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| [ Cleaners From Venus - Under Wartime Conditions ] |
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| LABEL: Modell Records GRAbbER: EAC |
| STYLE: New Wave ENCOdER: LAME |
| RdATE: 18/Jan/2005 QUALiTY: VBRkbps/44,1kHz |
| STREET: 00/00/1985 SoNGS: 10 |
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| - R E L E A S E i N F O - |
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| Anyone read "Lost In Music" by Giles Smith ? |
| Probably not, since it wasn't rlsed as EBook, eh .) |
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| Founded by Wivenhoe's Renaissance man, Martin Newell, the Cleaners |
| were initially Martin and one Lol Elliot on drums. Later, after Lol |
| left to live on Venus permanently, a young local chap approached |
| Martin with a song he'd written and soon found himself one half of |
| the new line up. This man was Giles Smith who is now a |
| much-respected author and has written the best-selling book 'Lost |
| In Music' which focuses on this period in his life. |
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| Band Info 1: |
| http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=martin_newell |
| As the Cleaners From Venus, with assorted collaborators, singer, |
| guitarist and keyboardist Newell (who had been part of the |
| pre-Clash/Gen X London SS) began issuing charming, offbeat |
| cassettes of his kitschy and clever originals in 1981. The fifth of |
| these (Under Wartime Conditions) became the band's first vinyl ù in |
| Germany. Rudimentary and casual, but musically substantial and |
| indicative of anything-goes pop talent, the LP has elements of XTC, |
| Mike Oldfield ("The Winter Palace" instrumental, which sounds like |
| it's being played on water glasses, bears a resemblance to "Tubular |
| Bells"), odd bits of talking and sonic ephemera and, significantly, |
| a "Song for Syd Barrett." |
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| Band Info 2: |
| "WE WERE somewhere between The Beatles and The Bonzos, and didn't |
| take ourselves that seriously," said founder member Martin Newell. |
| The Colchester-based Cleaners From Venus released two albums, Going |
| To England (1986} and Town & Country (1987), both on RCA Germany. |
| Like other Beatlesy concerns, were loved in Germany, ignored in the |
| UK: "We outsold The Smiths in Germany at one point, though we never |
| got the money because of bad deals." Everything fell apart when |
| Newell, on the eve of a German tour, refused to go, citing "mental |
| ill health. I had worked in the studio for a year and never slept, |
| so I burnt out." |
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| Martin Newell (vocals, guitar): Gave up rock n' roll for gardening, |
| and appeared on Sophie Grigson's Channel 4 series Eat Your Greens, |
| Grow Your Greens. Eventually formed the "proto-crustie" Brotherhood |
| Of Lizards with bassist Nelson: "We toured Britain by bicycle, |
| getting paid in vegetables. I became a poet when Nelson left to |
| join New Model Army." Has been successful in his new capacity, with |
| exposure in The Independent and on Radio 4's Loose Ends and two |
| books of poetry (Under Milk Float and I Hank Marvined). Released an |
| album of "wacky pretty tunes", The Greatest Living Englishman |
| (Humbug Records) in 1993 produced by XTC's Andy Partridge, and |
| oversaw a Cleaners compilation, Golden Cleaners (Tangerine |
| Records). Recently toured Japan with Captain Sensible (guitar), |
| Nelson (bass), XTC's Dave Gregory (guitar/keyboards), and Garrie |
| Dreadful from the Captain's band (drums). |
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| Giles Smith (keyboards): Joined the Cleaners in 1985 only to find |
| himself fronting all when Newell backed out of the German tour: "It |
| was a disaster. The president of RCA walked out after three songs |
| which I'd say was a vote of no confidence. After the band were |
| dropped, wrote book reviews for The Independent, transferring to |
| the arts/music pages where he still resides - 'if you can't do it, |
| you write about it.' Is currently writing This is Pop [final title: |
| Lost in Music], a book on the Cleaners 'on failing as a pop star'." |
| If only . . . "I often wish I was playing Wembley. It can't be a |
| bad life being Sting. It's not such a bad life contributing to Q |
| from time to time either." [jangly press] |
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| Band Info 3: |
| http://idiot-dog.com/jangly/text/BOL05.html |
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| Linernotes on the LP-BackCover: "To the disaffected youith, to the |
| microship underclass, to the unemployed... music-pop music belongs |
| to you. It does not belong to the cynical manipulators of multi- |
| national corporations. Take it back from them NOW. If you cannot |
| afford to buy this record you have my full permission to tape it |
| (as if you need it). Now go out and do it yourselves. This is Pop. |
| Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" |
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| Thanks guys .) |
| Enjoy. |
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| 01. Summer In A Small Town 05:03 |
| 02. Johnny The Moondog Is Dead 03:59 |
| 03. Hand Of Stone 03:27 |
| 04. Drowning Butterflies 04:54 |
| 05. Radio Seven 01:06 |
| 06. Fracas On West Street 03:02 |
| 07. Lukewarm Lovesong 03:29 |
| 08. A Blue Wave 03:19 |
| 09. Song For Syd Barrett 03:52 |
| 10. The Winter Palace Part One 03:54 |
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| 36:05 min |
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