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Ian

For those of you who aren't members of the UK Spacemen 3 Facebook group, here's something I posted there yesterday. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I thought people stopped dancing like that when they went through puberty.&q...

Ian

I saw the first of the BJM Brighton gigs, having won tickets from Anton for an Oxfam donation (whatever else people make of his current antics, this is such a brilliant thing for him to do). I do have a knack of ignoring bands I'm sure to like for far too long, so although I knew I'd be interested, ...

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https://twitter.com/officialSpzd/status ... 0349306880

Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, France... can only be good news for the health of all concerned.

Ian

Also, read Stuarts book 'Spaceships Over Glasgow', it's a fun read, well written and made me pull out my Mogwai records again. Yes, it was very good, highly recommended to all. I'm sticking with the albums and the above suggestions of Ten Rapid, EP+6 and MFMK for now, quite enough to be getting on ...

Ian

Thanks both, very helpful!

Ian

I bought Young Team when it came out, but it didn't really click with me so I left it there. My wife Mary bought their most recent album when it came out, and I thought it sounded pretty good, but again I didn't investigate any further. When I saw that they were playing at The Garage in London in Fe...

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17 Dec - might be going to see Quatermass III (current band of Gordon King from World Of Twist/Earl Brutus) at the Hope and Ruin in Brighton, although it's only a few months since we last saw them so it's a bit up in the air, especially considering that the next night... 18 Dec - The Bootleg Beatles...

Ian

Imagine what it's like being a middle-aged Teenage Fanclub enthusiast. Those aren't T-shirts I feel happy wearing outside of gig environments any more. The Facebook fan page for them even feels the need to ask vetting questions of new people signing up to make sure that they know it's about the band...

Ian

I had completely forgotten about this thread and have no memory of the things that I talk about above! But very glad to have finally come across a copy of this, near-unwatchable as it is.

(I've also just uploaded slightly better quality versions of the videos for Revolution and Walkin' With Jesus.)

Ian

I see Switched On Vol.5 - Pulse Of The Early Brain is up for preorder as a 3lp or 2cd. All the usual places. Lots of early stuff on this one, I expect that people here will enjoy this more than some of the other recent compilations. If you've never heard the Lo-Fi EP, it's worth getting this for th...

Ian

In the episode I was listening to last night, you all were talking about being floored by New Order live. Are there any classic New Order shows on youtube that anyone is aware of? I love New Order, but never even really thought about them as a live act. I don't feel qualified to answer this. As I t...

Ian

Thanks for sharing these. very dubious about the theory that the opening dialogue snippet comes from Kate's 'rejection voicemail'. That makes so sense whatsoever. Never heard anyone say that. I'm sure I read Kate went out and phoned the line in from a pay phone and did multiple takes. There are sev...

Ian

Just discovered this last night, listened to the first episode. Great work, loved it. Delighted these are still giving people pleasure. Not sure when there will be another, no shortage of ideas or people who've kindly said they'd be involved, just general real-world stuff intruding a bit too much t...

Ian

Has anyone seen the full notes/credits for the album yet? I'm very curious about anything regarding "Best Thing You Never Had." Excited for the show at the Belly-Up on Thursday! Nothing specific to that track, but I see you get a mention in the thanks. Do you have a new story to tell us?!...

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Has anyone seen the full notes/credits for the album yet? I'm very curious about anything regarding "Best Thing You Never Had." Excited for the show at the Belly-Up on Thursday! Nothing specific to that track, but I see you get a mention in the thanks. Do you have a new story to tell us?!

Ian

I'd assume it's just a repress of the current Fire version, which has been 180 g for ages. Sound quality much the same as the Fire version has been since 89 (i.e. not great compared to the original).

Fire aren't universally popular among former Spacemen, but it's not on Space Age.

Ian

I very much hope that Jason was misquoted when he says "chem trails", or that it was at least a slip of the tounge. I'm sure he just meant plane exhaust fumes. What is the actual word anyway? I'm sure there is one but i can't think of it. Quite like the idea of him being into chemtrails t...

Ian

I very much hope that Jason was misquoted when he says "chem trails", or that it was at least a slip of the tounge.

Ian

It's on SoundCloud.

https://soundcloud.com/stef-j-c/spaceme ... ugust-1989

Ian

A friend has just heard from the Brussels venue. "I’m so sorry but the concert is postponed to a later date."

Ian

Yeah, there appear to be more than I was aware of, and probably more than any of us know about!

Ian

Dreamweapon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:58 am
Ian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:09 pm may not be as dedicated.
Like the pun (unintended?) for the original label there Ian...!

It was just chosen as the right word for the point I was making, but it did occur to me while I was posting!

