The Associates - Live In Edinburgh 1985I seem to be having a run of finding stuff I've haven't heard from my all time favourite bands at the moment. Chameleons, Microdisney, Martin Dupont and now this. This is quite interesting for various reasons, Alan Rankine had left the band at this point, and in fact Billy was the only original member. It was the era of Perhaps, he'd played Ronnie Scott's the year before with a torch song set but this was with a full band. Party Fears Two gets an airing, as do a couple of other Sulk era songs (which was never really toured due to various reasons, Rankine leaving, Billy not really wanting to hence Rankine leaving etc). Heard bits and bobs from this before, but never the whole gig. Until yesterday. So here we are, Billy Mackenzine and his new Associates coming off the crest of a wave created by Sulk. Nowhere to go but down but such heights to fall from.
5 comments:
Fantastic thanks for sharing this, I have been looking for live stuff for years I dont understand why they or someone didnt release an album of the ICA 1980 gig only Gloomy Sunday has seen the light of day (on the Double Hipness CD)which is very banshees.
Thanks again
I've got a couple of Associates bootlegs from 1980 (Marquee and something in Holland) but no ICA, alas....
Sorry but people dont usually respond so I havent checked the comment I posted, would you be at all possible to post these bootlegs or would you rather trade?
Kind regards,
European Son
I'll try and post them within the next few days!
Thanks again for the excellant posts I found this site whilst trawling the internet http://www.esnips.com/profile/9cb4b59e-bd4e-4d83-ba86-c7940a94a0c9
It looks they have a few live bits on their just havent had the time to go through it yet.
Thanks again
European Son
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