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Sunday, April 16, 2006Song Of the Day: April 16, 2006The lovely full-color pic sleeve and the fact that it was on EMI probably disqualify this from being a true "DIY" single in the Messthetics/Kugelberg sense, but nonetheless, it does have some of the same charms as many of the best of those records: weird noises, cheap keyboards, etc. I think this was another one that Steve Mitchell at Low-Down Kids pointed us toward. You should really check out his new, revamped web site. 
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5 Comments:
somehow this song seemed too silly, but the nervous norvus didn't. possibly the woodblock is inherently sillier than the ukelele.
Actually, this is on Kugelberg's top 100 DIY list (#40)
Great record, but lead Cut-Out Grenville Horner is these days a prize tit. I tried to get Mario to leave the record out of his forthcoming tome on 76-79 UK punky(-etc) gear (all finished and due out any minute) for that reason but no... If anyone wants his phone number to ring him up and tell him he's an arrogant self-important jerk-off, mail me.
Great track. The vocals remind me of Jona Lewie. Love Jona's 1978 LP "On The Other Hand There's A Fist"
Ben
I was around when this was made, Grenville Horner was the assistant-designer on Swap-shop and one week they were short of a band, so his band THE CUT-OUTS went on, and Noel Edmunds interviewed Grenville. On Monday morning the band got rung up by E.M.I and the talented John Lecky produced this jem that is still before its time. Grenville designed the record sleeve I believe .The band had a chance to tour with The Tourists (singer Annie Lennox) but they all had day jobs. Grenville is now a production designer...Spice World; Ali G; The League of Gentlemen; 'My son the Fanatic'; '20,000 streets under the sky'; 'Blackpool' . I think he now plays in a band called 'The Love Trousers' with Mark Ellen, editor of 'The Word' (great mag) and founder editor of 'Mojo' and 'Q', who himself used to be bassist in a band called 'Ugly Rumours' with lead singer Tony Blair while at college. The other members of the CUT-OUTS include the singer Graham Crowley, who is currently Professor of painting at the Royal College of Art and guitarist John Feather who I remember with great fondness due to his wit and humour. This was in a time one felt anything was possible, and D.I.Y. summed it up...definitly not manufactured.
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