SFA 3 ( first published Nov 2001 )

SWEET FLORAL ALBION

Why? How uncanny! 'Tis the legendary (Sweet) Floral Albion crew, with their unique ramblings on the subject of UK psychedelic culture... (November 2001)
No.3 Price: Gratis ********************

Welcome to, this, our latest crumbly digestive. We say a most especial "Hello dears", to those of you who are new to (Sweet) FLORAL ALBION. After the recent piracy problems and an even more recent re-assessment of our (that's 'my') photocopying and postage costs, we're sticking to the email-only format, so, there will no longer be any lengthier, 'whole' issues, as in days of yore, with Nos 1 and 2 (sorry!) We'll send out stuff as we get round to it. Still, hope you enjoy our ramblings. Sorry there's no pics, as yet. Dave T. This time around we have the following tasty treats to tickle your tastebuds:

· OUT IN THE COLD - 2 long-lost chromosome curlers (by Jason Scott)
· LIBRO PSICEDELICO - A review of "Underground Graphics" (by J. Barrington Phillips, esq)
· REVIEWS - by Paul Hodges (PH), Jon Kerr (JK), Nick Philips (NP), 'Big' Barry P (BP) and Dave Thubron (DTs)
· THE BEE GEES - 'DEEPLY, DEEPLY, DEEPLY ME' (by Dave Thubron)
· UK PSYCH DISCOGRAPHY Pt. 37: Addenda
· THE BUMPER BOOK OF PSYCH QUOTATIONS (by Roger St. John - We'll be dipping our wicks in this hefty tome from time to time)
· THE SHAME (ACETATE) LP REVIEWED!
· TECHNICOLORED SWAP SHOP (Small Ads)
· 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN - A taster for next time

"OUT IN THE COLD" by Jason Scott
This issue I'm placing two more scandalously neglected and pungent little phonograms on the ol' gramphone machine for a re-evaluation.
It's time to delve into the first: HUMAN BEAST - 'Volume One!' UK: (Decca SKL 5053)
I can remember clear as day the first time I ever heard this. It was in my mate John Taverner's digs in 1970. First thing that hit me about the album was this was what the Sam Gopal 'Escalator' LP should have sounded like. It captures to perfection the sound of that stoned, long sunny afternoon death of the 60s counterculture.
Human Beast, an Anglo-Scottish power trio, initially calling themselves 'Skin' (they quickly and prudently changed their name - what with all those cropped-haired reggae fans beating up students and Hippies, the name was misplaced, to say the least), comprised Gillies Buchan (gtr, vocs), Edward Jones (bass, vocs), John Ramsay (percussion); helped out by their mate David McNiven (of folky trio Bread, Love and Dreams), who not only played clarinet on the LP's opening track but co-wrote most of their songs too.
The LP consists of seven (fairly) lengthy pieces. Side One opens with 'Mystic man' - wah wah to the fore, it's a powerful and superlative example of heavy psychedelia. The stunning Freak Out section ("The Human Beast Sheds Its Second Skin") is marvelously deranged. The second track 'Appearance Is Everything, Style is Everything' takes us down a notch and although it's not a chill-out excursion, it is somewhat mellower & more sublime than most of the LP. It's nice, cosmic Hippie lyrics over some shimmering pseudo-Eastern scales:- Nice! 'Brush With The Midnight Butterfly', which closes the first side is another heavy guitar assault. (But, fear not, faint heart, for although laddled with lashings of guitar bombast this LP isn't agonizingly self-indlugent, and is thankfully devoid of the superfluous riffing that is often at the expense of the song). A terrific version of 'Maybe Someday' opens Side Two - it's another beauty, a slower Eastern influenced piece which lulls us into a false sense of security, cos soon we're off on an STP - fuelled voyage of self-awareness, with the masterful 'Reality Presented As An Alternative' (Love those titles!) and the great 'Naked Breakfast' (yes Please!) and the closing 'Circle of The Night'.
This LP represents all that was good about the tail-end of psychedelia. These guys toiled to make good music, as the drug intake mushroomed (geedit?) and all around was a depressing wasteland of heavy/blues rock and chirpy bubblegum chart-fodder.
GONG - 'Magick Brother' France: (BYG Actuel 529 029), 1970
This beauty has been way too long out in the cold. Let's re-admit it to the UK psych canon. Although enjoying no contemporary UK release this LP was issued within these fair isles in 1977 (Charly CRL 5025) and on CD (Decal CD LIK 31) in 1986, yet it has remained something of a curio, of interest to those (tasteful folks) following the career of Daevid Allen.
In 1967, on attempting to re-enter the UK after some European dates Daevid Allen (an Aussie national) was refused entry (his visa had expire). After some rest and recuperation of a very Hippie kind, he formed Gong. Based in France the band (Allen (gtr, bass, semprini crystal ball, vocs), Didier Malhere (flute, soprano sax), Rachid Houri (drums, tabla), Dieter Gewiffler (contrabass), Earl Freeman (ctonrabass, piano), Bare Phillips (contrabass), Burton Green (Piano, Pianoharp), Gilly Smyth (voices space whisper and words/music), and Tasmin Smyth (voices)), recorded this brain-fucker during September and October 1969. If the Human Beast LP is highly reminiscent of the Sam Gopal Dream, then this LP is indelibly stamped with the trademarks of The Pink Floyd. The influence isnt surprising, both The Soft Machine (when Allen was a member) and the 'Floyd were 'rivals' for the position of "Underground Band Numero Uno", and played the same venues and appealled to the same crowd.
It is evident that Allen (see his autobiography - Gong Dreaming, GAS, 1994), after seeing Barrett performing (with the 'Floyd) at the '14 Hour Technicolour Dream', henceforth adopted Barrett's glissando technique, as well as Barrett's humour and lyrical/vocal stylings. All are evident, on these, the first of his post-Soft Machine releases. Tracks that are particularly Barrettesque are the warped, heavily phased 'Hope You Feel OK', and the intro to 'Chainstore Chant' ("Pockets full of blood, Pockets full of blood"); and most especially on '5 & 20 Schoolgirls the influence of the post-Barrett Floyd (circa 'Sauceful Of Secrets') can be detected on the cosmic space-rock of 'Rational Anthem', 'Princess Dreaming' and the mystical, flutey 'Cos You Got Green Hair'. There's a Soft Machine/Giles, Giles & Fripp feel to 'Ego', a classic song with some mad jazz touches. 'Mystic Sister: Magick Brother', the LP's opener, is another classic. Topped and tailed by some freaky/spacey passages it's a nice swirly acoustic Hippie-vibe number. Only the stoned 'Gongsong', is below average, and even this is quality stuff.
Definitely an eleven-out-of ten album; and a real shame that it's been left to rot amongst the weeds at the far end of the garden, instead of being the fountain-bedecked center-piece that it most assuredly deserves to be.
(Thanks to Anal Titsarse (sorry, Alan Titchmarsh) for the gardening anal-ogy)

