Start The Yummy Fur revival

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.

I was at that Lungleg Slampt show but sadly there aren't any crowd shots so I can cringe at how dorky I look

I found this second hand in Monorail a few years ago. Contacted John and he said someone made a bunch of them for the band members so someone must have sold their own copy.
https://i.imgur.com/Ry7kxgq.jpg

Amazed by that, it even has 'This Is Andrew Sinclair' which I have never been able to find.
OTOH it has a few duds and no 'The Career Saver' which is imo the best thing they ever recorded.
Still 9/10 would very much like to hear.

From memory it was all good rips at the correct speed etc. Would be happy to share

Would love it! I'm centuriesofsoundmail at gmail dot com

Ditto, I'm geraldmcbb (at) h0tmail d0t c0m

I was hoping that fan site discography would detail which tracks were re-recorded on "Kinky Cinema", anyone have that info?

Camrade - I have mp3s of the Supermarket 7", email me for them.

It's sometimes hard to tell, since they mess with titles, but here's what's unavailable anywhere:
The Grand Monophonic Yum Yum - from their self-titled cassette
Night Club - from Babies In The Cockpit split cassette

PaulTMA - I'd love to hear that as well! i'm stadtwerker at gmail

Are you the TMATMATMA on youtube who put up the 1998 Yummy Fur show at King Tuts ages ago? If so, thanks!

will send along ASAP

Adding to this queue if you don't mind -- ned at kuci dot org

Paul - thanks for sharing all this stuff! Listening to "The Walt Disne Murder Club" comp, damn they should release this for real so I can pay them!

Is it just me or is "Mondo Coyote" only coming out of the right channel?

Fuck I forgot about this, downloading now, quite excited.

TYF are playing this show at Rough Trade in London next Thursday (a signing session with a gig first) - I will be there.

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/events/rough-trade-east-the-yummy-fur

Hope I’m not too late, but I too would appreciate a link if possible.

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at that bit email provider

that would be *big* email provider

sorry, need more clues

this is like the Yummy Fur version of the Da Vinci Code

I think he means Shmoogle. They're pretty big. Or maybe Softromike.

germ mail

Just got ticket to the Rough Trade gig

North American tour cancelled unfortunately.

Have to sneak out of work a bit early tonight, what a rebel

Camaraderie at Arms Length - if you want to say hello I will be the tall guy with glasses wearing a red, white and black checked shirt

oh hello cp, sorry I didn't see the thread bumped before, I will be wearing a suit as I've also come straight from work.

North American tour cancelled unfortunately.

It is? Damn, haven't seen anything yet, will check...

Yummy fur Tour of United States and Canada update.

Unfortunately this tour has been cancelled. The decision was made a few weeks ago to not go ahead but the cancellation process has been convoluted and this news has been slow to surface. We have waited this long to give everyone involved time to put their house in order. We apologise to the many people who may already have made or be in the process of making travel and accommodation plans. The tour will hopefully be rescheduled for next year.

Ah yes, see it now. Well that sucks.

I don't know if it's partially down to seeing one of my favourite bands for the first time ever, or not having been to other gigs in the last decade, but fucking hell they were brilliant and I'm still smiling two days later.

There is a good new interview here, explaining what they are up to generally

https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/the-yummy-fur-interview-2019

I am tempted to blog their whole discography on this thread, somebody please tell me not to do that.

I'm not gonna stop you. was cool to meet you the other night!

well I can't type tonight but I just checked, "This Is Andrew Sinclair"? Just checked and I've randomly got that, some beetroot based single. I got all the late period shit, I'm missing the early stuff and would welcome and potentially contribute to any blog

(checked twice clearly, is how drunk I am...)

I've been through my collection and am now only missing

'Questionable Book Shoot' from Shared Stereo 7" compilation
The whole 1995 John Peel session

If anyone has any ideas on where to find these I would be very grateful.

I had that years ago but no more. Found it on Soulseek

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