03 March 2018
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This
is a repeat from last week. A glitch at Seagull HQ prevented transmission
at midnight UK time.
My comments about the winter winds from Siberia (in the Netherlands it is
known as the Siberian Bear) are still very much appropriate...
Let us
look forward to those Bright Summer Days
Chris
B
3rd March 2018
Hour 1
PODCAST
Idle Race-Warm Red
Carpet
ELO-Day Tripper
Idle Race-Skeleton and the Roundabout
Move-What?
Idle Race-Days of Broken Arrow
Roy Wood/The Move-Blackberry Way
Klaatu-I Can't Help It/Mrs Toads Cookies/Older
Dee Long-Outside
Nancy Sinatra-Sugar Town
Donovan-Mellow Yellow
PYT's-Cries From The Midnight Circus
Hour 2
PODCAST
Curved Air-Bright Summers Day
'68
Fotheringay-Winter Winds
Yes-Siberian Khatru
King Crimson-The Great Deceiver
Pete Townsend-Let's See Action/Pure and Easy/Evolution (with Ronnie Lane)
Beach Boys-Girl Don't Tell Me/God Only Knows (accapella)/The Little Girl I
once Knew
Traffic-Empty Pages
The Trees-Streets Of Derry
Hour 3 PODCAST
King Crimson in concert:
Chicago 28 June 2017
De
Montfort Hall Leicester Monday 18th October 1971
16, my first job
was with the GPO as a Trainee Technician Apprentice. Eventually we
mutated into British Telecom engineers, some of us project managing
MOD contracts at USAF bases – now all gone, runways ripped up,
missiles all gone…
So, me on a
first training course away from home in Leicester. Only 40 miles
from my home town of Peterborough, but for three weeks I might as
well have been on the dark side of the moon. What does a young lad
do whose all time favourite album had already been Lizard (at that
time the Crimso Sgt Pepper, and look, there was the proof – the
lettering on the spine was the wrong way round, just the same as
Pepper).
Armed with a
Teleton mono tape recorder strategically affixed inside a GPO
greatcoat – unbelievably the GPO outfitters accidentally had some
fashionable wares for the times. I can still remember; the fitting
form was quite personal, “Is the officer of corpulent build?”
Unfortunately, at the time, it was.
It was bloody
hot cocooned in seat A88 on the left hand balcony of the Leicester De
Montfort Hall. Look, that must be Boz! Gosh, so that’s a mellotron!
Why is Robert playing his guitar without an amplifier? Why can I
hear the singing but not a damn word of Robert’s profound wisdom
between songs? Ooh, Formentera Lady… I hope they do Sailor’s Tale
with those mellotrons… Must keep still to avoid microphonic
rustlings.
Recorded for my
own personal enjoyment, this recording has never been bandied about
amongst collectors. It is a selfish personal recording, one of only
two that I ever made (the other was Jethro Tull at the same venue in
1972) and remains uncirculated. It fills both sides of a Philips
C120. Tape is not sticky and moves freely. Groon is split whilst the
cassette was turned over. Spurious microphonic ‘boops’ caused by
playing on a later stereo machine could have ruined Cirkus but they
are predominantly on just one channel of the dual mono (so, lose one
channel and the ‘boops’ all but disappear). Overall a reasonable
taping with surprising clarity. The commercial bootleggers have
never had this tape.
A restrained
respectful audience… apart from the demand for an encore – the
reward is sadly missing (tape ran out) but before it does there is a
magnificent JP Gumby impersonation…from Boz, probably in full
knotted handkerchief and rolled up trousers regalia.
Glossary
GPO = General
Post Office (in 1971 responsible for Post, Telephony & Telegraphy)
MOD = Ministry
Of Defence
USAF = United
States Air Force
C120 = 120
minute cassette tape
JP Gumby = Monty
Python character
be seeing you
Back next Friday
and on Saturday
Chris & Jez: Hunstanton, Summer 1971 -
Schools Out for 'Bent + Bowles'
Note the 1970 Radio Geronimo T-shirt
See our Radio Geronimo Monte Carlo film documentary here:
Written and Produced by Chris Bent; Edited
and Directed by Mark Dezzani
Winner of Best Short Documentary + Independent Spirit Award:
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