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| Dray, Risso, Morris, Jarvis, Davies (Descension era, late '87) |
Recorded at February 1987, between Parallax Avenue and Smoke Rings ep's, featuring probably same line up as those, and two unreleased songs, all in all, sounds akin to Descension than to earlier releases.
These tracks were badly edited from a December 1987 show, by your humble servant, missing only one track, which was broadcast only on one show (March 1987), available for listening at the British Library sound archive (item no. B3880/1 in the main catalogue). I've asked for it but it's open for public only in the place itself due to BBC copyrights. So if you manage to get in London and put your sneaky stealing hands on it, I do believe both Sir Peel and Mr. Dray would approve that ;)
2nd Peel Session - Recorded 01.02.1987 [Broadcast on 30.12.1987 Peel Show]
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| Davis, Dray, Jarvis, Risso, Rawson, Woodger (Mars On Ice era, late '86) |
2. Mining Town In Lotusland
3. Bloodflood [Same lyrics will be used in later track called Gutter Busting]
4. Parallax Avenue [Missing track]
As said, I believe correct line up here will be:
Stephen Dray - Vocals / Tenor Saxophone
Bill Davies - Electrical Bass Guitar / Effects
Paul Jarvis - Guitar
Dave Morris - Guitar / Bass Guitar / Alto Saxophone
Robin Risso - drums
Hugh Rawson - Trumpet
Neill Woodger - Trombone
I left full instruments credits as they appear on both Parallax Avenue and Smoke Rings, but it's probably much less than that on this session. It's a bit hard to determine exactly what horn instruments are actually playing due to the semi-descent audio quality. Might be even without Hugh or Neil.
And major thanks for the John Peel Wiki for helping me with info and links, beautiful site.
I always thought it was "Mining Town in Locustland"...which more closely fits the Americana feel of much of what they did, and indeed the sleeve art. I no longer have the tapes I once stored all this stuff on, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteHa! I have still not got Parallax Ave from that session, thanks for posting and the kind comments
ReplyDeleteHey Dray, thanks for dropping by. Like I said, Parallex Ave exists in the British Library, so if you feel like telling them it's your track, don't hold back ;)
DeleteEven though this comments section is pretty empty, I can tell you this link has been downloaded many times already. There are still people who care.