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.
Peel
Session (1989)
- Pull The
Plug
- Flower
Powder
- Millions
Of Grains
- Things
Not Seen
The
session, wrongly credited to the Jacktars, was aired November 20th,
1989.
(Thank you,
you know who you are…)
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