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Look At The Band, They're A Boyband

by Radioactive Sparrow

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1.
Introduction To The Concert 02:02
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2.
You Got Spunk Coming Out Of Your Ear 06:08
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3.
Get Ready 04:46
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4.
Uncle Sam's Trousers 03:17
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5.
Sex In The Music 00:56
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6.
On A Sunday Afternoon 02:04
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7.
I Want To Be The Engine (Part Of A Car) 04:44
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8.
(They Want It) Back In Slough 04:26
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9.
Yellow, Yellow Day 02:35
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10.
Nietzschean Dance Number 03:06
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11.
Whether You Stand, Whether You Fall 02:32
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12.
Moony River 05:12
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13.
How Do You Get So Far (The Way You Are)? 03:57
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14.
Turn It Down 06:34
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15.
This Is The Calm 04:04
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16.
Live Through 06:28
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17.
Rescue Party 04:19
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about

Radioactive Sparrow in the throw of its lance: from one swing of the band to the crashing tangle of unblooded body parts on the floor of old hope. If a collective vision has any cohesion then it can only be glimpsed as frames grabbed by the eye as they snag it from the rush of uncommon transport. And so here it’s as if Radioactive Sparrow were able to reach into moment and wrest from within it moment.

Look At The Band… They’re A Boyband (the title is a reference to the joke-hook in ‘Crab Boy’ from the 1990 album, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again) was one of several later Sparrow albums that threw together a studio session with a concert recording. In this case, the concert in question was a performance that closed out a night of poetry and improvisation at the Camden People’s Theatre, which was the launch event for the poet Keston Sutherland’s collection Anti-Freeze (Barque Press, 2002). The ‘studio’ session was recorded in Bill’s mum’s bedroom; the tracks that came from it are utterly blazed up by the wild electric guitar of Luno EdLandez, who was then 9 years old.

As it crushes through gaps made for beings a fraction of their age and weight, a band can accumulate badges of historic worth along its way and then claim them as little trophies to tell nobody who looks like they’re interested: in this instance let it be a matter of report that the great English poet J H Prynne was in attendance at the Camden People’s Theatre and came up to the band after the show, saying, ‘Yes, yes, I’ve heard a lot about this. Very good.’

EdLandez only made one other album with Sparrow, ‘We’ve Gone Absolutely Ablbum Crazy’ from the same year. Another journeyman participant, Dallas Boner, appears on the gig tracks. Go over to Cadmus Tape to check his recent collaboration with Gwilly Edmondez (LEAP WARS).

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released September 1, 2002

Credits:
Bill Bargefoot
Heaving Stews
Tony Gage
Luno EdLandez
Bruco Lava
Dallas Boner

Recorded in Ewenny and the Camden People's Theatre, Somers Town, London in 2002

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