Ian

Bit strange having words here though? If there's one place on the internet where the vast majority, if not all posters, are going to buy the album it's this forum. Probably multiple copies too ( i myself have the boxset/black vinyl/cd ordered). If someone wasn't going to buy the album now it's unli...

Ian

Pretty sure they sit there until the recipients read them.

Ian

A little while ago, a fantastic version of Walkin' With Jesus from a previously unknown recording was posted on YouTube. The entire recording has now been uploaded in two parts, matching the sides of the cassette that the recording was on. The gig is the 19 January 1988 one from The Loft, Berlin, Ge...

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I don't think the Shindig interview uses old quotes. More likely that it's more down to Jason not enjoying interviews so much and having some standard answers, so people like us who read all of them start to spot them. For a newcomer or casual fan, it's a good career overview. There's less for us, a...

Ian

http://spacemen3.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Misc/PodIG8.jpg We take a look back at Spacemen 3's performance at Watermans Arts Centre from 19 August 1988, the gig everyone now calls Dreamweapon. With contributions from Spaceman for the night Steve Evans, bassist Will Carruthers, taper Andy Jackson, Vi...

Ian

There's also Subterranea '89. I always forget about the Hannover gig. Probably 'cos it's a black screen for most of it and appeared years after the other three. Great sound and performance though. Wasn't there a clip of the Mean Fiddler '87 gig released a year or two ago? Didn't get to see it mysel...

Ian

One thing that has come out of this is that the accepted wisdom of the timing of the changeover from Natty to Rosco is wrong. Morse says that Rosco's first gig was at the Barrel Organ in Birmingham, which was on 19 August 86 - that's over two weeks after this gig. So assuming things were as straight...

Ian

Yeah, this is the earliest live video we've got at the moment. Nothing after this until the 13 January 88 gig in Hannover, and then the two from the 89 European tour. I wouldn't hold your breath for the 87 Revolution Or Heroin gig, it's sort-of lost. Perhaps one day if we're lucky. If we're counting...

Ian

Spacemen 3 at the Enterprise Pub, Chalk Farm, 2 August 1986.

Video courtesy of, and with many thanks to, Andy Hilton.

Happy Christmas!

#spacemen3 #somewhereinourheartsthingswontbethesame

Ian

I think the chances of this are extremely thin for the time being. A shame, a deluxe Soul Kiss would be very welcome, there's enough material from singles etc. for a second disc, even before the possibility of real rarities like the original demos, should Pete still have them.

Ian

There again, now that I've looked again at that chapter of Will's, he's very detailed about the description of Blackpool. He also says that they were driven from and back to Rugby for it, so it could have been a one-off thing rather than part of a tour.

Ian

In Will's PTBWTLH book, he mentions a trip to a gig in Blackpool. It's not in the Spz gigography. Does anyone know anything more about it? Can't find any reference to it in any of the old music press clippings I've got. Always possible that Will mis-remembered the venue, it's not like we'd expect t...

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runcible wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 12:27 pm Might be just me but I can't see those Ian! Anyone else?

This has happened to be on other forums when I've tried to link directly to pictures on my site. No idea what's going on. Here's a temporary page I've put up with those pictures on.

http://spacemen3.co.uk/enger-7-mystery/

Ian

Here are the photos for those who can't access the Facebook group, from the collection of Nick Bourne. http://spacemen3.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Discs/OtherSingles/Enger/Enger1.jpg http://spacemen3.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Discs/OtherSingles/Enger/Enger2.jpg http://spacemen3.co.uk/wp-content/uploads...

Ian

They'll be playing the Ancienne Belgique 35 years and one week after Jason's first visit.

Ian

Striking video. Would this not be the best time to suggest that if we want to help to reduce our inpact on the environment, phasing out vinyl might be a contribution?

Ian

heisenberg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pm
mkb wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:00 pm Everything Was Beautiful™

https://twitter.com/officialSpzd/status ... 6Lshg&s=19
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt!

Companion piece?

Ian

The main site has gone all-white with no content, in a similar way to what happened just before the news of each of the reissues. More significantly, Jason has posted to his Instagram for the first time in over two years. Could be some news pretty soon.

Ian

I really like Dead Man, with that Song of a Baker rip-off break. I do enjoy Tarantula, and Dead Man is a highlight in some ways, but it's also a bit cringey lyrically. I went down to the zoo and I looked in the cages Then I walked on home past the office, collected my wages Did you see what he did ...

Ian

The new Slipstream album, Liberty, is available now from Bandcamp.

I've been lucky enough to have a preview, and would highly recommend that you check it out.

Ian

Don't suppose you were at the "three gigs in one night" event they did in 1991? No, they (or rather, whoever was in charge of their marketing) had turned me against them by that point. Despite being less enamoured with the first Fontana album than their Creation stuff, I was still buying ...

