April 1978 Fragment

[Stuart]

Well thanks to the repeat session listings in Ken's book, both sessions were repeated on the 5th of May 1978 so that looks like the date!

Even so that would make it the earliest available clip from 1978, so thanks for the great find! I'll set up the page on the wiki, do you want to tracklist or shall I?


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Darren Giddings <darrg@...> wrote:
>
> Here's the April 1978 extract I mentioned in an earlier post:
> 
> http://www.fileserve.com/file/TysZbFp
> 
> Again apologies for people unable to access Fileserve - perhaps  
> someone will copy it to somewhere more convenient ... ?
> 
> It comprises 39 minutes from the middle (probably?) of the show, is  
> heavy on hiss and treble, and sadly there is a little bleed-through  
> from the other side of the tape which can be heard in the quiet bits  
> (ie. Ivor Cutler tracks that 'start very quietly'). I found it about  
> thirty years ago on the reverse of a tape one of my dad's then- 
> workmates had done for him, so I think the likelihood of finding the  
> rest of it from the same source is fairly slim (the place my dad  
> worked in shut down a couple of years later, for a start).
> 
> As for dating it - I think it is probably 12th April as that would  
> tie in with the Ivor Cutler session. The Whitecats session I think  
> debuted on 3rd April, though it seems a bit premature to be repeated  
> nine days later. Perhaps it was recorded on 3rd and this was another  
> first TX? Any other thoughts welcomed .... I haven't done anything to  
> the wiki due to the uncertainty of the date.
> 
> Darrg
>