Pickup - 1994
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1. Happy Joy
2. Shut Your Cow
3. What's It Like?
4. Felt
5. Gauze
6. Behind The Green Light
7. I'll Wait In Line
8. Haunted
9. Opium Night Life
10. I Know The Sun
11. Heart Of Darkness
12. A Box Full Of Lies
13. What A Life
14. Plains
15. In Their Eyes
16. Old Vic
17. After All …
18. Hove (East Of The Meridian)
19. Sepia
all tracks © 1994 pitch and putt records
tracks 1-3,8,9,12, © Ellwood/Bailey/Durnian/Crewdson. Tracks 4-6,11,15 © Ellwood/Bailey/Crewdson. Track 7© Bailey/Crewdson. Track 10 © Ellwood/Crewdson/Askew. Track 13 © Crewdson.Track 14© Ellwood/Bailey/Durnian/Askew. Track 16 © Ellwood/Bailey/Askew. Track 17 © Bailey. Track18 © Ellwood/Crewdson. Track 19 © Ellwood/Bailey/Durnian/Mitchell. Track 11. Contains dialogue from the film Apocalypse Now. Track 9 Contains dialogue from the film Dirty Harry
Full Line Up: John Crewdson (vox, guitars, keyboards), Shaun Ellwood (guitars), Mike Bailey (guitars), Warwick Durnain (Bass), Mike Askew (fiddle), Neil Porter (percussion), Mark Mitchell (drums).
Following
the break up of Dr.Bone John was without a live group and so decided to finally
turn The Hirundu into a 'proper' band. Along with Uneasy
Listening collaborator Shaun Ellwood and the perennial Warwick Durnain
(now playing Bass), where guitarist Mike Bailey, percussionist Neil Porter
(who had previously appeared on vocals for 'Mr. Porter - Mr. Durnian' on Sparkly
Jugs) and fiddle player Mike Askew. For the bands first live dates (at
the Hogs Head (now the Blue Room) pub and The Tache nightclub in Blackpool),
Neil played a kick drum Maureen Tucker style. The drum position was temporarily
filled by Simon Higson, until Mark Mitchell became a permanent fixture. The
band played a number of live dates towards the end of 1994 including a near
disastrous appearance at the Blackpool Evening Gazette's Rock Battle. It was
mandatory for all the groups appearing to have their picture taken by the
paper's photographer, but the band refused (the paper had a tendency to use
the cheesiest of band pictures) so Mark recruited a bunch of his civil servant
mates as 'stand-ins'. When the band arrived to do the gig they told everyone
that the band that appeared in the paper had split up and that this was a
hastily organised 'tribute' band. (see below)
The Bogus Hirundu (what's an Electric Voilin??) Mark Mitchell is second from left.
The Real Hirundu (from left John, Shaun, Mike B)
Gig List:
14th June 1994 The Hogs Head Blackpool (supporting Blue Fish)
18th August 1994 The New Ship Inn Preston
5th September 1994 The Tache Nightclub Blackpool
27th October 1994 The New Vic Fleetwood
18th November 1994 Apple Annies Blackpool (Rock Battle heat)
22nd November 1994 The Park Lancaster (supporting Blue Fish)
Opium Nightlife Lyrics
Silky Brown
Calypso
Inca Memories
Bringing On The Symptoms Of Tropical Disease
Boiling Hot The Water
To Soothe Your Pain With Ease
Talking Of Biology
With A Box Of Killer Bees
They Sting You Twice As
Hard
Before
They Bring You To Your Knees
The Latent Smell Of Rose
Wood
That's Clinging To The Trees
Floating On The Wind
Out Across The Sea
Breathe Away All Honesty
That's How I Want To Be
That's How I Want To Be
crewdson