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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Added the three new songs recorded during the Distractions session at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool on 16th and 17th June 2010 to the "All songs" list.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Track list

I've moved the list of Distractions tracks from the home page to a page of its own under Documents, and it can be found here.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Gig posters

Added a few gig posters and the like. If anyone out there has any others please get in touch.

Gigography and "forgotten songs"

Added an incipient gigography and a "lost songs" page.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

1995 demos

Just added the 1995 demos to the "audio" section of the "Media" page here. Here's what Mike Finney has to say about these:

"In 1995, Steve and me got together with Nick Gartside (Manc producer), on bass, Bernard Van Den Berg ( Distractions after Alec left, then Secret Seven) on Drums, Kevin Durkin (ex Direct Hits, who we knew from TJM records at the beginning, and Escape Committee) on guitar (bass on Good Girls) and played half a dozen gigs in and around Manchester and Liverpool.  All these songs were in the set, with many other new songs, but only Still It Doesn’t Ring and It Doesn’t Bother Me from the old stuff.  We were tempted to do Looking For A Ghost for an encore, but settled for Valerie and a few Lou Reed songs, which is in keeping with what we would have done originally.
Good Girls Don’t Get To Paris was written in 1979, but unrecorded until 1995 at Chiswick Reach (Joe Meek’s Studio where Telstar and My Generation were recorded). The other 4 tunes were recorded at Manchester’s Out of the Blue Studio in 1995 (This was the original ‘Madchester’ studio, owned by Nick Gartside)."

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