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This playlist is 73% vinyl friendly. Not bad.

A teal/turquoise background will always catch my eye but the Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT Fully Automatic Wireless Belt-Drive Turntable, at just $219 or thereabouts, is highly regarded.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 136

‘Oh I want you, like a kangaroo… ‘ Indeed.

Or maybe ‘I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday… ‘ You don’t want him turning up at your bash.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – We All Stand (live, L’Ancienne Belgique, Brussels: 15.4.82) – Streaming only…

Reminded of this recording just recently by Jon Wozencroft and it’s right up there as one of the band’s greatest live recordings… of any track.

The photo below? My then living room wall in 1984, and with my dog, Flanagan overseeing, the only sighting I can offer of my poster to the above gig, along with the one for the L’Encienne Belgique New Order gig the year before, which I was at. Both these two and another eleven very early NO posters of mine were lost/stolen (depending on who’s story you believe) in the early early 2000s.

06.58

RIHANNA – Stay (Marius Hörsturz Remix) – Streaming only… 2013’ish

Beyond the many mixes the single officially courted, this one probably didn’t get considered for release, if it even made it to the table. Maybe seen as too ‘left-field’ I imagine it wouldn’t have computed with Rihanna’s audience… but its plodding dreaminess certainly does it for me.

11.44

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Do The Mussolini-Headkick – Extended Play, 7″ EP – Rough Trade – 1978

From their debut release and the personification of the Cabs’ early fuzzy electronic period – here with some reggae and dub in the mix.

Possibly not the first Cabs tracks I ever heard – as I probably went scouting backwards after hearing Nag, Nag, Nag – but via the tiny sticker I’ve just noticed (maybe for the first time in forty years?) on the inside of the sleeve, I bought this EP on March 21, 1980 at Andy’s Records, in Bedford for 99p. It was also the day of this below, the second or third attempt at trying to kick start something alternative/new wave/indie in the town, so a track from the EP might be the closest I can get to a definite on the playlist on the hour or so I lasted before we realised the night was usually a bikers gathering and packed up and left. These two (20×30″ish) posters – artwork courtesy of mate, Gary Goodman – were one-offs with one or both of them doing the not-so-hard sell in our HMV shop.

On a tangent, check out Roger Quail’s My Life In The Mosh Of Ghosts – Gig 68 podcast at some point. Having worked with the Cabs the ex Clock DVA and The Box drummer charts his Sheffield-era gigging history and I contributed info to this just broadcast show, revolving around the Cab’s second gig in Bedford, in August 1984, both of which I promoted.

14.32

PRINCE – When Doves Cry – 7″ – Warner Brothers – 1984

I thought when he lost the shackles of major label… dom he’d have gotten more ‘interesting’, musically but the freedom, control, self A&R’ing and maybe crucially the sheer volume of releases did the opposite for me. Still, he was a bit of a genius.

Below: Somebody has gotten a bit creative with the 7″. At least it’s a move on from turning labels into drinks coasters.

20.08

3 Teens Kill 4 – Hold Up – No Motive, LP – Point Blank Records – 1983

To my ears, it sounds like a Casiotone 201 leading into a strong early Talking Heads strain here with these 41 Rooms favourites.

23.56

POLYROCK – This Song – Self-titled, LP – RCA – 1980

Frantic stuff from the late ’70s New Yorkers.

26.10

a.P.A.t.T. – Matter Of Fact – Fun With Music, LP – Pickled Egg Records – 2016

As a 60th birthday present, long time mate, Nigel Turner presented me with a couple of his label releases… and the CD version of this album was one of them.

30.16

JOHN GRANT – TC & Honeybear – Queen Of Denmark, 2LP – Bella Union – 2016

Lush quirkiness, with a bit of a late ’60s sound and a lilt of innocence.

35.12

KEVIN McDERMOTT – The Faintest Sound – Discreet Campaigns, v/artists compilation, cassette only – Rorschach Testing – 1985

In the song, arrangement and production, definitely a ’60s thing going on here.

Promo parts for the release.

I can’t remember how I came across Kevin’s 1984 demos cassette tape below – six studio songs and one live track, all a year or two before his debut album surfaced, where only two of the cassette’s tracks (including The Faintest Sound) were included. Different recordings, though.

38.49

THE MELONS – Eskimo – 7″ – Pickled Egg Records – 1997

Ex-pat Bedford mates, Nigel and Vanessa Turner were half of The Melons (the latter presently in The Silver Biplanes) and here the last of their four singles doubled up as the first release on Nigel’s Pickled Egg Records label.

42.04

PEGGY MARCH – If You Loved Me (Soul Coaxing) * – 7″ – RCA – 1968

There’s a hefty price on both the US and UK original RCA 7″ releases of this English-language cover of Michel Polnareff’s Âme Caline, all very much down to the northern soul/mod scene picking up on the track in the late ’70s, when RCA UK duly re-released it. Whether it’s ‘lost in translation’ or it’s March’s ‘Englishness’ (or both) the vocal doesn’t quite flow (convince?)… but that’s part of the appeal for me. A great of-its-time voice, to boot.

44.41

THE BEATLES – Getting Better * – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, LP – Parlophone – 1967

Well, they were omnipresent to any kid listening to the radio in the mid ’60s and although I later mopped up their singles, somewhere in the mid ’70s a copy of this album – complete with the card ‘cut outs’ inner – was one of only two Beatles albums (apart from compilations) I’ve ever owned. A stereo or mono copy? No idea.

47.33

SMALL FACES – Itchycoo Park – 7″ – Immediate – 1967

One of my fave ’60s bands and I just smile when I think of this single and look at the label. Sunshine… Heronscroft, Putnoe, Bedford bedroom… mid ’70s…

And if you’re the owner of this UK 7″ acetate you’re a very lucky bunny.

50.07

THE SMITHS – Unhappy Birthday – Strangeways, Here We Come, LP – Rough Trade – 1987

The Smiths haven’t made it to 41 Rooms too often and though it hasn’t helped, I don’t think it’s primarly to do with some of Morrissey’s media outpourings through the years. I was a fan of the band, and even interviewed the man and took a few photos of them but a lot of the times I go to include a Smiths track in a show here it somehow doesn’t feel ‘right’, next to whatever feel I’ve got going on at that point in the proceedings – and it’s not the only band I have the problem with. Dead weird. The man does have a way with a song’s storyline and melody like few others, though.

The Smiths – Westfield College, Hampstead, London, 17.11.83. Photo copyright/credit: Dec Hickey

52.32

ABC – Show Me – The Lexicon Of Love, LP – Neutron – 1982

The once industrial sounding Vice Versa fully fledged into class pop.

55.50

CLIVE GRIFFIN – The Way We Touch – 7″ – Mercury – 1988

As a child and obviously long before three major label albums of blue-eyed soul and a subsequent move into session work, Clive provided the vocal for the Cadbury Fudge TV ad jingle, ‘A finger of fudge is just enough‘! You didn’t see that coming.

59.40

DAVID BOWIE – The Secret Life Of Arabia, (Magnums Extended Mix) * – Streaming only – 2023

An extended mix, then given a 41 Rooms edit, with Bowie still ruling and riding around the handclaps.

01.03.57

KRATWERK – Trans-Europa Express – Trans-Europa Express, LP – Kling Klang – 1977

Aside the title, these gents also nailed the sense of travel in the music. A chugging steam train and lots of snow on view out of the window, I’d like to think.

01.08.42

ALEX GOPHER – The Child (Album Version) – 12″ – Disques Solid – 1999

Via her God Bless The Child, Billie Holiday ‘guesting’ on vocals for the French producer/artist four decades after her passing.

01.12.41

MARXMAN – Father Like Son – Dark Are The Days, 12″ EP – Talkin’ Loud – 1993

They were never frivolous in the words department.

01.16.58

DESTROYER (feat FIVER) – Bologna – Dan’s Boogie, LP – Merge Records – 2025

Out of Vancouver, Canada ‘Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, & even underground Spanish independent artists.’ – Bandcamp. 

Not Dan’s first sighting on 41 Rooms either, as with him on vocals Destroyer had successfully taken on New Order’s Leave Me Alone for the Mojo magazine covers album of the band’s Power, Corruption and Lies in 2012.

01.20.58

AUGUST – Pushin & Shovin (Line Of Flight Mix) – 12″ – Clean Up – 1994

One single and one single only… but it was a good one. Trip hop tones heard by me via a Gilles Peterson radio show, no doubt pre release.

01.26.03

THIS MORTAL COIL – Kangaroo – 7″ – 4AD – 1984

Within the interchangeable line ups of TMC this one featured most notably, Cindytalk’s Gordon Sharp and Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde. A Big Star/Alex Chilton tune, likely suggested by 4AD boss, Ivo.

01.29.27

DEPARTMENT M – Air Exchange (Live Anthologies Session @ The Nave, Leeds, 6.3.16) – Streaming only – 2016

Though the studio version is available on the band’s second (and sadly, last) album, Deep Control, this live version sees main man, Owen Brinley riding solo.

1.33.21

THE ITCH – Ursula – Download only – 2024

‘I’ve been reading a lot of Ursula Le Guin‘ goes a lyrics line from London duo, Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy as the track builds * to making it an ideal live set finale, which if it isn’t already turning up there, it should be.

*Reminds me of The Dears’ We Ca Have It, a tune I hadn’t heard in years… but then just played to check. Yep, I’ll stick to my observation.

1.40.00

ROZALLA – Faith – 7″ Pulse-8 – 1991

‘Selling better than the original now, her infectious 123bpm breezily galloping wailer is in even friskier Coola Vibes and twittery instrumental Rainbow Bridge remixes by the Band of Gypsies‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 25.5.91 

‘… the wailing Zambian’s earlier frisky galloper from April is reissued in its jumpily jangling original 123.1-0bpm The Chic Mix, plus producers the Band Of Gypsies’ stereo panned plinking calmer 123-0bpm Space Station and Joe T Vannelli’s jaunty Spanish flavoured 0-123-0bpm Musik Out Of Control Mixes, all catchily punctuated at times by spacey saxophone-like synth tones. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 9.11.91

Faith (In The Power of Love)? ‘To do what?’ would be my first question. The bigger its goal the less its chances but in Rozalla’s case – a girl who belted out a few massive ’90s hits – I’d like to think the lyrics, though not written by her, had her in mind. In the land of ‘hands in the air’ throwaway dance at least she had a solid story to convey here. Interestingly, in a previous life (musically) one of the writers, Nigel Swanston was in a band called Airstrip-One who I’d have possibly seen supporting New Order at Walthamstow’s Assembly Hall in Sept ’81 if I and a Transit load of others hadn’t just been failing miserably trying to order food in a local curry house pre gig. Fellow Bedford mate, Budge (a man not in the van) did catch Airstrip-One on the night and though not a lad easily swayed I seem to remember he enjoyed them. So, on a couple of fronts, Nigel Swanston… you did good.

1.43.23

MK – Feel The Fire (MK Burn Up Mix) – The Get It Right 12″ EP – Network – 1991

‘On a four-tracker by Detroit’s Mark Kinchen… the gritty girl-wailed jazz-funk tinged fluttery loping 122.8-123bpm ‘Feel The Fire’ (MK Burn Up Mix)’, which was hottest when originally on import‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 29.6.91

I already had the tune’s original outing, as lead on a US Retroactive label 12″ but I remember buying this release later in the early-mid ’90s in one of Soho, London’s myriad of dance shops, just for this mix (hidden as a b-side track) and the young, female assistant serving me made eye contact, quietly uttered ‘Feel The Fire’ and then nodded a sly smile of content as I said it was the track I was after.

1.48.36

HAPPY LITTLE CLOUDS – Higher – Download only – 2025

More driving sounds… of a sort.

‘Boston (USA)-based rainbow rust, power pop band with songs that stick, rain or shine, blending 90s nostalgia with modern indie sound. Unfiltered, heartfelt lyrics entwine with bluesy vocals and catchy-AF melodies, like frosting on a post-grunge cake oozing with authenticity, creamy bass riffs, and chunky guitar. Unique, expressive drums is the cherry on top. The best slice of heaven you’ve ever heard‘. – Bandcamp 

1.52.35

THE CURE – At Night / A Forest (Theatre de l’Empire, Paris, 8.12.79) * – Streaming only

Some full-on Cure fans seem to really go for this early take of A Forest and I’m with them. Besides the possible unknowns in being live, it’s got snap and bite!

1.55.47

LOU REED – Walk On The Wild Side – 7″ – RCA – 1973

“And the colored girls go, ‘Doo, do-doo, do-doo, do-do-doo, doo, do-doo, do-doo, do-do-doo… ‘ ” as did also David Bowie, Mick Ronson and a female bv trio called… Thunderthighs. The song could rightfully insert itself into any story of the ‘progression’ of rock ‘n’ roll through the decades but it’s hard to remember now how ‘left field’ this was escaping a ban and coming (albeit with slightly altered lyrics) over the airwaves back in the day.

Show 137 will hopefully march out on March 2.

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Counting an acetate as vinyl (of sorts), this playlist is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooo close!

Oi! Shelves is for vinyl, numptie! I can see right through it! It’s a Turntable Transrotor Leonardo Doppio 25 25 40 Rega and it’s yours for €3500 or Best Offer right now on eBay.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 135

‘There’s a man with a gun over there. Telling me I got to beware… ‘ The gun and Stills’ lyric both loaded.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Evil Dust (2024 Remaster) – Brotherhood, Definitive Edition box set – Warner Music – 2024

Yep, indeed included on the latest in the line of New Order Definitive Edition boxset beasts but this in house remix (the band’s own, I’m assuming) of Angel Dust originally crept out only as an extra on the 1985 PAL format, UK 5″ C(ompact)D(isc)V(ideo) (phew) of True Faith (the Remix 12 Inch), with the samples (David Byrne and Brian Eno’s tunes, Regiment and The Carrier) more upfront in replacing Barney’s lead vocal.

And again while we’re here in New Order land. Below: Another photo of Dave Simpson (The Guardian) MC’ing myself, Jon Wozencroft and The Beloved’s Jon Marsh (he’ll be back this show) on stage at London’s Rough Trade East last November reminiscing around my recent From Heaven to Heaven – New Order Live, The Early Years (1981-1984) At Close Quarters republication.

Photo credit: Ian Damaged

04.11

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Kino – Drinking Gasoline, 2×12″ EP – Virgin – 1985

Industrial… funk… electronic… heavyweights

12.12

MARIE DAVIDSON – Sexy Clown – City Of Clowns, LP – Deewee – 2025

Within a Limited Edition Transparent vinyl LP, some minimal wave bizniz underpinning dry spoken word, and like a multitude of tunes in the modern age purporting to inhabit Edgy Town, using melodies (here it’s the chorus) that sound as if they’re chasing the 10yr-olds demographic. Discuss… no, don’t.

