Beeb BEEB-021, 1977.
01 - Ten Years After
02 - Alltime Needletime Loser
Malcolm Brown - keyboards/vocals, Mike Harding - guitar/vocals, Mike Franks - guitar, Paddy Kingsland - bass, Bryant Marriott - drums, Nick Curtis - vocals.
Released to celebrate Radio One's tenth anniversary in September 1977. Brown and Harding were producers at Radio One, Marriott was assistant controller at Radio One and Two, Franks was an ex-BBC engineer and Kingsland belonged to the Radiophonic Workshop. Nick Curtis, a session singer is only featured on the A-side with either Brown or Harding handling the lead vocals on the B-side.
'Ten Years After' is pretty dull but the flip 'Alltime Needletime loser' is fantastic top-end fake punk. All profits and writers royalties were donated to charity though I doubt any good causes benefited too much from the sales of this record.
My copy (a demo) glows red when held to the light. Other new wave related records with the same red glow include the first Dead Fingers Talk 45 and the 1979 re-issue of 'Packet of Three' by Squeeze, though my copies of both those records don't glow red. Anyone know of any others?
5 comments:
More BBC than New Wave related but the - Not The Nine O Clock News 45 "Ayatollah Song / Gob On You" & their 1st LP are both red under lamp light!
The deep red vinyl thing seems to be common among records manufactured by Pye. I was looking at a few records with the Pye logo the other day but only this Radio Active record glowed red.
some copies of gangsters by the special a.k.a , plus joy division's love will tear us apart have the red tinge thing !!
Just checked my Joy Division ...result! Never noticed that before, though it's been years since I've played the record.
good stuff - & the record is a classic !!
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