So, having spent the week caretaking Jakki Brambles’s lunchtime Radio 1 show, Peel cracked on with the day job - or rather night job - on Friday and Saturday. He wasn’t just dominating Radio 1’s schedules that week, he had extracurricular activities keeping him busy too. Thursday, 8 April had seen him acting as DJ at an event alongside sets from Huggy Bear, their offshoot, Blood Sausage as well as Cornershop and Mambo Taxi. Peel had enjoyed the evening immensely, not least because the booth he had been working from didn’t have a microphone, so all he had to do was play records.
One record he might not have had the opportunity to play at the event was The Fall’s new album, The Infotainment Scan, which he had mislaid somewhere in Broadcasting House. However, he may have played King Candy Cane from the album, Mustache Ride by Foreskin 500. It led him to ponder, How many people would be upset to hear the word “foreskin” coming out of the radio? I suspect most of you have one. I still have mine, in a rather stylish locket.
Selections from this show came from a 3 hour file. There was one track on my list, which I wasn’t able to share:
The Blue Up? - Discovery - one of the longer tracks on their album, Cake and Eat It. A female rock trio from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, who had been recording since 1984. Discovery is a rocker in the vein of two favourites of mine from earlier this year, Sweet Revenge by Colour Noise and She Ran Away From the World by Big Red Ball.
One track fell from favour with me. There was to be no last minute Peyote-style reprieve for…
Hail/Snail - Thirsting for More - The link will take you to a video which has all of the tracks from their eponymous EP released through Funky Mushroom. Thirsting for More is the first track and I can only guess that when I first heard it, I was slightly beguiled by some of the dreamy guitar work on it. But subsequent listens serve only to obscure the occasional bursts of tunefulness with out of tune strumming, sub-beginner level violin scraping and vocals/lyrics which would empty the most sympathetic Open Mic night.
The entire enterprise was a collaboration between Susanne Lewis of Hail and Azailia Snail. The vibe appears to be fractured adolescent cosmic folk, with each track walking the line between tunefulness and atonality. Some of them are genuinely compelling, but Peel made a duff choice here. The liner notes show that contributions on trumpet were made by Gary “Glitter” Olson. I’m assuming he dropped that nickname by the end of the decade.
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