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Well! Move over Rick Wakeman……….

Craig McAllister

……..Teenage Fanclub are back in town. And to celebrate my first gig of 2008 this Saturday in Glasgow, or for those of you who’ll see them before me in London (that’s just the warm-up by the way. Glasgow’s always Miles Better), here‘s a fantastic radio session they did for Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 1 show.

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Broadcast on 1st June 1995 it was aired probably to promote the ‘Grand Prix’ album, although in Teenage Fanclub land I doubt if anything is so slickly planned. Still, if the session didn’t help the band shift an extra million or so copies of what was their finest album to date (and may still be?) then there really is no hope for any of us. The session’s a belter. It is choc full of funny anecdotes, bum notes and a general bonhomie between Mark Radcliffe and the band. I considered posting it as mp3’s. Due to boring reasons posting mp3’s as oppossed to larger files somehow brings more people to this site (something to do with search engines) and then I thought, well, you need to hear all of this session. The music is almost secondary to the inbetween bits. Full tracklisting is:

1. The OMD Drum Machine

2. Verisimilitude

3. Move Over Rick Wakeman

4. Songwriting Duties

5. Going Places

6. Norman’s Beard Permutations

7. Feel A Whole Lot Better

8. Why didn’t Gerry Sing It?

9. China Girl

10. Norman’s Maraca Frenzy

11. Starsign

12. Finding out everyone’s starsign

Happy downloading.

Please feel free to leave comments in the box. Cheers.

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Mark Radcliffe in a pub. I’d buy him a pint.

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4 thoughts on “Well! Move over Rick Wakeman……….”

  1. So you’ve plumped to see t’Fannies. Couldn’t make my mind up between that gig, Emma Pollock and British Sea Power.

    Chose the Brighton Boys in the end – Its a stunning LP they’ve just released and I wasn’t around when they toured late last year.

  4. Good work – Teenage Fanclub are in fact my favourite band of all time. (TF and Neil Young are always at the top of my list).

    Their recent dates haven’t been anywhere near me but here’s hoping for a bigger tour or some festival dates this year.

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