May 5th, 2008 by Ed
Never one to turn down a request, here’s the very first BDS demo, Gothic Monstrosities (for James R). Recorded over a couple of days in the basement of a used car salesroom in Kingston in (I think) 1986. The engineer was a lovely bloke called Hick. He even played sax on one of the songs I think. Martin Hawkes (aka Marty Tuff) from the Stupids played lead guitar on a couple of songs (listen out for anything that sounds remotely competent and that’ll be him!). I had no idea what I was doing and relied on Jason and Paul who had both been in the studio already with earlier bands. I’d hung out with the Stupids for a couple of sessions and done a 4-track recording with Frankfurter, but this was the first ’serious’ session I’d ever done. Listening back now I honestly can’t say any of it sounds too clever…in fact most of it’s pretty embarrassing, but I’m amazed at the number of people who like it 20+ years later. To be honest I’m amazed that anyone’s heard it at all.
- Nick Norris - Vocals
- Paul Condon - Bass
- Jason Cook - Drums
- Ed Wenn - Guitar
A lot of it’s punk-by-numbers and influences were very much in evidence. Here’s a rundown of the more obvious steals:
- Obsession = London Dungeon by the Misfits.
- Dark Knight = Heard It All Before by Stupids (or the Marginal Man track that they nicked it from).
- Never So Funny = No More Pain by Embrace (just the intro which is taken from Chris Bald’s bassline)…also a nod to the Stupids again with their song title Always Never Fun (which is way cleverer than my feeble attempt).
- Why Even Bother? = Generic 7 Seconds riff.
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May 2nd, 2008 by Ed
From a 1992 interview in Guitar Player magazine…
NY: Satriani and Eddie Van Halen are genious guitar players. They’re unbelievable musicians of the highest caliber. But I can’t relate to it. One note is enough.
JO: ‘Cinnamon Girl.’ The one note solo.
NY: Oh yeah - two strings, though. The same note on two strings. The wang bar made every one sound different.
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April 13th, 2008 by Ed
My first stage outing in about 3 years went off without a hitch at The Portland Arms in Cambridge last night. Great atmosphere, sold out venue, loads of friendly faces from Ippo, Narch, London and (natch!) Sandy, Beds. It was wonderful playing with John again after all this time and I think we pulled it off just fine despite a few hiccups here and there (see notes below). Can’t wait to do it again, so get in touch if you want us to play.
Photos and possibly some video footage of the event will be available from here in the near future, but for now here’s the whole set (mercifully minus most of my between-song-banter) recorded by Jacqui on a Sony DSC-T9 digital camera - how the world has changed. Photos by Kirstie Green.
Many thanks to Chris and Ashley for inviting us to play. Roll on the next one!
Anorak Notes: Most of the songs here are faithful to the original recordings, just without the other instruments, but two of them we messed about with a bit. Carousel is in a different key so that I could sing it higher, but this meant that John’s harmony vocal ended up being too high for him. To compensate he’s written a new guitar part and, boy is it wonderful. On Jigsaw Catch I wanted a different feel so we changed both the key and the tempo, so that it sounded more like Tim Buckley’s song, Buzzin’ Fly. On this one too, John has written a kick arse new guitar part that I could listen to all day. This is the one I was most looking forward to playing, but in the event it got screwed up because the acoustic guitar all but disappeared from the monitors for most of it and I spent the first verse struggling to find the right key to sing in.
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April 3rd, 2008 by Ed
I was pointed at The Word Magazine Podcast by a BBC programme on podcasting that I listened to yesterday. I liked the sound of it so I went to their website and filled my boots. Only heard one episode so far, but it’s pretty cool and probably a ‘must get’ if you’re a music fan and like the whole podcast thing…which I do. Well worth subscribing to it.
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March 23rd, 2008 by Ed
Paul’s been beavering away over the Easter break battling with discog.com and last.fm to get some info and music content available on those two sites. The Sink & K-Line pages at last.fm are looking pretty good and worth a visit if you’re a last.fm user. Actually, thinking about it, there isn’t currently a lot of K-Line music available on this site so might be worth a visit to last.fm if you want to fill your boots.
More soon about our ongoing efforts getting the back catalogue available on last.fm and documented via discog.com
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