Saturday 27 July 2024

Equus: 70 Gwen Party - Auto Killer UK (26 March 1993)



CAUTION - The uploader of this video not only shares his name with one of Ipswich Town’s greatest ever players (wouldn’t it be terrific if it was the man himself), but they have also bought into the doomy, ominous nature of Auto Killer UK itself by using it to soundtrack scenes from Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 film, Battle Royale, which features a lot of explicit if muddily visible violence. So, you may prefer to start the video and then open a fresh tab to have it playing along in the background.

Peel played Auto Killer UK on this show because it had come in at Number 28 on The Phantom Fifty. It is presented here for reasons of completeness, not least because I had more to say about the track when 70 Gwen Party performed it as part of a Peel Session, broadcast on 20 June 1992.

Video courtesy of johnwark.

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