RFI: The Prisoners/Prime Movers etc.

I've been picking up this stuff over the years when i come across it. No idea how to track it down now.

The Solarflares, Day's new band, have a second album out and it's a real monster. First three tracks are a high point.

Fritz, I'd go in this purchasing order:

The Last Fourfathers
The Wizermizerdemelza
A Taste Of Pink
In From The Cold

But you really do want all of them, along with the "Shine On Me" reunion single which is one of the best singles of the 90s. I've had very good luck with purchasing stuff from Detour Records in the UK. They've got the reissues and always get in some of the rarer stuff.

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

Thinking of you (broken pieces) is killer garage pop. It shoulda ruled the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVw_cEAnZDY

Graham Day is unstoppable. His current band the Gaolers just slay...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsavWxMCYY

Pretty sure I saw the Prisoners with the Milkshakes in England in summer 83.

A fun show

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.

Great album! Crockford is playing with Graham Day again too: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Graham-Day-the-Forefathers/574380655917510

This whole scene has brought us so much great music over the years.

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

Graham Day & The Forefathers a couple nights ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8E0a6HezZs

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.

Recent interview with Day here: http://monkey-picks.blogspot.gr/2014/07/if-you-try-and-do-something-completely.html

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

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!!

Stream link: https://www.vodle.co.uk/pages/the-prisoners

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.