From The Bumper Book of Psych Quotations, by Roger St. John:
Entry No. 28: Tony Cox (One half of the duo, The Young Idea)
'Still, I must say I'd like to see the end of the fad-following which plagues us today. It was sad when all the soul groups suddenly went psychedelic and started wearing kaftans and frizzed-hair. It's not that I'm against the hippie business...
From sleevenotes to the Young Idea's 'With A Little Help From My Friends' LP (1968)
- Rather rich, don't ya think, coming from the man who gave us 'Room With A View', the superlative psych pop of 'All The Colours Of Darkness' and a bevy of other Hollies - inspired swinging London pop beauties

Now that J. Barrington Phillips, esq has got his senior citizens' bus pass, he takes another trip to his local library to see what dusty tomes are waiting there to be discovered by anally-retentive nostalgia buffs.
It's the feature we pretentiously call:-
IL LIBRO PSICEDELICO
by J. Barrington Phillips, esq
Underground Graphics, edited by Graham Keen and Michel La Rue, Academy Editions: London, 1970.
This book is a total groove.
Man, when I first bought this at the Academy Bookshop, Holland Street London W8, I had no inkling that the era this book so beautiful encapsulates was almost over. Nor that this book, all but forgotten now 30 years later would command such silly prices form dealers (yeah, Andy baby!).
The bookshop and publisher of this was synonymous with things 'underground' and 'countercultural', and this is certainly a countercultural treat of much visual sweetness. Within its multi-coloured pages are found repros of posters, logos, headers, illustrations from OZ, it, Gandalf's Garden, column headers ('Perfumed Garden', etc.), ads (Granny's, Imprint, Hung on You...). Among the posters we find The Purple Gang, Tomorrow, Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments (by the late and very great Mal Dean), Soft Machine; and even the rare 'Airplane' poster for Tintern Abbey, in which the band (highly stylized) seem to grow from the undercarriage of a 1930's twin-prop. There are many works here used since for the sleeves of dubious psych "re-issues", there's Mike McKinnery's poster for the 'Technicolor Dream' (complete with typo), posters for UFO, a terrifyingly gorgeous one for Middle Earth; works by Michael English and Martin Sharp predominate, but there are others, notably the finely-crafted vignettes of John Hurford, that make this book throb with love and light...
Only major work that's notably missing (for me) was the Middle Earth callendar, designed by Quaser Posters of Dagenham - anybody remember this lil' beauty?
If you don't wanna cough up for an original volume (and baby, why should you?), visit your local library, maybe they'll find you a copy - mine did.

