For those unaware, Chinese Junk take their pound shop rock trash to London’s legendary punk venue, The Hope and Anchor for their cassette-only release of Live and Hopeless at the Hope and Anchor (out now via Big Neck Records).

The 13 fast and snotty numbers including the classics My Baby Works For Rentokil, Electric Chair and Shut Up About The USA and like their heroes the Ramones, it’s little talking and a whole lotta rocking here.

Low budget, high action rock ’n’ roll at its finest/worst!

1. You Knock My Block Off
2. This City Don’t Rock and Roll
3. My Baby Works for Rentokill
4. Joanna
5. Shut Up About the USA
6. Plastic Bag
7. Do The Zit
8. Electric Chair
9. Fuck You, I’m Broke
10. Lie Detector
11. I Don’t Know What I Want (But I Know That You Ain’t It)
12. Return To Poundland
13. Budget Stomp

This simply blistering live attack on the musical senses opens on the powerhaus You Knock My Block Off, the forthright This City Don’t Rock and Roll and the bass-led brilliance of My Baby Works for Rentokill and then we get the rocking Joanna, the punk-lite Shut Up About the USA and the rhythmic gem Plastic Bag.

Along next is the rocker Do The Zit, the propulsive Electric Chair and the brilliant Fuck You, I’m Broke before we are brought forth some great guitar work within the driven Lie Detector and the punker I Don’t Know What I Want (But I Know That You Ain’t It), the set rounding out on the robust Return To Poundland, coming to a melodious rocking close on Budget Stomp.

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