16.57

CORAL WAY CHIEFS – Release Myself (13th Ave Mix) – 12″ – Murk Records – 1992

‘This is a label that just keeps getting better. Their fifth release has a male vocal laid over the ever classic deep Purk-y bass sounds – this one’s a must‘. – CJ Mackintosh, Record Mirror (Music Week), 3.10.92

I reckon you can’t go wrong with an early Murk Recs 12″.

22.30

FINGERS INC. (feat ROBERT OWENS) – Mystery Of Love (Club Mix) – 12″ EP – D. J. International Records – 1986

Stark early house with Larry Heard at the controls, that I didn’t hear until the early ’90s.

28.40

aNAIIS & GRUPO COSMO – B. P. E – Self-titled, LP – 5dB Records – 2024

Within the grooves of the ‘Exclusive Sea Blue coloured heavy weight vinyl‘ (in gatefold sleeve, Including accompanying booklet and limited to 250 units – Bandcamp is the place). It’s a ‘builder’… and that end high note? Doooof!

32.16

EYELESS IN GAZA – You Are Grace – Butterfly Attitude, 12″ EP – Downwards – 2012

It feels like I missed this beauty first time around, which given that it’s EIG/Marty Bates it was very shoddy on my part.

34.27

JAKI WHITREN – Oh Little Boy – Raw But Tender, LP – Epic – 1973

For some strange reason I only ever visited Croydon’s much remembered second hand record store, Beanos once. As it was a massive set up, I got there at opening time… spent a lot of hours digging… and weirdly, came out with just one record… the above album.

36.57

PORRIDGE RADIO – God Of Everything Else * – Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, LP – Secretly Canadian – 2024

Out of Brighton, UK and the vehicle of Dana Margolin. The longest track title of the show, coupled with the most disconcerting track ending. I have personally been involved in ending a track quirkily but this one just doesn’t sound ‘right’.

40.18

COCTEAU TWINS – Fifty-fifty Clown – Heaven Or Las Vegas, LP – 4AD – 1990

Very coincidentally, 41 Rooms’ royalty giving us the the second clown on show 135.

And one of two photos of mine, Simon (Raymonde) asked to include in his recent memoir, In One Ear – Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me. Honoured, I was.

43.19

THE BELOVED – Spirit – Conscience, LP – East West – 1993

Originally released in 1993, Conscience went Gold in reaching no. 2 in the UK album chart but pictured here is the 180g, white double vinyl, late 2024 re-release through New State Music. ‘Remastered from the original analogue studio masters (by John Davis at Metropolis Studios) boasting louder and clearer audio than the original release‘. Within the limited edition run of 700 copies, 100 via Bandcamp included a postcard of the cover art signed by Jon Marsh.

47.51

TOWA TEI – Luv Connection (The Angel Remix) – 12″ promo – Elektra – 1995

‘Towa Tei is the keyboard and computer programmer of Deee-Lite and this cut is taken from his LP Future Listening – a blend of everything from boss to hip hop, salsa to soul. Luv Connection covers all these styles in an assortment of mixes, embellished for the dancefloor by Maurice Joshua in a spirited house style and Masters At Work in a more avant garde dub house concotion. The female lead vocal is uncredited, but brings a cool soul flavour to the plodding LP version, and a jazzy air to the off-the-wall and brilliant big band boss style Angel Remix‘. **** Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 19.8.95

‘No less than nine mixes accompany this two 12-inch release from the Deee-Lite man. They vary from the slamming, soulful hip hop beats of Towa’s own refreshing mixes to Height 611’s hard house version, Masters At Work’s Brand New Heaveies-style groove, Georgie Porgie’s piano-let house stormer and The Angel’s Jazzy Jam. There’s also a drum and bass heavy mix of Technova by Smith & Mighty and a Building Groove mix of the same track, by man of the moment Josh Wink, which is typically acidic and pounding‘. – Brad Beatnik, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.11.95

Part number.… I don’t know how many, of 41 Rooms’ I Don’t Do Jazz… But… ‘ but back in the day, I heard the Angel Remix of the track first and subsequently felt zero affinity with any of the song’s main/lead mix(es) I then heard. Let’s face it, it’s not the greatest set of lyrics but at least this track gives them a cool backdrop.  

54.46

ESTHER PHILLIPS – Just Say Goodbye – 7″ – Atlantic – 1965

The song’s mid ’60s release as a 7″ b-side(!) in both the US and the UK are well beyond me, so this split release 7 from 2000 will do. Bought on hearing a dealer playing it at a London record fair in the Noughties, it’s no wonder the track has gravitated through the years to have a life of its own.

57.03

DEE EDWARDS – Why Can’t There Be Love – 7″ – GM – 1971

Never a hit first time around, Edwards passed away in 2006 and didn’t live to enjoy the kudos (at least) when the song hit pay dirt for the publishers in a heavyweight 2010 Adidas Originals ad.

59.45

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD – For What It’s Worth (Stop, Hey That’s That Sound) – 7″ – Atco – 1966

‘Often considered an anti-war song, Stephen Stills was inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966, a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, the same year Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go Go.’ – Wikipedia

Stephen Stills sounding stark…

01.02.15

DAVID CROSBY & STEPHEN STILLS – Long Time Gone (1968 demo) – Demos, LP – Atlantic – 2009

The album pulling together demos from the C. S. & N. camp, both solo and together in various combinations, with Long Time Gone a lot ‘earthier’ than the version to which we would later become accustomed to.

01.06.47

ASHLEY THOMAS – Serenity – A Tale Of Two Cities, CD only – Wah Wah 45s – 2008

Classy blue-eyed ‘folk soul’.

01.12.17

NAFFI – D’ya Hear Me! (Original Version) – 7″ – Rum – 1981

Three decades later it would be iD’d as the Original Version when included on the Brenda Ray (it’s her) 2012 compilation LP, D’Ya Hear Me! : Naffi Years, 1979-83 but she masqueraded as Polly Rithm on the above 7″. Definitely sounding of its time, with a bit of a Marine Girls feel (and maybe others I can’t think of right now) and it took a Japanese label to release the compilation.

01.15.42

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS – Searching For Mr Right – Colossal Youth, LP – Rough Trade – 1980

They sounded like no one else at the time.

01.18.25

GNAG OF FOUR – Ether – Entertainment, LP – EMI – 1979

One of the great albums. It’s very nearly all been on 41 Rooms.

01.22.13

THE STRANGLERS – Toiler On The Sea – Black And White, LP – United Artists – 1978

A track that goes on a bit of a journey.

01.27.19

SKIN SIDE OUT – The Shredding Of The Skin – 7″ b-side track – Lost Moment Records – 1984

A big Bedford mates connection on this frantic, bustling tune, with the band’s engine room of guitar, bass and drums – Mike Wallis {RIP}, Jem Noble and Andy Mackechnie, respectively – all resident there back then.

01.32.18

THE SEX PISTOLS – Submission – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, LP – Virgin – 1977

Iconic.

01.36.27

T. REX – Children Of The Revolution – 7″ – T. Rex – 1972

She won’t see this but a nod goes out to ex-girlfriend, Gill Hulatt (as was) and one of what would have seemed like millions of girls who adored Marc Bolan back in his whirlwind years. Her and I later saw T. Rex on their Futuristic Dragon tour, at St. Albans City Hall in Feb ’76 and although Bolan’s fame factor was then in decline and his audience had shrunk in size he gave like he was back a few years and in front of 10,000 at Wembley Empire Pool. As some sort of social history link I nearly included a photo here of Gill and I partying in our ‘exuberant youth’, sometime around the time of the St. Albans gig but opted against. Maybe some other time.

01.38.47

STEVIE WONDER – Superstition (UK acetate) – one-sided 7″ – Emidisc

I happened on this 7″ acetate on line by chance and it won’t be hard to work out why it flew under the radar. I can only assume the seller either didn’t have a turntable to hand to glean some(any?) extra info or did spin it and still didn’t realise it was indeed Stevie Wonder’s Superstition. Listed as a £25 Buy Now I took a punt, on the visual alone. Exactly the same mix as the released single version but missing (crucially?) the hi hat that somebody rightly felt gave the track slightly more ‘swing’.

1.42.41

FINGATHING – Dogs – G, LP – ?? – 2025

‘Shipping out on or around January 17, 2025’ – Bandcamp

Fingathing’s personnel – classically trained double bass player, Sneaky (aka Simon Houghton) and DJ/turntablist, Peter Parker – have seperately featured on 41 Rooms before, so it’s not great leap to this tune, and if I was still DJ’ing and in some alternative club I’d have a stab at mixing it in and out of Adrian Sherwood’s remix of Einstürzende Neubauten’s Yü-Gung… as you do… or… as nobody else ever likely would.

1.45.58

JOSE FELICIANO – Virgo – 7″ b-side – RCA – 1974

Not widely known for his electric guitar leanings but Jose can ‘rock’ out with the best of them – something that seems to constantly surprise the ears of Youtube comment(ator)s when they happen on his version of (say) Purpe Haze from a live show. To get Virgo on 7″ you’re going to have to fork out quite a bit more than average prices for his vinyl catalogue, as it’s only ever found (in the nine territories that I know pressed the single) on the flip side of the much sought after Golden Lady, Jose’s uptempo and Latin’esque take on the Stevie Wonder tune. A cheaper alternative is the And The Feeling’s Good album on which both tunes feature.

And when you get into collecting particular artists – especially those on major labels in the ’60s-’70s halcyon years of vinyl – it… is… never… ending.

1.48.53

TURNTABLE ORCHESTRATION – You’re Gonna Miss Me (12″ Version) * – 12″ – Music Village Records – 1988

‘A piano-led, Latino jazz romp through some similar territory and roots… lifted from the label’s NY Garage double LP, doubtless due to its accessibility, danceability and general all-round pop sensibility. A classic tale of love betrayed and betrayal repaid (yep! a real song – surely a sign of thangs to come) which should work as well on radio as on the floor. A classy ‘n’ classic ‘spic hit pick‘. – Richard Boon, The Catalogue #66, Jan ’89

‘Hippie Torales & Paul Scott co-created Excellent subtle piano nagged and mournfully droned unhurried 115 1/2bpm burbling jitterer with a ‘phonecall halfway from Anna Quiñones, now finally out here commercially (in four mixes) and – as a total stranger standing next to me in a sandwich bar said when it came on the radio – “THE club dance hit of 1989” ‘ – James Hamilton, Jocks, 2.89

With its unusual staccato-like vocal phrasing maybe part of its appeal (though I took out the phonecall bridge, as it just sounded… pants), The Turntable Orchestra will have come to the attention of a lot of the late ’80s post punk crowd via Snub TV, an offshoot of the then indie music’s trade magazine and Rough Trade published The Catalogue, whose editors Richard Boon and Brenda Kelly I got to know well during the time our Rorschach Testing label had a P&D deal with RT and I was getting label news included in the mag. It’s also Brenda’s voice that narrated Snub TV. Check out at some point the edition on Youtube that features this track. In fact, check out all the editions. It’s a neat barometer of the then indie scene mixing with the growing dance culture of the time.

1.53.52

THE SONGSTRESS – See Line Woman (See Line Vocal) * – 12″ – Ibadan – 1997

In reality, Nina Simone’s vocal over a Kerri Chandler construction, though in not having been the writer or (in turn) the publisher of her original recording it is possible Ms Simone had no say in the proceedings. I hope she got to gain somehow before her passing just six years later.

Show 136 should be uploading Feb 2.

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This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad.

From circa 1926 – the Western Electric 2A turntable. Just a 33-1/3 RPM speed, as there was no such thing as a 45rpm record at the time. Cast iron parts, ordinary copper wire, common ball bearings, and a 1 horsepower electric motor meant that the angular error of the tonearm was so small a straight-line tracking arm wasn’t considered necessary. Oh, and the flutter and wow were far less than any modern turntable, apparently. You’re welcome.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 134

More toilet thoughts than toilet humour and here courtesy of one Matt Gurley, the award goes to The Sundays’ lyrics for ‘lavatory’ getting not one but two mentions.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Temptation (Secret Machines Remix) – 7″ b-side – London – 2005

Drilling down (as they say), from the b-side of the first of three Waiting For The Siren’s Call singles (different mixes) released simultaneously… and with a sleeve that just oooooozes major label t(h)inkering… though the band must have OK’d it? If they did, it certainly wouldn’t have gotten Gillian’s vote, nor Rob’s if he’d still been alive. Back on the song, Temptation is still one of Bernard’s fave tracks, so it’s great to hear his vocals more upfront than within the classic version, though you won’t be hearing him outro’ing his ooooh oh oh oh oh’ing live for anything like the 2mins 35secs journey Secret Machines decided to send his ad-lib/refrain on.

And while we’re in New Order land. Below: Dave Simpson (The Guardian) MC’ing myself, Jon Wozencroft and The Beloved’s Jon Marsh on stage at London’s Rough Trade East in early November, chinwagging around the republishing of my From Heaven to Heaven, New Order Live, The Early Years (1981-1984) At Close Quarters. Available now from all good… etc etc.

Photo credit: Alison Wonderland

07.15

SKELETEN – Viagra – Mentalized, LP – PIAS – 2025

A bouncy, summery sound in December, ahead of the album release in Feb next year, all making total sense if you’re Russell ‘Skeleten’ Fitzgibbon’s home of Sydney, Australia.

11.22

INNER CITY – Till We Meet Again (Brothers In Rhythm Remix) – Promo 12″ – 10 Records – 1993

‘Still sombrely moaned wriggly rattling 117.4bpm Brothers In Rhythm Remixes, plus plaintively sung ‘Follow Your Heart’ in loping melodic 117.7bpm MK and twittering short 0-126bpm Reese Deep Space Mixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 11.2.93

Fat, thumping, nearly bruising beats, very slightly pitched up. A big tune with me at the time.

16.23

ART SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND – Out There (Kloyd Remix) – ?? – Fiction Records – 2024

Kloyd is a bit elusive, and on the net the image below is attached to more than this mix or artist alone. The track was suggested to me by The Beloved’s Jon Marsh after our recent meet up (see above).

23.17

MARIANGELA DEMURTAS – Opium * – Stream only – 2021

COVER, TYPE 1 – And from the originators, Dead Can Dance’s own version in the last show, to a highly impressive ‘cover’ from a vocalist maybe better known to some from her lengthy stint as vocalist for Norwegian goth metal band, Tristania – nothing from whom will be troubling 41 Rooms playlists. I say ‘cover’, as it sounds as if it’s the DCD track in total with Brendan Perry’s vocal just replaced by Demurtas’… the way you can these days with a flick of the right switch.

28.58

JAZZTRONIK – All Inside – En:Code, CD only – Japan Record – 2005

Japanese producer, multi instrumentalist, DJ, etc Ryota Nozaki… and though I didn’t realise it at the time, with 41 Rooms’ regular (in one guise or another), Valerie Etienne on the mic.

