Rooster Blue!
― nypc blue (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 19 October 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
Word is they're going to reissue their back catalog, anyone have the details?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 October 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fairies-john-hyatt-rossendale-valley-6909619
― JoeStork, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
hmmm.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
and after a case of an evil lump, they appear to be back.a boxset to come.a few gigs.i cannot wait.world by storm : still = all time classic.
― mark e, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
:o
just in time for the UK to depart the EU
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
what is your source?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
john hyatts facebook + the official band website.
i dig hard.
― mark e, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
i cannot wait to get a boxset of this lot.all time brilliance.officially, i am not happy as i saw their supposed "final gigs" many years ago (leeds, duchess of york, of course !), and they were truly special .. that said, i soooo wish i was still a leeds boy so i could see them again.one the best live bands i ever saw.hence my recent thread re 'bass/guitar/drum machine'
― mark e, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
great news
― sleeve, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
details !
The complete three johns 1982-1987.all the singles, b-sides + atom drum bop & world by storm. 55 tracks digitally remastered to sound loud and huge as was originally intended
cannot wait ..
― mark e, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
those early singles were the best. used to have a comp with them all on (demonocracy) but that went missing a few years back. awol, windowlene, english white boy engineer, do the square thing... all so good
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
in helstinki i saw a 2 cd set of the three johns albums atomic/world by storm .. and i didn't buy it .. regretted it ever since.
― mark e, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbyIP4PW004
^ english white boy engineer on the tube
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
http://sisterswiki.org/images/thumb/f/fc/1982_05_02_John_Langford_on_stage_with_The_Sisters_Press_Snippet.jpg/480px-1982_05_02_John_Langford_on_stage_with_The_Sisters_Press_Snippet.jpg
^ did you know that langford was briefly in the sisters of mercy?
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
wow.not seen that before.despite the mullet, thats bloody brilliant.
xpost.
― mark e, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
who wasn't ! everyone in ls6 i think got to have a go in the band ..
― mark e, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPR0_8NiNLU
^ teenage nightingales off the same episode of the tube, shame the sound is so crappy
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
boxset ordered.
so, so chuffed ..
― mark e, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Mine arrived, it's wonderful! The booklet is fairly inscrutable, with lots of Jon's art interspersed with clippings and diary entries. There's one disc of singles and 8-9 bonus tracks on each of the albums. Joy!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
oooh my ..
I cannot wait to get it.
I have dug out 'eat your sons' cd, and while not being their best album, it's still sounding bloody brilliant.
― mark e, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
and they always did the inscrutable packaging/chaos thing ..
what kind of bonus tracks? unreleased stuff? the band's site is not very forthcoming.
― sleeve, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
All the albums associated singles tracks. Everything they recorded from 82-87 is covered by the box.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 23 August 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
well, VOLUME arrived today.never heard their trex cover version before - fun but not essential.however, I had totally forgotten about 'brainbox'.not heard it in 30 years.bloody brilliant stuff.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
well, the boxset gets even better.
the live tracks (not from the live in Chicago album from what I can tell), sound amazing.
the fact that they follow after the remastered, and all time classic album, 'world by storm' set makes perfect sense.
originally I was somewhat hesitant re getting this boxset, but i now think it's possibly the best thing i have bought this year.
all i can say is roll on the next boxset : live in Chicago, death of everything, and the dark and hard going, but ultimately very special final album, eat your sons + various remixes/b-sides etc.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
mark I believe those four live tracks are from a bonus single that came with some copies of the original World By Storm LP.
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
ta for the tip off, have been digging around discogs trying to find their original source.
they are absolutely fantastic, and prove to me that i was not wrong to see them in leeds as often as i could back in the late 80s.
they were always massively entertaining.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
ok sleeve, you are spot on.discogs does not say that they are live, but the tracklisting and ordering is the same.as i said, a perfect addition to the new version.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Three-Johns-The-World-By-Storm/release/431573
apparently these are actually from the 'Live In Chicago" album FYI
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
ahh : i have never heard/seen the live in Chicago release.
still, there must more enough of the remaining albums to make another boxset.
that said, if they don't, this will suffice as it ticks everything i ever wanted from them to be honest.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
just realised, that mk1 is now the same age as I was when 'world by storm' knocked me sideways.
