Start The Yummy Fur revival

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

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