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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1550 Registered: 05-2005 |
There is a Josef K session from 1981 being broadcast on Marc Reily's show on BBC6 tonight. If you miss it there is a listen again feature | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1551 Registered: 05-2005 |
Something fishy going on here. The first "session" track played tonight was Chance Meeting, which sounds identical to the Postcard 7" release. Did a bit searching on the net and found this little snippet, that Alan Horne was a right scamp wasnt he? "Horne, upset that the groups' best single yet was to appear on another label, pressed Josef K into re-recording Chance Meeting for Postcard, thus triggering a frantic six-month burst of activity. In March, several songs from the scrapped debut album were donated to the BBC as a fake John Peel radio session, while in April the band crossed to Brussels again to play several more shows, and to record their debut album a second time. Chance Meeting, released in June, was far superior to the Absolute version eighteen months earlier and, complete with added brass, saw Josef K beginning to sound like a bona fide pop band." There was a genuine Peel session from later in 81, which can be found on the K's Entomology compilation. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1454 Registered: 05-2005 |
~Cheers Kev, have heard ot a thousand times, glad they are re-airing it tho, for the new converts! There was only one session for Peel. Heart of Song, Heaven Sent, Missionary and Apple bush, the Alice Cooper song. The production on these was superb. The fact that this new waver group sounded like Chic really impressed me! They must've skipped to Chance by chance! That snippet is on about Sorry for Laughing being released on Crepuscule. the original Chance was on Malcolm Ross and Steven Daly's label, Absolute, a 1000 7'' were pressed, that was the forst ever Josef K single. Alan I suppose is like all the guys at that time, you know, Georff from Rough Trade, is it Ian from Cherry Red, the guy from Mute, they had to fight for everything and they had vision, so I suspect Alan was no different, he had a right to be cocky with the roster!! I had a nice conversation with Campbell Owens frm Aztec Camera a couple of weeks ago in Edinburgh, talking about the old days, he ahad a few stories to tell, better not repeat them here!!! |