30 years on, and the album still sends shivers up my spine, and takes me to a special place.
I genuinely hope the same happens for him when he hears mumdance/pinch etc in 30 years time.
fuck.
I am old.
― mark e, Saturday, 29 August 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
I adore the material in the box. I had and sold "Eat Your Sons" years ago. Should I revisit?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 30 August 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
ahh : meant to email you GMB .. sorry, forgot.send me email sir, and I will fix you up re that album .. its really good in parts ..of course, its nowhere near the perfection of 'world by storm', but very few albums are.basically, this boxset is fucking insanely good.
― mark e, Saturday, 19 September 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
this is the best boxset i ever bought.was only recently that i found out that the three johns vs adrian sherwood tracks are hidden away at the end of disc 3.
― mark e, Saturday, 27 February 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
just found out that my partner does not like this band.i am very conflicted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudDxjkVpIU
― mark e, Saturday, 27 February 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
Which tracks are you referring to, the pair from the "Never And Always" single?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
yup !
― mark e, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
Wasn't there talk of a second box collecting the rest of their catalog?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
all the chat at the quietus re goth has reminded me of the three johns.has there ever been a better band re drum machine + guitars ?the band did a couple of gigs in leeds billed as their final gigs.i went to both gigs at the 'pub with no name' aka 'duchess of york' in leeds.they were so so good.at one point, jon langford looked at the drum machine and said 'oh f^ck, its the hard one ..'they were such a cracking live band.
― mark e, Saturday, 18 March 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
https://louderthanwar.com/john-hyatt-the-three-johns-rip/
― mark e, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:58 (five months ago) link
as is clear from this thread i loved the three johns.
the first time i saw them was a small gig at a weird basement bar in leeds university .. you had to walk through through the student union bar, down some stairs, and then down some more stairs, proper basement place.the gig was a fundraiser for the terrence higgins trust : billed as 'free johnies with the three johnies'.i dragged along a friend, and yeah, it was a night.went to the loo, and phil was have a wiz in the next urinal, absolutely wankered, and this was before the gig ! they were absolutely bloody fantastic as it was the era of 'world by storm', i.e. they were at the height of their powers.after a couple more glasses of wine, i suspect i will be listening to that album later on.
r.i.p john.
― mark e, Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:18 (five months ago) link
so sad to hear. saw them many times - always mighty!
two johns left.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:11 (five months ago) link
it's unfortunate that this great band's legacy gets overshadowed by the Mekons connection, hopefully they will get their due some day
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:13 (five months ago) link
you're right, I do tend to think of them as a Mekons side-project and have never really dug into them that much. I do like Atom Drum Bop a lot and some of their singles but a band I really ought to listen to more of.
I am listening to another Leeds band atm (Sisters) but that's just a coincidence
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:21 (five months ago) link
AWOL/Square Thing/Death of the European/Brainbox/Sold Down The River/Never & Always is an unimpeachable run of A-sides
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link
scroll up a bit and there's a photo of jon langford playing guitar in the sisters xp
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:38 (five months ago) link
lol amazing. we wish go for a xmas drink, it's been a while
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:50 (five months ago) link
aww raise one for me if you do
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:52 (five months ago) link
am up for that cp!
was just reading this:http://sistersfan.blogspot.com/2017/08/eldritch-and-botha-boys.html
apparently there was a pre-three johns band called the botha boys who allegedly played one gig comprised of jon langford, john hyatt, kevin lycett (mekons) and... andrew eldritch on guitar
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:56 (five months ago) link
lots more on langford and the sisters here btw:https://clrvynt.com/jon-langford-interview/
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:58 (five months ago) link
what I wanna know is if they ever shared a drum machine
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:59 (five months ago) link
sounds quite likely imo!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:02 (five months ago) link
(that interview is great, thanks!)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:02 (five months ago) link
oh wow his label put out the The Body Electric/Adrenochrome 7", the b-side of which is one of my favourite Sisters songs
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:03 (five months ago) link
hahaha wiki ftw
The band initially formed just before the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, and their first gig was to be part of a "Funk the Wedding" event, but they were refused permission to play because they were drunk.[1]
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:06 (five months ago) link
What shall we do now?What shall we do?Let's sit and stew in the devil's brew nowDemon drinkThe demon drinkWe will drink the demon drink...
