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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1974-07-16
Comments
  • Incomplete audio from a radio broadcast.
  • Slapp Happy recorded for Virgin Records during that label's short flirtation with avant-garde rock. Their guitarist Fred Frith is brother of academic and rock critic Simon Frith, who at the time was an editor of Let It Rock magazine.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: '...Slapp Happy and friends tonight, that's Anthony Moore on keyboards, Peter Blegvad on guitar and vocals, Dagmar lead vocals, Geoff Leigh on sax, Robert Wyatt on percussion and vocals - incidentally we have a track from Robert's solo LP later on in the programme - Lindsay Cooper on oboe and bassoon, Fred Frith on guitar and Jeff Clyne on string bass. The first from that star ensemble, Europa') # &
(JP: 'Curiouser and curiouser') &

Track marked # on File 1

Track marked @ on File 2

Tracks marked & on File 3

File[]

Name
  • 1) Slapp Happy Henry Cow Robert Wyatt Peel Radio session "Europa"
  • 2) Slapp Happy Henry Cow Robert Wyatt "A Little Something" Peel Radio Broadcast
  • 3) SlappHappy1974BBCTopGearLondonUK.mp3
Length
  • 1) 3:07
  • 2) 3:23
  • 3) 1:05:02 (to 10:18)
Other
  • 1-2) Many thanks to CCCharliee
  • 3) Many thanks to unknown taper. Full details at Sugarmegs. It is interesting to note that the sound quality is described as "very good+/ex-".
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