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- A transcript of a band meeting held six month ago.
“Can anyone remember the flexi-disc that came with The Human Leagues’ EP on Fast Records ?” “Fast Records……………….. the sound of young Scotland ?” “No….. wasn’t that Postcard,………. they had Josef K and the Fire Engines while Fast had the Gang of Four and the Mekons” “And young Scotland these days is Domino, with Franz Ferdinand and The Archie Bronson Outfit” “They’re based in London, you know” "Who" "Domino" “Oh, that’s surprised me” "I had to look that up" "So not really young Scotland then" "errr.. No.." “Are we Trainspotting?” “Well.. yes but, what about that flexidisc ?, "I think the EP was called Dignity of Labour or something” “Not much dignity left in Labour these days” “It’s not about the party, it’s an old Marx quote I think……. who’s this ?” “It’s the new Futureheads CD, reminds me a bit of where XTC got to with GO2” “Have you noticed how all Sunderland bands seem obsessed with the “Hounds of Love”” “Eh… Sorry” “Well that Futureheads cover” “And…” “I’m sure Norman had something to do with it” “You mean Frankie” "Frankie from Leatherface" "Yup" “Old enough to remember when Frankie was Norman and when Labour were crap the last time” “Still they aint the Tories” “Fair point, as Prog Rock goes the second Magazine Album isn’t very good but its still not late Pink Floyd” “How much longer do you think Syd will last” “Dead by the end of the year….” “What were we on about?” “The Hounds of Love” “I’m sure that video was shot in Mobray Park” “Come a Friday night that Park was full of hounds of love” "Please boys, how Spinal Tap are we becoming” “All I seem to remember about that Park are bright lights in the trees and Dinosaurs” “Not Crocodiles then , not the first Echo and the Bunnymen Album “The pictures are pretty, but I cannot decide if it is, the drink; a drug flashback, or Alzheimers “ “That colours thing, the first and fourth level of The Simpsons” “So true, so true” “Hey .I’ll tell you what I did find” – sound of something being dropped on the table – “Some photos of our first gig together…. Paul, when will that have been ?” “1981…. I think,” “You’d been together before that ?” “We’d been gigging fairly regularly since 1977” “Look at these…………. a picture of Gary drumming with us at Lancaster in 1982” “Thinking about it… we worked together fairly regularly during the 80’s in London.” “More talent than success !” “Then you two rushed off to have kids and things, and I ended up with Showaddywaddy for 10 years” "Anything for a weird life,…….. god this is loud” “It’s the new Mission of Burma CD” “Anyway what about this “Dignity of Labour” thing” “Well it had that dead famous picture of Yuri Gurgarin on the front, and I really like the way Stalinists manage to airbrush things from history” “What…….. like we’ve been going for the best part of three years and we’ve already been though a singer, a keyboard player and another drummer ?” “Something like that….. as Mr Burns would say……. you cannot dust for vomit” “What the hell are you on about” “ I dunno I just feel like time and technology are on our side at the moment” “So more computing power than talent this time” “Bloody Hell, ……..more beer” “No, can I have a tea, and some Richard Thompson” “OK, I struggle to get all the way though one of these shouty Cd’s” “So what about this flexidisc” “Well it was just a conversation between the band, about the EP. As you listened to it you realised that it was a put up job, they relay information about the product, a sort of arty joke really....................................”
tape cassettes for the next sequence were impossible to transcribe due to some viscous liquid encrusted behind the heads.
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