Barney Bubbles Memorial Concert and Imperial Pompadours CD

[mike coleman]

well, as the techies thread will ferrit out,  it's no wonder my new (gifted)
(but new) cheap-ass turn-table is a spiritual matter, and quite the
rebellious one (my fave part), completre with intermission if desired.
Riding this new wave of vinyl resurgence which may have been brought about
by simple greed and people's want to 'pose' more stuff, is no other than my
local record dealer who was likely the best source of CD's here in
Texas....and now there's not a CD in sight there and he's pullin' $1000.00 +
per day....solo....
So anyway, what I love about this, is that you must have finally been into
your mum's basement or located whatever shady character from the past to get
your LP back, and now that you've commited it to archival digital format, if
you've not returned it to it's sleeve and it's going into paper, PLEASE
return it very carefully and contact me off-list about the details....
I will require all future RFM releases pressed in wax, and come to think of
it you'll get rich pulling this off so just hand over the LP
you have my address but if you need it again don't hesitate asking



On 10/29/09, trev <judge48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "ERSATZ"   THE IMPERIAL POMPADOURS
>
> Barney's own musical masterpiece
>
> Now available from Real Festival Music:
> http://www.realfestivalmusic.co.uk/music.html
> £7.99 + shipping - all major credit cards accepted
> Original Barney Bubbles artwork cover, burned on archival quality media.
>
>
>
> Go to the Barney Bubbles Memorial all-dayer Concert, 29th November, 229
> Club Great Portland Street, London
> More info and tickets http://www.nikturner.com/  and
> http://www.hawklords.com
>
> Originally planned as a "Sunday Implosion" at the London Roundhouse, the
> concert will now take place at the 229 Club Great Portland Street, London
> with the same line-up:
>
> Hawklords featuring the New Bubblettes, Brian James Gang, Inner City Unit,
> Imperial Pompadours, Quintessence, Jerry Fitzgerald/Lol Coxhill's Fre-Ex,
> Trikimiki's '3-D Space-Warp', D.J. Jeff Dexter, and the Pentameters Players
> performing "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" by Robert Calvert
>
> Plus  psychedelic light shows and visual exhibits
>
> Visionary artist Barney Bubbles was the graphic designer and creator of
> such classic sleeves as Hawkwind's "X In Search of Space," "Doremi Fasol
> Latido" and "Space Ritual" as well as innumerable Stiff Records covers. But
> his vision also extended to light shows, choreography and this record,
> "Ersatz." Collaborating with friend Nik Turner, Robert Calvert, Inner City
> Unit and whoever else was in the studio at the time, they produced a record
> under extreme economic conditions. Barney even designed the sleeve in
> affordable black and white, and kept the band (and himself, as was his wont)
> completely anonymous in the credits. Saving on the expense of studio time,
> they would record first-take versions of songs from a favourite mix tape of
> his after one play apiece. They would listen then record, listen then record
> twelve times in one quick session.
>
> And the songs on Barney's tape? "The Crusher" by The Novas, Little Black
> Egg" by The Nightcrawlers, "Brand New Cadillac", "Black Denim Trousers And
> Motorcycle Boots" by The Cheers. But what wound up on the album were a
> string of versions rendered by a band that had little or no previous
> knowledge of these songs! "The Crusher" is slowed down as to render the
> vocals practically belching or vomiting, not sung, over spartan backing of
> pot'n'pan percussion, drill noises and dinky organ. "See You Soon Baboon" is
> all frantic LSD-rockabilly, heavy on the vocal reverbing. In fact, the
> reverb's in the red on half the tracks here and if it's not the vocals, it's
> the damn guitar or some bicycle spokes being played with a knitting needle.
> From the "Pebbles" archive comes a classic freakout on The Fee-Fi-Fo-Plus
> Four's "I Want To Come Back (From the World of LSD)" with its barked out
> chorus of "A-C-I-D! A-C-I-D! A-C-I-D!" over variable delay speeding. The
> whole thing reeks of low budget experimentalism at all times, especially
> when an egg timer is used as percussion on one track. "Light Show" is pure
> anarchy: an almost "Baba O'Reilly" type anthem synthesizer intro, but ("POW!
> POW!") in breaks a buzzsaw Keith Levene riff -- sans backing -- then Nik
> Turner gives it some Hawkwind-styled intonation over a spare and tortured
> mini psycho-punk bombardment until it all degenerates into a woman shrieking
> over and over: "LIGHT SHOW! LIGHT SHOW! LIGHT SHOW!"
>
> On the back cover legend "Play it LOUD you turkeynecks" the word "LOUD"
> takes up half the space of the jacket but you run a real risk if you make
> good on this suggestion and live adjacent to intolerable neighbours. Because
> one song can suddenly rocket into the stratosphere all noised-up after a
> real quiet passage. Side two is "Insolence Across The Nation" and is a
> surefire rent-breaker at any volume: An album side's length of collaged
> sound effects, samples of Wagner and brief instrumentals backing a
> multi-perspective narration of the life of Adolf Hitler. It's
> psychedelic/punk cabaret action, for sure and one of the narrators is most
> definitely Robert Calvert, slipping into "Captain Lockheed" meets
> "Steppenwolf" psychotic, Teutonic ranting and frothing at the mouth. The
> whole deal is just so twisted and unpolished, this album and the year it
> came out - 1982 -- are completely incongruous. An utterly twisted album of
> variety and creativity.
>
> http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/40#
>
>
> "Barney was, as far as media direction of the youth of this country,
> probably the most important artist of our generation." Douglas Smith
>
>
>
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