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Prepare For Impact
February 17, 2009, 9:30 pm
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1-track US promo for ‘All The Dark Horses’.

This CD included 10 bonus tracks from the ‘Fez’ album (the insert states only 9).

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All The Dark Horses
February 17, 2009, 9:18 pm
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Released in the UK only as a 1-track radio promo, ‘All The Dark Horses’ was surprisingly the only single from fourth album ‘Weightlifting’.

Photographs by Martin Gray. Sleeve design by Emlyn Firth.

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2005 Picnic Records PICEP002



Johnson
February 15, 2009, 3:51 pm
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…were a moody sounding Nick Cave/Scott Walker-esque 5-piece fronted by Peter Rose – co-engineer on ‘Cake’ and also the mainman behind ‘Ostle Bay’, a collaboration with TCS.

Johnson released a total of four singles, three of which are included here.

The first of these singles, ‘Tripping With The Moonlight’ was a limited 7-inch release of around 500 copies and was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road Studios in Kilmarnock…

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The second single, ‘Savoury Body Show’ featured Stephen Douglas on drums and backing vocals.

Limited to 500 copies this 7-inch release again, was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road…

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Third single ‘Skin & Gold’ was again limited to 500 copies and features Stephen Douglas on drums. ‘Skin & Gold’ was recorded and produced by Frank Reader, whilst the B-side ‘Paradise’ was recorded by John Douglas, both at Shabby Road…

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All singles were released on their own ‘Play’ imprint.

The label was also home to ‘Heirloom’ – another TCS related artist – who at one time included Jody Stoddart. John, Paul and Grant Wilson have all played with them along the way and Davy Hughes’ brother Neil played bass.

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Are You Talking To Me, Or
February 13, 2009, 5:58 pm
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‘Chewing A Brick’ is a 39-track double CD of live tracks.

An un-official release, it consists of two main shows from Queens’ College, Cambridge UK on March 3 1993, and from Club Quattro in Tokyo Japan on September 22 1996. There are three additional songs from Club Quattro from September 21st of the same year.

Both recordings are excellent quality, coming from soundboard tape and DAT.

You’ll notice that the spine of the CD includes the final piece of the anchor image which accompanied the ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ releases. The liner notes give a brief history of the band including a ‘TCS Family Tree’.

The CD’s are named ‘Over The Moon’ and ‘Under The Influence’ – taken from the song ‘Easy Read’.

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On A B Road…Again
February 13, 2009, 3:28 pm
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22-track CD-R which was released exclusively to members of the TCS mailing list.

This was made available around the summer of 1998 and was a follow-up release to the single ‘On A B Road’ compilation from 1996. The original B-Road compilation had 21 tracks and the packaging was nearly identical.

Only 21 of the tracks are listed on the insert, the omitted track being ‘Aberration’.

Although this is a CD-R, it was made with the permission of Go! Discs, who quite kindly ‘looked the other way’.

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