Purchased at Record and Tape Exchange in Notting Hill Gate in London in late 1983 or early 1984
Ref: FS EP 001 - Published by Final Solution in England in 1980
Support: 45 laps 30 cm
Titles: Mrs. & Mrs. - Animal Mentality - Tonight - / - superbeing A - Waiting for the final cue
This is the first disc of Fitzgerald Patrik after his contract with Polydor, with whom he had released his first album Grubby stories and two excellent 45s. For the occasion, he set up a "group", a trio where he is joined by Colin Peacock on keyboards and guitar and Lester Broad, very discrete saxophone.
This EP is the only record released by this group. Their fate has perhaps not been helped by the fact that the label Final Solution who edited it did not last long: he seems to have released four disc all in all, including two albums Gadgets. This is unfortunate because it's one of my favorite records of Patrick Fitzgerald .
is a dark disc as his wallet, and existential depression, although in the zeitgeist of 1980. For openers, Mrs. & Mrs. made the transition with previous records because the guitar sound is almost alone, aside from a xylophone sound for this title short and fast. It is apparently a matter of homosexual affair, but between two men, contrary to what the title might suggest.
The atmosphere changes and ice from the first notes of electric guitar of Animal mentality. There is also a piano, but the set is very bare, as the entire disk. And boredom comes from the first words, "It's only Being Given time to think That Creates boredom, I Could Be Better Off Some Other Way . The solution? Having an animal mentality not to think too much and never get bored ...
Tonight is the peak of the disc. Again, nothing very gay, but between the disks of Joy Division and The Cure, we loved it at the time, and especially it can often do great songs:
" Dying Slowly, feeling ill
I Can not Explain The Way I Feel
People die, and so Will I slow
It Could Be, It Could Be quick quick slow
(...)
Purpose people die, I Will soon
And Then I will not write tunes
Any More And I Will not stand here and talk to you
And wonder what the fuck to do
Tonight. "
The slower tempo than most of the songs Patrik Fitzgerald used the song as accompaniment, always minimal.
The B side continues the momentum, Maybe just a little tone underneath, but A superbeing with his drum machine and electric guitar and Waiting for the final cue finally with the saxophone are great songs that stay in tune and perfectly complement this half-album.
is also one of my regrets that Patrik Fitzgerald Group has not released an album at the time (in 1995, took over the title Patrik Patrik Fitzgerald Group for the album Pillow voltage , but it was not the same formation). A sufficient number of records has yet been made as surely, these five titles, you can add 's Breathing painful and the sublime One by one, released by Armageddon in 1981 and 1982 compilations of the Moonlight Club, Straight boy , the B-side single Personal loss in 1982, but also a first version of One Little Soldier, published in 2006 on the compilation Floating population but recorded in 1980, two years before ending up in another version, opening the album Gifts and Telegrams .
In the liner notes of Floating Population , Patrik said he took as a starting point versions of the group to record and Punch My Death on Gifts and Telegrams entirely solo album as a whole. Since Grey echoes on this album is co-signed by Colin Peacock, one might think that the group was also recorded. What's so I look a potential total of twelve songs for an album of Patrik Fitzgerald Group which, if true, would surely rivaled Drifting Towards Violence for the title of my favorite album of Patrik Fitzgerald ...
The Tonight EP is available on most platforms paid download.
Floating population is always available .
An acoustic version of the 2006 Tonight is listening on page Reverbnation Patrik Fitzgerald .
Patrik Fitzgerald and Colin Peacock, Tonight, Alaska Studio 1980.
is in this same studio as Biff, Bang, Pow! and most of the early Creation group recorded, but that wall insulation does not even seem to be over!
This excerpt from the film Rough cut and ready dubbed also includes interviews with John Peel, Charles Shaar Murray and Tony Wilson.
- Blogonzeureux! Slices of Life Pol Dodu shaped washers recordings. My discs improbable is the first collection of these columns.
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