Welcome to the second week of our piscine collection. This one wasn't actually a tape either, being three tracks bequeathed unto myself by Larry Peterson for reasons explained last week, plus I've added their token 7" seeing as it's great and will presently set you back $75 on Discogs, or fifty-nine pounds and fifty-six English pence, if you like. As with the Peter North tracks, I've given it a title from one of the songs, and it's pure coincidence that it also refers to fish.
Down to business...
Sally Patience were Catherine O'Sullivan and Michael Jones. Michael Jones was a member of the Event Group who also had a solo tape available from Cause for Concern (which I should have bought but didn't) and who was half of the Mandible Rumpus. Mandible Rumpus recorded Laugh which possibly remains the greatest thing I've ever heard on a DIY cassette and which sends shivers down my spine to this day - and which is on Larry's excellent Sudden Surge of Power compilation in case you haven't already bagged it.
For the sake of argument you could probably call both Mandible Rumpus and Sally Patience - of which no member is named Sally, by the way - the same thing: early analogue synth duo with a faint touch of Banshees and probably what all the kids on the street now term cold wave. Actually, considering what some of the synth duos who made it big sounded like, it's a massive pisser that this lot didn't. I'm not sure I've even met anyone who owned an Erasure record.
Tracks:
1 - No Fish
2 - Susan
3 - Under Donahue's Church
4 - The Triangle Man
5 - Buried in My Boots
THANKS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHello Lawrence! To complete the triangle - Mandible Rumpus - Bernadette Keeffe, Michael Jones. Sally Patience - Catherine O'Sullivan, Michael Jones.
ReplyDeleteThe Ectomorph - Bernadette Keeffe, Catherine O'Sullivan, Michael Jones.
There is also a tape knocking about from around '78 billed as The Event Group but is, infact, an earlier recording by Bernadette Keeffe and Michael Jones (so pre Mandible Rumpus) for a Poe theatre production.
Thanks for the info! Do you know if the tape 'billed as the Event Group' was the one Larry released on CFC by any chance? I don't have that either but I'm interested to know.
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