Oops! I forgot. Had spent all of an hour on doing the video in advance too.
Annals
The history of everything noise related but mainly The Gits (in excruciating depth)
Missing Gigs I Don’t Remember
Over the course of preparing for the release of the Retrospeculative I was reminded of a number of events I’d completely forgotten, particularly gigs, which suggests there may well be other performances missing from the the Annals.
This is a list of them:
Arthur
Every unnecessary cover version deserves an unnecessary video.
A version of a little heard mid 1980s instrumental from the Jackalsons guitarist faithfully performed except for the bits I changed.
The Yearly Advertational
Gits (UK) – Mesmerize (Complete And Unecessarily long version)
From 1988
This Mike Oldfield / Cocteau Twins fusion never really took off, or even taxied to the runway.
Twenty Minutes In The Past – 6th June 2014
Still available in the especially collectable First Edition* due to the legions of proof readers missing an error with the dates on the CD.
Also to be found in the Aether.
Never explain your jokes… but
A gig begorrah!
* Only Edition
** Standard Disclaimer: Yes, it should be ギッツ but I over ambitiously attempted Kana as Kanji, or at least ideogram – guitar headstock ギ & smile ツ
Play In A Day The Gits Way
And for the lower pitched.
And The Votes From The Swedish Jury
The tracks for the Restrospeculative were selected by a long, drawn out and overly complicated system of voting where songs were rated as in, out, or maybe by the core four of the band and Uwe from Firestation Records plus a few other folks whose opinions were combined into a single vote for comparison.
A wild card system saw Happily Mad make the cut despite a split vote and although it wasn’t popular with the record label Mother Knows How, being Jim’s choice, stayed in the game.
Similarly Jim wanted to leave off The Greatest Gift as he felt it wasn’t his best performance but as a Firestation favourite it was selected. Indeed at one point it was due to be the first track but given it’s history as invariably the second song in any live set that’s where it ended up on the CD.
Ben made the case for a much shorter compilation to maintain the quality but we’d probably still be arguing over what to include if that route had been pursued.
Retrospeculatively Speaking
I’ve thrown the Gits Retrospeculative up on Bandcamp for three quid.
Flogging A Dead Horse
After the best of compilation come the inevitable remixes in a desperate attempt at contemporary relevance.