Start The Yummy Fur revival

man you're behind the curve!

I listened to a 7" of 'Stereo Girls' the other day. It was better than I remembered. Where can you get their albums nowadays, though? Amazon seems to come up with nothing.

Blasphemy!

are liliput good? i just allmusic-ed them and they're in esteemed company: the slits & the raincoats.

Yes!

Now listening to "Eisiger Wind" on repeat.

downloading that mp3 now tho & eyeing up that liliput/kleenex reissue on amazon.

Search: Nightclub LP and Kinky Cinema CD (59 minute long 60 track! compilation)

Destry: Sexy World LP

Also worth a punt if you like the Kleenex/Lilliput thing were The Yummy Fur's contemporaries Lung Leg.

Ha -- listening to Kinky Cinema, trawling thru the archives for YF discussion, and I come across Douglas' post just as "Liliput" starts playing!

THE YUMMY FUR ONE-OFF REUNION GIGS FOR GM 15 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY
Next year GM celebrates 15 years in 'Tha Biz' with some special events.
The first being a one off gig by the main band we used to put rekkids
out by in the nineties, Glasgow;s THE YUMMY FUR, who featured a
couple of members of Franz Ferdinand and were fronted by John/Jackie
now of 1990s. TYF play Glasgow (Sleazys) on Jan 7th and London
(Buffalo Bar) on Jan 9th (tickets for London will be on
www.wegottickets.com from Dec
1st)... the group includes John, Brian and Paul Thomson back together
again. (Following these 2 shows the band play a couple of dates in the
U.S too!)

Following these 2 shows the band play a couple of dates in the U.S too!

What?? That's crazy talk. Austin, TX please?

Awesome! Brian and Paul, celebs though they may be, may be surprised at John's pulling power after the show..

should i not have sold my yummy fur LPs and CDs?

If I'm unable to get into the Glasgow gig due to Sleazy's being swamped, then I'll be deeply miserable.

Full 'Shoot The Ridiculant' video makes it to Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8G3Xtx3xwM

The Yummy Fur - 2009 North American Tour Dates
Jan 14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Neck Tie (England Belongs to Twee)
Jan 15 Brooklyn, NY - 171 Lombardy
Jan 17 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo (Part Time Punks)
Jan 18 San Francisco, CA - Cafe du Nord
Jan 20 Portland, OR - TBA (Suicide Club)

Jan 17 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo (Part Time Punks)

Nice.

Brooklyn tnite (show moved to Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle)

Saw them in London on Sunday.

A little under-rehearsed but a lot of fun.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/027002/f1/nlc002290-v6.jpg

I totally forgot about The Yummy Fur. I totally forgot I made this thread.

Saw them in London on Sunday.

A little under-rehearsed but a lot of fun.

Yeah I went to that one, it was a fun gig.

Are the 1990s any good?

Pretty boring imo and nothing like The Yummy Fur really

I saw them play a couple of songs at a gig a few years ago but cannot remember a thing about them.

The 1990s are poppier, less Fall-y

They're back!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-yummy-fur-reuniting-for-fall-north-american-tour-w-bodega-future-punx/

Nov 23 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer *
Nov 24 – Los Angeles – The Echo *
Nov 25 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop *
Nov 27 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
Nov 29 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern *
Nov 30 – Vancouver – Biltmore Cabaret *
Dec 02 – Toronto – Adelaide Hall ^
Dec 03 – Brooklyn – Elsewhere Zone One ^
Dec 05 – Philadelphia – Kung Fu Necktie ^
* w/ Future Punx
^ w/ Bodega

Holy moly, ok!

Amazing, but wish they would tour the UK, one of my 3 favourite bands and never seen them live

Was expecting the comic, but Chester Brown went kinda nuts anyways.

Jade Green from Lungleg has just uploaded this brilliant footage from I think 94 or 95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3dK4bVbF8

Also I'll be seeing them live in just a couple of weeks!

Amazing! Rest of the channel is worth checking out inc. Lung Leg footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-onf93bdBVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODy_mysNDzI

There is no Lungleg thread on ILM, for shame!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fYD2Rf6LVc

Don't they have a message of singles and whatnot that's uncollected? Would love a comprehensive sweep up of that stuff.

