Sunday, 30 April 2023
Mad Dub
Saturday, 29 April 2023
Wave Forms
Friday, 28 April 2023
Disco Heater
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Could I Have Some Mash To Go With This Banger, Please?
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Start The Music
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Hell Bent For Leather...Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Monday, 24 April 2023
This Guitar Kills Metaphor
Sunday, 23 April 2023
Sahel Sounds Sunday
Saturday, 22 April 2023
Out Here On The Perimeter, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
Friday, 21 April 2023
Cut The Night
Thursday, 20 April 2023
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Until These Things Get Better
So, what better way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that release with another Aztec Camera post, featuring performances of two of the album's many highlights?
The first is Lost Outside The Tunnel, live at TVE Studios in Madrid on 18th September 1984. The song was originally the B-side of second single, 1981’s Mattress Of Wire, and the album version nearly made the selection yesterday. Roddy and co. provide a great version here.
The second did make the previous Dubhed selection in 2021 and is my second favourite non-single track from High Land, Hard Rain, after Orchid Girl. The performance of We Could Send Letters is taken from a Channel 4 show called The Switch, circa 1983.
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
All My Friends Will Make Amends
The first and last Aztec Camera selection to feature here was in September 2021. Having to reload my digital music collection inevitably unearthed the albums I'd uploaded from 1983's High Land, Hard Rain to 1995's Frestonia and taking in the Japan-only compilation Covers & Rare from 1993. Along the way, and courtesy of The Vinyl Villain's championing of all things Roddy Frame, I got to hear the first two Aztec Camera singles on the Postcard label, released in 1981.
Today's selection lifts one song from each Aztec Camera album, plus singles, B-sides and covers. The production may at times plant the music in a specific time, but the songs are timeless, closing with what I think is one of Roddy's finest lyrics and the inspiration for today's post title.