And for the lower pitched.
The Gits (UK)
Horsham band of the late 1980s containing myself amongst others
Barrel Thoroughly Scraped
The title of this post is a perhaps a little harsh as these final semi-live recordings of The Gits are the best available in some cases.
Blurb from Bandcamp:
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.
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
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.
The Yearly Advertational
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:
Traditional Album Release Anniversary Post
Oops! I forgot. Had spent all of an hour on doing the video in advance too.
The Gits (UK) – Turn Away
Filling a hole in the video catalogue.
Remaindered
It took a few years but Firestation Records have finally given up all hope of selling The Gits (UK) Retrospectulative at full price and are knocking it out for 4€ in their January sale. I’ve only spotted this belatedly and it ends at the end of the month.
You will have to get five of them to make the minimum order though – or perhaps even consider buying something else. Do allow for getting caught for additional tax in the UK now that we’ve fully regained control of our demise.
I Like To Keep On Top
…Of any social media referencing of my noise making endeavours and it seems that a couple of years ago someone spent a portion of the short time they have on Planet Dirt to upload The Gits (UK) tune ‘Hold Me Now’.