― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
the prisoners one's pretty up and down, as one might expect from an odds n sods collection, the delmonas is great but has a lot of stuff I have on another record...haven't heard the comp yet
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
Thinking of you (broken pieces) is killer garage pop. It shoulda ruled the world.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVw_cEAnZDY
― that's not my post, Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Graham Day is unstoppable. His current band the Gaolers just slay...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsavWxMCYY
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I saw the Prisoners with the Milkshakes in England in summer 83.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
A fun show
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
Allan Crockford's latest band the Gallileo 7 had a great album out last year called Staring at the Sound. Very good garage-psych if you are into that kind of thing.
― everything, Friday, 7 June 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Great album! Crockford is playing with Graham Day again too: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Graham-Day-the-Forefathers/574380655917510
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
This whole scene has brought us so much great music over the years.
― everything, Saturday, 8 June 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
One of the best live bands I ever saw, and I saw them a lot in the 80s. Their last EP, Pop Star Party is a bitter and brilliant farewell to a music biz that ignored them, but you couldn't keep Graham Day down for long, as his subsequent bands still testify
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 8 June 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Graham Day & The Forefathers a couple nights ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8E0a6HezZs
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 June 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
I see I gave a shout out a few years ago to "Thinking of You (Broken Pieces)" from The Last Fourfathers. Tremendous tune. Oh, and can't forget "Who's Sorry Now," another blast from the same record.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:08 (ten years ago) link
Recent interview with Day here: http://monkey-picks.blogspot.gr/2014/07/if-you-try-and-do-something-completely.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 July 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
A favourite when the Prime Movers did it, there's a sultry version of '1000 Blue Ribbons' on Fay Hallam's latest album. I guess everyone who's likely to care already knows, but hey.
https://youtu.be/wdQO6YQf4wI
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Prisoners live gigs going on this weekend... (from their email)
This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Prisoners debut album 'A Taste of Pink'. Originally released on their own Own-Up Records and subsequently re-issued by Ace Records 20 years later, the anniversary provides an excuse to get back together and make their pioneering garage-psych-mod-rock noise in public for the first time in 20 years. The gigs will feature the original line-up of Allan Crockford (bass), Graham Day (vocals, guitar), James Taylor (Hammond organ) and Johnny Symons (drums).The band are playing four gigs in their hometown of Rochester (UK) from Wednesday 30th November until Saturday 3rd December. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are already sold out, but there are still a handful of advance tickets available for the Wednesday gig here. There will be no tickets on the door!If you can't get to any of these gigs, the final show on Saturday 3rd is being live-streamed on Vodle!!
The band are playing four gigs in their hometown of Rochester (UK) from Wednesday 30th November until Saturday 3rd December. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are already sold out, but there are still a handful of advance tickets available for the Wednesday gig here. There will be no tickets on the door!
If you can't get to any of these gigs, the final show on Saturday 3rd is being live-streamed on Vodle!!
Stream link: https://www.vodle.co.uk/pages/the-prisoners
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 December 2022 08:29 (one year ago) link
Just got tickets to see the Prisoners at Camden Roundhouse next May.It occurs to me that a lot of the London venues where I used to watch them no longer exist - the Clarendon, Hammersmith, the Cricketers, Kennington, Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 5 August 2023 12:11 (ten months ago) link
The new Prisoners album Morning Star unexpectedly great - swinging as hard as those early albums punched out front. A couple of tracks very well sound as if The Who of 1966 found themselves in Manchester 1991.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 May 2024 23:59 (three weeks ago) link
Nice, will keep in mind. (Not really relatedly but I picked up a copy of the Barracudas' Through the Mysts of Tyme the other day for a buck, was not complaining about that.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:03 (two weeks ago) link