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[]
- Andy Mackay #1. Recorded: 1974-06-24.
- Slapp Happy #1. Recorded: 1974-06-25. Available on John Peel Session (25th June 1974) digital EP, 2010 (EMI UK). "Little Something" available on Robert Wyatt - Flotsam Jetsam Rough Trade R3112
- Tony Capstick #3. Recorded: 1974-05-13. First Broadcast: 11 June 1974
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') # &
- Slapp Happy: Europa (session) (# - cuts out early) &
- Slapp Happy: A Little Something (session) @
- Slapp Happy: War (session) &
- Slapp Happy: Me & Paravati (session) &
- (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-".
- Available
- 1) Soundcloud
- 2) Soundcloud
- 3) Archive.org