32.46

MATT GURLEY – You’re Not The Only One I Know – Stream only – 2008

COVER, TYPE 2 – As opposed to songwriter, Harriet ‘The Sundays’ Wheeler’ and her lyrics, you’ll not find Gurley in the lavatory but instead he’s been Youtube’ing and Facebook’ing for years from what appears to be his bedroom and living room. Maybe for this song he should have been. Throw a silky and reverential vocal at a great song and melody and the chances are you’ll be fine, and the lo-fi effect of the recording’s surroundings actually works in his favour. The result wouldn’t have been topped by getting him and the song into a studio ‘proper’.

36.51

THE STEREOPHONICS – Maybe Tomorrow – 7″ – V2 – 2003

Possibly one of the greatest ‘rock’ songs Rod Stewart and the Faces never recorded back in the early ’70s, partly because the songwriter wasn’t even born when they were doing their thing.

41.13

JONI MITCHELL – Help Me – 7″ – Asylum – 1974

In the world she’s inhabited, has anyone ever held that there candle to her? ‘No’ might be the correct answer.

44.21

VANGELIS – Let It Happen (Beatfanatics Balearic Boogie Remix) – 12″ – G.A.M.M. – 2007

Vocalist, Richelle Dassin’s minimal lyrical idea, still mesmerising over this long and loping mix, with the original version having already passed 41 Rooms’ shores.

54.07

MARTINE GIRAULT – Nothing’s Gonna Change – 12″ b-side – Opaz – 1992

With Ray Hayden producing, from the British (London?) street soul scene of the early ’90s, a flip side groove that nearly matched its already playlisted A-side, The Revival. I can still hear Patrick Forge back in the day championing both sides on his Kiss M show.

57.27

CRAZY P – This Fire (James Welsh Remix) – Age Of The Ego, Remix EP1 – Walk Don’t Walk – 2022

Kicks off Trans Europe Express-like… but heads off on a different track gauge.

01.03.42

HONEYDRUM – Do U Party? – 7″ + CDr – AMDISCS – 2012

Yet another very cool Honeydrum song that seems to have been ‘buried’ in its coming together… or it’s a decent recording that’s then been played at a lowish volume through speakers and recorded from across the room via a cheap as chips mic! Aagghhh!

01.05.50

THE TEARDROP EXPLODES – Poppies In The Field – 7″ b-side – Mercury – 1981

Strangely, standing out as a ‘sound’ now maybe even more so than it did back then. Quite a feat, I reckon.

01.10.51

THE MOVE – Flowers In The Rain – 7″ – Regal Zonophone – 1967

OK yeah, Flowers In The Rain might have come into mind after Poppies In The Field but the song would have made it to 41 Rooms at some point anyway, as I collected a bunch of Move singles in my teens (the ’70s), and between Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne they were always more than capable of writing a class pop tune. If you’re old enough and know only one fact about ‘Flowers’, it’s likely that it was – with DJ Tony Blackburn on the wheels of steel – the first record ever played on UK BBC Radio 1, and if and when he sells his demo/promo copy (as he’ll definitely have been given one back in the day), that will be a piece of rock’n’roll history to own.

01.12.54

THE MAMA’S & THE PAPA’S – California Dreamin’ – 7″ – Dunhill – 1965

With its so on it combination of vocals and harmonies, by the time the single had finished its very slow rise up the US charts it was still a year before the Summer Of Love it was more ideally suited to. Not though, my favourite version of the song… as some won’t be surprised to hear. ‘The group’s name was sometimes written as The Mama’s and the Papa’s‘ says Wiki… Indeed. Come the second album and its corresponding singles, somebody rightly said, ‘We can’t keep looking at that!‘

01.15.21

ACT – Absolutely Immune – Laughter, Tears And Rage, LP – ZTT – 1988

Propaganda’s Claudia Brücken and electronic maverick, Thomas Leer hooked up for some lush pop to neatly soundtrack the lavish late ’80s.

01.19.40

BETH HIRSCH – Let It Live (Radical Mix) – Titles & Idols, 2LP – !K7 – 2001

Beth’s delicate vocals are pretty much done before the thunder breaks. Fab all round.

01.23.57

JAPAN – Methods Of Dance – Gentlemen Take Polaroids, LP – Virgin – 1980

Wednesdays… Winkles… Bedford… 1980… £5.99? The album… not the club night… that was £1.50.

01.30.04

MARIBOU STATE – Otherside (feat Holly Walker) – Hallucinating Love, LP – Ninja Tune – 2025

In a vinyl stylee – a ‘one time pressing on 140g unique blended recycled vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner‘… or… a ‘140g recycled black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner‘.

Skippity, skippity beats. Cheery, smiley stuff all round. Interesting production on the vocals.

01.33.48

ROÍSÍN MURPHY – Sow Into You * – 12″ – Echo – 2005

I chopped a bit out of this. Might have been a slightly off putting (to me, anyway) bridge. Can’t remember.

01.36.53

MARTHA and THE MUFFINS – Drive – Delicate, CD only – Muffin Music – 2010

Martha was still sounding as youthfully vibrant as she had done three decades earlier in the band’s Echo Beach heyday but unless something like a massive film soundtrack inclusion happened on them, the ‘system’ is very unlikely to let them back in to the reckoning as the years moved on. As much as they’d obviously have liked further success this though sounds like a band just making the music they want… and the world can go f*** itself if it doesn’t want to pay attention. Thankfully, these days it costs a whole lot less to get great results in recording than it would have done back in the day.

01.40.50

THE RELUCTANT STEREOTYPES – Factory Wit – 7″ b-side – WEA – 1981

The earliest incarnation of the band included Martyn Bates on vocals, a regular of this parish through his later Eyeless In Gaza and solo work but having caught this version of the band on the Old Grey Whistle Test and seen them at London’s Marquee a couple of times as well as at the Half Moon in London’s Herne Hill, all in early ’81, I very tentatively then looked to promote them in Bedford, via Charlie Gillett’s Oval Music agency, but if I remember rightly I wasn’t convinced I’d draw enough of a crowd to make it work, financially.

In the department of photos I know I took but then lost I did have some of Paul King also chatting to a female fan (Scandinavian, I seem to remember), the two of them leaning on the front of the stage after one of the Marquee gigs, and something tells me I might well have sent her copies. If so… and she’s out there… King obviously liked to get out and meet the people, something he sort of continued with when he later became an MTV presenter

Diary for Feb 28, ’81 reads, ‘(With) Viv, Karl to London, Notting Hill. Joy Division Komakino bootleg, Reluctant Stereotypes at Half Moon, Herne Hill. Great but packed, so couldn’t dance. Long chat with (singer) Paul King before long drive home. U2 on OGWT.’

Viv and I weren’t always grabbing only New Order live in these years. I snapped her here returning to the car at Scratchwood service station after the first of the two Reluctant Stereotypes’ Marquee gigs we were at, Feb 6, ’81. The look? A long night… it’s late… and work tomorrow. We’ve all been there.

01.43.39

THE BEAT – Twist and Crawl – 7″ b-side – Go-Feet – 1980

As the Ska revival wasn’t really my thing, this and Mirror In The Bathroom were all I needed from these lads.

01.46.11

EYELESS IN GAZA – Pencil Sketch – Photographs As Memories, LP – Cherry Red – 1981

Very vivid memories of walking my dog, Flanagan, circa the album’s release, with this blasting out of a set of headphones. Good times…

01.48.30

NENEH CHERRY – Woman (Alex Reece No Vocal) – 12″ promo only – Hut – 1996

Reece’s mix with Neneh’s vocal has been playlisted here before and if you know Cherry’s own original song, both of Reece’s mixes are, in reality, very much his own work.

1.53.17

LONDON ELEKTRICITY – South Eastern Dream – Syncopated City, 4×12″ – Hospital – 2008

Proper show outro music! Credits roll… wave to the crowd… ‘See ya!’

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This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.

With that brass look reminding me of something you’d get in a hardware shop this chunky but small turntable from 1998 is still in production, and at 13kg weight Kuzma’s Stabi S is sturdy. ‘A uniquely designed turntable, (it) is a minimalist, beautifully engineered piece of kit. Its uni pivot design, silicone damping system and two-piece counterweight on its arm – to name but a few design choices – all help it deliver top-notch sound quality… Insightful, dynamic, natural-sounding and able to deliver vocals with real passion, this turntable is something special.’ it was said somewhere.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 133

For it bonkers value… it’s with Roisin!

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Truth (Movement…….) One-sided Movement 12″ acetate – The Town House – Unreleased – 1981

When Hooky was researching for his Substance – Inside New Order he called me. He had a copy of my From Heaven To Heaven… with him and he reckoned the acetate had likely been Martin Hannett’s own copy, and as such there’s a very slightly different mix of a couple of the tracks on side one of the album, rather than different versions. This ‘Truth’ starts with Hooky’s bass isolated and finishes slightly differently. I think the bit of a wobble on the melodica is down to the acetate and not Barney’s playing…

05.04

HACIENDA – Nightmare Of Max – 12″ – Harthouse – 1996

There was a lot of this type of big beats, dancefloor friendly, slow shuffling stuff around in the ’90s, this romp from a DJ crew out of Germany. Throw is some head nodding, too.

11.28

RAE & CHRISTIAN – Spellbound (Live at Nulle Part Ailleurs) – Unreleased, stream only

Nulle Part Ailleurs (Nowhere Else) was a French leftfield entertainment TV show and certainly included Antoine de Caunes as a co-host for a period, so Rae & Christian turning up on there, playing live, would have been just ‘right’. With Steve Christian’s guitar-strumming intro (not on the recorded version), vocalist, Veba is, as always, the star.

16.29

JAH WOBBLE and JULIE CAMPBELL – Slavetown (Pts 1 & 2) – Psychic Life, LP – Cherry Red – 2011

Apart from assuming ‘Lonelady’ Julie would have been an admirer of PIL’s former guitarists, Keith Levine and John McGeogh (both now sadly departed, but the former appeared on Psychic Life) I’m not sure how this partnership came to pass. Worth it though, as it gives Julie a chance to ‘soul’ her vocals. Very coincidentally, via a few short days back in Bedford in November I’ll be catching Mr Wobble play live, as he’s at Esquires. Result!

22.14

MALCOLM McLAREN – Waltz Darling * – 7″ – Epic – 1989

It wasn’t really the greatest leap for the Sex Pistols manager to want a bit of pop stardom for himself and with Bootsy Collins and Phil Ramone in the producer’s seat with him on this particular release I’d say this is one of his finer moments. And not for the first time on 41 Rooms, hellzapoppin’ crops up in the lyrics of a tune.

26.05

CARON WHEELER – I Adore You – 12″ – Perspective – 1992

‘More from the Mo Money movie soundtrack, the former Soul II Soul singer’s Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis created slinkily rolling hacksawing swayer is in its Sybil ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ sampling (0-)98-0bpm LP Version and (0-)96.6-0bpm LP Radio Mix plus jam & Lewis’s more sombrely jogging 0-96.4bpm Dance Hall Version, pleasant enough until Danny Tenaglia then transforms it with his gorgeous piano plonked gossamer light bubbling lush jazzy 108.6-108.3bpm Club House Mix, 108.3bpm Catch The Groove Mix and loping 108.5bpm I Adore Dubb‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 31.10.92

On a par with her Jazzy B, Soul II Soul background.

30.27

DEAD CAN DANCE – Opium – Anastasis, 2LP – (PIAS) Recordings – 2012

At the time, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard’s first DCD album in 16 years.

36.09

RICHARD HARVEY – Elegy (Shroud For A Nightingale soundtrack) – 7″ – ASV – 1983

Seeing this Richard Harvey was a member of ’70s folk rock band, Gryphon I instantly knew I didn’t go for them back in the day… and having just listened to the first track of theirs I could now find… I know why. However, soundtrack work is where he’s flourished pretty much ever since and Elegy was from a UK TV series that I didn’t watch but must have caught enough of an opening or closing credit to clock the music and then realise it was on a 7″ single. Looking at the timeline I maybe see why it hit a spot with me and also worked in a soundtrack type way… even with the panpipes. They might appear again on another edition of 41 Rooms but they really should have a warning the way the banjo does on here.

If you’re old enough, sounding in places like incidental music to the BBC’s Robinson Crusoe TV series of the 1960s – and that’s a good thing.

I can nearly guarantee Elegy isn’t being played by anyone near you right now (apart from the sole buyer on eBay back in Sept – hammer down at 50p) but it’s also yours for between 80p and (with the pic cover I didn’t get) £2 or so on Discogs. No need to panic, there are plenty of copies.

38.53

THE MONOCHROME SET – Eine Symphonie Des Grauens – 7″ – Rough Trade – 1979

Jaunty! And in between the sort of records we’d have expected Rough Trade to release this could have been one that label head, Geoff Travis was quietly hoping could ‘break through’ and ‘chart’ (to some degree) to help the RT coffers.

40.58

JOSEF K – 16 Years (Live) – The Sound Of Josef K: Live At Valentino’s, CD only – Rhythm Of Life – 2003

As it happens, recorded the night before I was watching New Order for the first time (in Heaven, London) but in a venue I’d see NO three months later. They may have only been in existence for three years but the JK hardcore following that’s grown since has no doubt fuelled the many subsequent re-releases and unearthed recordings.

43.35

MOIRA & THE MICE – Sight and Sound – 7″ – Rodent Records – 1980

The copy below being in far better condition is the reason you’re not seeing mine here but I still have both of this Cardiff band’s two (only) singles. John Peel must have played one or both of them. It would have been the only way I’d heard a sound like this at that point in time. Like an early Blondie single that never was.

46.36

LENE LOVICH – I Think We’re Alone Now – 7″ – Stiff – 1978

Quirky pop from my short lived, couple of years (Elvis Costello, Rachel Sweet, Jane Aire…) fraternising with Stiff music and when I had the pic disc version of her Stateless album.

49.17

THE SOUND – Contact The Fact – From The Lions Mouth, LP – Korova – 1981

Another album that must nearly be on 41 Rooms in full.

53.29

BIG JOANIE – Your Words – Back Home, LP – Kill Rock Stars – 2022

If Throwing Muses’ Bright Yellow Gun and Kitchens Of Distinction’s Railwayed hadn’t already made it to 41 Rooms one or both of them would have been right here next door to these girls.

57.05

TIM BUCKLEY – Get On Top * – Greetings From L.A., LP – Warner Brothers – 1972

I’m not over keen on any ‘soloing’… so some of the keyboards wigging out in the middle of this had to get the red card but Buckley’s funk folk (here anyway) is class. Outro’ing with some tempo increase (accelerando?) and vocal inflection reminiscent of Jon Lucien, it’s only now occurred to me.

