Enjoy This Trip

A week ago we had our Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 launch party at Stranger Than Paradise in Hackney. It was by all accounts a very good evening and well attended. I couldn't make it due to work commitments- nor could Martin or Dan- but the album got played in full, Baz (below, right) and Mark (below, left) both DJed and Richard Fearless played a superb three hour set which got people moving. It was recorded and as soon as that surfaces I'll share it here. 

The first fifty copies came with a beautiful free art print, designed by sleeve artist Rusty. The first copy sold on the night was to S- Express main man Mark Moore who was passing through, heard the unreleased Sabres Of Paradise track on our album, the eleven minute dub- house splendour of Lick Wid Nit Wit, and bought a copy on the spot. Mark is a huge Sabres fan. Back in 1991 when Mark Moore's path crossed with Andrew Weatherall's, this barnstorming, outside the box remix was the result....

Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, Forget 'Em (The Eighth Hour Mix) 

Back in spring 1988 I was seventeen years old. I can clearly remember watching S- Express gatecrashing Top Of The Pops miming to their smash hit Theme, my head turned by its brashness and day glo brilliance, Mark and his friends cavorting round the studio, the cut and paste sampling a million miles from The Smiths, The Wedding Present and The Primitives...

The idea that thirty seven years later the front man of that group would be buying an album that I'd put together with four friends, that I wrote the sleeve notes for, would have caused my seventeen year old head to spin round and detach itself. 

Theme From S- Express is of course one of the greatest dance records ever made. 

Theme From S- Express

Here's Mark clutching his copy of our album at Stranger Than Paradise last Thursday with the great Chris Rotter...

This weekend we have a northern launch party for Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 at The Golden Lion in Todmorden. The Golden Lion is the epicentre of the whole thing- we first talked about making an album while DJing there and Golden Lion Sounds is the record label it came out on. Volume 2 went in the post last week and copies have been arriving at people's homes ever since as well as copies at various record shops. If you haven't got one you can buy one at GLS, ten tracks exclusive to the album- along side Sabres Of Paradise there are Red Snapper, Dicky Continental, A Certain Ratio and Number, Unit 14, Richard Fearless, David Harrow, Richard Norris, Bedford Falls Players and Sleaford Mods. Mark's twenty five minute sampler mix of the ten tracks is here. 

Our launch party takes place in the back room with me, Martin and Dan DJing from 2pm though until 8. Free entry, fun for all the family, no requests etc. If you're in the area, feel free to drop by and say hello. 

At the same time and into the early hours there's a Lion collaboration with The Gun, Hackney with a huge cast of DJs on in the main room including Decius Soundsystem, Vladimir Ivkovic, Lena Killikens, Nathan Gregory Wilkins, Psych Williams and Luke Insect. 

Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2

 

Last year the five of us that make up the online Andrew Weatherall fan group that is The Flightpath Estate made an album and sold 1000 vinyl copies of it. It featured nine entirely new tracks from Weatherall associated artists and a then unreleased on vinyl Two Lone Swordsmen ambient track called The Crescents. Our album, Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 1, came out with our friends at The Golden Lion in Todmorden on Golden Lion Sounds and raised over £6, 000 for Andrew's chosen charities. It made the Piccadilly Records and Uncut end of year round ups, we had three tracks played on Lauren Laverne's 6 Music show as Compilation Of The Week, had a Piccadilly Records window takeover- it was all very exciting. The music was all uniformly superb with tracks by Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s, Timothy J. Fairplay, The Light Brigade (David Holmes), Rude Audio, 10:40, Richard Sen, Sons Of Slough and Hardway Bros, all recorded specifically for the album, and Andy Bell recorded an acoustic/ electric guitar cover of Smokebelch. 

We named the album Volume 1, partly chancing our arm collective arms in the hope that we might get to do a follow up. That album, Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Vol.2, is done, dusted, polished, shone and on its way to the pressing plant. The line up of artists and the music stands head and shoulders alongside Volume 1's. In no particular order, Volume 2 features a previously unreleased Sabres Of Paradise track, and new and exclusive music from Richard Fearless (of Death In Vegas), A Certain Ratio remixed by Number, Red Snapper, Richard Norris, David Harrow, Bedford Falls Players, Dicky Continental, the mysterious Unit 14, and a Two Lone Swordsmen cover by Sleaford Mods. Exciting eh?!

Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 will be available for pre- order tomorrow morning at 10 am from the Golden Lion Sounds Bandcamp page and from the Golden Lion Sounds online shop (via The Big Cartel). I'm giving Bagging Area readers a heads up today- I know some of you bought Vol. 1 and would imagine/ hope some of you will want to be online tomorrow, Tuesday 1st July, fingers poised over the Add To Cart button. There are 1000 copies for pre- order tomorrow with a further 500 going to selected record shops in late August when the album will get its full physical release. 

We've been sitting on this for a couple of months and we're itching to get it out to people so they can enjoy the music as much as we have been. Mark has done a twenty- five minute mix of all the tracks which I'll share asap and I'll put the links up to order too. There'll be a few other bits of Vol. 2 news coming around over the summer- in the meantime...

David Holmes used the pseudonym The Light Brigade on Volume 1 and has this year putout a 12" on Mystic Arts under the name name. Shuffle The Deck came out on 12" and digitally in May, two tracks- the first was made with Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood and samples Andrew at its end, a rabble rousing acid house monster called Shuffle The Deck. The flipside, Only Love Can Save Us, was made in collaboration with Michael Andrews who David worked with on his Blind On A Galloping Horse album and is shimmering, heavenly electronic goodness. Get both here. 

AW62

AW62 was last weekend, a proper gathering of the clans at The Golden Lion in Todmorden, an 18th century stone walled pub nestled into a gap between a hill and the canal, to celebrate the life of Andrew Weatherall on what would have been his 62nd birthday. Andrew's brother Ian, one of the event's key movers, said that it was planned as a party that had 'everything except Andrew'. The line up of DJs and acts was testament to the spirit of the man, a diverse and exceptional bunch of DJs, writers, artists, producers, publishers and bands. 

Some highlights from a weekend packed full of them- this is necessarily a highly selective account drawn from my at times unreliable memories. Everyone who attended will have their own version and highlights but these were some of mine. 

Friday night saw Richard Fearless DJing in the downstairs bar, a vinyl techno masterclass- minimal, sleek, machine music, emotive and huge sounding on the pub's recently upgraded sound system, causing quite a stir among the crowd and packing the space in front of the DJ booth out with dancers. 

I took this picture while Fearless was playing. It may not be in focus or even a vaguely coherent picture but it sums the night up quite well from where I was standing. 

Saturday night was split between upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs Duncan Gray played a house set and then Scott Fraser took over at midnight. Downstairs David Holmes headlined, picking up where Matt Hum left off. David has played The Golden Lion often in recent years. He changes his set every time, saying he doesn't plan it too much, just goes with the flow and the feel in the pub. His set on Saturday night was out of this world, a huge range of dance music, from spangly chuggers to amped up noise, breakbeats and the sudden switching to huge piano tracks. Towards the end of his set, a 2 am finish, I was stuck in a corner by the door, just enjoying the music and the volume. Joe Strummer's voice came out of the speakers, his famous 'people can do anything...' speech from a radio show followed by ecstatic synth noise (an unreleased Holmes and Matty Skylab track, David said afterwards). There was a pause at 2am and then two or three more tunes, one a rumbly, garage band guitar song, one an explosion of synth chords, a wall of noise, and then finishing with the huge, extended Leftside Wobble remix of Tomorrow Never Knows, The Beatles most experimental, most progressive song filling the pub and scrambling heads. Thoughts were indeed laid down and voids were very much surrendered to. 

Saturday afternoon was our turn to play again, The Flightpath Estate DJs given the privilege of being part of the proceedings. Me, Baz, Martin, Dan and Mark played throughout the afternoon and into the evening. At one point I looked out into the space in front of the booth and saw author David Keenan and White Rabbit Books publisher Lee Brackstone  dancing and singing along to a song I was playing, the magnificent One Of Those Things by Dexys, from 1985 (a song even Kevin Rowland eventually had to accept he'd ripped off from Warren Zevon's Werewolves Of London). 

