Bickershaw Pageant – Quantity 1
12” Vinyl Album
Dandelion Information – Out Now
hawkethos@gmail.com /Motion Information Preston
Bickershaw, a small village exterior Wigan turned the Britain’s very personal Woodstock for 3 days in Could 1972. This album, billed as “A snapshot of Bickershaw Pageant 1972’, provides an excellent glimpse into the previous, that includes tracks from a few of the greatest stars of the day, The Grateful Useless, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, and the Nick Lowe fronted Brinsley Schwarz, who sound remarkably like a bone fide West Coast outfit. The album comes on 180 gsm heavy vinyl, in a luxurious gatefold sleeve designed by celebrated artist Steve Hardstaff, who aside from producing the unique posters for the pageant, designed the duvet for Led Zeppelin 4/4 Symbols (delete as obligatory), that includes the previous thatcher bent half double on the sleeve.
Famously identify checked by each Joe Strummer, (his favorite ever live performance) and Elvis Costello (convincing him to start out a band), the pageant was organized by Jeremy Beadle, who opens the album, after we hear an area speaking about drunk pageant goers, complaining about his function organising every part, with everybody else taking part in a recreation of ‘passing the buck’, because it segues into Brinsley Schwarz’s Give up to The Rhythm. The variance in audio high quality between the desk recordings of Brinsley Schwarz and the rawer, viewers recorded sounds of a late-night Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, appear someway becoming, given the scratchy nature of Trout Masks Duplicate. (one in all John Lydon’s favorite information). We’re handled to that album’s Hobo Chang Ba in addition to Click on Clack from The Highlight Child, launched 4 months beforehand.
Bickershaw Pageant Quantity 1 options the total interview with Jerry Garcia, (saying how he doesn’t actually like acting at festivals), fantastic prolonged tracks from the Grateful Useless, together with Activate Your Love Gentle, Mr Charlie, and the epic Truckin’, earlier than closing with some uncommon insights to the goings on by an unidentified feminine voice – ‘The pageant has all of the ambiance of a medieval truthful with troubadours, jugglers, acrobats and travelling reveals’.
You get an actual really feel of being on the pageant from these tracks, interviews and spoken snippets, making it a superb relic from the golden age of early ‘70’s hippydom. Nick Lowe would go on to cement his place as Britain’s main pub rocker, releasing a succession of high quality singles and LP’s through the punk period of the late ‘70’s, in addition to producing The Damned’s first single New Rose, and dealing with Elvis Costello.
The album is launched on Dandelion Information, famously established by John Peel (and named after his hamster) within the late sixties, and residential to Bridget St John, Kevin Coyne and Drugs Head.
Bickershaw Pageant Quantity 1 is accessible by emailing hawkethos@gmail.com or from Motion Information in Preston in a restricted launch of simply 500 copies.
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