Start The Yummy Fur revival

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

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.