Spiritualized

andyblacktoo

runcible wrote:
The address was a shop belonging to Pete's dad - that place was used as a Sp3 base for a while.

webster's wools. i can remember going there with my gran in the very early 80's, while she bought wool, served by a mr kember junior i vaguely recall.

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the ica irn bru rock week 1991 gig can be seen in the run video i think. will was still playing bass, whilst sean cook should have played bass for electrahead as the support band.

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the two purephase mixes do differ, pierce completed a 1995 nme interview in which he admitted there were even lyrical differences between the mixes. god knows where though.

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i'm pretty sure the track has only ever appeared on the select cassette, i just always assumed it was an early mix of the final track, with some effects in different places. i dont think its a totally different recording.

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I'm still minded towards the NAD C555 that mojo pointed out, but the Goldring Gr2 or the project xpression mk2 tunrtable are both about the same price, and the goldring seem to have had a lot of good reviews... As a point of interest, I've got a Rega P2 turntable, but out of the 3 you're looking at...

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Fuzzhead - Yes, I really like the B&W 601's and they seemed to work best with my system which is nice and clear but I would say it still isn't too meaty. The 601's gave it that extra oomph. I was split between the Bronzes and the 601's but but I would have gone with a pair of Quads if I had the...

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assoc. wrote:fisher price tape player wired into a aiwa clock radio

my telephone is two plastic cups on a piece of string

hehe superb, can you decipher jungle drums as well

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the cambridge is also a pretty super cd player, theres not a lot between them. i'd always viewed the project debut as an ace turntable. i only got the rega planar because an inheritance meant i could afford it, which is a little silly when the project debut 3 is such a good turntable for far less mo...

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Ask me again in half an hour and I'll probably have a different answer! I'll second that !! Right now I'm thinking maybe the RAH version of Take Your Time, or the FUI version of Take Good Care Of It. mmmmm when that saxophone kicks in..... I can't remember where or why it was recorded, but the NME ...

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JPB wrote:Arcam cd72
Arcam A65+ amp
Rega Planer 2 turntable
Dynaudio speakers

I think the neighbours love it too.

the cd72 is an ace cdplayer, my brother has one, linked to a roksan amp.

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seems we all have richer sounds to thank : cambridge audio 640 v2 cd player (i've just got the new version and its ace). old technics separates amp (soon to be replaced by cambridge audio azur 840A at xmas) rega P3 turntable cambridge audio 340 T digital tuner gale 40 40 speakers (which are ace for ...

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Doggen is an ace musician. Check out his project called Dogntank! http://www.myspace.com/dogntank http://www.dogntank.com/ Also, he's doing some work with Six.BySeven. He absolutely blew me away at their recent gig in Notts. It's because of his performance I perservered with Spiritualized. http://w...

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Random Numbers wrote: We don't want to annoy the concert organisers, record label or the artists, so if anyone does object, please let us know.

the tour was organised by anton lockwood, the promoter at nottingham rock city / rescue rooms etc, i believe.

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will was kind enough to say he was up for it a while ago, i need to chase him with a reminder (he may well not be able to do it). we were trying to get a hawk and a hacksaw to headline. but its in feb, and i've got a gig with sorted records to sort out first, with the bobby mcgees. (this is all very...

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funnily enough, I'm working on that one. I'm planning a daft charity gig in leicester in the new year, mr carruthers did seem willing to participate. we're chasing the elusive mr pat fish as well. early days yet. but you never know.

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managed to get to this one in time! A definite Top 5 Spiritualized gig for me. So many highlights... Funeral Home, Anything More/LAG, Stop Your Crying, Going Down Slow (so good with the strings) Straight And The Narrow Amen. A much more intimate setting than London - how many people were there? Abo...

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oh, sorry missed it out, a working dirty backbeats site is here

http://www.thedirtybackbeats.com/

tracks also here

http://www.myspace.com/thedirtybackbeats

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this is a weakness in the city. the best place to check local gigs out is http://www.pineapster.co.uk this part of the forum has all the main city venues and listings, and more are slowly being added. otherwise, buy the leicester mockery, sorry mercury on a thursday, the week section contains pretty...

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yep, i've seen the splitters several times. you can normally find ted splitter busking outside boots on a sat afternoon.

you need to look here for a working backbeats website, kind of imagine the doors meets the wurzels meets acid lashed grateful dead.

really ace.

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i was amused by how many people appear to have grown will carruthers esque hair cuts. there were at least two people i had to re-look at twice to realise they werent will. after about 20 spiritualized gigs over 13 years, worryingly im beginning to recognise seeing the same people at differing spz gi...

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dirty backbeats = local bonkers leicester band

for info on the sumo gig, see here

http://forums.pineapster.co.uk/viewtopi ... upen+crook

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lupen crook didnt play leicester

(gimp you do realise lupen seems to play leicester every other week, he's good mates with the dirty backbeats).

