Start The Yummy Fur revival

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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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

I will have a look on there again!

Also I still have no idea what was on those first two demo tapes (The Yummy Fur - 17 Tracks, The Edith Massey Eggsplosion, 17 Tracks) but presume that's the other stuff on Kinky Cinema. Someone on bandcamp is trying to sell four (skipping) tracks from the second tape for £2, all are on kinky cinema.

I've got Shared Stereo on mp3. Can do Dropbox or something?

Would also like to know what's on those tapes!

Would be brilliant - james at centuriesofsound dot com !

Didn't find either on slsk, but there is a lot more yf on there than there was when i last checked in 2018

> The whole 1995 John Peel session

there were two peel sessions on youtube when i looked (and one for someone else?)

can only find a 1998 session on Slsk

sent you a Dropbox link - I've sent the whole thing - it's at 96 CBR but that's because it's mono, would be 192 in stereo

I just put the 1995 Peel Session on Dropbox, along with scans from a contemporaneous zine interview. I sent the link to Camraderie/James, let me know if anyone else wants it.

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

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