The Scooter Scene and Beyond
Celebrating 30 Years of Detour Records 1990-2020
Mon |
10:00 |
- | 17:30 |
Tue |
10:00 |
- | 17:30 |
Wed |
10:00 |
- | 17:30 |
Thu |
10:00 |
- | 17:30 |
Fri |
10:00 |
- | 17:30 |
Sat | Closed |
Sun | Closed |
Recommend this product to friends and acquaintances via email. To do so, simply complete all the fields marked * and click "Send".
Product no.: ALTLIV-CD |
£9.99
Plus delivery
|
RECORDED DURING THE SUMMER OF ’78, THIS ALBUM CAPTURES ALTERNATIVE TV WHEN THEY WERE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE POST-PUNK ENGLISH NEW WAVE. THE BAND WERE FORMED BY MARK PERRY WHO WAS EDITOR OF PUNK’S FIRST FANZINE, THE INFAMOUS SNIFFIN’ GLUE (RECENTLY COMPILED INTO A BOOK BY SANCTUARY). THEY QUICKLY ROSE TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PUNK/NEW WAVE BANDS IN BRITAIN DURING 1977-79. THIS CD FEATURES THE BAND AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR CREATIVE POWER AND MANY OF THEIR MOST POPULAR LIVE NUMBERS ARE INCLUDED, SUCH AS ‘LOVE LIES LIMP’ AND ‘VIVA LA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’. A VERSION OF THIS CD WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1993 AS A LIMITED EDITION WHICH QUICKLY SOLD OUT. WITH THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL TAPES BY ITALIAN JOURNALIST RED RONNIE, OVERGROUND AND MARK PERRY COULDN’T RESIST THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-MASTER AND RE-PACKAGE THE CD, ADDING EXTRA TRACKS, RE-DESIGN THE ARTWORK AND EXPAND THE SLEEVE NOTES. IT WAS RONNIE WHO RECORDED ALTERNATIVE TV AT THE MEANWHILE GARDENS FREE FESTIVAL IN AUGUST 1978. 3 OF THE TRACKS – ‘ALTERNATIVES’, ‘FELLOW SUFFERER’ AND ‘GRAVES OF DELUXE GREEN’ – WERE RELEASED BY RONNIE ON A 7″ EP ON THE NICE LABEL, GIVEN AWAY FREE WITH RED RONNIE’S FANZINE, BAZAR, IN 1980. ALTERNATIVE TV’S PERFORMANCE AT MEANWHILE GARDENS CAPTURES THE BAND DURING THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION BETWEEN ‘THE IMAGE HAS CRACKED’ AND ‘VIBING UP THE SENILE MAN’. DRUMMER, CHRIS BENNETT HAD BEEN SACKED A MONTH BEFORE THE GIG AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE ‘VIBING’ MATERIAL WAS PLAYED LIVE, ALTHOUGH ‘RELEASE THE NATIVES’ AND ‘THE GOOD MISSIONARY’ WERE PREMIERED THE PREVIOUS MONTH ON THE JOHN PEEL SHOW. HERE & NOW GUITARIST, STEFFIE SHARPSTRINGS, HELPS OUT ON DRUMS FOR A COUPLE OF THE SONGS. FEATURES 1-Love Lies Limp 2-Going Round In Circles 3-Nasty Little Lonely 4-Still Life 5-Fellow Sufferer 6-Viva La Rock 'n' Roll 7-Release The Natives 8-Nasty Little Lonely 9-Alternatives 10-Fellow Sufferer 11-The Good Missionary 12-Graves Of Deluxe Green 13-The Radio Story Currently unavailable |