There's a career-spanning compilation coming out next week but it's an overall best of:
https://shop.rockactionrecords.co.uk/browse/rock-action-records/products/the-yummy-fur-piggy-wings-lp

signing and gig at rough trade east on the 24th

Circa 2005 there was talk of a compilation and reissues on Bada Bing records but nothing came of them. Shame, as they would have benefitted from the Franz Ferdinand mania of the time (I even remember seeing a photo of the YF in a tabloid article about FF). Would be nice if the singles are not all vinyl tips but they don't strike me as the sort of band who would look after their masters

rips

Yeah when I saw news about a release I was a bit annoyed it's just a best of. Most of their stuff is way OOP, I have a bunch of singles but only 1 album. My local record shop was playing the Sexy World LP the other day and I went and asked how much it was but it was their personal copy and not for sale!

I might see if I can get to that rough trade gig though, it's pretty near my office and I am in the office that day

i have the first couple of eps but don't recognise any of the track titles. (mainly because the eps had names that weren't track names. Kodak Nancy Europe, Music By Walt Disney But Played By Yuri Gagarin Thus a Political Record...)

wikipedia says there was already one comp - Kinky Cinema (Guided Missile CD, 1997) but discogs has no details.

It is on discogs but you have to search for it, for some reason it doesn't show on the main Yummy Fur page

Kinky Cinema has a lot of re-records on it, despite having a billion songs on it it's not even comprehensive of the band up that point

Off the top of my head (it's been years since I've heard it), tracks from this EP and later singles do not appear in their original superior forms
https://www.discogs.com/The-Yummy-Fur-Music-By-Walt-Disney-But-Played-By-Yuri-Gagarin-Thus-A-Political-Record/release/401865

That one is on the Seven Unlucky Sevens Slampt compilation, which I do have!

So happy to see interest in The Yummy Fur.

Kinky Cinema is fantastic, but does include many re-records / alternate versions, it isn't at all a comprehensive selection. (Most egregious omission for me is 'Typical of Boys' which I've uploaded to Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVdV3Pe5_s

There is a comprehensive TYF fansite here which has a proper discography.

http://www.mcgazz.co.uk/yummyfur/

I've been trying to get hold of everything in one form or another in order to put together a proper compilation for myself, would like to share it on here but right now nothing is available to buy and nothing is on spotify, only a few things on Youtube too, so ideas welcome. If people can make decent rips of the early EPs that would be great too of course.

Wow CP and city worker, think that is everything!

After listening I'm going to sort them and find something to do with them.

i've been told that Questionable Book Shoot might be the same track as Shaggy from Kinky Cinema, possibly even the same recording

I have come to the same conclusion, yup.

Alrighty then, going to do as threatened and turn this thread into a TYF listening thread. I've set up a Youtube account for the purpose, and tried & failed to get in touch with John / Jackie to get his permission to upload everything there.

If it's only me on this thread and occasional other posters then that should be ok, but should point out that most of the early tracks are less than a minute long anyway, so why not have a listen to (one of) my favourite band(s).

Let's start with some undated early demos later put on the 'Kinky Cinema' compilation, no idea when these are from, so putting them at the start as they sound raw and scratchy.

This is 'The Walt Disney Murder Club' - a good place to start as it explains what the group are about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-84mgoSjuYY

you might try contacting here? https://www.instagram.com/mckeowntyler/

Ah, there he is. Tyler now?

Gimme Cigarettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFDyK5uiew

Pro-cigarette propaganda, not one of their best tbh, good melody on chorus though

180bpm!

Gimmick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poRypC7SIrU

A kind of carnival sound, still ends with "fuck you" - also, that drumming!

Found a Girlfriend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDes12wq9k

Very low-fi early demo, clearly from a warped tape, some good playing with rhythms, sounds a bit like early The Fall.

Oh and thanks Tracer Hand, I have been given the ok!

Nice :)

The Dummy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jki2vNm5B0o

Prostitutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zrPBVMCMeE

I got prostitutes, prostitutes, prostitutes on my wall
That cheap Sam Fox from the telephone box
She's not a barbie doll
These are real hard girls trying to make some cash
We are just dumb punks
Steal their calling cards 'cause it makes us laugh
It's very hard to grow up, yeah

I feel like I must have been assuming some kind of alternate persona when I made this thread. but 16+ years later and I'm still here and I still love this dumb band.

