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Twenty Minutes In The Past – 6th June 2014

Photograph of the Gits CD showing the dates error - 1989-1990 printed when it should have been 1987-1990

Screen capture of Gits CD release announcement on Facebook by Firestation Records modified to add sign 'Minnows Of Firestation' as a nod to a current meme relating to an upcoming concert

Still available in the especially collectable First Edition* due to the legions of proof readers missing an error with the dates on the CD.

Photograph of the Gits CD showing the dates error - 1989-1990 printed when it should have been 1987-1990

Also to be found in the Aether.

Never explain your jokes… but

An assortment of folks holding 'Giants Of Firestation' signs to highlight an upcoming, at the time of posting, gig in Berlin (10th July 2015)

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

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The Gits – All Too Much

'All Too Much' in a ragged typewriter text in dark grey on a black background

With Ben about to jump ship and the end of the band in sight we decided to record our tunes live in the studio. Not a music studio of course but the drama annex at Collyer’s College Horsham.

We played along to drum machine and second guitar parts pre-recorded to DAT onto our usual four track cassette machine. A little vocal reverb was added in the mix but nothing was replaced or overdubbed.

Twenty nine songs in one session was a gnats optimistic and we flag in places but it may be of interest as some of these songs were markedly different in their live versions and a few had benefited from a couple of years of gigging.

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And The Votes From The Swedish Jury

Screen capture of the spreadsheet containing the votes for the tracks to use in the Gits compilation.

Screen capture of the spreadsheet containing the votes for the tracks to use in the Gits compilation.

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.