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Disestablished in 1999

"RANT 'N' ROLL"

Congratulations Rocker & welcome to a real rock 'n' roll site. By the very fact that you're here & reading this proves you aren't one of the new breed of sheep spawned by the corporate McDonalds style of music marketing, where every 'artist' is a product with a short sell by date. The very principle that has sanitized & ripped the very soul out of the spirit of true Rock 'n' Roll.

Once it was the kids who set the trends & the corporations followed, now everyone wants their music serving up like fast food. There was a time your music of choice was a complete lifestyle, sadly now it's been pimped into a disposable accessory.

Rock 'n' Roll used to be a dirty word & it still should be, spat out with venom by the establishment, feared by conformists & worn with pride by the worthy. Where are the outlaws, the risk takers, the righteous? Corporations suffocate them, they make them safe & above all profitable, they tame the beast with their cheque books & greedy palms get greased. What happened to music because it sounds good? I don't see or hear much of it anymore. The zines I read are all writing about the same bands as the establishment press. For fucks sake go look for something new, go make your own scene, go discover something no other fucker has slobbered all over before you & for crying out loud stop kissing the arse of the corporations just to get a free CD from their newest wet behind the ears, haven't got a clue, production line, formulated & manufactured puppets.

Ask yourself this, how many 'designer' labels or famous brands are you wearing & why? If you're wearing more than 2 don't kid yourself that you bought into it for the quality, BULLSHIT, you bought into it because you've been conditioned by highly efficient marketing & years of cathode ray, billboard, fancy packaged bullshit. We've been exposed to consistent superbly orchestrated & effective marketing for the best part of 20+ years. The clothes you buy, the food you eat, the films you go & see are all decided for you, the trick is you don't notice it happening, it's such a normal part of existence. You are given a few narrow choices so you don't lose your sense of identity & independence. Come on, think about it & be honest with yourself, if you see an independent burger bar next door to a McDonalds, which one are you going to buy?

I would hope that anyone that made it to this site would go for the independent one & stop feeding the homogenized corporate pariah, killer of independence, free thought, free trade. This goes for everything in life, let's stop it before there is only one supermarket chain, one hamburger chain, one record company. The shit generally floats to the top fastest, quality generally takes a while longer but stays the course!

Rock 'n' Roll Unlimited is about the music first & foremost, if we like it & we can afford it it we'll do it. We're open to new ideas & alternative ways forwards, the World has changed & we're looking for the right way forward without sacrificing our integrity & especially not losing our love for Rock 'n' Roll

Non Corporate Fuckin' Rock.

December 01 07 - Well on Monday December 3 I'll be on the airwaves with Manchester Online Radio hopefully playing a few relevent tunes to my dark existence. Manchester Radio Online or if you just want the payer Radio Player

November - 28- 07 - I've put some Solanoid videos up on the you tube site, well worth a watch if in your face alt rock floats your boat. You Tube

November - 05 - 07 - Dog Toffee are playing a show at Joshua Brooks manchester on December 2 alongside Buzzkill, Revenge of The Psychotronic man & The Computers.

September - 17 -07 - For my sins I'm back playing myself so watch this space for further developments.

September - 17 -07 - The comp is now going to be a DVD as well so going to take longer while we wade through reels of video.

June - 07 -07 - We've also got U Tube site at We have a fair bit of footage we're working on getting edited so there should be more up soon. You Tube

May - 27 - 07 -There a Rock 'n' Roll Unlimited site up at www.myspace.com/rocknrollunlimited where you can check out a few of the unreleased Dog Toffee tracks on the forthcoming comp.

May - 27 - 07 - Dog Toffee will play the Rock 'n' Roll Hellkat night at the Retro Bar in Manchester on June 16th, I'd advise getting there early if you want to get in.

March - 24 - 07 - OK it's been far too long since I did an update but shit loads happened & then other stuff that should've didn't. DTX ex Dog Toffee will be coming back as Dog Toffee later this year, rehearsals have started, they've just about succeeded in dragging themselves out of the kind of bankrupcy 10 years of playing in a British rock 'n' roll band can get you. You can catch Sean & Gave (Kid Fury & BH) over at 72 Tattoo The Hammer is looking after a bar at Manchester United ground & Phil Metal Jacket is turning all producer on us so watch this space.

I got myself an A & R job or I should say Um & Err as I never got to sign anything, I only went over there as they had allegedly had a better budget than I could ever hope to achieve (they did) but like so many other people in this business the owner knew it all, couldn't take advice, made a load of wrong decisions & quit as soon as it got tough, seeing your money dissapear down a black hole often has that effect on people. As it turned out it was pretty much an AOR thing so didn't rock my boat anyway. At the time I was stalking the likes of Falkirk's The Broadcast, Wolverhampton's Showdown City & Seattle's RC5 to keep my Rock 'n' Roll credentials intact.

So my shoestring label is back up & hopefully running, the first planned release will be a Dog Toffee comp with rareities & oddities strtching back to 1997, well worth hearing. Plan is it will cost about £6 inc P&P anywhere. After that with any luck possibly one or both of the above if they dont get snapped up by someone else with a decent set of ears.

If you want to send me a demo drop me a line at the e.mail usual address & if your going postal :-

Simon Collier

Rock 'n' Roll Unlimited

PO Box 187

Middleton

Manchester

M24 5WB

Please do be aware this is a very small label, a labour of love, cant make a living doing this kind of thing anymore so the releases will be few & far between as & when.