One Of Those Things

I spoke to David Keenan at some point, excitedly telling him about the experience I had reading Xstabeth a few years ago, a book which at several points blew my mind a little. This photo has me and David, me somewhat out of focus, mind probably still blown. 

Saturday afternoon also saw the fabled raffle and auction, Claire Doll's hard work and creativity raising  thousands of pounds for charity, Weatherdolls and Sabres cross stitch and a box of records found in Andrew's lock up when it was cleared out, promo copies of the David Holmes remix of Smokebelch and other delights. Golden Lion landlady Gig conducted the auction action in her own inimitable style. Holmes bid for and won this Gnostic Sonics banner.

Sunday saw the crowds, fans, punters and artists drawn back to the pub and its beer garden, bathed in early April sunshine. Andrew's friends Sherman and Curley played dub and ambient sounds the whole afternoon. Meanwhile the Sunday afternoon literary event came in three parts- a Lee Brackstone hosted discussion with Andrew's partner of seventeen years Lizzie Walker, Two Lone Swordsman guitarist Chris Rotter, Ian Weatherall and The Flightpath's own Martin Brannagan, Lee asking the questions which included 'when did you first meet Andrew?' which drew a range of funny responses. 

The second part was Lee and David Keenan, an interview and a reading from his new book Volcanic Tongue. The third was Keenan interviewing  Adrian Sherwood, a fascinating half hour with one of Andrew's heroes, the main man of UK dub whose reminiscences and thoughts could and should fill a book. David Keenan (and David Holmes, sitting on the front row) unpicking all sorts of aspects of On U Sound and Sherwood's music and career and the nature of dub. Genuinely amazing to sit in on and as much a part of the weekend as the DJs and music. 

Adrian Sherwood The Producers Series #1

This hour long Sherwood mix comes from the Test Pressing blog, published back in 2010. The tracklist can be found at Test Pressing- Creation Rebel, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate and Doctor Pablo all feature. 

Sunday night finished with the twin attack of The Jonny Halifax Invocation playing live upstairs and Sherwood DJing downstairs. Criminally I missed both- having been at The Lion since Friday night, suffering from a distinct lack of sleep and having to drive home at some point that night, I called it a day at around 6 pm. 

Everyone involved in AW62 should give themselves a well earned pat on the back and maybe have a bit of a lie down- Waka and Gig at The Golden Lion, Ian Weatherall, Claire, Lizzie and Curley with the raffle and auction and merch, all the DJs and bands, Lee and David bringing the literature angle (books and writing were as big for Mr Weatherall as music was). It was a brilliant weekend and event- heart warming and inclusive, packed with energising and exciting music, and filled with great people. The Lion always draws a lovely bunch of punters and AW62 was no exception. And when the lie down is over and everyone's recovered, more please next year...

Monday's Long Song

I got back from AW62 at The Golden Lion last night having had a wonderful weekend in great company, an incredible line up of artists, some brilliant moments in a truly magical and a concurrent lack of sleep. I'll write a longer, more detailed piece and post it later in the week. In the meantime, here's a long song from Friday night. Rusty and Rotter were playing records in the downstairs bar, the place was filling up nicely with lots of familiar faces and some new ones too and from the Lion's sound system the intense, ecstatic noise of Fuck Buttons began pumping out- waves of sheer joy, oceans of sound, bleeps and ripples, eventually the thud of a kick drum, building and building, repetition and momentum.

Surf Solar was released as a single. It came out on 7", an edited version, but the album one is over ten minutes long- from Tarot Sport, produced by Andrew Weatherall, a job so demanding- the intensity of the music- that he compared it to hard physical labour. What a sound the three of them cooked up though...

Surf Solar

Forty Five Minutes Of Two Lone Swordsmen

At the airport in Belfast they have robots to serve your breakfast. You have to go to the till and speak to a human to order but then the human loads your mugs and plates of food onto these robots and they bring them to your table. The eight year old me reading 2000AD in 1978 would have been beside himself at this aspect of the future but somehow, it just seemed a bit ridiculous. They even give the robot a smiley face to make them seem more human.

