Indebted to Stephen Gillitt for sending me these mp3’s to upload. Please check his Streetlevel website where I nicked the pics above from (see them larger on his site under posters etc) because unfortunately Stephen has not got an original sleeve for the cassette for me to put up – if anyone else has got the sleeve then please get in touch with Stephen via here or his site!
For my old mate Jon Hamilton from the band Part Chimp who requested it…
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Steve
December 22, 2007 at 4:48 pmGod, the stuff you’re unleashing on this site is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
I really can’t thank you enough.
Richard Mason
January 3, 2008 at 5:40 pmHello – I wrote an article on Weird Noise/Fuck Off etc etc for a US mag called UGLY THINGS back in the early noughties and was in touch with both Stephen Gillitt and (all too briefly) Keith Dobson. You are a latter day saint for posting this stuff. One day people will understand. Or maybe not. Who gives a fuck? Cheers again. THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE….
Nic
January 3, 2008 at 5:43 pmRichard – that was a great article in Ugly Things: nice one!
Richard Mason
January 3, 2008 at 5:51 pmWhy thanks, Nic. Seems a million years ago. I remember that Mike Stax (co-editor of UT) was lovely & very encouraging but Johan Kugelberg (the other co-editor) made many a bullshit noise about how he was going to get all that stuff reissued pronto & then of course actually did less than 0, which I subsequently discovered was about par for the course for him.
So great sites like this is the only way that wonderous music will ever be heard again, in all likelihood, whilst we instead must contend with the inevitability of the 457th anniversary reissue of the back catalogue of The Fucking Teardwop Explodes or something. Oh well…
Nic
January 3, 2008 at 6:07 pmhmmm, yeah…it’s a shame really that a lot of this music is slowly being consigned to the forgetfulness of history…
but there’s also a strange resurgence of interest in the whole period, so perhaps re-issues are more possible now (as the ‘Messthetics’ CDs go ‘legit’ and so on)…
I have some F.O. related tapes that I haven’t seen around the ‘net: I must pull my finger out and get them digitised…
Richard Mason
January 23, 2008 at 3:04 pmHey Nic, you got any Dressmakers? Please post if you do!!!! They, er, rule.
200 CANCELLATIONS? I should cocoa.
Nuzz
January 23, 2008 at 8:24 pm“Don’t make another bass guitar Mr Rickenbacker don’t”, yeah some Danny and The Dressmakers would be good, a bit of a link there with dance culture there as I believe Graham Massey from 808 State was one of ’em, so I remember reading somwhere, sometime.
Nic
January 24, 2008 at 11:12 amYes, Massey was in Danny and the Dressmakers, Nuzz…
Check this out: it’s a classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBz1c-Sauw
Graham Clark (who later played violin with Gong) was also in the Dressmakers…I played an improvisation concert with him last year in Sheffield…
There is some Dressmakers footage on the live DVD of the Deeply Vale festivals (if I remember correctly)…
Nic
January 24, 2008 at 11:18 amThe Deeply Vale 5 CD boxset includes the full performance by Danny and the Dressmakers at the festival in 1978…
Nuzz
January 24, 2008 at 11:56 amA classic indeed nic, hadn’t seen that before, as with a lot of this stuff from the 80’s my copy of Golden Grates is gone, snapped, worn out or lost. I remember buying it from Rough Trade playing it to my mates, who either a) Thought I’d lost the plot and what was this shit or
b) Thinking fuck me I could do that.
Going off on a slight tangent here, but do you or anyone else remember a ‘band’ called Rachels Pilchards ? came from East London, mainly vocals and toy instruments.
sg
February 2, 2008 at 1:53 am“I have some F.O. related tapes that I haven’t seen around the ‘net: I must pull my finger out and get them digitalised…”
Nic, what tapes do you have, I would be really interested in hearing them.
Luggy
February 2, 2008 at 8:28 pmNuzz, I remember Rachel’s Pilchards well. Still see Steve Fish from them every now and again although he spends a lot of time in Bulgaria these days.
sg
December 22, 2010 at 10:13 pmRichard – comment from 2008 “200 CANCELLATIONS? I should cocoa”.
You can download it from here http://legalisevimto.blogspot.com/ plus more stuff – merry christmas hohoho!