Hoodoo Lovelight

This was recorded on 30.7.89. It was only the second time we had played together and we were feelng our way into things but it came together very quickly. Unfortunately it didn't work out with Dave but this, however, is a very fine example of a line-up that could have gone on to do some great stuff.

Paul Moller - guitar, vocals
Dave Smelt - guitar, vocals
Trevor Simpson - guitar, harmonica
Mr Rudeforth - tapes, curtains
Nick Hogg - double bass, vocals
Grant Ardis - drums

1. Bring Jeromes' Brown Meat
2. Turn On Hoodoo Lovelight
3. Unwound
4. Shaken
5. Sin City
6. Drawing The Curtains Again
7. So We Still Have To Explain This

http://www.archive.org/details/HoodooLovelight

How Not To Yodel

This was recorded on 26.7.89. After doing the Beautiful South tour as a trio we were joined by Grant Ardis on drums and Nick Hogg on bass, Dave Smelt moved on to guitar and vocals. This was the first time we had all played together as a group, what a yodelling good start.

Paul Moller - guitar, vocals
Dave Smelt - guitar, vocals
Trevor Simpson - guitar, harmonica
Mr Rudeforth - tapes
Nick Hogg - electrified double bass, vocals
Grant Ardis - drums.

1. Do The Rumpty Dumpty
2. Golden Shot
3. Good God Almighty
4. The Little D
5. Rock Me Baby
6. Nearly Got It Then
7. Turn On Who Do You Lovelight
8. She Taught Me How Not To Yodel
9. Unwilling

http://www.archive.org/details/HowNotToYodel

Are We On

This is a compilation from June 1989 including our gig at Leeds Irish Centre on 13.6.89 supporting The Beautiful South on their first tour. Dave didn't do the tour with us because he didn't have enough time to learn the songs. Some people in Hull didn't like the fact that we got the tour with T.B.S. and the negative reaction we got from some of the audience at Leeds were from this contingent, hence "See you in Hull, lads". During The Little Death I snapped a string and ran offstage leaving Trev and Mr R to carry on, I grabbed a guitar backstage, tuned it to our tuning and ran back on to finish the song. I wanted to try and include more stuff from the tour but the quality of the recordings were not good enough.

1. Trying To Remember The Words
2. Mystery Train
3. Dead Flowers
4. King Alcohol
5. The Little Death
6. Are We On
7. Radio Morris
8. Groovy
9. Launderette Love
10. The Little Death
11. I Feel Crap

http://www.archive.org/details/AreWeOn

The Rubber Band

This is a compilation of stuff from April and May 1989. After Gary Burroughs left we asked our friend Dave Smelt who was a guitarist and singer if he would play bass so he started playing with us.

http://www.archive.org/details/TheRubberBand

Boiled For Three Minutes

Recorded on 12.3.89.
We tried doing a slow version of The Death Of MF and it took a while to stand up by itself, this is the best version I could find.
Bobs' Blues was named after Robert Johnson, a brilliant blues artist, the words are taken from some of his songs.
So, things were going great, as previously stated, with this version on the group. Of course it couldn't last. Gary decided he wanted to leave after this rehearsal. I can't remember the reasons now but he always had his weekend club gig and it always came first. I was pretty sick of his casual attitude as well.
So that was the end of that.

1. Boiled For Three Minutes
2. Sweet Home Chicago
3. The Death Of MF
4. Part Of The Thing
5. The Little Death
6. I Got It
7. Bobs' Blues

http://www.archive.org/details/BoiledForThreeMinutes

Just Call Me Norman

Recorded on 21.2.89. As previously mentioned, things were getting really good with the music in terms of the group coming together. A great rhythmical tightness was evolving and the songs were being deconstructed and reconstucted as we played them. The improvisatations were going in many different directions at once. It couldn't last.

1. Poor Boys Dead And Gone
2. Constipation
3. Just Call Me Norman
4. Launderette Love
5. A Bit Of Tinkley Bonk

http://www.archive.org/details/JustCallMeNorman

Slum Pig

Recorded on 12.2.89. My criteria for choosing what to select and what to reject from these rehearsals are as follows. You will find multiple versions of the same songs on this blog but if it is a good version or there is something different about it I have used it. There are numerous improvisations on the tapes and if I like one and it works I have used it. I have started giving them titles rather than just putting 'improvisation'. If there was any talking or craziness that added to the atmosphere of a particular seesion I have included that too. Slum Pig could have been worked up into a song, it still might be one day, who knows.

1. The Road Is Rocky
2. Past Aural Sympathy
3. Slum Pig
4. Me And My Chauffeur
5. Backwards In Front

http://www.archive.org/details/SlumPig