None of which has much to do with today's post and Sunday mix- except that the music Two Lone Swordsmen made is still far more of the future, more the soundtrack to 2000AD, than the robots at Belfast airport ever will be. When Andrew Weatherall formed Two Lone Swordsmen with Keith Tenniswood they made it a mission to go further and deeper, to take a more thorough and more purist approach to electronic music. After the sprawling magnificence of 1996's The Fifth Mission (Return To The Flightpath Estate) which went from stoned, paranoid ambience to big beat to two step and back again, they drilled deeper- minimal, brutalist electronic machine funk, ambient techno and glitchy dark electronic dub (with a detour into hip hop on A Virus With Shoes and then an exciting mutation into garage rock and rockabilly). Sometimes the music seemed a bit unfriendly and it lost a few people along the way but this being Mr Weatherall, there's no shortage of gold in among the darkness. 

This forty five minute mix is a celebration of Andrew's birthday today- he would have been 62 today. Many of his friends and family are at The Golden Lion today, day three of AW62 which will end tonight with a live performance by The Jonny Halifax Invocation (who have promised some live band TLS action) and a dub set from Adrian Sherwood. Happy birthday Andrew.

Forty Five Minutes Of Two Lone Swordsmen

• Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi) (Two Lone Swordsmen Dub)
• We Change The Frequency
• Cotton Stains
• Lino Square
• Black Commandments
• Untitled Two Lone Swordsmen Remix
• Glide By Shooting
• Hope We Never Surface

Saint Etienne's 2000 album Sound Of Water was a bit of a departure for them. The Two Lone Swordsmen Dub of it's single Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi) was a deconstruction, reducing the tune to its minimal dub basics, the wobbly bass a particular treat.

We Change The Frequency is from 1998's Stay Down, sometimes the TLS album I think is my favourite and one which has really grown over the years, lots of short, repetitive mechanical pieces and some gorgeous ambient techno, everything submerged in oceanic depths of bass and echo (like the deep sea divers on the cover). Hope We Never Surface is the opening track and always seems to be like a door opening... or a hatch...

Cotton Stains is on 2000's Tiny Reminders, the furthest and most purist they went, tunnel vision electro Six sides of vinyl, each disc starting with a track made up of static, a tiny reminder, before drilling into the netherworld of basement glitchy electronic bass and techno. Cotton Stains is the real sound of robots serving up breakfasts at airports- just before they declare independence and overthrow the security. 

Lino Square is from The Fifth Mission (Return To The Flightpath Estate), a fractured, mechanised but funky little number with a wiggy synth pattern kicking in after a few minutes. 

Black Commandments is from a 7" single that came with an EP, A Bag Of Blue Sparks, released on Warp in 1998, that included the track Gay Spunk (a title borrowed from Peter Hook's bass amp spray paint message).  

Untiled Two Lone Swordsmen is a remix of Ganger's Trilogy, a 12" from 1998, a nine minutes long and dusty with a flicker of guitar running through it. Ganger were from Glasgow, post- rock and krauty.

Glide By Shooting is one of the finest TLS tracks, a track on the double vinyl remix EP Swimming Not Skimming. Depth over surface. Eight minutes of sleek, mesmerising brilliance. 

AW62 And The Return Of Death In Vegas

Today is the first day of the AW62 at Todmorden's Golden Lion, a three day weekender to celebrate what would have been Andrew Weatherall's 62nd birthday (6th April, Sunday). The line up is a bit of a dream, kicking off tonight with Richard Fearless playing downstairs in the pub, ably supported by Rusty and Rotter, while Fantastic Twins play upstairs. On Saturday David Holmes headlines with Duncan Gray and Scott Fraser both playing, Matt Hum on before David. From 2pm on Saturday through until 8ish, me and my friends in The Flightpath Estate have the privilege of DJing for the afternoon and evening crowds- it's an honour and a joy. 

