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Post by dem on Jan 25, 2022 9:00:42 GMT
John Firminger - Meeksville: The Recordings of Joe Meek 1960-65 (Pastime Publications, Oct. 1991) The beauty is in the simplicity. 52 page scrapbook of articles, reviews, ads & co reproduced from Record and Show Mirror and New Record Mirror, stiff card covers. This being Meek, death discs and novelty records much in evidence, including two of Screaming Lord Sutch's greatest flops, Til the Following Night and Jack the Ripper; John Leyton's Johnny Remember Me, a cover of Tell Laura I Love Her, and Lone Rider ("There is a coffee bar game, we believe, played by motor cyclists. The idea is to race around the block on a bike and get back before a record on the jukebox has finished. They should try it to this one which has Leyton the lonely boy more alone than ever. He is in fact the ghost of a motor-cyclist who went over the limit. ' Beware young riders,' he chants over the Angel Voice chorus."); the Moonrekkers' There's Something at the Bottom of the Well, and Andy Cavell's Andy/ There Was A Boy "... a death song, but without any direct reference to death. This softens the blow — and the controversy it will create might push the sales along considerably .... Flip is somewhat weird and suddenly switches tempo like crazy. And Andy sings out, with girlies belting away behind him. Definitely, very odd."
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Post by helrunar on Jan 25, 2022 15:00:27 GMT
"Johnny, remember me" is a really beautiful song. There's footage of John Leyton miming to the song on some variety show of the period ("Top of the Pops" maybe?) with girls barely containing their hysteria nearby.
I really like "Night of the Vampire" by the Moontrekkers.
Poor Joe Meek. May his spirit know peace.
H.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 25, 2022 16:42:19 GMT
"Johnny, remember me" is a really beautiful song. There's footage of John Leyton miming to the song on some variety show of the period ("Top of the Pops" maybe?) with girls barely containing their hysteria nearby. H. Loved that record. John Leyton — I recall watching him as Ginger in the failed BIGGLES series that Coronation Street ‘temporarily’ replaced in 1960. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 25, 2022 21:29:16 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 25, 2022 21:39:15 GMT
Wonderful stuff, thanks for posting!
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Post by dem on Feb 26, 2022 18:17:22 GMT
James, hope you don't mind that I've shifted your MRJ flyer and Whelan card onto what has mutated into our designated ephemera thread. Here's a brochure and some flyers to keep them company. Two from Sydney. "These guys are completely mental. You should see them." |
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Post by andydecker on Feb 27, 2022 16:40:27 GMT
Hemlock. Only to be recommended. Great and fast service. I did a lot of ordering in the past and still love the catalogue.
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Post by dem on Mar 11, 2022 10:28:34 GMT
Yet more 'nineties ephemera. The short-live Pernicious Anaemia remains among my all-time most loved fanzines. |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2022 13:05:12 GMT
Yet more 'nineties ephemera. The short-live Pernicious Anaemia remains among my all-time most loved fanzines. Fang-ta-see Feast is at least original. Can it be I never watched 'To Sleep with a Vampire'?  This is a blow. Pernicious Anaemia looks nice. A ghost or Lucy Westenra on the cover? |
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Post by helrunar on Mar 11, 2022 14:33:10 GMT
Love the Beardsleyesque art on the Pernicious Anaemia flier. And would have loved to have heard Inkubus Sukkubus perform at Vampyria though the shopping expedition to procure appropriate garb, not to mention the makeup requirements, would have been a formidable exercise in logistics. I wonder who the extra special super-duper guest turned out to be.
I see Eileen Daly mentioned as a guest--I saw a clip once of her "Redemption's Dark Angel" act at the start of a DVD a friend loaned me and thought she and her friends were really quite funny. Maybe it was meant to be taken seriously--no idea, but I found it wildly campy and appreciated Daly's deadpan elan for the skit.
Beautiful scans; thanks Dem.
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2022 15:32:21 GMT
Love the Beardsleyesque art on the Pernicious Anaemia flier. And would have loved to have heard Inkubus Sukkubus perform at Vampyria though the shopping expedition to procure appropriate garb, not to mention the makeup requirements, would have been a formidable exercise in logistics. I wonder who the extra special super-duper guest turned out to be. I see Eileen Daly mentioned as a guest--I saw a clip once of her "Redemption's Dark Angel" act at the start of a DVD a friend loaned me and thought she and her friends were really quite funny. Maybe it was meant to be taken seriously--no idea, but I found it wildly campy and appreciated Daly's deadpan elan for the skit. Beautiful scans; thanks Dem. cheers, Steve I only saw Daly's vampire movie Razor Blade Smile, and this is a lot of fun. Pure camp, some would call it trash, but I liked it. |
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Post by helrunar on Mar 11, 2022 16:58:58 GMT
I played the trailer for Razor Blade Smile and it looks hilarious! She's a very agile lady!
Best, Steve
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Post by dem on Mar 12, 2022 9:27:11 GMT
Love the Beardsleyesque art on the Pernicious Anaemia flier. And would have loved to have heard Inkubus Sukkubus perform at Vampyria though the shopping expedition to procure appropriate garb, not to mention the makeup requirements, would have been a formidable exercise in logistics. Lyric book as opposed to fanzine, circa 1993, before they replaced the 'c's in their name with 'k's. Sign up to their mailing list, and you'd receive a regular newsheet, signed photo of Candia, etc. Illustrations for most part by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter, Tony McKormack, who also lead the Screaming Dead at the time. Saw them as Incubus Succubus supporting a particularly Spinal Tap-py incarnation of Nosferatu at the Marquee - twice, I think, although second time possibly post name modification. Good live act, short, commercial, goth-punk songs, Candia a charismatic front woman. Belladonna and Aconite still a crowd-pleaser. Pernicious Anaemia was the one that made me want to start a fanzine. |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 12, 2022 13:21:04 GMT
Candia sounds intriguing. I clicked the link. This is great. Is she the vocalist?
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Post by helrunar on Mar 12, 2022 15:04:03 GMT
That's a gorgeous gem, Dem. Wow! Thanks for sharing that. I don't think I'd realized the spelling with the k's was an embellishment. I forget when I first heard of them--circa 1999/2000 I think?
What was the title of your zine? Did you post scans in this thread? You probably did and we probably discussed it--the amnesia of bees-winged antiquity is crippling...
cheers, Steve
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This is a blow.Pernicious Anaemia looks nice. A ghost or Lucy Westenra on the cover?
