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Jactars

The Jactars were a Wirrall-based band (then moved to Liverpool city centre) formed in 1984 and consisting of Ian Travis (aka Trav, guitar and vocals, former Culture Disaster, Zyloids, Crompton Vest Band, Jades), Dave Morgan (bass and rhythm guitars, former Culture Disaster, later Barbel), Tony Lonorgan (aka Tog, bass, keyboards, former Pieces of Glass, La Voix Celesté) and Gary (drums, Culture Disaster, Raiders of Discord, Zyloids, Crompton Vest Band, Sunrise Sa Blues, Jades).

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From the Music-isms blog site below: [1]

On October 19th 1989, the Jactars gathered in Maida Vale Studios to record a Radio One Peel Session, with Mike Walter engineering and Dale Griffin (drummer from Mot the Hoople) producing. The like-up included Ian Travis (aka Trav, guitar and vocals, former Culture Disaster, Zyloids, Crompton Vest Band, Jades), Dave Morgan (bass and rhythm guitars, former Culture Disaster, later Barbel), Huw Williams (drums, with Crikey! It’s The Cromptons, later The Big I Am), while Tony Lonorgan (aka Tog, bass, keyboards, former Pieces of Glass, La Voix Celesté) was replaced by Peter McPartland (guitars, ex Third Man, now Rash).

Lonorgan, about the Peel session, remembers:

‘I'm not on it, still good though! I'd left to form the bleepy and spectacularly unsuccessful pink fish quartet by then (pink fish media was the name of our promotion / bullshitting company, I just kept using it).’

About recording with Dale Griffin, McPartland recalls:

‘I played on the session it was 'produced' by the drummer from Mot the Hoople :-) Interesting production he came in shook out hands, went the boozer and came back when it was all over and said sounds great lads. We christened the studio 'made of ale' after that. […] [A] nice fella indeed but I got the sense we were not his cup of tea. Pleasant enough though. Think there were two or maybe even 3 engineers on at the time so we were in safe hands. Experimenting with digital recording at the time. I asked to be dropped in at a point and they just laughed in my face’

Besides the title track of their Mini LP, the Jactars performed three unreleased songs.

The session, wrongly credited to the Jacktars, was aired November 20th 1989.

Sessions[]

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THE JACTARS John Peel 19th October 1989

1. Recorded: 1989-10-19. First Broadcast: 20 November 1989. Repeated: 24 January 1990

  • Pull The Plug / Flower Powder / Millions Of Grains / Things Not Seen

Other Shows Played[]

1987
1988
1989

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