REVIEWS
(Some recent, and not so recent, items)

SAMSON - Are You Samson? (Castle CMRCD 064) CD
It had been a long time since I'd listened to the original album (I must have sold my copy at least 10 years ago), so getting this CD was pretty cool. It's interesting that Castle have chosen this neglected (see (S) FA No 1: 'Out In The Cold') gem from the 1969 prog-psych crossover era, rather than the much trawled '67-'68 boom years. It's a great little album, if the songs are not too stellar, at least we can more than make do with the pleasant artifice and some period trappings (nice sound effects and some competent keyboards). Overall it's a goodie - thumbs up. (NP)
Hot Smoke And Sassafrass: Psychedelic Pstones, Vol. 1 [comp] (Castle CMRCD 255) CD
A great compilation. Sound quality here is STUNNING - I discovered textural details on some of the songs I'd never noticed before from 45s or previous comps. OK so most of these have appeared before; a great slew of them on 'Paisley Pop'. We have left-field gems that Rubble would never have dared to anthologise such as Taxi; 'Counting Time My Way' and Woody Kern, 'Biography' two stunning muvvas that no fan of UK/Irish psych should be without. Top Notch (DT).

OUT OF DARKNESS s/t (Key KL006) CD
Very nice guitar-figures throughout, especially on 'Thank You Lord', 'Closing In On Me' and 'There You See A Stranger'. They must have religiously (sorry) imbided Hendrixian motifs until they could reel 'em off in their sleep, but at the end of the day the "Jesus Freak" angle tends to cast it's shadow across their work. Still, if you can hack it, there's some decent material here. (PH)

THE TREMELOES:
(1) Good Day Sunshine: singles As & Bs (sequel NEE CD 337)
(2) Here come... (NEE CD 468)
(3) Suddenly You Love Me: (NEE CD 469) - the complete 1968 sessions
(4) Master: The early 70's sessions (NEE CD 470)
(5) May Morning (Castle CMRCD 025) - all CD-only
A much-maligned and unfairly neglected group. OK, so they were extremely unhip, but they did manage to produce some worthwhile freak-fodder when they turned (blew) their minds to it. On (1) you'll find their self-consciously 1967 'Suddenly winter; (2) has the proto-psych/hard-beat of as well as their absolutely blinding take on Skip Bifferty's 'On Love' (reviewed some time back on "Marmalade Skies"). 'Master' contains their 1970 LP (variable but with enough psychy moments, plus loads of bonus tracks). (5) is the real treat, a lost soundtrack to a cult 'sixties' movie with a few tasty treats (the fuzz guitar on 'Anything' is as good as any you'll hear), most notably the short (less than a minute) 'Beer Duel', and the wah-wah-dominated 'Hard Time'. (DT)

CORPORAL GANDER'S FIRE DOG BRIGADE - On the Rocks (Green Tree GTR - 056) CD
OK, so it's not exactly new, and it's strictly speaking outside our remit (it's German). However, it's worth your attention as it is very-English in its sound and orientation. Forget the cover versions, there are seven group-originals here that make all the right noises; 'Come Back Here' (great 60s - style Hammond), 'On The Rocks' (a funky prog instrumental); 'Love Song' (great prog-psych); and the piece de resistance 'Run For Life', which is alternatively trippily mellow (flutes, etc) and heavy (nice & violent guitar attacks). It's a shame that Dag Erik Asbjornsen slagged off this album in his otherwise superb Cosmic Dreams at Play, Kraut Rock book. (BP)

