39 Lyon Street - Kites39 Lyon Street is Christine Beveridge from Orbidoig on vocals with the Associates, released in 1981 during Mackenzie and Rankine's Situation 2 period, the b-side found it's way onto Fourth Drawer Down but the cover of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound's classic didn't resurface until the last singles collection I think. The Associates could basically do no wrong during the Mackenzie/Rankine era, they were just churning out single after single in 1981 and this came out slap bang in the middle of this period. According to a Smash Hits interview of the time, 18 Carat Love Affair was supposed to have been a further 39 Lyon Street release but Kites turned out to be the only thing released under this name in the end.
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Kites is terrific! I remember Smash Hits writing about it way back when (I still have the cutting tucked inside my copy of Sulk I think!) but I only finally got to hear it a few years ago. Don't 'spose you have the first Orbidoig 7" (Nocturnal Operations) at hand do you, I'd love to hear that one day...?
P.S. Good blog btw!
Pity it wasn't included on Fourth Drawer Down really, the version on the Breakfast b-side is worth a listen as well...
And yes, I've got the Orbidoig/Sensation Creed 7" (in fact I think it's the 12" with the extra b-side), could have sworn I'd posted it but apparently not. I'll plonk it up next...
Woop! x
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