Description
CD/Album: Decayed
Celebrating 10 years at the Top LP Brand new CD album from Medway’s finest psych-beat combo!
Date: 2020
Release Format: CD, available from Mid-Dec 2020.
Available for Pre-Order, STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION
We originally had no plans to do a repress of this album, but in response to a few requests and the speed with which the vinyl has sold, we’ve changed our minds. However, another vinyl pressing would take months. Instead, we have revived an outdated and forgotten media called ‘CD’, which we hope will suffice… It will include all ten tracks featured on the vinyl, plus the bonus track ‘Glow Girl’ as standard.”
In 2019 we realised that 2020 would be our tenth year as a band and our thoughts turned to ways we could mark this forthcoming auspicious occasion. What about studio recordings of eleven cover versions we’ve put in our live set over those nearly ten glorious (sic) years..? Good idea! A limited vinyl pressing and now a CD version too, only available at gigs and from our website, an unofficial release for our regulars – what can possibly go wrong..? In September 2019 we convened at North Down Sound and laid down seven tracks in one day, thinking that we’d return and do the other three at some point. After all, we’ve got plenty of time. It doesn’t need to be ready for a few months. There’ll be plenty of gigs to sell at. However, best laid plans and all that… At the end of 2019 we faced some unexpected and serious ill-health in the family. Then 2020 happened…
As lockdown set in it became apparent that we wouldn’t be doing any recording or selling albums at gigs any time soon. But it also became apparent that it was important we made the effort to release something this year, to show that music is something that makes life better, and to make a stand for some sort of normality. However, we only had the seven songs, and couldn’t get together to record any more. A dig into the archives turned up an unreleased cover version, and another two of a similar vintage that had only seen the light of day on fairly obscure releases, now hard to get hold of. All of these had been recorded by the MKII version of the band in 2013. These cuts were exhumed during the summer and remixed and remastered. They fitted in perfectly with the newer recordings and completed the set of ten required.
So here it is: “Decayed” – a celebration of ten years of making music for the sake of it – a not-for-profit cottage industry. We’ll try to sell a few off the website and we might cover our production costs. Or we may not. But when (not if) we all get back to gigging and we still have a few copies left to sell that may not be a bad thing…
TRACKLISTING
CD (FPCD003)
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
Him or Me (What’s It Gonna Be)
Paper Dolls*
Tattoo
Reynard The Fox*
Astronomy Domine
Tinker Tailor
Circle Sky
Send Me A Postcard
Kingdom Of Love*
Glow Girl
Label: Fool’s Paradise Records FPCD003
Lineup 3:
Allan Crockford (vocals, guitar), Viv Bonsels (organ, vocals), Paul Moss (bass, vocals), Mole (drums)
*Lineup 2:
Allan Crockford (vocals, guitar), Viv Bonsels (organ, vocals), Mole (bass, vocals), Russ Baxter (drums)
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