KALEIDOSCOPE - The Fairfield Parlour Years (NMC Pilot 56) Double CD
The name Kaleidoscope is invoked here, as a rather cynical (albeit very sensible) marketing ploy. You get the great 'From Home to Home' album the 'White Faced Lady' album plus nine bonus tracks - the two Fairfield (Vertigo) 45s (soft, folky and effortlessly commerical); the I Luv Wight 45 an attempt at a theme (some hope!) for the 1970 festival; a 1976 Prism label 'Kaleidoscope' 45, notable for the mental 'b' side 'Baby, Stay For Tonight' (-what were they on? This fuzzed out little devil is quite unlike most of their other works); and the theme tune to the (now) almost forgotten film 'Eyewitness'. Overall this isn't a bad piece (by the same outfit who gave us those John's Children comps), but it lacks (1) original artwork, (2) decent notes and (3) master track sources for the 'bonus tracks'. It could have been much better handled, it feels a little 'rushed' to me (JK)

JIMI HENDRIX - Experience - OST (Get Back) 180g Vinyl
On February 24th, 1969 the Experience played the Royal Albert Hall, in what turned out to be their last ever UK concert together. This recording (9 tracks), in stunning sound quality, is all that remains of the 'Experience' film project. The film was shown once at UCB, but has long since vanished. Put this platter on, whack the sound up, close your eyes, and you could almost be there...

SYDE TRYPS SEVEN [comp] (Tenth Planet TP052) 170g vinyl, Ltd edn 1000 copies
Mr Wells certainly does his homework. He keeps on turning up the long-buried detritus of a previous age. 14 tracks are on offer here. The Brain give us five (previously unreleased) genre-defying recordings from March/June 67. All are typical of the Giles Brothers' style and wouldn't be out of place on the "Cheerful Insanity" album. They're quirky little numbers. Weird lyrics wrapped in polished, commerical performances and as such they manage to saboutage the 'pop' idiom from within. 'Murder' (yet another version) with its impressive harmonies and discordant backing is probably the most freaky of the set - similar to 'Nightmares In Red' in particular the cacophanous passages; whilst an earlier version of 'One In A Million' is a nice bit of psych pop in a 'Most Peculiar Man' - vein. There are two tracks by Those Fadin' Colours - both sides of an acetate (cut 19/05/67): side one is a VERY Stones-sounding cover of 'Blow Up' by Tomorrow, the other is a very tasty interpretion of The Electric Prune's 'Try Me On For Size' (best version, me thinks). The Fire track included here has turned up previously on the 'Wooden Hill' CD-only comp, and it's a pleasant enough run through of the Moby Grape number. '0099' by The Jygsaw (from a private LP) is more like it: UK fuzz-beat at its best. (It reminds me of 'Trot' by Turnstyle, for some odd reason), and barring a lovely languid break, it's pretty full-on with a tough vocal and great acoustic/electric guitar interplay. But, I gotta ask the question - Are all 'Cam' recordings as low-fi as this and The Klubs? Regarding The Snappers' Smiley's Tram' its a pity its glibness betrays its heart-in-the-right-place psych-voyage sentiments, but overall its pretty good. Their other inclusion here, 'She's A Lover' is a mod-stomper, that's a bit all over the place. Both tracks are from their Swiss-only LP. 'I'm Not Your Stepping Stone' is one of those songs that was covered to excess. And why not it's a superb song. The version here by The Outer Limits (a 45 on the mega-obscure 'snow' label) is outstanding and at odds with their released material. Hard and punchy, its punkish arrogrance, nice tempo-changes and blistering guitar is totally suited to the song.
The bizarrely named 6AX give us that, gorgeous chick, 'Penelope Breedlove' - pretty pop-sike par excellance. Stellar harmonies, lovely chirruping keyboards. It bears more than a passing similarity to 'Jeanette Isabella' by Blonde On Blonde.
Now we get to the Real Deal. This LP is gonna primarily be long-remembered for one track - the final one on side 2, viz Cliff Ward's unknown (til now) demo of 'Path Through The Forest'. Those psych pundits (that includes me) intrigued by the 'Rollings' writer's credits on the Factory's MGM single can now discover that 'Rollings' (the maiden-name of Cliff Ward's wife) disguises Cliff himself. WOW, this first version (recorded 22/03/67) is as different from that by The Factory as it's possible to be. It's much slower, more blissed out, swamped in effects; and the home-studio production is a beautiful example of D.I.Y. psychedelia. It captures to perfection those numb, awe-struck moments of Acid beatitude. A future psych classic. (PH)