Ian

As Mark says, he and I were only talking to Pat last week. And yes, he seemed quite happy to go on and on after we'd finished with the podcast stuff, bringing up all sorts of topics. I cut it short in the end, worried as I always tend to be that we were imposing on the time of someone who had better...

Ian

Great work as always. Thanks very much!

Ian

Great news re: new album. I hope he does tour the new record unlike ANH where he only played one English gig - in London. Is that right, or is my memory playing tricks? ANH was toured extensively in the US and Europe https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/spiritualized-3bd694d0.html?page=5 I was at 4 ANH ...

Ian

was just checking out that Five Americans tune and noticed they had another single called Sound Of Love not long after!! Was cool to hear that bit of Walking With Jesus form Performance, had wondered for decades what happened after it fades, one mystery solved, great work. Oh, that is a Good Fact, ...

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In this episode, we walk with Jesus as we discuss one of Spacemen 3's most famous songs. Ian and Mark disect the many recorded versions, and are joined by Pat Fish of The Jazz Butcher for a chat about a couple of versions where Pat supplied vocals. Plus contributions from a few other fans for which ...

Ian

As I am sure I have mentioned here many times, my wife and I used to run the Boo Radleys fanclub, and spent many happy times with them in the 90s. I unreservedly love all of those guys, and am glad that the three who are making music together again are having a good time. The new stuff sounds fine, ...

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Final gig of the Perfect Prescription lineup...

Ian

Seems like there'd be room for a 2CD set which would collect all of the above, as well as tracks from the Recurring singles! (PWF too I guess, but the B sides are on the generally available expanded version) This would be nice, but the Glass era and post-Glass era material seems to be owned by sepa...

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There's also this which I have: https://www.discogs.com/Spacemen-3-Walkin-With-Jesus-Transparent-Radiation/release/1400435 Before the compilations we're talking about came out, that was such a brilliant release to have. I found my copy in a record shop in the Birmingham Bullring, was just passing t...

Ian

As you say, the US version, The Singles, does include Things'll Never Be The Same and also edits a few minutes from Rollercoaster. But there is another significant difference, which is that it uses the Northampton demo of Walkin' With Jesus rather than the single version. They are both the same reco...

Ian

Am I reading this correctly? The t-shirts in the bundles are packaged in a pill case with blister pack? So, instead of not being able to play the original CD by damaging the packaging all those years ago, this time I won't be able to wear the t-shirt? :lol: There were some T-shirts sold like that i...

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Laz69 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:22 pm
Ian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:03 pm Now available to order from the US and UK stores. And that was indeed the new cover design.
Not on UK store that i can see...

If you click on the Music or Merchandise menu options they don't show up, but if you just click on UK Store they do!

Ian

Now available to order from the US and UK stores. And that was indeed the new cover design.

Ian

If the VMP pressing is as good as many have said that it is, it would be odd to do anything else but press this from the same stampers.

Ian

BzaInSpace wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:44 pmGoing on the recent colour themes of white, and then luminous green - is LAG going to be released in an orange sleeve?

I think the orange was the default "And Nothing Hurt" colour scheme that was being used before the reissues started, so not necessarily.

Ian

I walked up to Guy prior to them going on and he was interviewed in Sounds and mentioned how crazy the major label interest was. That even an A&R guy from Detroit came to a small gig in Brighton. I never said I was an A&R person, That show was insane too. I remember thinking they are like t...

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Massive House Of Love Fan. [...] I am lucky to have seen them twice with Terry Bickers. Once in Brighton at the Escape Club in the late 80's and 2018 in Leeds. Blimey, I was at that Escape Club gig. Small world. When they played Brighton a few years later, just after Simon had joined, they did an i...

Ian

Without trawling through the whole thread, is there anyway we can get digital downloads of these re-releases? Pretty sure there wasn't a d/l card in either my black or white vinyl LGM reissues and I am assuming its the same with the PP vinyl which I've still to collect from Resident. The two that h...

Ian

In this episode we conclude our interview with Mark Refoy, talking about his extensive post-Spiritualized work. As well as Mark’s many Slipstream albums, we talk about his time with Pet Shop Boys and the songs by other artists that he has guested on. Plus Graham Duff, writer of the BBC 3 comedy Ide...

Ian

In this episode we conclude our interview with Mark Refoy, talking about his extensive post-Spiritualized work. As well as Mark’s many Slipstream albums, we talk about his time with Pet Shop Boys and the songs by other artists that he has guested on. Plus Graham Duff, writer of the BBC 3 comedy Idea...

Ian

BessieBoporBach wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:54 pmI'm already twice as old as J+P were when Spacemen 3 made their first recordings.

Some of us closer to three times...

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