01.03.24

808 STATE – 10 x 10 (Gorgeous) c/w 10 x 10 (Vox) – 12″ – ZTT – 1991

I’ve rarely coupled together two versions of the same track by an artist but with Graham Massey and co it’s the second time I’ve done it on this show. I’ve a pile of early ’90s Record Mirrors when it shrunk to be included as a dance music focus within trade mag, Music Week and whenever I eventually get to go through them there will no doubt be a James Hamilton review that I can include here that does justice to the ‘italo piano plonked’ Gorgeous version and the ‘pulverising beats’ Vox takes I’ve linked here.

01.09.33

SINK YA TEETH – The Hot House – Two, LP – Hey Buffallo – 2020

With funky electronica as its base, some modern day no wave from Nor folk.

01.13.44

A CERTAIN RATIO – Dirty Boy (Unknown Remix) – ????

Tony Wilson ghosts in on one version of Dirty Boy but it’s definitely New Order manager, Rob Gretton here with the “You asked me ‘why do I do it?’ Because of the music, is the answer” sample.

01.16.52

RANDY BROWN – Love Is All We Need – 7″ b-side – Expansion – 2020

In a previous life, Ralph Tee gave The Flamingos a cracking review (in Blues & Soul, possibly) so, he’s alright, and here he is as Expansion’s modern day owner with a track originally on Brown’s Welcome To My Room album from 1978 and it’s very definitely alright.

01.20.48

MARY J BLIGE – Fade Away – Growing Pains, 2LP – Geffen – 2007

Not unlike the emotional build of her No More Drama – a track she stormed on Later With Jools a couple decades back.

01.24.32

THE BLUE BOY – Remember Me (Original 12″ version)– 12″ – Pharm – 1997

‘After infuriating many as an untraceable import last year, this ridiculously simple and thus ultra-catchy funkier is now available on Sure Is Pure’s label. Marlena Shaw/Blue Note samples and the subsequent “Remember me, I’m the one who had your babies” hook added to a sparse hip hop break and a gently throbbing baseline not only recalls another classic – the Young Disciples’ Apparently Nothin’ – but commands an instant top 10 chart placing‘. – ***** James Hyman, Record Mirror (Music Week), 1.2.97 

In its time it was certainly an earworm.

01.28.40

ASHLEY THOMAS – Mas Music – Soulful, CD only – Cavendish Music – 2006

Snappy r&b/soul of the blue-eyed sort, I thought Ashley had made it to 41 Rooms more than the three times he now has. Must do better. Him, not me. With his most recent release seemingly fifteen years back maybe he’s moved on to other pastures.

01.31.30

9 Lazy 9 – Swingpool – Electric Lazyland, LP – Ninja Tune – 1994

It certainly swings in a pool, with stuttering jazz.

01.34.58

MOLOKO – Fun For Me (Extended Play) – 12″ – Echo – 1995

‘Spinning ludicrous lyricisms over crazy psychedelic stoner grooves and ending up in a rather weird world on the fringes of rationality, Moloko are a Deee-Lite for the trip hop generation. Fun For Me is just as bizarre, imaginative and off-kilter as Where Is The… A wacky world of nonsensical sensi-smiles awaits‘. *** – Calvin Bush, Muzik #5, Oct ’95

‘With its Dr Dre/G-funky/Bootsy P-funky backbeat, lush female vocals and soporific lyrics, this stand-out single also manages to blend in a whole heap of strange sounds. Do not let this get lost amid all the established Tricky/Portishead/Mo Wax, trip hop fraternities‘. – James Hyman, Record Mirror (Music Week), 18.11.95

I heard this kookie sounding tune pre-release I think, but very late at night/early morning on a KISS FM show, possibly Wilber Wilberforce’s. Unsurprisingly, the vocals really stood out in a WTF type of way. Not a sassy black rapper out of the Bronx but despite the Sheffield hook up with Brydon, originally a girl out of Arklow, Ireland. Just up the road from me she was there last year championing the town in a video.

Jazid (#5) article, 9-10.96

01.39.41

THE SUNDAYS – I Won – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, LP – Rough Trade – 1990

Now I could have gone for iD’ing the track in its purest form – on a one-sided 7″ flexi disc given away with the independent music trade mag, The Catalogue (below) but we all know they sounded pretty ropey… and we’d want nothing getting in the way of Harriet Wheeler’s English-as-a-very-English-thing vocal sprinkling on us like confetti. Yep, if ever a voice ‘sprinkled’ it may have been hers.

01.43.56

MARVIN GAYE – Right On – What’s Going On, LP – Tamla Motown – 1971

With the album forever right up there, I could have sworn I’d playlisted this already. I should have… but I hadn’t. So, I have now. When the album title was being considered I bet there was a debate had over whether it should be ‘What’s Going On’ or ‘What’s Goin’ On’, with some A&R/marketing ‘dude’ pushing for the latter. It will have happened, especially as the album version of the track itself intro’s with some ‘What’s happenin’, brother?’ found sound. I bet Marv thought, ‘No point preaching only to the converted. I need to be reachin(g) the suits in power‘.

1.50.41

WILLIE HUTCH – Brother’s Gonna Work It Out – 7″ – Tamla Motown – 1973

When I was sweeping up UK Tamla Motown singles in the ’70s I think this just somehow passed me by. I say ‘think’. Sometimes tastes can change slightly through the decades.

01.53.25

GIL SCOTT-HERON – Winter In America (Bottom Line, NY, 20.8.77) – Stream only – 1977

Nov 5 in America looms. Beware the lunacy below could be back, and if Gil was still around he wouldn’t know whereto start.

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This playlist is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive.

The BRAUN PC3 SV may have been a brick of a 1950s turntable but it’s yours from Holland for just on €500 plus postage and the extra charges that seem applicable on buying just about anything, old or new, from anywhere these days.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 132

For their ‘lyrics for the city’, it’s a tie: EBTG and Zero 7.

As you might have guessed from the start of 131 previous 41 Rooms’ shows we’re always in New Order territory here. So… a shameless plug!

With the 2012 fully published edition’s very limited release out of print for well over a decade, From Heaven to Heaven, New Order Live, The Early Years (1981-1984) at Close Quarters… is being republished on November 8, courtesy of Damaged Goods Books – and with a big nod here to DG’s Ian Damaged. It’s been a journey.

As before, the book is landscape-style but this time it’s housed in a portrait set slipcase… easier for that shelving thing. Also included is a neatly concealed, free 7” single – a heavy edit of a late 1983 interview (more a chat) I had with Barney (Bernard Sumner). There’s only so much you can get on those two sides, even at (don’t forget) 33rpm.

Available now to pre order in the UK through the Damaged Goods site, in the US via MVD, in Germany via HHV or Finest Vinyl or indeed any bookstore: ISBN – 978-1-9162327–3-0.

Also…

Out of the blue, Rough Trade got wind early in the process and offered me a ‘chat and signing’ event evening, so Monday, Nov 11 I’m on stage doing just that, an ‘In Conversation with’ thing at RT’s flagship store, Rough Trade East in London’s Brick Lane… and I’ve grouped together a collective of peeps well versed with that early period of New Order.

MC/Chair: Dave Simpson (Guardian music critic, author, New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies Definitive Edition Boxset writer), in conversation with

Dec Hickey (From Heaven to Heaven… author, New Order Definitive Edition boxsets contributor)

Jon Marsh (The Beloved)

Jon Wozencroft (Touch label founder {Feature Mist inc Video 5-8-6}, Joy Division’s Heart and Soul boxset (co-curator and photography).

Tickets for the In Conversation (with or without book purchase) are available here, a Facebook Events page is here and all the book pre-order/In Conversation info is grouped here.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Let’s Go (Original vocal out-take/demo) – Unreleased – 1985

According to the ultra-reliable neworderonline.com this track was played nineteen times live (between Feb ’85 and August ’87) but whether in its instrumental form or a couple of vocal versions (with different lyrics) it always eluded me, and in the world of ‘drilling down’, the song has had a chequered history.’

And though it’s not Let’s Go-related, here’s an ad from the ‘video arm’ of Factory Records in the same early ’85 time period.

04.31

ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN – A Promise – 7″ – Korova – 1981

If it wasn’t for New Order I’d have definitely caught the Bunnymen live in the early ’80s a lot more than I did. Was this the only single off their Heaven Up Here album? If so, in the scheme of looking for a high charting single to help shift an album, a slightly brave move. It only reached No. 49 but as we all know, chart positions are no indication of class.

08.01

NIHILISTS – Back Seat Drops – 1 track CD single/download only – Classic Album Club Records – 2024

Ex-Puressence frontman, James Mudriczki and James Patterson haven’t been rushing things, seeing as this is only the third track to have been released (crept out?) in… eight years!

12.10

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Sly Doubt – Red Mecca, LP – Rough Trade – 1981

I reckon I might have only given this a spin or two at our club, Winkles back in that day but given CV’s CV (boom boom!), even by then a few of their singles would have been getting more of a look in.

Richard Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Bernard (New Order) and Richard’s girlfriend, Lynne: In the bar, pre New Order’s gig at Sheffield Uni, Sept 23, ’81. There on New Order time, Barney introduced me to Richard and I’d subsequently spend a fair amount of time convincing the latter that CV should play Bedford. It not only eventually happened, in July ’83, but such was the experience they came back the next year also. RIP Richard.

Photo credit/copyright: Dec Hickey

17.01

LONELADY – Threats * – Former Things, LP – Warp – 2021

Julie Lonelady getting dark funky, the way maybe Prince might have done on a wild slightly ‘off piste’ night in Paisley Park. Go! girl. A bit of a Cabs/Wrangler influence here and may she never loose that edge.

22.30

SECTION 25 – Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix) – 12″ – Factory – 1983

Somehow (and mistakenly) all versions of this song missed the cut for the still massive ‘playlist’ I had as a starting point for 41 Rooms back in 2016. So, roughly seven years later than it might have appeared in a 41R show, here we go… with the Megamix extended ‘B’ side. Produced by Bernard Sumner with the wealth of New Order’s early ’80s electronic leanings to his and their name, this was and still is MASSIVE!

29.39

JACANA PEOPLE (feat TEMM) – Sienna – Download only – ? – 2024

Deep and verrrrrry classy house music.

Bandcamp describe the ‘Electronic music duo from Buckinghamshire, UK’ as being ‘caught halfway between city noise and rural British landscapes’ and who ‘meld bittersweet electronica with sprawling organic textures.’ They may not give away their names freely but have been willing to give an insight or two.

32.52

JUK JUK – Winter Turns Spring – 12″ – Text Records – 2011

The intro sounds like an outro and at times the changes are very subtle… from one Caleb Waterman. Note to self… reminiscent of early 41 Rooms’ playlist visuals, I must do more of these. Always needing to see the light…

38.07

PAUL HARDCASTLE – Can’t Stop Now (MK Can’t Stop The Mix) errrr… mix – 12″ – JVC – 1994

The original track has a Loose Ends Hangin’ On A String feel but to my mind and ears Marc ‘MK’ Kinchen’s sits the ‘feeling’ of the vocals in a far more suitable track – to the point where, if I’d heard the two ‘unannounced’ and for the first time, I’d seriously wonder which is the original and which the remix. That’s happened once before (at least) on 41 Rooms but I’m never going to remember what it was.

44.44

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – Five Fathoms – promo only 12″ – Virgin – 1999

Ben Watt’s love of and move to a house and beats feel served the EBTG household well but then having Tracey Thorne as both his writing and relationship partner (in the house, literally) makes things a shade easier. Not for the first time this episode – class house music.

49.59

WAS (NOT WAS) – Wheel Me Out – 12″ – Antilles – 1980

The Was brothers debut single and not for the only time would they sound like they’re having a ball in the studio – where ideas were maybe chucked in on the fly… and they just kept on smiling.

55.00

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE – Waters – EP 002, 12″ EP – Wonderful Noise Production – 2010

The lead track on their self-titled generally available 2009 debut album but given Discogs description (‘Electronic, Hip-Hop, Funk/Soul, Neo Soul‘) specific to the above EP, it is a Japanese only release, and just checking, main man, Mara TK has now featured on average every thirteen or so 41 Rooms’ shows. It’ll be a sad day if that doesn’t keep on keeping on.

01.00.39

SUGAR PIE DeSANTO – My Illusions – 7″ b-side – Soul Clock – 1970

I’ve said it before – even though I have ‘northern soul’ friends I’ve known for as long as there’s been such a ‘scene’ I reckon the whole northern, rare etc soul world has more yet-to-be-discovered-by-me hidden gems than any other, and I’ll name-check 103.2 Dublin City FM’s Soulseeker show – hosted by my life long mate, Danny Duggan and Martin Goggin – as having landed this one (and a good few others) on me… and I can’t believe the single sells these days on the basis of the A-side. It’s got to be for My Illusions.

What were the chances? I always kick off creating a new 41 Rooms playlist by using the previous one as a starting template and track 13 on last month’s was a 7″ b-side of a 1970 7″ on a label called Soulhawk… and I’ve just replaced it with a 7″ b-side of a 1970 7″ on a label called Soul… Clock! All part of the service. You’re welcome.

01.03.21

BIG BLOOD – Makes Me Wonder – First Aid Kit, LP – Feeding Tube Records – 2023

‘(Caleb) Mulkerin’s descriptions of different songs on the record run like faint recalled dreams . . . Many songs touch on the fear and horrors outside a safe home space, fitting for a record made during COVID. They sing about their feelings in the moment, so lyrics are often topical. ‘Makes Me Wonder’ is about Ma’kihia Bryant, a 16 year-old black girl shot by police‘. (extract) Ben Goldberg, forcedexposure.com

And though it narrows things down a bit, if you’re seeing this on Day 1 and in Grenaa, Denmark and are free tonight, you can find Big Blood at Svartloga as part of their (first ever?) European tour!

01.10.37

IT’S… FREAKIN’… STYX! – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) – A&M – 1978

But at least you’re not getting the pompous, overblown intro… or (only noticed late on!) much of the doodling keys bridge. Jeeeez, it’s a bloody single, lads! Get a grip! The punk wars were fought for far less than this! Mid 1970s US soft rock… if there’s none of the aforementioned pomp involved, it may not be the last you catch here. I’ll just have to see how relenting I’m feeling at the time.

If I’m honest, I also had Styx’s Blue Collar Man 7″ back in its day but listening to that tune now, it reeeeeally would be a step too far to make it to 41 Rooms.

01.13.07

JETHRO TULL – Bungle In The Jungle – 7″ – Chrysalis – 1974

Only really a hit single in the US and Canada – and definitely not in the UK, where my purchase was of no use re chart aspirations – Bungle was intended for an unfinished and never later released album, one intended to focus on “exploring people, the human condition, through analogies with the animal kingdom.” Yep, not a theme that would have worried the UK singles charts back in 1974, or indeed too often any other time.