Sunday keeps the fun going with a Sherman and Curley dub set, a White Rabbit literary discussion (hosted by Lee Brackstone with the Flightpath's Martin joining the panel) and then to finish the weekend off, The Jonny Halifax Invocation playing live upstairs while Adrian Sherwood DJs downstairs. The evening events are all sold out but the Saturday and Sunday afternoon events and sessions are free- if you're in the area, come down and say hello, it'll be great. 

By way of happy coincidence Friday night's headliner Richard Fearless announced the release of a new Death In Vegas album a few days ago with the appearance of a new track- Death Mask. Fearless has been mining an increasingly intense and beautiful techno seam for over a decade now, going deeper and deeper into the techno- earth's core. 2011's Trans- Love Energies and 2016's Transmission albums, 2018's Honey 12", his pair of albums under his Fearless name- Deep Rave Memory and its ambient techno counterpart Future Rave Memory- plus various one off singles on his Drone label such as 2017's mighty Sweet Venus, have all lit up the Bagging Area stereo, streamlined machine music of the highest order that straddles the line between ice cold and emotional overload. Death Mask fits right into that techno continuum, seven minutes of rattly drum machines and thudding kick drum, dub's space echo, slightly anxiety inducing synths, a squeak that nibbles away at the upper end and the sweet rush of momentum. Music to engulf and to immerse oneself in...

The tracks were all recorded inside Richard's Metal Box, a shipping container overlooking the Thames in East London. If any music sounds like it was recorded inside a shipping container, it's the music on Death Mask. Death Mask and the squally and equally intense While My Machines Gently Weep are both available over at Bandcamp ahead of the rest of the nine track album, which comes out in early June. 

An Hour Of The Jezebell Takeover

Last weekend's Jezebell Takeover at The Golden Lion in Todmorden was a lot of fun, two days of DJs and a live act playing to a full house. Saturday kicked off with Nessa Johnston getting things into gear quickly and setting the pace for everyone who followed. ACR's Martin Moscrop played a set that took in dub and disco, including a low slung dubbed out cover of Born Slippy, and at just after 8pm OBOST played a live set. 

OBOST is Bobby Langfield, ridiculously young, still in his teens- synths, keys, laptops, a microphone and an hour of uptempo electronic music that sounds like it has decades of experience behind it. Jamie Tolley took over at 9 and took things up a notch again, bpms and energy levels rising. At one point he dropped As I Ran by Yame, a bit of an ALFOS at The Lion moment last year and the pub erupted. The Jezebell headliners took over at 10, Jesse first and then Darren. The floor was packed, a mix of youth and older dancers...

I had to run for a late train back to Manchester so missed the last our of Darren's set but was back in the pub on Sunday afternoon where Jesse and Darren were starting proceedings off. Maybe they'd stayed up and played straight through. My guest slot was at 4pm and I had a few technical difficulties at first- I accidentally cued up a track from Jesse's USB instead of mine, then the right hand deck got stuck in an emergency loop and things took a little while for me to sort. Eventually Martin Moscrop turned the deck off and on again and as usual with piece of IT support advice it did the trick. Adam Roberts, due to play after me, was also official photographer. All the photos here are his and if nothing else he made me look like I know what I'm doing. 

I came off the decks feeling it had been a bit of a nightmare- technical issues, trying to cram too much into an hour- but looking at it now, a week later, it seems ok. The link below is the set recreated at home.

Bagging Area At The Jezebell Takeover

• Moon Duo: In A Cloud
• Durutti Column: For Belgian Friends
• The Charlatans: Trouble Understanding (Norman Cook Remix)
• The Beta Band: I Know
• Dub Syndicate: Right Back To Your Soul
• Soft Cotton County: The Future's Not What It Used To Be (Five Green Moons Remix)
• David Holmes: Blind On A Galloping Horse (Sons Of Slough Remix)
• Totem Edit 12: Feel
• Mogwai: The Sun Smells Too loud
• Orbital, David Holmes, DJ Helen and Mike Garry: Tonight In Belfast

Adam Roberts followed me, four four house and disco action and then Kim Lana. We had to leave so missed the remaining Sunday night fun, Stuart Alexander and then FC Kahuna, both of whom were outstanding by all accounts, Jesse saying Dan Kahuna was the weekend's highlight. Some hardy souls were back in The Lion on the Monday for St Patrick's Day celebrations, a live band and unplanned karaoke session. There's a second Jezebell Takeover planned for September. 

