OFF: Pink Fairies/Deviants

[Jon Jarrett]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:

> Exactly the opposite for me - thought 'Previously Unreleased' is a real
> belter rock mini album and 'Kill 'em' is a real disappointment - ah well,
> that's opinion for you.
> Andy Garibaldi.
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> From: "Nick Medford" <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: OFF: Ozric Tentacles/ Pink Fairies
> . The album produced is called _Kill 'Em and Eat 'em_ and is OK 80s
> > >rock with sadly _Xenon Codex_-like production values, but it's not really
> > >what one expects from the PF moniker.
> >
> > I rather like that album, certainly not very psychedelic but Wallis has a
> real
> > knack as a raunch'n'roll songwriter. The Mick Farren lyrics on a couple of
> > tracks are a bonus too. Certainly I like it better than the "Previously
> > Unreleased" mini-album to which you refer elsewhere.

        Well, what there _is_ of _Previously Unreleased_ is pretty good,
thoug none of it really grabs me as stand-out stuff apart from `Coming
Back Again' which has a couple of nice rhymes. But it basically goes to
show that Larry-Wallis-by-numbers is pretty damn good and little more, and
it's only six short songs, when we would expect at least one eight minute
epic with massive soloes a la `I Wish I Was a Girl'. By contrast _Kill 'Em
and Eat 'Em has two or three good *songs* on it, even it lacks the energy
and the production sucks all the life out of it. I still wouldn't take
either of them for anything earlier.

        A thought: who is the bit of the Deviants Mick can't bring
over? Adrian Shaw was to play bass; Larry Wallis is presumably one of the
Pink Fairies members playing and he lives in London; Mick's coming over
anyway; is it Andy Colqhun they can't get? Lame show anyway, it's not as
if they couldn't do something with a substitute even at this late date. I
reckon Larry Wallis should preview some of the new material and do some
stuff with Mick guesting, personally. I'm kind of hoping this occurs to
Oz-IT too. Yours,
                  Jon

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