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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2008 16:10:59 GMT
The Viewers - Monsters Rule O.K. B. A. Robertson - Sucker For Your Love Night - The Stripper UB40 - 25 Per Cent The Expressos - Valentino's Had Enough The Pretty Things - The Monster Club Pavane - Faure John Georgiadis - Transylvanian Terrors John Georgiadis Ensemble - Vienna Blood Alan Hawkshaw - Ghouls Galore The Viewers - Monsters Rule O.K. Reprise Pesky festive visitors won't take a hint? Never fear! Subject them to the extreme barbaric aural torture of The Monster Club and they'll be outta your face quicker than you can say Mistletoe And Wine! Yes, it seems that having to witness B. A. Robertson and the Viewers in action during the film wasn't punishment enough for some masochists, so the whole album has been included as a bonus (!) disc with a US DVD release of The Monster Club (not sure if it's available over here?), and thanks to to the fiend behind Universal Horror Sounds blog, those of you with a broadband connection can enjoy a sneak preview of the entire abomination! As only B. A. Robertson, The Viewers, Night and the Pretty Things perform at the club so the soundtrack has had to be padded out with some of the incidental music, meaning you get UB-bloody-40 and The Expressos as well! While i'm about it: The Stripper sequence: Where are they now? Stevie Vann Lange, former vocalist with The Night,(you'll remember they wowed the monsters clubbers with The Stripper), has her own site and MySpace page but for some mysterious reason, she seems reticent to dine out on her celebrated cameo and the film doesn't even get a mention. The girl who actually took off her clothes (and skin), Suzanna Willis, went on to star in Sex with the Stars (aka Confessions of the Naughty Nymphos) the same year. She doesn't appear to have her own site though. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 4, 2008 9:54:05 GMT
Shame there's no original Douglas Gamley stuff from the Shadmock episode. But Mr D - you KNOW I'm going to have to have this.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 4, 2008 13:25:04 GMT
Fantastic stuff, Dem. I must get a copy of this film. Any picture with both BA Robertson and The Pretty Things is tremendous. If it stars Vincent Price and John Carradine, is produced by Milton Subotsky and based on the stories of RCH so much the better.
My brother and I became obsessed with The Pretty Things when I picked up Jasper Carrott's live album Rabbitts On And On And On circa '75 (for Magic Roundabout) and he had a great monologue about the time he supported them. Years later we got to see them at the 100 Club promoting a greatest hits package, the cover of which featured the very battered face of one of them - he'd picked a fight with a bloke who happened to be heavyweight champion of the world. The Things did everything wrong. Dick Taylor left the Stones to play with the PTs figuring the Stones weren't going anywhere and he'd be better off. Every Brit Beat group was trying to crack America, so the PTs decided to head for Australia - and got deported. They moved from r 'n' b to psychedelia to rock, fairly unspectacularly in all departments, but with a hard-core fan base. Bowie covered Rosalyn on Pin-Ups and SF Sorrow was a classic concept album from '67, recorded at Abbey Road as the Floyd were recording The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Presumably they were in one of their many doldrums in the 1980s and Milton liked 'em.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2008 13:50:07 GMT
For years i was under the impression that the bands were filmed at a real venue and i was gutted when Subotsky's friend and many times collaborator Michel Parry disillusioned me of that one. It was just a rotten set.
Here's another brief snippet from the man behind Linda Lovecraft.
I have great memories of visiting the set of 'The Monster Club' and meeting John Carradine who played Ronald in the film. (I suggested to Milton that he ask Mel Brooks to play him (Milton) in the film - they looked kind of similar and had similar backgrounds. I'm sure MB would have done it for a laugh, but Milton decided against it.)
Ronald was a sweet guy too and it's good to see someone helping to keep his memory alive.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 4, 2008 15:46:01 GMT
You can take it as a guarantee that 90/100 anything you see a band doing is faked. The exceptions are simple live gigs where serious bands work hard to get a particular sound . This applies particularly to any one off thing - big stadium or concert hall events are the biggest killer. No ground or studio can afford to set up a sound show and expect it to go well when its easier to fake everything but the lead vocals. Example Lord of the Dance - only thing live - Flattelys feet.
Clearly, decent bands make more of an effort
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 4, 2008 17:51:59 GMT
I should qualify this ridiculously sweeping generalisation. If a big concert is set up with one band with a support its usually live unless its cabaret show (ie Kiss or Meatloaf) but the likes of Elton John and Jagger have given up - Jagger uses a tuner on the voice, Elton has a karaoke lyric sheet when he 'reads' his music. Any one song sung at a big event is not live - at most playback with a vocie.
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Post by carolinec on Dec 4, 2008 23:53:41 GMT
Ooo, this is one of my favourite films - and that soundtrack sounds brilliant. I'd love to get my hands on that!  Craig - you're not trying to tell me that when I go to see my idols, Jethro Tull, playing live they're not really playing live at all?!  I guess there will be some "taped" background music, but surely most of it - lead guitar, drums, etc. - is live? Certainly when I saw the Clive Bunker/Douane Perry drum duets and changeovers they did, they were live - I could tell the difference between Bunker's drumming and Perry's. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 5, 2008 1:52:03 GMT
Sorry Caroline, for some reason I just lapsed into absolute drivel. Of course jethro |ull and other quality bands are live. I was really talking about shows and one off things. Pavarotti for example faked one whole show because of rain. Its mostly typical shows - Celtic Woman for example, loads of other things which are just playback with perhaps the lead singer being live. Apologies. Went momentarily mad.
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Post by carolinec on Dec 5, 2008 12:06:04 GMT
Sorry Caroline, for some reason I just lapsed into absolute drivel. Of course jethro |ull and other quality bands are live. I was really talking about shows and one off things. Pavarotti for example faked one whole show because of rain. Its mostly typical shows - Celtic Woman for example, loads of other things which are just playback with perhaps the lead singer being live. Apologies. Went momentarily mad. Aw, that's OK, I forgive you. Anyone who can call Tull a quality band is fine in my book.  |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 5, 2008 12:15:37 GMT
The Region 1 DVD that's now available doesn't seem to have the soundtrack CD. Damn and blast.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 5, 2008 14:49:07 GMT
The Region 1 DVD that's now available doesn't seem to have the soundtrack CD. damn and blast. The soundtrack is not in the package as a seperate CD but it is on the dvd as part of the package, songs and instrumental music. It can be picked up from Play for just under £8. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 5, 2008 16:35:01 GMT
Cheers!
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 7, 2010 20:23:02 GMT
Arrrgh! Can't resist reposting the cover of this...audio abomination I'm listening to the soundtrack as I type. If anyone else wants to party like it's 1980, check out the appropriate section over on the Manchester Morgue blog. the-manchester-morgue.blogspot.com/Mark S. |
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Post by Thana Niveau on Aug 8, 2010 6:38:42 GMT
Manchester Morgue is brilliant, isn't it? I've found so many gems there!
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I guess there will be some "taped" background music, but surely most of it - lead guitar, drums, etc. - is live? Certainly when I saw the Clive Bunker/Douane Perry drum duets and changeovers they did, they were live - I could tell the difference between Bunker's drumming and Perry's.