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:09 (five months ago) link
am i right in thinking that it was hyatt that did all the drawings on their sleeves? would check but all those records are buried at the moment
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:11 (five months ago) link
Men Like Monkeys, that's a good tune
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:24 (five months ago) link
always loved this one:
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:30 (five months ago) link
kind of bill nelson-ish in hindsight
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:31 (five months ago) link
very skidsy too!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:32 (five months ago) link
I went to see Superchunk in Brighton the other week and the between-songs-playlist/DJ played Where Were You before they came out, amongst other things. including the Bush Tetras, and I just found out from ilm that Cait O'Riordan is their bassist now wtf
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:37 (five months ago) link
I liked that one. but then I suppose I would because I also like Bill Nelson
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:38 (five months ago) link
what?? haha that is weird, like the flow of the musical timeline has flipped back on itself in an endless loop but somehow its got jumbled up in the process xp
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:43 (five months ago) link
they (the Bush Tetras) just played in London, presumably including Cait, but last month was completely packed with gigs and I just couldn't do it
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:45 (five months ago) link
there youtube footage of the london show, definitely looks like her
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:49 (five months ago) link
looks like it was a lot of fun too
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:50 (five months ago) link
steve shelley on the drums too i think?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:51 (five months ago) link
oh hang on, it was the 3rd, I didn't just wimp out of going, I went to see Slowdive that night. there was some other gig I did skip but obviously it wasn't them
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:53 (five months ago) link
xp probably - that's how I found out about this, someone posted about a potential pub quiz question, what links Sonic Youth and the Pogues?
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:54 (five months ago) link
aha there you go!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:57 (five months ago) link
i guess the analogous question for this thread then would be what links the mekons and dead or alive?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:00 (five months ago) link
the Sisters of Mercy?
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:04 (five months ago) link
I did have to cheat
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:05 (five months ago) link
never really dug into goth period dead or alive, wonder if its any good? i think its all a bit doorsy from the odd thing ive heard
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:08 (five months ago) link
I've listened to a bit of it. some singles from 80-82. yeah that's probably not far wrong tbh. it's not bad - nothing really noteworthy though I don't think
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:11 (five months ago) link
don't mind me I've just put You Spin Me Round on
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:14 (five months ago) link
clear case of SAW improving a band
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:17 (five months ago) link
I went to that I Wish It Was 1985 night last week. it was amazing
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:21 (five months ago) link
Guessing they didn't play any Bogshed?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:25 (five months ago) link
no, it was wall-to-wall Half Man Half Biscuit and the June Brides
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:26 (five months ago) link
haha
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 03:30 (five months ago) link
oof we drifted a bit off topic here eh? ended up reading some interviews and other things with hyatt talking up the projects he was doing while he was having his cancer treatment. a lot of it left me too sad to post links to, but he seems like such a decent and lovely bloke. this is a nice but v brief chat with him from a few years back though talking about the first gigs he went to (but of course he was a feelgood fan!) amongst other things:
https://homemcr.org/article/spotlight-artist-john-hyatt/
What has been your most difficult achievement?JH: I instigated world peace but it is taking a little while to filter through.
JH: I instigated world peace but it is taking a little while to filter through.
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:33 (five months ago) link
jesus, what a great album 'world by storm' is, just tune after tune
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:58 (five months ago) link
that slide guitar on 'death of a european' really reminding me of 'babble'-era TPE
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:59 (five months ago) link
actually loads of it sounds like TPE doesn't it? can totally see Steve Mack singing 'King Car' in my minds eye. Beep-beep!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 10 December 2023 11:08 (five months ago) link
― blazin' squab (NickB)
100%It's a blast of noise, beats and tunes.re TPE : yeah, i get the connection, but nah.The Three Johns were in a different league.TPE wanted to become A Pop Band, whereas TTJ never once gave a shit re such aspirations.
― mark e, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:56 (four months ago) link