01.16.25

MICHEL POLNAREFF – Âme Caline (Soul Coaxing) – 7″ – Palette – 1967

Previously playlisted on 41 Rooms, Raymond Lefevre’s instrumental of this tune was at the time, courtesy of BBC radio, the most heard version in the Hickey family household, but I don’t feel French singer/songwriter, Polnareff’s very own, soaring French-language vocal Âme Caline (Cuddly Soul) even got a look in… the ‘soaring French-language vocal’ bit maybe being the reason.

Unknown to me until I read his ‘heck of a life’ Wiki biog, Polnareff has made an appearance on 41 Rooms before… sort of. His track Voyages was sampled by The Shortwave Set for their single, Is It Any Wonder.

01.19.17

RED GUITARS – Be With Me – 7″ – One Way Records – 1985

‘This song is for Jenny‘ sang vocalist, Rob Holmes, so I hope she got given a copy of this indie-aspiring-to-pop(ular) 7″. I bought mine.

01.23.01

ISOUL8 & MARK De CLIVE-LOWE – Stop Bajon – 12″ b-side – Archive – 2010

A bit Afro… a bit ‘tribal’… a bit jazz… and then again. The work of Enrico ‘ISoul8’ Crivellaro and New Zealand-Japanese multi skilled Clive-Lowe. If the piecing together of the show had run over the two hour mark and I’d only noticed very late on, this might have gotten the 41 Rooms chop… and the jazzy keys would have certainly been in the firing line.

01.28.13

LONELADY – Flee! – Hinterland, LP – Warp – 2015

She’s back. Very rare that the same artist returns within a 41 Rooms’ show but Julie Campbell’s ‘alright!’ so, she just has! And with a track that reminds me of something I can’t quite put a finger on.

01.32.34

NICO – You Forgot To Answer (live) – Unknown

Might have been the Oxford Road Show. Either way, a bit mesmerising, as Nico’s voice and harmonium combination tended to be.

01.35.21

THE BLUE NILE – Seven A.M. – Hats, LP – Linn Records – 1989

Well, I thought I’d finished with mistakenly playing a track twice on 41 Rooms but I gonna done it again! The ‘Podcast Used’ folder had the track down previously as 7 A.M, so you can how. Must do better…

01.39.51

ZERO 7 – Home – 12″ – Ultimate Dilemma – 2004

Always reminds me of Z7 guest vocalist-at-the-time, Tina Dico’s gobsmackin’ performance from the band’s appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Live show.

01.43.59

SOLAR BEARS – Primary Colours At The Back Of My Mind – She Was Coloured In, 2LP – Planet Mu – 2010

Depending on how you gauge these things, possibly the seventh ‘electronics and beats’ duo on show 132. Here it’s a Dublin duo, with some incidental-type film music, I’d suggest.

01.46.47

DAVID SYLVIAN – Ride – Everything And Nothing, 3LP compilation – Virgin – 2000

Such is the quality of 41 Rooms mainstay, Sylvian he managed to have this gem sitting idle for years. Ride actually sounds a 41 Rooms show ender and if I hadn’t been running very late in piecing this one together, with a bit of rejigging it maybe would have sat right there. Incidentally, I mention the 3CD format on the show but I subsequently found out the compilation is available as a vinyl release from the US.

01.54.09

D*NOTE – Waiting Hopefully (4 Hero Vocal Mix) – 12″ – VC Recordings/Dorado – 1997

Just a hint of the mass of vinyl that could be issued just to promote an official release.

‘Promoed initially with Deep Dish’s mixes as a triple pack then followed by a double pack of the aforementioned’s best mixes as well as ones from Lil Louis and Faze Action, plus a 4 Hero 10inch… ‘, **** James Hyman, Record Mirror (Music Week), 7.6.97

4 Hero in brutal beats mode on the remix, not dissimilar to their earlier days masquerading as ‘Tom & Jerry’.

Show 133 due Nov 3.

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This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.

Via The New York Times at the beginning of 2024, this Fluance RT85N turntable was voted the best under $600, so in this day and age that’s spinning economy-style. Modern… in a non flashy kind of way… apart from turntable’s finish, of course.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 131…

When Joni’s in the area it’s hard not to give the rosette to her but even with the most awkward song title of the show this time I’ve gone for the Gof4.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Senses (Cargo Demo) – Movement, Definitive Edition Boxset – Warner Music – 2019

One of the eight or so tracks, from January ’81 sessions in Rochdale’s Cargo Studios that made up their live set of the time, was included in a John Peel session the same month and would be the basis of this album’s initial release at the end of the same year. I always thought the way Senses builds to the outro definitely suited the song’s place more often than not towards the end of a gig’s set.

05.12

INERTIA – The Screen – 7″ – Inertial Records – 1980

The work of one Douglas Benford and in what the electronic heads of today might call the ‘minimalist’ bag – ‘stark’, even.

When I bought Douglas’ second release, the 7″ EP, Dancebeat Attitude (heard on John Peel’s show, with the DJ quite possibly giving out Duncan’s address to send off for it), here’s the note I got back. It refers to this first release, but I’m 50/50 on whether I then sent off for that one, too. I don’t have it now and unless I’d actually heard the track at the time, I might not have taken the plunge.

08.16

THE HUMAN LEAGUE – The Black Hit Of Space – Travelogue, LP – Virgin – 1980

‘Minimalist’… ‘dark wave’… and no doubt a few other tags might be pinned to this these days but none of them used by anyone of the time. It was just ‘electronic’ to us.

12.18

PYE CORNER AUDIO – Circuit Rot – 7″ – Polytechnic Youth – 2022

This might have been in with the occasional series of great double sided 7″ singles often spotlighted in earlier 41 Rooms shows… if it had been released.

14.42

NYAM NYAM – Fate/Hate * – 12″ – Factory Benelux – 1984

Produced by Peter Hook and driven faster than the anthemic sounding album version, I would have had a stab at including the latter’s vocal outro. Maybe they did give it a go. Whatever, this version’s made it on to a couple of modern day compilations, including New Order’s 2017 double album for Factory Benelux, Be Music.

19.18

PAUL HAIG – Heaven Sent – 7″ – Les Disques Du Crépuscule – 1983

How did this slip through the Winkles early ’80s 1hr specials of some of the earliest 41 Rooms shows? A nailed on fave with us, it rightly or wrongly conjures up a dancefloor vision of ‘more girls than boys’ and a wonderful mix of Haig’s backing singers (check out – not right now! – Heaven Sent on the TV prog Switch) and the Human League’s female members.

24.01

HEAVEN 17 – Pavement and Penthouse – 12″ – Virgin – 1981

Some social comment lyrics with these lads back then and from what I’ve seen on the net, seemingly well able to sound the part performing it forty plus years on.

27.46

QWALIA – Majolica – Abbreviations, LP – Albert’s Favourites – 2024

41 Rooms’ fave Adam Scrimshire’s label…

‘Qwalia is the experimental, improvisational home for a quartet of some of London’s most prolific and inspiring musicians. Led by drummer Yusuf Ahmed (Joy Crookes, Unknown to Known) and featuring Ben Reed on bass (Frank Ocean, David Byrne, Richard Russell’s Everything Is Recorded), Tal Janes on Guitar (Jordan Rakei, Cherise, Waaju) and Joseph Costi on keys and synths (Cat Stevens, Tom Herbert, Heidi Vogel), the band’s music is an instinctive aural expression of how things seemed in the moment of creation‘. (Edit) – Bandcamp

31.20

FLORIDA MAN – Twilight Filter – Florida Man EP – Download only – 2021

A 41 Rooms regular might recognise something in the tone of Florida Man’s vocalist (and guitarist), Quinnisa. Daughter of Big Blood’s mainstay couple Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella, she’s increasingly involved in the latter’s work.

33.53

BENCH – Anxious – Bliss, 2LP – Cylinder Recordings – 2000

Bench didn’t survive to gain the acknowledgement of a wider public but Kris Jenkins and Rachel Thomas seem to have continually cropped up as a producer and session singer, respectively ever since.

35.56

NAILAH HUNTER – Bleed – Lovegaze, LP – Fat Possum Records – 2024

Limited to 300 copies for the ‘sweetart’ vinyl 1st edition and 100 for the ultra clear 2nd edition.

‘Lovegaze is one of the most wholeheartedly beautiful records I’ve heard in quite some time‘. – Bandcamp

‘Uniquely intoxicating‘. – Uncut

‘She’s a harpist!’ – 41 Rooms

39.29

LE FUNK MOB – Ravers Suck Our Sound And Get Fuck – Tribulations Extra Sensorielles 2×12″ EP – Mo Wax 1994

‘MC Solaar’s producers and guests on Jimmy Jay’s ‘Le Cool Sessions’ album do their thang over four sides of tripped-out jazzy funk vinyl.  Awe-inspiring stuff it is too, with everything from deep phat hip hop on ‘La Doctoresse’ to the ambient jazz doodling of ‘Ravers… ‘ Highly innovative and highly intoxicating, this is an EP that begs to be heard. Funk, acid jazz, hip hop, triply fusion – whatever your bag, it’s all here‘. – Brad Beatnik, Record Mirror (Music Week), 19.3.94 

The term ‘Trip Hop’ can get a bit of a roasting these days but James Lavelle’s Mo Wax put out some mighty sounds and beats – especially in the above era.

42.13

ERIC and THE VIKINGS – Get Off The Streets Y’All – 7″ b-side – Soulhawk – 1970

To be honest, a single that’s most probably regaled/revered for the sweet soul A-side, Vibrations but I was only after this madcap romp on the flip. Sounding like a one-off studio jam that just happened to be caught with the tapes running, John Manship subsequently noted it as ‘very in-demand Detroit Northern Soul‘, to which one fan commented ‘Straight up all intro badassery‘… errr… quite. It certainly sounds like it might appeal crossing over to the mod and ’60s r&b end of things. A bunch of near mint expensive promos on sale from different UK sellers on Discogs hints at a box laying under someone’s bed for fifty years, but with three different labels? That’s a bit ‘weird’. My copy will be picked up and on here after my next UK visit.

47.37

LED ZEPPELIN – Trampled Underfoot – 7″ promo only – Swansong – 1975

FUNK ROCK FUNK! Back in my mid-late teens rock years these lads ruled – albeit with a few others very close behind – and not without the influence of best mate, Dave Lewis (‘Dobber’ to me and others), now with many LZ books to his name, regarded as a world expert on the subject. This promo only release was only available to UK retailers and dependent on the number of copies of the band’s album, Physical Graffiti they ordered in… so being a record retailer, Dobber went the full tilt… and I and a bunch of mates were the lucky recipients.

It’s maybe the ‘excesses’ of ’70s rock that 41 Rooms shies away from but Trampled Underfoot is storming and succinct and was most notably experienced by Dob, myself and some other mates from the first row of a 19,000 sold out London earls Court in 1975. And yep, those were the front seats at Earls Court. We actually had B Row tickets but for some reason no one was sat in Row A.

And a nod to Dob’s much renowned Zep Tight But Loose fan/magazine – my first six editions.

51.40

DOVES – Space Face (Glastonbury 2003) – Streaming only

With the vinyl version of this 1991 rave fave (as Sub Sub) already spun on 41 Rooms, here years on in a live band setting, it’s the same three lads line-up sounding back to their ‘dance’ era.

56.12

CHRIS JOSS AND HIS ORCHESTRA – Bombay By Bus – Present: Bombay By Bus, 12″ EP – Pulp Flavor – 1999

Maybe heard via Russ Allen on KISS FM? He seemed a likely contender. Gets a bit big beat’y and aciiiiiid’y mid way through but though I’ve never been to Bombay the track’s start does the job of seeming to capture what I reckon the city might sound like… if that makes any sense.

01.01.38

GATTO FRITTO – Invisible College * – 12″, single-sided – Dissident – 2007

The full version is 11 minutes long but 41 Rooms chopped and edited to a 4mins 30 highlights version. Still jaunty, though.

01.04.41

KIT SEBASTIAN – Metropolis – New Internationale, LP – ? – 2024

Upcoming on their third album due about now, Metropolis sounds like a backdrop to Audrey Hepburn careering around bendy roads on a Swiss Alps summer’s day, and such is the technology and software now around, duo Kit Martin and and Merve Erdem will have found it far easier these days creating the wibbly wobbly and fuzzy authentic ’60s feel to this track’s video than in previous times.

01.08.09

THE DAUGHTERS OF EVE – Hey Lover – 7″ – USA Records – 1966

Even though it includes my pet hate – a talking bit! – the initial (and best, methinks) release of the five or so singles from the all girl Chicago band, but unless I get really lucky I won’t be owning a copy of this anytime soon… or at all – with the last sighting of a sale being for $450 in Jan ‘2023. The fab vocals are sooooo ’60s, I wouldn’t have been surprised if Rachel Sweet had covered it on her late’70s debut album Fool Around.

01.11.43

HALEY HENYDERICKX – Seed Of A Seed – Download only – 2024

Seemingly her first release in six years, with the sound and the title and unsurprisingly, a promo shot hinting at foliage. ‘Green folk’ maybe. Even back at her debut album, 2015’s I Need To Start A Garden, she was sowing the…

01.15.24

JONI MITCHELL – See You Sometime – For The Roses, LP – Asylum – 1972

It’s Joni bloody Mitchell! Nuff said. Incidentally, there’s an old GOT-TA-SCATA demo (Strange Day) lurking in the vaults that sort of takes a similar lyrical journey.

01.19.31

LEE ABRAHAMS – song47 – Unreleased demo – ????

‘All I can say is that I have recorded hundreds of tunes simply as ideas to use for future projects maybe, but which I have never returned to. All demo ideas I guess. This was one such one, that got simply named as song47, because… it was. I came across it in a bunch of files on my pc and decided to add some visuals and post it up as it was on FB, warts and all. I’m glad you like it enough to spin it. thanks again‘. – Lee, August, 2024

01.25.07

SOUL FAMILY SENSATION – Other Stuff – New Wave, LP – One Little Indian – 1991

A bouncy and cheery instrumental from the perfect-pop-that-was-Perfect-Life crew.

01.28.30

‘THE JUMPSTART MAN’ – ‘Because’ * – ????????

Under the above info, Discogs has zero and Shazam doesn’t recognise it either, but then again I could have got the details down wrong in the first place. The track was initially taped (maybe three decades ago?) very likely from a KISS FM (London) show, with me then searching out the 12″ from London’s many dance shops being the usual next move. The vinyl though never surfaced. If I could dig out the cassette I could at least nail down the year. If you know… let me know. Anyway, instead of the usual tumbleweed in these occasional situations on 41 Rooms, here’s a pink fairy armadillo.

01.33.51

SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR – 13 Little Dolls – Wanderlust, LP – EBGB’s – 2014

On the ‘indie pop’ side of things she’s royalty of sorts and was also well suited to Spiller’s massive dance hit, Groovejet. Me? I’m more a fan of her vocal than I am of her songs but 13 Little Dolls is an urgent racket of a tune.