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pete bain (bassman) was downstairs in the audience.

who were the football fans singing along under the balcony on the left hand side? the string quartet were struggling to keep a straight face while watching them.

i too saw the amusing domestic.

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i'm with ash, melbourne for certain.

speaking of which, ash, my brother is off to melbourne in a month, and I'm sending him with my copy of powderfinger's transfusion to sell in a record shop somewhere.

any idea of the best place for him to trade it in, in melbourne?

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try advertising them here

http://www.pineapster.co.uk

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moop wrote:ok well he probably did live off the royalties then. good on him.

if you're interested, here's a link to an mp3 by missoddkid - produced by martin...

http://www.spoiltvictorianchild.co.uk/2 ... -next.html

aha......nice one. i'll go and have a listen now.

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Rumour has it that Chris Karloff who very wisely left Kasabian is doing some stuff with Death in Vegas / Fearless... aha how did you know that......its true by the way.......they're recording in new york. he was rather wise to leave kasabian. Yes, he must be delighted at missing out on headlining f...

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martin appears to be going into the production side of things. i'm pretty sure he didn't get owt royalty-wise for wake up boo over those 10 years.. he's pretty anti that sort of thing, i mean he gave away his most recent album for free... if anyone's interested he's doing his last ever gig on the 8...

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squoggy wrote:Rumour has it that Chris Karloff who very wisely left Kasabian is doing some stuff with Death in Vegas / Fearless...

aha how did you know that......its true by the way.......they're recording in new york.

he was rather wise to leave kasabian.

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pierce thought giant steps to be the greatest album of 1993 in an nme interview promoting the mercury rev tour, and to be honest i would agree with him. what is martin carr going to do if he will no longer record as brave captain? or has the meagre supply of royalties from wake up boo, which have ke...

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boring trivia point, but for the spiritualized / m rev / dr phibe tour.

jason originally wanted the tour line up to be

spiritualized
the boo radleys
stereolab

but neither other band could make the dates.

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in fairness, i've never heard anything, only read the press. though i've got a mate who works for their UK record company

(runs off to fire off emails of inquiry over freebie cds).

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kate radley's keyboards on smiles, are quite clearly lifted from the rolling stones' lets spend the night together. over the years i've met about 10 people who claim to have been at that tic toc gig, including jason's brother and the editor of music mart magazine. i've got the set list somewhere, i'...

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interestingly, their album has mostly been slated by the UK music press as being too derivative of spacemen 3 & spiritualized.....after all, even their album sleeve sports spaceman esque artwork

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helterskelter wrote:damon reece and liz frazer isn't it?

i believe this to be correct. though doesnt mattock have some Massive Attack connection also. and lupine howl were briefly the MA backing band

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(looks around... whistles... kicks a small rock... looks at the sky... inspects fingernails... scratches chin....) So, erm... the Sage is non-smoking, I hear. Hmm. (picks fluff off shirt... hums a little tune... sighs) Leicester's smoking (immaturely light's up and waves cigarette in your face befo...

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aha, sulky turned up then.

arse, wish i went now.........oh well.......mark and johnny plan to release a slipstream lp on their own label, much the same way will did with freelovebabies.

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i got the sonic youth goo re-release for Â£12 from the left legged pineapple, and it was worth every penny for the extra tracks, similarly for the 10th anniversary edition of the manics holy bible, again it cost Â£13, again, at 2 cds, includding out takes, peel sessions and a 3rd live dvd, i thought...

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whiggs was of course the bassist in the perfect disaster. mattock was borrowed from the spacemen to drum for perfect disaster at one point, and then also borrowed from spiritualized to drum for the breeders. slim how was the slipstream gig. I forgot all about it, till i read slipstream's my space on...

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a youthful mr mattock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd7ILa_mhgA

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This is the Morroccan Mayhem records boot if i remember rightly. There is something special about Spectrum's version of "I Love You"... isn't it the only place you can get this track or something? I passed up the opportunity to get this as i thought it was the same as the Come Down Easy 7...

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someone on here would know more than me, but its a quite well known sp3 bootleg. my copy is identical but doesnt have the black faces printed on the front, its about 1995 vintage, and features a spectrum marc goodier session track on the reverse (i seem to recall).

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wow! you can still get carter t-shirts. brilliant. i was thinking about getting a senseless things pop kid t shirt the other day. i wonder if you can still get them anywhere? you can't all things senseless are dead in the water, including mark keds and his pete doherty esque chemical cravings (keds...

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i turned 30 this year, and didnt really find it to be the night mare i thought it would, though i am now considering buying one of these :

(see t-shirt section)

http://www.carterusm.co.uk/shop.htm#

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That's Prolapse isn't it? Dunno what the connection is with the Spacemen. Is Natty in the video? (I used to know Linda quite well, when we both lived in an idiosyncratic Derbyshire town) aha, well done it is prolapse. vinita (she of rocket girl records and compiler of the sp3 tribute album) also ap...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poatws4UMJk

heres a test for spacemen / spiritualized completists. (ignoring the t-shirt in the clip), someone tell me the link between this trailer for chez lester (cult leicester cable tv soap opera circa 1996) and the spacemen?

