The keen eyed or at least sharper memoried of you will notice that this demo has been posted on here before. However, I was contacted recently by a chap called Mick who has remastered quite a lot of stuff... a technical proficiency way beyond my comprehension... eh DomP! Listening to this through, this is clearly a brighter collection of songs that were posted originally. Many thanks Mick for the share!
I am guessing (in a hopefully educated manner) that Mountain Studios were in fact Mountain Sound Studios in Snowdonia, owned by Ian Gomm, formally of Pub Rock giants, Brinsley Schwarz and established after the band parted ways. In terms of timelines this would make perfect sense and The Stranglers would have rubbed shoulders with members of Brinsley Schwarz on the London Pub Rock circuit in the 12 months preceding this demos session.
The session itself is priceless, a snapshot of a band on the verge of breaking on the one hand but still very raw. That 'Stranglers sound' is there but not as yet as we would come to know and to love it.
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Artwork: https://we.tl/t-TsRyFnRZ3q
01. Peaches
02. Down In The Sewer
03. Bitching
04. Tomorrow Was (The Hereafter)
If anyone wants any concerts remastered then just let Adrian or me know, I have done everything from Damned, Pil, Pistols ,Banshees to GBH, Discharge, Flux, Circle jerks, DOA, Bad Brains. etc etc
ReplyDeleteSounds good, nice alternative to Peaches. Noticed that Brixton 1991 has recently cropped up on dime, any chance of a upload of it here? Thanks
ReplyDeleteIts not one I have yet, but if one pops up ill master it
ReplyDeleteI can send you it, Brixton 91, i uploaded it .
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