01.37.22

GNAG OF FOUR – Natural’s Not In It – The Peel Sessions Album, LP – Strange Fruit – 1990

I bet the number of bands who felt their John Peel sessions didn’t quite live up to their recorded work is a very small number indeed. Those engineers knew how to work under the pressure of just a few available hours. So, from Feb ’79 and the Gof4’s first session for Peel, this packs a punch.

01.44.02

DAME AREA – Si No Es Hoy Cuando Es – Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area, LP – Mannequin Records – 2024

The duo of Silvia Kostance and Viktor L. Crux, with Cabaret Voltaire’s Nag Nag Nag and No Escape somewhere in their thinking, I reckon.

‘Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (All the truth about Dame Area) will be released in two different editions on Mannequin Records and Humo Internacional on the 13th of September‘. – Bandcamp

01.49.27

HEROES OF ANOTHER LIFE FORCE – I Don’t Need You (Vocal Club Mix) * – 12″ – Slip ‘n’ Slide – 1993

It’s easy to hear how the vocal sample works so well.

‘This is the wobbling, wobbling, stomping progressive number that’s got them all excited, specially when they hear the “I don’t need you anymore” vocal sample. Take it from me, it works. I played it to the cat and the poor puss shot out of the window. Two more acidy instrumentals on the flipside‘. – Dom Phillips *** 1/2, Mixmag Update 4.8.93 

‘A strong truancy housey groove that builds and builds with throbbing baselines before bursting in with the sampled vocal. A kind of Britis-meets-Wild Pitch production that will have dancefloors leaping around in a frenzy‘. – Tim Jeffery, Record Mirror (Music Week), 21.8.93

01.53.25

NAKED ROOMMATE – Bus – Pass The Loofah, LP – Trouble In Mind Records – 2024

For vinyl heads, the album is arriving in 1) Limited “Disco Ball” white splatter on metallic silver and 2) black vinyl versions and both are housed in full-color jackets and include full-color inserts.

Bus… Pass The Loofah… Do The Duvet. There’s a playfulness with this crew. Good to see.

01.58.23

LALI PUNA – Harrison Reverse – Micronomic, 12″ EP – Morr Music – 2004

It really is as short as it sounds here but it’s a cool 41 Rooms’ show ender.

Oct 6 for show 132.

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This playlist is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooo close! 

One of a two turntables plus mixer combo that made up artist Fabien Clerc’s unique (as in totally one-off) ‘Back in the Good Old Days’ creation and if your great great grandmother had been into DJ’ing she might have taken a shine to it. Fully functional and made up entirely of decorated and glazed earthenware it was shown at an exhibition which investigated the idea of luxury. Hopefully it stayed there.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 130…

I want to speak another language… but I don’t know how to say. ‘Excuse me, how do you say sandwich?’ Or could it be ‘Parlez vous français?’ I just like to say my way…

Playful… if I got it right.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – All Day Long – Brotherhood, LP – Factory – 1986

One of New Order’s most unusual arrangements, as Barney’s languid verses are initially met with instrumental choruses and then all but forgotten in the sweeping build. There couldn’t have been a ‘front man’ less worried by this.

05.12

BIG BLOOD – Never Ending Nightmare – First Aid Kit, LP – Feeding Tube Records – 2023

The 50 run only Deluxe Edition (with 7″ lathe) was most probably sold before it was pressed, but vinyl heads also had a separate 1000 Limited Edition run, with Colleen and Caleb’s daughter, Quinnisa having grown from the adolescent fronting the Big Blood 41 Rooms show iD to… here fronting Big Blood! Girl, it’s most definitely in the genes…

08.16

HULA – Torn Silk – Voice, LP – Red Rhino – 1987

For some reason I never can fathom I seem to struggle to program Hula into 41 Rooms shows as much as I’d like. One of a number of Sheffield bands of the era I really took to and when I was still living in Bedford in the late ’80s I was for a brief period involved with, towards the end of their existence. Years later I’d bump into John Avery and partner/late period Hula member, Jo Cammach often enough for us to then realise we were living just a few hundred yards from each other… in Islington, London. Sadly, don’t expect any ‘mastered from the original tapes’ Hula compilations to surface anytime soon… at all! Ron Wright recounted to me a few years back that all the band’s tapes were lost in label, Red Rhino’s sinking under its distribution wing going under.

12.18

VEX RUFFIN – Front – Conveyor, LP – Stones Throw – 2017

He’s been sounding in a lighter frame of mind in more recent years but back here he had a tougher ‘industrial’ feel.

14.42

SIOUXSIE and THE BANSHEES – Israel * – 7″ – Polydor – 1980

Winkles, Bedford on a Wednesday night in 1981. Definitely a club fave that got spun a few times by me.

19.18

CAMPBELL * MALLINDER * BENGE – Dereliction Magical – Clinker, mini album – Les Disques Du Crépuscule – 2021

If this wasn’t influenced by elements of Will Powers’ Adventures In Success I’ll possibly eat the hat I don’t own.

24.01

AU PAIRS – Sex Without Stress (John Peel session) – Equal But Different – BBC Sessions 79-81, CD only – RPM – 1994

The CD should have been titled 79-82, as this track comes from 1982 and their last session for the great man.

27.46

LILIPUT – You Did It – 7″ – Rough Trade Germany – 1983

A style that still has a ‘kindred spirit’ audience and in the case of this single, a £60 price tag.

31.20

NANCY AMES – Cry Softly – 7″ b-side – Epic – 1966

A US b-side but if only off the back of its storming/belting chorus it was rightly flipped to the A when released in the UK, and its collectibility in anything approaching mint condition will be down to the northern soul scene (and specifically Blackpool Mecca, it would seem) taking it to its heart in the ’70s.

A UK 7″ acetate with someone somewhere, there were only two words to spell correctly.

33.53

THE FASCINATIONS – Girls Are Out To Get You – 7″ – Mayfield – 1967

Written for this Detroit girl group by Curtis Mayfield and released on his label, this was a sound that I seem to remember hearing a good bit a few years later after its release. Either it was on a jukebox in the Pilgrims pub in Bedford or got spun at various mainstream ‘discos’ in my late teens socialising, as I wasn’t a northern soul regular.

35.56

CAROL ANDERSON – Sad Girl – 7″ – Fee Detroit – 1979

Sounding more like a tune the ’70s northern soul scene might have ‘cratedug’ from a decade earlier but in fact it was new in ’79 and is still revered now.

39.29

THE SUPREMES – Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone – 7″ – Tamla Motown – 1966/1967

Talking bit alert! Still fronted by Diana Ross at this point, it’s a Motown classic in spite of the ‘narration for dramatic effect’ noodling.

42.13

MR DAY – Queen Of The Minstrels (Taggy Matcher Disco Mix) – V/a: Disco Reggae Volume Two, LP – Stix – 2014

My mate, Barry Wom put me on to this recently with the note that ‘(It) appears to have a little something that one Mr D Hickey might be partial to!‘ In my head initially was certain Misty in Roots sessions for John Peel’s radio show but now I’m thinking it’s somewhere else I can’t quite pin down. Mr Day was the vehicle for Frenchman, Eric Duperray, with his 2012 soulful but pedestrian rock cover of the Eternals tune from 1969 given a more ‘Jamaican backdrop’ via Taggy Matcher. Apologies for the dated thinking in the sleeve design.

47.37

THE TWINKLE BROTHERS – Free Africa – 7″ – Front Line – 1978

A gem.

51.40

SPACEK – Language – Curvatia, 2LP – Island – 2001

Wonky soul? Steve Spacek on a trip of his own making and I remember Gilles Peterson and Ross Allen being UK ‘tastemaker’ DJs that were early on to him, the latter so much so that as Island Blue label boss, he signed Spacek.

56.12

BENCH – Regardless * – A Trip And A Twist, LP – Placid Casual Recordings – 2002

Little remembered duo of Kris Jenkins and Rachel Thomas but they had some cool tunes that might have seen more daylight in the ‘triphop’ era a decade or so earlier.

01.01.38

BREAD – Make It With You – 7″ – Elektra – 1970

I’m not sure there’s ever been a US singles chart No 1 on 41 Rooms… til now but that’s where David Gates, previously a successful songwriter for others, found himself and his band with this single. I was just too young to be buying when this was released but Gates’ up-front-in-the-mix vocal definitely pricked my ears enough over the radio (maybe both Radio 1 and 2?) to have me grab the 7″ second hand just a few years later – for anywhere between 10 and 30p, I reckon.

01.04.41

GORDON LIGHTFOOT – Sundown – 7″ – Reprise – 1974

This would have been more of a Radio 2 sound back in the day, so my mum and her knitting (Aran jumpers her speciality) would have heard this more than me. Incidentally, the Canadian singer/songwriter’s first ever US gig was at the 200 capacity Cleveland coffeehouse, La Cave, supporting a teenage Jose Feliciano, around 1962 or 3.

01.08.09

THE MEKONS – Dear Sausage – I Mekons, LP – Quarterstick Records – 1993

Though I’m guessing licensed to the above as well as Rough Trade, Germany via promo cassettes Paul Smith produced with catalogue numbers from his own label, Blast First. Do fans refer to the album as ‘I Love… ‘ or ‘I Heart… ‘? Dunno.

01.11.43

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – Mr. Clarinet – 7″ – Missing Link – 1980

Nick Cave and Co with a single that got me beyond Release The Bats for the ‘Goths’ at our Winkles club nights in Bedford in the early ’80s.

01.15.24

KILLING JOKE – Kings and Queens – 7″ – EG – 1985

I don’t remember hearing this first time around but there’s always been just too much to hear.

01.19.31

BAUHAUS – She’s In Parties – 7″ – Beggars Banquet – 1983

Maybe a brave move to release as a single and though I was happy to occasionally clear a dancefloor with a ‘slowie’ this wasn’t one of them.

01.25.07

LOVE AND MONEY – Whisky Dream – Dogs In The Traffic, LP – Fontana – 1991

Maybe it’s the Celtic in me (albeit the Irish side in my case) that had me take to this song, whilst nothing else on the above album grabbed me. With its whiff of ‘traditional’ and strong storytelling it’s no surprise the song has been regularly highlighted on social media through lead man, James Grant’s onstage appearances in the intervening years since.

01.28.30

M&M – Talk To Me (Bonus Telephone) * – 12″ b-side – Atlantic – 1992

The main vocals massively dispensed with, this is head nodding doodling cheeriness… and no more. Not to be confused with M + M, the Black Stations/White Stations alter ego of Martha and The Muffins at one point.

01.33.51

LONELADY – (There Is) No Logic – Former Things, LP – Warp -2021

Funky electronics from Julie Lonelady’s album of reflection.

01.37.22

ELECTRIBE 101 – Talking With Myself (Original Mix) – 12″ – Club – 1988

Aarrgghh! ‘Talking bit alert, Pt 2!’ Diana Ross was at it earlier in the show and now Billie Ray Martin’s ‘sense of theatre’ goes for it as well. That apart, this tune and E101 as a whole was/were a class act, enough so to warrant (with Martin seemingly the driving force) the re-release in recent years of their one and only album – plus a separate remixes package. Thankfully, the gal is also still musically active with ongoing projects.

01.44.02

DEEP 6 – We’re Going Deep (W/Piano) – 12″ – D.S.R. – 1989

Predating his and Oscar Gaetan’s liquid funk Murk workouts by a few years this was Ralph Falcon in 1989 – then as ‘Deep 6’ but, for some reason, ‘Deep Six’ for a 1994 re-release.

01.49.27

ROBERT OWENS – Was I Here Before? (Fire Island Vocal) * – Was I Here Before (Remixes), 3×12″ – Musical Directions – 1996

One of the doyens of house music, to me he’s always been at his best when he’s riding beats with an undercurrent of ‘unease’… as in here with the Fire Island duo of Pete Heller and Terry Farley providing the mix needed. Owens’ slightly leftfield phrasing and tone just seem to add to the mood, not to mention (but I will) his lyrics mostly swerve the mundanity.

Some of what the Fire Island lads were listening to earlier in the ’90s.

Record Mirror article, 3.9.93

01.53.25

NU COLOURS – Tears (Frankie Knuckles Mix) – 12″ Wildcard – 1992

‘This gloriously wailing girl and soulful guy led UK vocal quintet’s smoothly harmonised throbbing 121.7bpm melodic lush garage/house remake of Frankie Knuckles’ 1989 classic (promoed for the past two months flipped simply by its 121.5-121.7bpm Instrumental should cross over easily as it’s actually got a strong song, superbly sung‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 23.5.92

‘… the Tottenham based superb soulful Fay Simpson and Lawrence Johnson led gospel quintet’s lushly harmonised bounding 121.6-121.8bpm joyous garage/house remake of Frankie Knuckles’ melodic classic proves to be flipped on its commercial pressing by a more subtly keyboarded 0-121.3bpm actual Frankie Knuckles Mix, plus the similarly sanctified jogging 0-102.2bpm ‘Want Your Love 2 B Mine’ (like the Emotions or Jones Girls singing The SOS Band’s ‘Just Be Good To Me’ – in other words, hot!‘ – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 30.5.92

Satoshie Tomie, Robert Owens and Frankie Knuckles’ original is a bona fide house classic and with London Community Gospel Choir beginnings in the Nu Colours’ ranks it was no surprise this version more than stood up. A worthy show ender.

Sept 1 for show 131.

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This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. 

From 1959, if you fancied a carpet look on your portable suitcase turntable casing and platter(!), the Philips AG9148 mono gramophone was for you, maybe.

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 129…

Maybe Marxman’s history lesson, Joy Division and Nick Cave all on the victory rostrum… but in which order?

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Round & Round – Technique, LP – Factory – 1989

Technically it’s the Technique (Booh Boooom!) band produced, album version on the show, though as their 17th single (or 18th, depending on your source), released in early 1989, we’ll go here with the track in its ‘purist’ form and a visual of the co-produced with Stephen Hague UK 7″. Last heard live (by me anyway, I think) at the 1993 Reading Festivalt, the band’s triumphant return after four years.

Extract from From Heaven to Heaven, New Order Live (The Early Years 1981-1984) At Close Quarters

Hints in the music press of the band’s potential demise in the lead up to Reading ‘93 certainly added some emotional weight to the proceedings and I guess it seemed as much about (once again?) catching, potentially the last New Order gig ever, as it was about catching, for most fans, their first one in nearly four years so, along with Alice (aged four) and ex-New Order roadie and now video director, Angus Cameron (aged more than four) I took in New Order’s very momentary return to a UK stage, as they, in effect, limped to Reading ‘93. Besides the ‘mum’s tummy’ appearance Alice had made at the Manchester G-MEX show, this was her actual gigging debut, and I wonder how many a parent has, with a kid on their shoulders at times like these, quietly thought, ‘even if you don’t really understand it, years later at least you can say that you were there.’ And there she very much was, as at some point Angus takes her right down to the front of the crowd. I could be a Reading Festival or two out here but I do also remember sitting, drinking and catching up with Gillian’s sister, Kim and her hubby, and that was always a cheery chat. As an aside, with every able-bodied New Order fan likely to have been in that field, wasn’t there a Paul Morley/South Bank Show, New Order documentary scheduled on the TV the same evening? ‘Roll the VCR’… but I didn’t.

