probe Plus 40) 1994

Geoff Davies from Probe Plus wanted to re-release 'The Pool Of Life' on CD.
Eventually it appeared as 'The Pool Of Life Revisited 'containing nine songs and instrumentals from the original 1988 recording session , plus seven new songs recorded in '93 and '94.Again received some great reviews but little airplay.

1 Raken'em Down
2 The Taker (second take)
3 The Cowboy and His Wife
4 Precious Love
5 Talkin' Space Travel Blues
6 Too Proud To Start
7 Trees and Plants
8 Glad Rag (instrumental)
9 The Mansion on The Hill (Rose/Williams)
10 Pool of Life (instrumental)
11 For You
12 Two Times Forgotten Man
13 Poor and Lonely Girl
14 Starlight Tuneful 9
15 Another Mans' Crime
16 Let's Go Home

The What Say You EP (Furious Fish Onset 1) 1990

This EP was released by a small London Label in between The Onsets' tours of Germany and the UK .The big mistake was to put the most radio friendly track 'First I Feel You' on the second side ,though it was picked up on by Mark Radcliffe and featured on his Radio 5 show 'Hit The North.'

Side1
What Say You
Two Step Angel

Side 2
First I Feel You
Sun and Moon

The Pool of Life -The Onset (Probe Plus 19) 1988

The Onset formed late 1987 after Mike Badger departed The La's at the end of the previous year. Recorded in May 1988 it was released the following Autumn. The album only appears on vinyl and contains sixteen tracks (nine of which now appear on the CD 'The Pool Of Life Revisited').

Side 1
Raken'em Down
The Taker (First Take)
For You
Down at The Space Rocketry
Peace Chain
In The Red
Moon Bather
Glad Rag (instrumental)

Side 2
Crying Shame
Too Proud to Start
Pool Of Life (instrumental)
The Mansion On The Hill (Rose/Williams)
Precious Love
Rockin'Out The Depression
Talkin'Space Travel Blues
Let'Go Home

Elegance Charm and Deadly Danger (Compilation 1985 - Push Records)

The title of this album came from a post card of Lady Penelope (who appears on the cover) .The Compilation was put together by St.Helens promoter David Evans- a former band mate of Carl Davies and Mike Badger .Each band had three minutes of time allocated on the album, because the two selections by The La's where only one and a half minutes each ,they got to put two tracks on. These are the first Badger/Mavers compositions to be released. John Peel played 'Reindeer' at the time

Sweet 35 - The La's
My Girl Sits Like A Reindeer -The La's

A two sided version of the album appeared the following year in 1985,The opening track on the second side being the first release as 'The La's' titled 'I Don't like Hanging Around' it is Mike Badger with backing band 'the Modernaires' performing two minutes of ramshackle swing .The Kindergarten Paint Set also appear on the album ,featuring Badger on percussion.

The Time I Grew Forever - Roy G Biv
I Don't Like Hanging Around - The La's

In Loving Memory of Carl Davies (March 1962- Oct 2002)

The first five hundred copies of this Album only had one side of music contained on them ,all the sleeves where hand cut from re-cycled cardboard. The opening track was three minutes of complete silence, the compilation was the brainchild of Carl Davies - Carl appears on the album under the name' The Harts' but insisted that his tracks went on the album backwards! The final track on the side was 'The Time I grew Forever' by Roy.G.Biv-the first release by Mike Badger ,it is a poem set to a piece of music by Leroy Anderson called the Syncopated clock.