The McGoohan Touch

Very rare smart clean vinyl with a good cover with minor split on top seam. Includes lyric slip.

Christchurch-based punky proto-grunge outfit that formed after the dissolution of Ian Blenkinsop’s (guitar / vocals)Downing is Easy, a 4-piece that featured Blenkinsop along with future Scorched Earth Policybandmate Mick Elborado, Craig Davison and Andrew Valance.
Blenkinsop formed the first line-up of the Mcgoohans with Davison resuming his drumming role and George Churton replacing Mick on bass in 1983 – though Davison was later replaced by Churtons’ brother Darren (essentially forming the original incarnation of the currentsoundbitesline-up), and then Norman Dufty (later of the Puddle) in 1984.
by late 1984 Susan Heney had joined the band as bassist (leaving both Ian and George to concentrate on guitar), and the band recorded and released an ep and album on Campbell Mclays’onset/offsetlabel. though the band had soon faded away, Churton later resurfaced as an author of several seminal accounts on the new zealand underground scene, particularly noteable is his excellent history of new zealand punk ‘have you checked the children?’.