05.10

HUMAN TETRIS – Insanity – Happy Way In The Maze Of Rebirth, CD/download only – self released – 2012

What it must be like to be a young Russian musician drawing inspiration heavily from a, largely free thinking, world beyond Putin’s grip I can only wonder at but even with the band’s stop start state of existence it’s managed releases (notably nearly all just digital) since 2009. Maybe surprisingly, they’ve built a large following in South America and somehow have toured there for the last three years.

08.55

JOHN FOXX – Underpass – 7″ – Metal Beat / Virgin – 1980

The first of a couple of tracks on this show that could or should really have made it to one of the early ’80s Winkles club night 1hr retrospectives heard on some of the early 41 Rooms’ shows… but somehow didn’t.

12.17

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Magic (Cabaret Voltaire Remix) – Remixed, CD only – EMI – 2001

Cock up alert! The above album is mentioned on the show but the remix was actually first issued as part of the extra 12″ EP included with their pictured here 1990 Groovy, Laidback And Nasty album. Though that era (their ‘house years’, as I like to call them) might have lost the band some early admirers I was a still a fan. The track? Originally written with Marshall Jefferson, I’d suggest the band’s own remix is arguably (surprisingly?) funkier than MJ’s.

18.25

WALLACE – Papertrip * – 12″ EP – Rhythm Section International – 2024

Following on from the above I’d also argue the point with anyone who’s heard house music for the last thirty five to forty years that it’s a genre steeped in ‘formula’ like very few others, so getting from the tried/tired and tested to the parts that prick the ears enough for 41 Rooms often means an edit. So, once again… I have. Still funky.

21.03

GOLDEN TEACHER – Golden Chalice – Bells From The Deep End, 12″ EP – Optimo Music – 2013

‘Recorded live in Glasgow at the Green Door Studio‘ with various limited edition pressings of the EP from this Scottish ‘all sorts of beats’ crew active in the mid 2010s.

24.24

CHAKA KHAN (feat MARY J. BLIGE) – Disrespectful – unknown mix – ???????

With an a cappella version on official releases around 2007 it would be stunning if a chancer or ten hadn’t also grabbed the vocal to turn out versions beyond a full remixes official release. If this is one of those, whoever you are, you… were… on it!

29.09

MARXMAN – Ship Ahoy (Acoustic Mix) – 12″ b-side – Talkin Loud – 1992

Conscious rap lyrics, a passing appearance from the sadly now departed Sinead O’Connor, a low/tin whistle… and a ref to Maya Angelou. As is often said, ‘What’s not to like?

34.52

ANNE CESSNA & ESSENDON AIRPORT – Agua Por Favor – 7″ – Chapter Music – 2022

200 copies pressed on black vinyl with wraparound printed cover… and most probably sold locally before the wider world knew it even existed. And ‘nope’ another I’m guessing I won’t be finding anytime soon. Also, the tone of the spoken vocal slightly reminded me of a Lee Maracle track from a very early 41 Rooms show.

38.37

LOS BITCHOS – Don’t Change – Streaming only (for now)… 2024

To be included though on their upcoming (in August, via City Slang) Talkie Talkie album. I still can’t help wondering if this instrumental foursome isn’t sitting around in rehearsals with one of them, at least, thinking ‘I wanna SING something!‘

41.47

ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN – The Pictures On My Wall (Original 7″ version) – Zoo Records – 1979

Like John Foxx’s Underpass above (is that some sort of oxymoron?), another nailed on gem that didn’t make one of the early ’80s Winkles club night 1hr retrospectives heard on some of the early 41 Rooms’ shows… but could have. I can nearly smell the club.

44.32

JOY DIVISION – Passover – Closer, LP – Factory – 1980

Solid gold. Though I never came across any such debate, it no doubt cropped up in someone’s conversation in the years after Ian Curtis’ death as to whether the album title was pronounced with an ‘S’ or a ‘Z’ sound. I most probably had had the album for fully thirty years before one day out of nowhere I suddenly queried the same myself. I had always been a ‘Closer’ lad. ‘Closer’ it was… though it could have worked well as the other version, sadly.

49.08

THE BEATLES – Tomorrow Never Knows (2022 Mix) – Revolver, LP – Parlophone – 1966

The Fab Four were growing…

51.50

WORKFORCE – Drowning Pool (John Peel session) – Unreleased – Jan 1986

Early at this stage but I’ve been told there are plans for an official Workforce retrospective release, combining both sessions the band did for John Peel, plus maybe ‘other stuff’, including our (Mick Lowe and myself), Rorschach Testing 12″ Back In The Good Books. Not sure when, though. Watch someone’s space. I think I remember standing in a middle island of two way Sheffield traffic looking on at this photo (shoot). Happy days.

Photo credit: Mick Lowe

56.49

DEAD CAN DANCE – Children Of The Sun – Anastasis, 2LP – (PIAS) Recordings – 2012

Re the show dialogue, it’s very true. I genuinely didn’t plan DCD’s inclusion here to coincide… but it does just that. Forty years ago to the day of this upload I promoted them at Bedford Boys Club. Seven DCD tracks in 129 41 Rooms shows, so maybe only a 5% chance they would right now turn up here.

A ‘Dead Can Dance’ search on all the 41 Rooms shows (under which track, I can’t remember) will throw up a fuller account of the day and I’ve also posted it on my Facebook page today. Also, here’s a link to some of the soundcheck.

01.04.19

NICK CAVE Nick & THE BAD SEEDS – Frogs – Limited Edition 7″ – PIAS – 2024

Ahead of its release later this month, the 1000 run, green vinyl 7″ is already pre sold out. No surprise. An epic sounding second single from Cave’s also upcoming (at the end of August) album, Wild God.

01.08.45

COCTEAU TWINS – Seekers Who Are Lovers – Otherness, 12″ EP – Fontana – 1996

The only track from the four on the EP included on the band’s Milk & Kisses album from the same year. Robin, Liz and Simon still in fab form.

Btw, look out for Simon’s memoir, In One Ear – ‘Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me‘, out in September. It will certainly be including a photo (or two?) of mine, from the band’s UK Spring ’84 tour.

The surviving ticket of mine nearest to the Milk & Kisses era.

01.13.14

LEE GAMBLE – Blurring – Models, LP – Hyperdub – 2023

Sounding like it wouldn’t have been out of place in the ‘trip hop’/slow beats era of three decades earlier.

01.17.27

EYELESS IN GAZA – Only Whispers – Rust Red September, LP – Cherry Red – 1983

When this album was released I’d had a video machine for about four years, so I’d gravitated to augmenting lots of home video stuff with (any) audio of choice and Only Whispers always brings to mind footage of my dad, unknowing, sitting below the house in the evening sunshine, having a quiet moment. A year or so earlier, the last Hickey family photos had been taken in the same spot, a couple of months before Mum died of cancer.

01.21.57

SUZANNE LATHAM – Clarity – ?????? – 2000-2010’ish

A few question marks above coz I’m not sure where I sourced this lost gem from. Given the timeline it could have been MySpace. A demo, some intended release or maybe from a session from one of the myriad of bespoke ‘live in the studio’ session-type set ups online? No idea. Suzanne only appears on Discogs as a guest vocalist on someone else’s album but she has a handful of live recordings on Youtube, including one with her (I’m confidently guessing) sister, Louise – and completely separately I’d also taken to a track of hers a few years earlier.

01.25.08

NIECY BLUES – Violently Rooted – Exit Simulation, LP – Kranky – 2023

‘Folk soul’… maybe… out of South Carolina, USA.

01.28.48

VALERIE ETIENNE – I Wanted – On The Down Low, 12″ EP – Clean Up – 1999

Presently back in action with Galliano after a few decades, aside of a suck it and see tester gig in Bristol in 2023, a tour starting in Brighton this very night (July 7) will be their first live dates in as long a gap.

01.33.53

LIZZY PARKS – Raise The Roof – 7″ – Tru Thoughts – 2008

Brighton again, with the label Tru Thoughts having released two of the three Parks albums in the mid noughties. With no 12″, in single form the full track was actually split over two sides of the 7″. Has a bit of a Jazzanova feel, I reckon.

01.39.01

PRINCE CHARLES and THE CITY BEAT BAND – In The Street(s) * – 12″ – Solid Platinum Records / Boston International Records – 1979

With a hugely rare and expensive 7″ version out there (yet another split over two sides), for some reason the track’s title extended to more than one street as the track and Prince Charles moved on to Casablanca Records a few years later.

01.44.06

ELEKTRONS – Get Up – 12″ – Wall Of Sound – 2007

Very coincidentally, sitting as track no 24 on this episode of 41 Rooms – as they did on the last episode!

01.46.40

THE PRODIGY – Poison – Music For The Jilted Generation, LP – XL Recordings – 1994

Align yourself with/via an album title… and then Side 1, Track 1, sonically slap your audience in the face.

01.51.51

JUST MUSTARD – Seven (Live In Dreams version) – Youtube stream only – 2021

From the slightly darker side; captured via that there Youtube, recorded live on home soil at Dundalk Town Hall.

01.56.17

NIHILISTS – Wallspace – 12″ – Classic Album Club Records – 2016

Under this guise, James Mudriczki with the first of only three singles in eight years since the demise of (hiatus from?) Puressence in 2013.

Aug 4 for show 130.

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This playlist is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive. 

A Columbia GP-3B Portable Record Player, out of Japan. Teal! Relatively available second hand at £150-£200 but not as old as they appear, coming from the ’90s… and very weedy sounding, judging by a play through on Youtube. Possibly aimed at cratedigging DJs, I saw a few with these in tow in the same time period and one digger – in a Notting Hill Music & Video Exchange store – happened to be Japanese. Clear and lime green versions, at least, were also available.

Someone elsewhere online is currently offering a red GP-3 model for… $250. Form an orderly queue?

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 128…

Joni maybe pipped by the one liner, Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent?

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Hurt (live, instrumental) – Movement, Definitive Edition boxset – Warner Music – 2019

From the band’s seven track performance at London’s Riverside Studios for BBC2’s live arts programme, Riverside on Jan 4, 1982 and a night I just couldn’t get time off work to be along to. The programme’s credits rolled with New Order only into second track, Chosen Time (Death Rattle) and I’d only know of the remaining five tracks when Jon Wozencroft sent me a tape a few months later, him having grabbed tickets for the show at Rough Trade the day before – and it would take another forty years before I got to know the remaining tracks beyond the show’s transmission end had been recorded and the footage had survived.

04.29

INNER CITY – Hallelujah (Leftfield On High Vocal) – 12″ – 10 Records – 1992

From a period of some dark years for me but where dance and beats and in particular, London’s KISS FM radio and house music managed to raise the spirits – here with no one’s god invoked.

11.56

HOPE + HARROW – Crowbar – Crowbar EP, Lathe Cut 8″ – Do It Thissen Records – 2021

50 copies only, with lyric sheet. Long sold out via Bandcamp – ‘Four tracks of experimental electronica from ex-Sheffield & Croydon fellers (Pete Hope and David Harrow) now located in New Zealand and Los Angele respectively!‘

15.11

GRACE JONES – Cry Now, Laugh Later (Album version) – 12″ b-side – Island – 1983

Her three disco albums never quite made a mark so all power to Chris Blackwell and Island for persevering long enough to find success via Sly and Robbie’s intervention and Compass Point Studios in 1980, with Warm Leatherette. Cry Now, Laugh Later’s snappy beats would come from Living The Life, two albums further on in 1982 album when she was really on a roll.

20.11

GIULIO CERCATO – Good Intentions – Download only – 2024

‘I make music for your stories‘, says Giulio.

22.08

KUTIMAN – Vanishing Point (41 Rooms Extra Intro Edit) * – Open, LP – Siyal Music – 2022

Black, clear and ‘Blue Curacao‘ coloured vinyl versions pressed.

25.30

PM DAWN – Paper Doll (Club Mix) – 12″ – Gee Street – 1991

Roughly around its release, this reminds me of sitting in the sunshine in London, Ladbroke Grove’s small park area by Portobello Rd market.

30.58

WEEKEND PLAYERS – Subway – Pursuit Of Happiness, CD only – Multiply Records – 2002

Or a cassette… via Indonesia. ‘Weekend Players was an electronic music duo from England. The musicians were vocalist Rachel Foster, who has provided vocals and songwriting on Bent’s Ariels album, and producer Andy Cato, one half of Groove Armada.The duo hit number one on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2003 with “I’ll Be There”. Tracks from their debut album, Pursuit of Happiness, have been featured in numerous episodes of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami.Their biggest UK hits were “21st Century” and “Into the Sun”.‘ – ArtistInfo

34.57

SCRIMSHIRE (feat STAC) – Pep Talks – Download only – 2024

‘Pep Talks is an epic, electronic ballad that has been in the making for over 12 years. Scrimshire writing with frequent collaborator Dave Koor originally created the sounds and basis of this song back around the time of his 3rd album Bight in 2012. But the song coincided with a temporary break from the Scrimshire project and the original demo stayed quietly on a hard drive for years.

‘In 2017 as he began the production of 4th album listeners, Adam decided to resurrect the song and invited another long-time collaborator, Stac to write the vocals for the piece. But as Listeners evolved, the song struggled to find its place on the album. Time and again, it resurfaced, for Believers Vol. 1, then as a completely reproduced piece for an unreleased album in 2024.

‘But now it sees light of day as a part of a forthcoming Forgotten Songs EP, Scrimshire’s occasional compilation series of songs that slipped through the gaps.

‘Cosmic, spacious, with stuttering beats reminding us of his earlier more electronic influenced productions, Pep Talks is a jewel of a track that we’re so glad is finally out in the world‘. – Bandcamp

A forgotten jewel, indeed. Artist, producer, DJ, record label boss Adam Scrimshire and Stac shining.

39.12

MELIKE ŞAHIN & KUTIMAN – Ellerin Hani? – Download only – 2023

And Kutiman’s back! This time with Turkish singer, Melike Şahin, it’s sounding soothing, though I don’t know if the lyrics are relaying as much.

42.15

JONI MITCHELL – Shadows and Light – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, LP – Asylum – 1975

Checking out the goddess’ albums in the ’70s was a regular move for me.