They're not a joke pop band (yes I do accept that the surface of this band is much like a cartoon)

by which I mean yes!

Always a pleasure to listen to.

Yummy Fur vs The Stooges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0beBwTQoXg

Five seconds of noise, five seconds of silence, that's what yr getting.

The Monotony Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-CICHcS0Q

An admittedly skippable one works well for a day when it's unlikely anyone wants to listen anyway.

Discord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYRB7o4t24

A fast! cover version of the Peel session version of the Fire Engines original, actually great, just wish it were a bit longer.

(Still posting these despite everything because got to have some little spark of joy in my day)

Our Peppermint Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCfxhSXzjQ

This one, I think, is quite Cardiacs.

Thank you for posting these, Camaraderie. I'm following this and listening...

Cheers city worker

This is Super-8 Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz47ZyaX2Ys

Sounds cheeky

This is the last of the really early demos, however we are not going to move to much higher production values for quite a while.

On to Music By Walt Disney But Played By Yuri Gagarin Thus A Political Record - their first proper release.

This is 'Goosebump' - bit of a low-key start to the EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkzl9tVsCx8

Always thought it was funny how he nails the anxiety of the subject matter in the 7" version, but sound like he can't be bothered when it appears on Kinky Cinema

I'm still hoping for a comprehensive list of single versions I need to track down.

The re-recordings of MBWDBPBYG tracks on Kinky Cinema are some of the weaker bits on there. I'm actually going to post the re-make of Father Ubu Says because of the way he changes the lyrics to ones about how much he hates the song.

"I was only 23 when I wrote it..." etc.

Shrinky-Dink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-j6e0b8Xgo

Pink Pop Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYXBbsWZjQ

Stuttering rhythms give way to a bit of low-fi power pop, then synthesis

The re-recordings of MBWDBPBYG tracks on Kinky Cinema are some of the weaker bits on there.

Is everything on "Kinky Cinema" a re-recording?

No, it's a mix of early demos, mid-period demos, re-recordings and new experimental bits in roughly equal proportions.

oh and the first ten tracks are the Kodak Nancy Europe ep

Kabuki Actors Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRfG2ji8co

There! is! no! Santa! Claus!

This one is fairly new to me as I never had this EP, and there wasn't a re-record on Kinky Cinema.

So, I totally love this band and know these records really well but it's been hard to get into this thread. Breaking up something like Kinky Cinema (which is 60 >90 second songs) into individual tracks feels quite academic, like putting a frozen tissue sample under a microscope. Which is fine, even potentially revealing but to my ears reduces it to something like a historical artifact.

IMO, this would work better record-by-record than track-by-track.

It will make more sense when I get to more substantial releases.

Will continue this tomorrow as I finished a Twitter thing which was taking up all my time.

The 7" singles and EP's are their most substantial releases! IMO

They are! But I want to give time to listen to both sides of Supermarket / The Career Saver for example.

Ok, here we go again.

Candy Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_csKFu6iQ

Candace June Clark (born June 20, 1947) is an American actress and model. She is well known for her roles as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film American Graffiti, for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Mary Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.

I suspect checking out TYF references might be why I ended up going to film school.

Part one of a Chinese-themed double, this one mixes a falling-down-the-stairs bit with a more conventionally tuneful bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0e8_rd2ig

Mao Tse Tung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_4_z5ZKLw

Funky Mao

Father Ubu Says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmBCIM3qRY

A song with lots of swears. Later on there will be another song to apologise for this one.

Frankenstein A Go-Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dJbzvzJfvg

It's time to go go

The Opptical Meat Dress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPdicUuqlI

This is one of my favourites, so many things happen in 50 seconds, that slap bass at the start. It's almost a Cardiacs song.

Hm I should get back to these. One day.

Anyway, here is the greatest song ever recorded. It sounded wrong on the Piggy Wings CD, so I fixed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLA5-Ju01G4

Kodak Nancy Europe >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yankee Hotel Foxtrot