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Re: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:13 pm
by Pervert
The album was pretty good---vocal support from Patrick Allen and Chris Barrie, good cover version of Born To Run, and three number one singles.
Re: Relax and The Blockheads
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:22 pm
by Shelley Louise
I am POSITIVE I saw a Tv programme where a demo of Relax was recorded with the Blockheads and Holly Johnson or some blockheads band members were session musicians on the track that was a hit.
Re: Relax and The Blockheads
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:06 pm
by Shelley Louise
Some time later, producer Trevor Horn admitted that in fact he had recorded a 'demo' version of "Relax" with FGTH and The Blockheads, the renowned backing group for New Wave icon Ian Dury. He had then cut a second version with FGTH alone, but was unhappy with the result of both sessions, and had finally taken the tape away to work on. Horn allegedly spent five more weeks augmenting the track with extensive overdubs by session musicians, incorporating previously recorded bass hooks by the Blockheads' Norman Watt-Roy and a bass pulse sampled on a Fairlight CMI two years earlier at Battery Studios by session bassist Mark 'Thumbs' Cunningham.[i/]
Thought I had it in my memory somewhere.
Re: Relax and The Blockheads
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:14 pm
by Shelley Louise
^^^^^^^^
Tarquin made me do it... honest!
Re: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:14 pm
by myson
I first heard Relax and FGTH on the offshore station Lazer and it blew me away.
A slight highjack (my apologies Magoo old bean).
The offshore (so called "pirate") stations were far superior IMHO than any of the crap radio that infests our lugholes these days.
Highjack over, you can now return to the subject in hand. I thank you !laugh!
Myson
Re: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:53 pm
by colonel
They were fucking shite.