46.30

BENCH – Bliss – Bliss 2×7″ EP – Cylinder Recordings – 2000

Sounding like it would have faired better a few years earlier when the ‘trip hop’ slow beats thing was… a thing.

51.26

RAHUL DEV BURMAN – The Burning Train – The Burning Train, LP – His Master’s Voice – 1979

Out of India’s forever rampant film machine and a title track, sounding a bit Blaxploitation… a bit Streets of San Francisco… and a little Spaghetti Western… with a drunk bloke gatecrashing at the end. Although 1979, the album’s labels look like they came from some 1950’s classical release. And to see the whole film, go here! In between the Batman-like fight sound effects, unless you speak Hindi, the occasional phrase spoken in English (for no good reason) is pretty much pointless, so you might as well watch it all at double speed. That gets it down to just over the hour. A bomb… and a burning train…

54.52

JAMES BROWN – Living In America (R’n’B Extended Mix) – 12″ – Scotti Bros. Records – 1986

Phat slappin’ beats and the king of funk still on it in the mid ’80s.

01.01.04

ATHLETES OF GOD x MSW (feat LADY BLACKBIRD) – Fontella – 7″ – Foundation Music – 2023

With the b-side of this Record Store Day having made show 127, the a-side turns up quicker than maybe I planned. An orange vinyl ‘Limited Edition’ hand clapper!

01.05.11

GWEN GUTHRIE – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent – 7″ – Polydor – 1986

Written and produced by the lady herself, with the sort of title that just begs a listen.

01.08.25

NAKED ROOMMATE – Repeat – Do The Duvet, LP – Trouble In Mind – 2020

Their one and only album to date has more than held its own on 41 Rooms.

01.11.50

LOU REED – Vicious – 7″ – RCA – 1972

Being 14 or 15 at the time I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have known of Lou Reed until this and its predecessor UK 7″, Walk On The Wild Side turned up on poptastic Radio 1. Roughly the year I’d have started buying the NME, etc to start ‘educating’ myself.

01.14.40

MINK DEVILLE – Spanish Stroll – 7″ – Capitol – 1977

Maybe we were still in the era of fascination with 12″ singles coz I actually bought the ‘Limited Edition’ 12″ of this. A waste of time though, as it was the 3mins plus single version stretched across all the grooves. Thinking about it now, I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly heard another Deville track since.

01.18.00

FELT – A Wave Crashed On Rocks – Forever Breathes The Lonely Word, LP – Creation – 1986

I did my best to bury Lawrence and Co’s deceptive and disconcerting intro to ‘A Wave… ‘ in the show’s mix.

01.20.32

CLANNAD – In A Lifetime – 7″ – RCA – 1986

With Bono guesting on vocals, whatever the visual/cinematic theme – and the Irish do love to wander around countryside looking very thoughtful – there was definitely a better video to be made than what surfaced for this. Blurred vision? And then some. Even with some Irish mist (mizzle/drizzle) maybe on show, it makes me think I need an eye test.

01.23.14

EMANATIVE – When On Earth (Marc Rapson Remix) – Spacebeats EP, 12″ – Futuristica Music – 2008

Sometimes it’s the little things. The treatment on vocalist, Liz Elensky’s chorus entry (and it works even better on the faster, original version that saw out an earlier 41 Rooms show), a tune that Sergio Mendes would have been proud of.

01.27.26

SMITH & MIGHTY (feat ALICE PERERA) – I Don’t Know (Mix 2) – DJ-Kicks EP, 12″ – !K7 Records – 1998

Bristolian slow beats merchants (no, not those ones) taking a huuuuuuge leaf out of Cool Breeze’s Can’t Deal With This from three years earlier I reckon, and if the latter hadn’t already made it to 41 Rooms they’d have been side by side here.

01.30.48

SOUL II SOUL – I Care (Soul II Soul) (Album version) – Volume V Believe, LP – Virgin – 1995

For whatever reason, Jazzy B’s crew swerved a Vol IV but six years on from the highs of Back To Life they still had the vibe with I Care. Interestingly, though Caron Wheeler fronts some of the songs on Vol 5 this is however fronted by Charlotte.

01.35.24

ELEKTRONS – Hurry On Down – Red Light, Don’t Stop, 2LP – Wall Of Sound – 2007

Along with some anarchy in the album title, there was a sort of playfulness in its tunes.

01.39.28

ATTICA BLUES – What Do You Want? (Album version) – Test. Don’t Test, 2LP – Columbia – 2000

The fact that a major label like Columbia took a punt on signing the band from their time on Mo Wax tells you something but in the way that these things sometimes play out, the respect that Charlie Williams, Tony Nwachukwu and Roba El-Essawy had earned from their time on James Lavelles’ label didn’t quite translate to the level of sales they deserved.

01.43.31

FELIX DA HOUSECAT – Nu-World (Housecat Destruction Mix) – Nu-World 12″ – Guerilla – 1993

Likely heard via Sarah HB’s house show on London’s KISS FM (or maybe Steve Jackson’s). ‘Progressive house’ was in the house a lot back then and the Guerilla label provided a few gems.

01.52.46

BJÖRK – Human Behaviour (Bassheads Edit) – 12″ – One Little Indian – 1993

The Icelandic One in amongst some thumping beats.

July 7, 2024 for show 129.

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This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. 

B&O Beocenter 7700…

If I remember rightly, back in the ’70s when me and my mates were getting beyond the Dansettes of our parents’ time, Bang and Olufsen was a bit too expensive. That didn’t matter much with me. I just didn’t like the sleek, minimalist look. My mate, Tom (see playlist end) would have said ‘Not enough knobs and lights… ‘

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 127…

‘And the prize goes to… ‘ The mind of David Byrne.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Ecstasy – Power, Corruption & Lies, LP – Factory – 1983

For me, one of a few NO instrumentals that could have neatly kicked off a gig but never got played anywhere in a set… or indeed anytime.

04.55

THE WAKE – Uniform – Harmony, 2LP re-issue – Factory Benelux – 2013

Though first included in 2001 on the Harmony & Singles CD only compilation James Nice put out on his LTM label before his above vinyl compilation. Taken from a John Peel session, broadcast in July ’83, with Bobby Gillespie still in the band (just) and a couple months before the first of two gigs the band did in Bedford at Winkles before that year end.

Rare promo shot of The Wake including Bobby Gillespie.

10.23

LITTLE NEMO – L’Heure D’Hiver – Turquoise Fields, LP – Lively Art – 1990

French new wave…

14.34

THE CURE – Boys Don’t Cry – 7″ – Fiction – 1979

The exuberance of youth… not to mention the prolificness, whereby it swerved being included on the band’s debut album.

17.05

THE SLITS – Instant Hit – Cut, LP – Island – 1979

Girls doing it for themselves.

19.43

AU PAIRS – Tongue In Cheek – Sense and Sensuality, LP – Kamera – 1982

41 Rooms faves, Lesley Woods and crew shuffling and slinky.

22.42

ESG – You Might Be The One (Album Mix) – What More Can You Take? CD only – ESG Records – 2017

They were no less interesting the second or third time around.

25.34

ATHLETES OF GOD (feat LADY BLACKBIRD) – Don’t Wanna Be Normal – 7″ AA side – Foundation Music – 2023

Out of Sheffield and the production work of Richard ‘Parrot’ Barratt, a Record Store Day, Limited Edition, Orange. Vocalist, Lady Backbird reminds me of Rae & Christian front girl, Veba. High praise in these parts.

28.50

SAULT – Fearless – Untitled (Rise), 2LP – Forever Living Originals – 2020

A collective that seems to work in mysterious ways – eleven albums and mini albums in the space of four years being just one of them – and with the ‘lifts’ in Fearless feeling so euphoric this could easily have been a show ender.

32.29

BENCH – Manic Suspension – 12″ – Oxygen Music Works – 1997

Yep, a definite comparison to London Elektricity’s brand of soulful drum and bass.

37.04

RONI SIZE REPRAZENT – Watching Windows (Ed Rush & Optical Version 2) – 12″ – Talkin’ Loud – 1998

The remixers take the original into serious drive mode, getting to 41 Rooms first in the process.

43.32

SANDOZ – Digital Lifeforms – Digital Lifeforms, EP – 12″ – Intone – 1993

For a a few years after their releases Richard Kirk’s quality EPs under this name could be picked up for near original prices and being a fan and friend of the late great man I did just that… but somehow missed this one. Price-wise, it’s now the most sought after and the one copy on Discogs will cost you €150.

50.58

DEFINITION OF SOUND – Moira Jane’s Cafe (E-Smoove’s Groovy Mix) – 12″ – Circa – 1992

Reminds me of daytime KISS FM in London, when released. Sunshine seems to spring to mind.

56.51

ADDIS BLACK WIDOW – Innocent (Album Version) – 12″ promo only – Breakin’ Bread – 1995

Laidback, in a De La Soul and PM Dawn sort of way? Whatever, I didn’t hear this at the time.

01.00.53

LENA (FIAGBE) – You Come From Earth – 7″ – Mother Records – 1993

Just the year before, Tasmin Archer and her Sleeping Satellite had come out of nowhere to top the UK Top 40 but even with Radio 1 playlisting this beauty of a song… sadly stalled at #69. Nowt as queer as folk.

01.04.08

CLYDIE KING – The Thrill Is Gone – 7″ – Imperial – 1965

She released music in her own right for two decades but was maybe equally well know in the industry as a backing singer of very high regard.

01.07.26

IRMA THOMAS – Some Things You Never Get Used To – 7″ – Imperial – 1965

I can’t remember but maybe hearing this tune is why I bought her 1983 Kent label compilation, Time Is On My Side on release and though back here at 41 Rooms I had no idea Some Things… was both the same year and label as Clydie K above, it just sounded right to follow.

01.10.09

DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES and THE TEMPTATIONS – I’ll Try Something New – 7″ – Motown – 1969

The Miracles’ 1962 original (and importantly Smokey Robinson’s very own work), so you can’t argue with ‘the boss’ in these sort of situations – but I just might. Here the song is taken on by a couple of label mates and after The Miracles’ and Kiki Dee’s takes it becomes the third version to rock up on 41 Rooms. To my ears, Kiki’s version, although the last released (in 1974), sounds the most natural and easier flowing version, whereas both Smokey’s and the Supremes and Temptations’ versions took the melody slightly more around the houses than was really needed. That would have been understandable if they were following after Kiki’s version… but they weren’t.

01.12.19

BEN WESTBEECH – Inflections – There’s More To Life Than This, 2LP – Strictly Rhythm – 2011

Caught this on one of Gilles Peterson’s BBC6Music shows. Soulful vocalist working in the beats arena.

01.17.49

IZO FITZROY – Give Me The High (Live, studio) – Youtube – 2023

I’m in the country but sadly not in Bedford when she and her old skool soulful songwriting touches down at Esquires on May 10, playing off the back of her 2023 album, A Good Woman. A slot on a recent Later With Jools… show performing the above tune did it for me.

01.21.31

TALKING HEADS – Psycho Killer – 7″ – Sire – 1977

We’re all just guests in David Byrne’s head.

Anyone for the time we nearly got early Talking Heads to Bedford, UK?

On a scout around online a few years back, and with what info seemed available at the time, I thought the idea of Talking Heads even having been potentially booked to play in Bedford back in 1977 (and at the cabaret venue, the Nite Spot!?) seemed pretty unlikely but having done a search in more recent times it appears it really did nearly happen.

For those that never graced the place, the Nite Spot was an easy ‘in’ for a change of scenery late drink – especially as freebie tickets weren’t hard to come by for quiet/mid week nights – and myself, mates Dave ‘Dobber’ Lewis, Phil Harris and three others just happened to be there on Oct 20. The layout of the place was ideal for seeing a band. An ex cinema (it sloped downwards, in a slight amphitheatre kind of way, to a clear as day stage) but now ‘Cabaret’ themed, it supposedly had the longest bar in Britain. My diary for the night says ‘disco rubbish’ (damning of the night, not the genre in general :)) and I was home and in bed by 11.30 but I can’t now remember what exactly I made back then of the listing on the flyer/ programme I grabbed (see below) for Talking Heads to have been there on the same night.

The band’s first ever UK gigs had been a handful supporting The Ramones in April ’77 but dates in their own right were then intended for the Autumn – with the Greyhound in Croydon on Oct 9 certainly provisionally booked. Everything for the UK would however then be shifted to early in ’78 but judging by set lists of gigs they subsequently did play in October (in the US) we’d have definitely got large chunks of the just released Talking Heads: 77 album (including Psycho Killer) plus Take Me To The River (no need, the Nite Spot was right on one – the Ouse!) and others.

01.25.45

FORMAL SPPEEDWEAR – Bunto – Download only, for now – 2024

Sounding uncannily like David Byrne’s mob to me.

01.29.28

EYELESS IN GAZA – Clear Cut Apparently – Photographs As Memories, LP – Cherry Red – 1980

Jagged punk folk from 41 Rooms faves.

01.30.53

GNAG OF FOUR – At Home He’s A Tourist – 7″ – EMI – 1979

And not many off their Entertainment debut album that haven’t now made it to 41 Rooms.

01.34.23

LES PANTIES – Porkshop – 7″ – Fantomes Records – 2011

300 hand numbered, white vinyl and thirty years on post punk. Still a dreadful band name.

01.37.02

ULTRAVOX – Dislocation – 7″ b-side – Island – 1978

The John Foxx era is the only true Ultravox… even if the later hits might suggest otherwise.

01.39.37

MOTHERLOVERS – Ring My Bell – Unreleased – 2020’ish

Although an album or two’s worth of Motherlovers’ takes on a good few others’ past glories were on Youtube they’ve now disappeared. I must ask…

01.43.00

DJ SHADOW – What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt 1) – 12″ – Mo Wax – 1995

Classic period Mo Wax?

01.48.20

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Haiti – The Crackdown, LP – Virgin / Some Bizzare – 1983

Not on the setlist for their gig/my promotion at Bedford Boys Club in ’83 but The Cabs in the slow and instrumental lane is fine with me.

01.50.40

4 HERO – Planetaria (Hefner Remix) – 12″ b-side – Talkin’ Loud – 1999

The leftfield beats Hefner, not the indie one adding a dreamy touch. Trip hop’py.

01.57.03

BLACK SABBATH – Laguna Sunrise – 7″ b-side – Vertigo – 1972

Due to its A side (Tomorrow’s Dream), this was certainly on my 7″ shelves when I was in my late teens, though not a band to be heard too often on 41 Rooms aside here and now when I’d realised this show was due to upload on May 5. It would have been the birthday of my very good but now departed mate, Tom Locke. Indeed, along with the band’s Evil Woman 7″, which I definitely did sell him back in the ’70s, this 7 might have gone in the same direction. We were very good friends for nearly fifty years, so this one’s for him.

Tom. RIP.

Hopefully June 2, 2024 for show 128.

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