THE BEE GEES - 'Deeply, Deeply, Deeply Me'
by Dave Thubon
The Bee Gees, God Bless em'. The very mention of their name can raise a grin. Their embrassure of passing muscial trends is a testament to their instinct for survival (and inate understanding of pop-capitalism). This, however, does not concern us here. NO, what does concern us, is the most illusive of the Bee Gees' 'psych' recordings. Their interesting 'b' sides have long been compiled on a Bee Gees' retrospective; tapes of their BBC sessions (including the original, incomparably marvellous version of 'Mrs Gillespie's Refrigerator', covered by those Stigwood also-rans, Sands) have been doing the rounds amongst the psych elite; and most psychsters are au fait with the first three LPs - 'First' (1967), 'Horizontal' (1968), & 'Idea' (1968) (some even have a sneaking admiration for the fourth, 'Odessa'. Personally, though, I think it's so lushly overproduced that it is the very quitessence of the old adage 'more is less' - BUT, there's still something missing. Only a small minority of the most obsessive psych-heads have ever heard of the psych nugget 'Deeply, Deeply, Deeply Me', and of these the tiniest handful (that belonging to a former bomb squad officer) have actually heard it. I am priviledged to say that I am one of those lucky sods (NO! I don't have a tape of it, Nigel!).
It is quite simply the Bee Gees most explicit and extensive voyage into the mind's eye; far more extreme than 'Every Christian Lion Hearted Man...'; more blissed-out than 'Kilburn Towers'; more surreal than 'World', or 'Lemons Never Forget'; quirkier than 'Barker Of The UFO', more ..., oh, balls I'm running out of superlatives - anyway you get my point.
The guy who owns the only UK copy that I'm aware of (there's an old legend that demos were pressed on Polydor in the Netherlands), has been approached by the "Powers that be" (his words) and offered a hefty sum to part with his copy (He refused!), and was subsequently told to keep the track, "Close to his chest". Paranoid? You betcha! Still, in this John Le Carre world it's patently clear that neither the brothers Gibb nor the Stigwood mafiosi want 'Deeply...' to see the light of day. The owner certainly ain't providing copies - he started to sweat profusely when I casually asked him for a tape ("Do you think they could tap my phone?", he asked)
This track is to the Bee Gees' output, what 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is to The Beatles - the absolute zenith of their flirtation with psychedelia, a dazzling piece of aural magic with great guitar motifs. It is highly probable that when they raided the studio-effects box whilst making this, their acid meisterwerk our colgate-guzzling warblers were totally out of their f***ing gourds. Yet, unlike The Beatles' classic, it is intended that it should remain in the can forever (especially if the guys with the poison-tipped umbrellas get to him first). Shelve it alongside other such long-suppressed gems from '67 as David Bowie's 'Silver Treetop School For Boys', and McCartney's aural collage/freak out for the 'Million Volt Rave'.

FROM The Bumper Book of Psych Quotations
by Roger St John
Entry No. 77 LARRY SMITH - (Drummer of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) on UFO
"Ah, yes, I remember it well. We fell into this Irish dance hall, tripping over hundreds of heavenly bodies that had appeared and were scattered across the ballroom floor... It was trippy stuff. And all around and about and above, sliding blobs of coloured shapes like a bad attack of acme, floated peacefully across the faces of those wondrously vacant expressions. It was very ava-gardy.

