A Nice Tune By AF Harrold from I Eat Squirrels
Noise
Sounds that I make
Bumblebees There’s A Lot Of You About
Fly With Me Soon
Jon E. Parker & The Sessionaires – Biggles In A Basket
From The Sessionaires’ Sunny Sessions of 1990. Now available to download.
Social History
Smoke On The Water 1982
The first thing I ever recorded, to an old knackered stereo Revox reel to reel.
By a mixed Boys & Masters line-up for a Shelley House assembly at Forest School Horsham in 1982. The drum solo at the end was hindered by the kit slowly escaping across the stage.
Vocals – David Dowding & Richard Loughran (English Teacher)
Lead Guitar – Dave Pickup (Head Of English)
Rhythm Guitar – Matthew Streater?
Bass – Chap from Mansion with longish hair. Neil?
Drums – Darren Richardson?
Annoyingly when this was on Posterous a chap commented with the line-up but I lost it when they closed down.
Voice Of The Rain – Tommy & Brenda (1998)
From the final brace of Voice Of The Rain releases now remastered and released into the wild.
Voice Of The Rain – Catch Me If You Think That You Can (1993)
Nothing Disturbs Me More Than A Chip That Lands On The Floor
Businessmen On Bicycles – Chip On The Floor (1986)
From the bulbum Groid LVIIII as found in excerpt here.
Voice Of The Rain – Sunday’s Best (1998)
From Further Afield which is now available remastered for Bandcamp release.
Rumours
Probably a bit previous but the word on the web is that The Sound Of Leamington Spa Volume Seven could be out soon. 1
So I’ve knocked out a video for The Gits track included on it, JK Rant. 2
A combination of different recordings to create a new version of this popular vaudeville standard for inclusion in the Firestation Records release ‘The Sound Of Leamington Spa Strikes Back With A Vengeance Part Deux’. This is one of a series of compilations gathering British indie pop releases of the 1980s.
This video takes the kitchen sink approach and tries to fit in all the sorts of things we did on our cassette releases such as using out takes and ‘humorous’ interludes. These were generally funny the first time and profoundly irritating by the third or fourth listen.
Errors & Omissions
It should of course have been ‘clench your buttocks’. Sorry for any confusion caused. (The Gits are not liable for any injuries caused by following ambiguous advice).
Commentary idea half-inched from Karpatenhund’s Zusammen Verschwinden.
- A bit previous it was as the CD wasn’t issued until 2013 as part of the box set charting the history of the record label that released it Firestation Records ↩
- Not, as printed on the CD, JK Rent. ↩
Some People
Businessmen On Bicycles – Beards (1987)
A demo from the batch whence came The Sessionaires Sunny Sessions of 1990.