The BBC sessions one looks good, and I'll prolly get Pindrop as don't have it any more. I see LTM are also releasing Crawling Chaos's magnificently stupid 'The Gas Chair'. This was one review :
In the NME Adam Sweeting wrote: “They played so badly for so long that a phone call to McWhirter and his Book of Records would surely have been received favourably. Ineffectual doodlings on guitar and keyboards became ends in themselves. A guest singer stood at the microphone and coughed for several minutes. Nobody danced or even twitched a leg. The bloke at the mixing desk read the Evening Standard and someone next to me asked the time before falling asleep. Anyone who needs this garbage is probably already dead.”
They were great!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 17 January 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
'FUCK THE NME!!!!'
(if they still exist).
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― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
One of the greatest, yet least known of 80s groups. I bought their fantastic debut album, 'Pindrop', on Object Records, in, I think, 1980 after hearing one track on Peel. The album (slightly murkier, more introverted and mysterious sounding than later releases) was like nothing else being made at the time. Totally electronic, spooky, intelligent, political, passionate as hell, like Laurie Anderson crossed with The Fall.
'Degenerates' and 'Enflame' are also great records, Brechtian politics melded to angular, caustic lyrics. The Passage were very unEnglish in their willingness to write about sex and politics. Check out songs like 'Angleland' and 'Wave'.
Witts started as tympanist for the Halle Orchestra, and now writes books (he published a critical survey of the history of tbe Arts Council a couple of years ago). I've met him a couple of times. I saw The Passage live in Edinburgh. Witts performed in a blood-spattered white T shirt. There were about fifteen people in the audience.
I think you'd have to see them as libertarians in a peculiarly Protestant mode, like Quakers or Methodist radicals or something. Witts was obsessed with Manchester police chief James Anderton to an unhealthy degree.
...were quoted almost verbatim. Hurrah for Mr. James Nice of LTM doing some net scrounging/lurking here, but please speak up and tell us more about what you want to reissue on LTM. And mention ILX by name! ;-)
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― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 13 June 2003 06:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Quando Quango and Artery coming up later in the year!! - along with shitloads of other good stuff. A NEW album by LUDUS!! My goodness!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 13 June 2003 06:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Artery were brilliant so I'm looking forward to that one.
Quando Quango 'though.... I remember the name but I haven't got anything by them and can't seem to place them. What were they like Dr. C?
Oh and are you going to see Ari Up at Camden Underworld next thursday???
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Artery were a wierd bunch - I can't remember the name of the singer. What was it? Ah - Mark Gouldthorpe? I hope LTM will re-release 'One Afternoon In A Hot Air Balloon' too.
Ari-up : I saw the other thread. Probably not, as i have a darts match to play. If it's cancelled then possibly. Enjoy it!
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― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Incidentally it probably has the worst sleeve for anything released on Factory, Peter Saville must have been on his holiday's.
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http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/ltm2360.html
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
are all their records like this, or is this one of those you needed to be there at the time things?
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― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
xpost: thanks alex. does it really go "xoyo triple x sex mosaics?"
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― gaz (gaz), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
*cough cough* Can I assist?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:16 (twenty years ago) link
btw do you know why they ditched the girl singer?
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
Ned - have you heard of this : http://www.renascent.co.uk/pageswswans/wswans.html
Obscuro trax from the Wild Swans. It's very good.
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
I was very pleased to read in the sleevenotes that a very limited (like 200 copies) white label 7" of "Revolutionary Spirit" was pressed before the Zoo release. I had always thought that my copy was some sort of bootleg.
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