UK PSYCH (and related) DISCOGRAPHY
Part 37 - Addenda
A few more tiny tiddlers that shook their silvery tails and escaped our vicious dredge-net. Someone (Barry!) dropped our card-index (yes, we are old-fashioned) on the floor, so they're no longer in strictly alphabetical order (he couldnt be bothered to re-file 'em properly).
BIG BERTHA - This World's An Apple/Gravy Booby Jam (Atlantic 584 298) 1969 - Nice, with a raucous edge. Pity they didnt make more like this.
ROGER BUNN - Piece Of My Mind (LP) (Major Minor SMLP 70) 1971 - An interesting album with a delicious sleeve (watch out for it in a future 'Out In The Cold').
CAT'S EYES - All their Deram and MCA 45s have their moments. Inoffensive and quite charming.
FAIRFIELD SKY - s/t (LP) (Or OR 012 (USA issue)) 1996 - From 1973 acetates, sounding much earlier, with some great heavy psych tracks
KELLY - Mary Mary / Reverend Richard Bailey (Deram DM 277) 1969 - much-neglected Deram pop psych gem.
HARLEM SPEAKEASY - Aretha/Sights of Pegasus (Polydor BM 56270) 1968 - 'Nice!' the 'b' side is good quality progressive pop. There are also demo-copies of the withdrawn 45 'Life Is Not All', which is better still.
LOREL - Here And Now (Immediate Acetate) 1967 - If you like Duncan Browne, you'll like this. For 'tis he and his chum, Davy Morgan.
SORROWS - Old Songs, New Songs (LP) (Italy:Miura MIU 10011) 1969 - Great Great Great! Includes versions of tracks by Family (x2), Traffic (x1), and Small Faces (x1); and lovely originals - 'Same Old Road' and 'Mary J'. Bootlegged on psycho many years back.
LEVEE CAMP MOAN - s/t (LP) (Private:Country) 1969 & Peacock Farm (Private:Country) 1969- Two rare old mothers, both are heavy and Hendrix inspired.
SCREW - Nothing known to survive. 'Live' they were the total dogs. Ah, great days...
SILVER EAGLE - Theodore/True As A Brand New Lie (MGM MGM 1345) 1967 - A cheerful little ditty (NOT!), a quite distrubed, downer track.
REBEL ROUSERS - Should I?/As I look (Fontana TF 973) 1968 - Without Cliff Bennett. This is surprisingly good, as are their BBC sessions of the time.
SNAPPERS - Upside down, inside out/Memories (CBS 2719) 1967 - Great Single - we like this!
COLONEL MURPHY'S ELECTRIC TROUSERS - s/t (LP) (Private Pressing) 1969 - This is class-totally metal music. (see a future 'Out In the Cold': Thanks to David for the tape!)
32ND TURN OFF - s/t (LP) (Jay Boy JSL1) 1969 - Hendrix-style wah-wah psych (but not in the same league - obviously).
GUN - s/t (LP) (CBS 63552) 1968 - Includes 'Sitatuion Vacant' and 'Take-Off' - two superb psych pieces. Great Roger Dean cover-art, too (his first).
SWEET CHARIOT - Sweet Chariot & Friends (LP) (De Wolfe) 1972 - Great Stuff! A bit cheesey, but pop psych with a real nice organ (ooh pardon!).
SWEET FEELING - The 45's a classic, but apparently they also cut an (unreleased) LP for Columbia in early '67. Probably gone forever...
IVEYS - Maybe Tomorrow (LP) (Euro/Japan: Apple SAPCOR 8) 1968 - Melodic, Beatles-style pop with some pop-sike overtones, mostly superb; but with a major surprise - the final track 'I've Been Waiting' - its well freaked
(More next time)

FROM The Bumper Book of Psych Quotations
by Roger St John
Entry No. 36 SIMON DUPREE (Nee Derek Shulman) - (with a little help from his friend Brian Matthew) talking about 'Kites'
BM: Can you tell us anything about the song? It's American isnt it?
SD: It's an American number, which our manager, um, picked up in a, a publisher's office...
BM: Mmm?
SD: An' he sort of brought it to us, the demonstration disc, and, er, we were'nt sure about it, I must say. Y'know we were'nt really struck on the number. But the, er, manager said "Do it", and when we recorded it, it seemed to sound really good...
BM: Mmm?
SD: And he said "we'll release this", and we weren't sure still, cos' we had a say on our last three records...
BM: Yeah?
SD: And they didn't really happen very big [laughs], as you can see...
BM: This time you had no say -
SD: This time we had no say and y'know it's happened, which is really good.
BM: So, I guess you'll be listening to him again in the future.
SD: Yeah! [laughs] I should say so! He'll crown me if I don't say anything!
BM: Well we'll "listen to you" right now. Lets hear 'Kites'.
SD: Yeah...
Bet he later ate his words. This was prior to "Simon's" nervous breakdown, supposedly caused by one-too-many performances of 'Kites' to his audience of nubile screaming ravers.

The Shame (Acetate) LP Reviewed
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It don't exist. We've nothing else to say, other than "Ha!Ha!" the letter to 'Record Collector' certainly got 'em all going!

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'TIL WE MEET AGAIN...
Left hungry for more? Well, you'll just have to wait for the next issue of our fact & funfilled freebie. We should have a psycho-analytical study of 'The Bitter Thoughts Of Little Jane'(!), 'Out In The Cold', new release info, the return of 'Web Watch', reviews, quotes c/o Roger St John, and all the usual garbage.
Bye Bye for now!
All contents are copyright (c) 2001 (Sweet) FLORAL ALBION.
The Bumper Book of psych quotations by Roger St. John is copyright of the publisher: Tangerine Books (London); Quoted with their kind permission