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gimperella wrote:
Starfish wrote:Has anyone ever tried that line? Does it work? (other than in Tamworth)
Works wonders down Hinckley. Mind you, most things do.

hinckley, the town with the most pointless little shopping centre I've ever been in.

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i have it, i never thought it was that great. there was a distant spacemen 3 link, which they caned in their press. reverberation featured someone who very briefly took the drummer stool at one point in sp3 history. i only really kind of liked the brian eno cover on there. i'll copy it, in return fo...

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when LFO released their tied up single, it was released on 2 x 12", one 12" was the original mix (in blue sleeve I think), and one 12" the spiritualized electric mainline mix (in red sleeve). they werent released in 1999 though. more like 1995. I bought mine from HMV in manchester whe...

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not sure about the Â£3,000 figure, even at 1991 rugby studio prices. but I would have thought time in bath moles would cost near that figure on its own.

the NME ranked it as 73rd best ever in 1992.

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stay don't go

take good care of it

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i got introduced to their lead singer, oddly on a melbourne tram in st kilda in dec 1998 / jan 1999. i couldnt avoid them when i was in oz and saw them at the meredith music festival, the big day out, i think the tote in richmond? as well.

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ash wrote:
Chapter Two wrote:I can't listen to Burning Bridges without thinking of Super Furry Animals.
Not that that's a bad thing at all!!

ash, are augie march quite big these days? i saw one of their first gigs in 1998 in melbourne

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one of my biggest musical regrets is not buying all the spz stuff on vinyl as well as cd when it came out. even more than when I sold my entire ac/dc vinyl collection to the guy in Rubgy market for about 20p. Sigh. The follies of youth. :x how much is a copy of LAGWAFLIS on vinyl actually worth. I ...

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excellent. did you get camping tickets? the festival is nearly sold out (ie, less than 200 weekend tickets left).

the manager of the y theatre told me yesterday, the jason pierce gig at the y in leicester is very very close to sell out

did'nt the saracens head have a decent beer garden?

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jesus son wrote:
andyblacktoo wrote:
the saracens head would be rammed beforehand.
are you in a time warp or has The Courthouse just been 'rebranded'?

a time warp

ah the blitz.......ah that revolving 12" vinyl sign that never revolved.

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in which case buy a summer sundae ticket quick before they go, you wont regret it, its a pretty fantastic festival. if you live in leicester. its a festival and you can go home and have a shower......yay. and still come to the warm up gig. you wont find a friendlier festival anywhere. (apart from ma...

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come to it, advance tickets are still only Â£4 from the bar at firebug or demontfort hall box office.

you do realise summer sundae is the weekend of august 11th - 13th, not the bank holiday weekend.

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this is true, at the moment, its a fucking ace city to live in. especially with summer sundae round the corner (bought a ticket for it yet mr clews?), and especially the warm up party for summer sundae, cant think who's promoting that...hmm...hmmm....... Been looking forward to going summer sundae ...

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Leicester IS the midlands...ok, granted east midlands instead of west midlands like birimingham so its not overly 'on your doorstep'. Its only a 40min drive down the m6 / m69 or 50min by train though. Leicester's half way between rugby and brum...perhaps thats why it was chosen. Guess we would all ...

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it always amazes me the number of rugby faces which appear at spiritualized gigs in the midlands. why does it amaze you? seems very predictable to me. maybe one day he'll play a homecoming gig in Rugby. ho ho ho. hhhmmmmm. doubtful, i think. theres nowhere in rugby that puts bands on for starters.....

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It'd be cool if there were more t-shirts available in general. Surely there'd be plenty of interest from the board for some new designs, like the Fucked Up Inside pedals for instance (or even reprints of the LAGWAFIS or SpacemanÂ® ones ) i really liked the orange and blue LGM print ones that glowed...

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veiko wrote:
nasty wrote:the version of the peel session version of smiles is without doubt the best spiritualized recording. ever.
i share your dream. best ever indeed.

on fire.

that entire peel session remains the best spiritualized recording ever, and the first line up, the best live line up by far.

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it always amazes me the number of rugby faces which appear at spiritualized gigs in the midlands.

jason split with frank gironda management some time ago, im not sure if he has a manager at the mo. theres no real need, and he could probably quite easily organise that tour himself.

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That's what I thought at first, but... ...maybe wait until the band's story has completely unfolded first before releasing a book? Just a thought... do you think a spiritualized book would be that interesting? its basically the story of about 10 ex members, most of whom walked out, 3 were sacked, a...

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bunnyben wrote:maybe they wanna beat the rush traffic wise?

brighton is a standing gig. are all the rest seated then?

leicester is standing downstairs.

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anyone recognise the drummer?????