by philipchevron Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:49 pm
csiambleside wrote:Dear Mr Chevron
I wonder if you, or anyone else, could kindly supply the lyrics to Plura Belle from the Ghostown reissue? They're not on the Radiators website, possibly because like Under .
Also, I have Agnes B's Ironing Board lp, but gather you produced another for her. Apart from the usual Discogs etc, do you know of anywhere selling it and your own Bill's Dance Hall lp?
I have a 'colured' vinyl copy of the Radiators Live at Southend album. It sounds like a memorable end of tour night (backing Thin Lizzy)!
Finally, I recall from an interview you once worked in a Camden record shop. I was based in Camden when working for Music Week, and wondered if it was the same one that Shane Mac worked in - Rocks Off.
All the very best - you've been one of my most sought after recording artists all these years!
Gareth Thompson
http://www.gareththompson.co.uk
1. The lyrics of the two songs you mention are in the booklet for the 1989 10th anniversary CD of
Ghostown (where the new tracks first appeared). I'm sorry they're not on the Rads site and will remedy that when I get a chance to upload the
Pilgrim and
Sound City lyrics and update the discography, which is substantially out of date now.
2. In 1976, I supervised the release of Agnes's first album,
Bernelle on Brecht and......... (Midnite Records AM 203). This is long out of print but I've seen it about three times on eBay in the past ten years or so. The last one sold for £35 and the previous one for £250. I recently recovered the master tapes of this and I hope, again when I get the time, to effect a CD release of this, with additional material.
Mulligan Records also released a one-off single "Kitty Ricketts" and "Things" in early 1979 to coincide with the West End show
Black Champagne, in which "Kitty" was featured. Billed as by Agnes Bernelle with The Radiators (who co-starred in the production), it does seem to turn up from time to time, though seldom in its limited edition pic sleeve. I don't expect to see "Kitty" on a CD until we do, at some point in the future, an expanded edition of the Radiators'
Ghostown album, which would also include some unreleased demos from that album. The b side "Things" was not the Bobby Darin song but a tone poem written by Stanley "The Deerhunter" Myers and Christopher "Private Eye" Logue. It was always one of my favourites of Agi's songs, contrasting a subversively Brittenesque pastoral with a jarring "ripped from the headlines" edginess that locates it firmly in the England of the late 50s/early 60s, which is what delights me about it. I figured it would liven up Mulligan's uileann-pipe-heavy catalogue. Apart from the production credit and a ghostly piano overdub, the Radiators are not featured on this track.
3.
Bill's Dancehall was released on CD in Japan in 2006 by Sea Island Projects. It is now almost as scarce as the orginal vinyl but copies do sometimes appear on the Japanese Amazon site.
4. The Lizzys set off some of their own pyrotechnics during our set, causing the stage to fill rapidly with smoke! It was customary in those days for the bands to play pranks on each other on last night shows. We reciprocated by riding across the stage on invisible hobby horses at the start of "Cowboy Song".
5. I worked at Rock On, almost immediately beside Camden Town Tube Station, now, like half the retail units on the planet, a convenience store. Rock On had begun at Soho Market in Chinatown, London, now, like the other half of all the retail units on the planet, a multi-storey car park. When Ted Carroll moved on to Camden Town (and Goldhawk Road) with Rock On, he sold the Soho stall to Stan Brennan and Phil Gaston, who had worked for him at the market. To distinguish the two concerns, Stan and Phil changed the name to Rocks Off, a move made even more solid when they moved to a shop unit in Hanway Street (between Tottenham Court Rd and Oxford Street) and this latter is where Shane worked, though I think he did time on the Soho stall too.
[quote="csiambleside"]Dear Mr Chevron
I wonder if you, or anyone else, could kindly supply the lyrics to Plura Belle from the Ghostown reissue? They're not on the Radiators website, possibly because like Under .
Also, I have Agnes B's Ironing Board lp, but gather you produced another for her. Apart from the usual Discogs etc, do you know of anywhere selling it and your own Bill's Dance Hall lp?
I have a 'colured' vinyl copy of the Radiators Live at Southend album. It sounds like a memorable end of tour night (backing Thin Lizzy)!
Finally, I recall from an interview you once worked in a Camden record shop. I was based in Camden when working for Music Week, and wondered if it was the same one that Shane Mac worked in - Rocks Off.
All the very best - you've been one of my most sought after recording artists all these years!
Gareth Thompson
http://www.gareththompson.co.uk[/quote]
1. The lyrics of the two songs you mention are in the booklet for the 1989 10th anniversary CD of [i]Ghostown[/i] (where the new tracks first appeared). I'm sorry they're not on the Rads site and will remedy that when I get a chance to upload the [i]Pilgrim[/i] and [i]Sound City[/i] lyrics and update the discography, which is substantially out of date now.
2. In 1976, I supervised the release of Agnes's first album, [i]Bernelle on Brecht and.........[/i] (Midnite Records AM 203). This is long out of print but I've seen it about three times on eBay in the past ten years or so. The last one sold for £35 and the previous one for £250. I recently recovered the master tapes of this and I hope, again when I get the time, to effect a CD release of this, with additional material.
Mulligan Records also released a one-off single "Kitty Ricketts" and "Things" in early 1979 to coincide with the West End show [i]Black Champagne[/i], in which "Kitty" was featured. Billed as by Agnes Bernelle with The Radiators (who co-starred in the production), it does seem to turn up from time to time, though seldom in its limited edition pic sleeve. I don't expect to see "Kitty" on a CD until we do, at some point in the future, an expanded edition of the Radiators' [i]Ghostown[/i] album, which would also include some unreleased demos from that album. The b side "Things" was not the Bobby Darin song but a tone poem written by Stanley "The Deerhunter" Myers and Christopher "Private Eye" Logue. It was always one of my favourites of Agi's songs, contrasting a subversively Brittenesque pastoral with a jarring "ripped from the headlines" edginess that locates it firmly in the England of the late 50s/early 60s, which is what delights me about it. I figured it would liven up Mulligan's uileann-pipe-heavy catalogue. Apart from the production credit and a ghostly piano overdub, the Radiators are not featured on this track.
3. [i]Bill's Dancehall[/i] was released on CD in Japan in 2006 by Sea Island Projects. It is now almost as scarce as the orginal vinyl but copies do sometimes appear on the Japanese Amazon site.
4. The Lizzys set off some of their own pyrotechnics during our set, causing the stage to fill rapidly with smoke! It was customary in those days for the bands to play pranks on each other on last night shows. We reciprocated by riding across the stage on invisible hobby horses at the start of "Cowboy Song".
5. I worked at Rock On, almost immediately beside Camden Town Tube Station, now, like half the retail units on the planet, a convenience store. Rock On had begun at Soho Market in Chinatown, London, now, like the other half of all the retail units on the planet, a multi-storey car park. When Ted Carroll moved on to Camden Town (and Goldhawk Road) with Rock On, he sold the Soho stall to Stan Brennan and Phil Gaston, who had worked for him at the market. To distinguish the two concerns, Stan and Phil changed the name to Rocks Off, a move made even more solid when they moved to a shop unit in Hanway Street (between Tottenham Court Rd and Oxford Street) and this latter is where Shane worked, though I think he did time on the Soho stall too.