Jesse's been uploading recordings of some of the sets. His Saturday night hour is here and his Sunday afternoon set is here. 

I hadn't met Jesse or Darren before despite having had a several years strong online connection. It's always brilliant when people turn out to be as lovely in real life as they appear online and the crowd they drew to the Lion- regulars and newcomers- was testament to what they've built together as Jezebell. More power to them. 

Over At Ban Ban Ton Ton And At The Golden Lion

I've been reviewing records over at Ban Ban Ton Ton again, Dr Rob's Japan based Balearic and electronic music one stop, most recently on Monday of this week when the newest Coyote mini- album came out. Coyote (Timm and Ampo) have been in a rich vein of form in the last few years, releasing a slew of 12" singles, albums, six track mini- albums, edits and remixes. In May there's the prospect of a collaboration EP with Peaking Lights, a 12" called Love Letters on their own Is This Balearic ? label. In the meantime, hot on the heels of last year's six track mini- album Hurry Up And Live, comes Wailing At The Yellow Dawn- a record which evokes all sorts of things but mainly for me music as a soundtrack to dreaming. My review at Ban Ban Ton Ton is here. 

A week before that I reviewed an album by Thought Leadership, an album called Ill Of Pentacles that is about to get a vinyl release on Be With Records. I knew it was familiar and realised while listening to it that my friend Spencer sent me a link to it last year when it was released as digital and on cassette- getting re- acquainted with it second time around was even better. Thought Leadership is a mysterious musician living in Edgeley, Stockport armed with nothing  more than a guitar, some FX pedals, a drum machine and a home studio. The music, ten tracks of it, is entirely instrumental, FX affected pieces of guitar music with occasional drum machine backing. It's a wonderful album, still available at Bandcamp. The most obvious comparison in sound is Vini Reilly but other post- punk and indie guitarists are in there too- John McGeoch, Robin Guthrie, Johnny Marr and Maurice Deebank of Felt. My full review is here. There's a second album too, Ace Of Swords which was recorded in the middle of last year, at Bandcamp. 

It put me in mind of another Mancunian guitarist whose music I reviewed for Ban Ban Ton Ton, a pair of  re- releases from the early 80s by Kevin McCormick together with a new one called Passing Clouds. I wrote about Passing Clouds last October and I didn't share it but you can find it here. This is It's Been A Long Time...

Meanwhile, over in Todmorden at The Golden Lion Jezebell have a weekend takeover, a line up of DJs, musicians and chancers playing on Saturday and Sunday. The DJs are Darren and Jesse (from Jezebell), Jamie Tolley, Martin Moscrop from ACR, Nessa Johnston, Stuart Alexander, Kim Lana, Adam Roberts and FC Kahuna. The musician playing live is OBOST (Bobby Langfield). The chancer is me. I'm on at 4pm on Sunday afternoon, playing after Jesse's afternoon set. 

Both days should be great fun, the Sunday session maybe a bit more chilled than the Saturday, it's free all weekend and it'll be great to finally meet Jesse and Darren after featuring so much of their music here since 2021 and only ever chatting online. 

Out a couple of weeks on Berlin's Nein Records is an EP by Parvale (Ian Vale and Neil Parnell) with the track Breaker City complete with Jezebell's Nice And Slow Remix, a cut 'n' paste, jerky breakbeat anthem for dancefloor action. The EP is here. 

Six Hours Of The Flightpath Estate Supporting David Holmes At The Golden Lion

On Saturday 6th December The Flightpath Estate DJ team were fortunate enough to be playing support to David Holmes, another excursion to The Golden Lion in Todmorden. On this occasion the team was myself, Martin and Dan, starting out at 3pm and going through until 9pm when David took over. We took i tin turns playing in batches of threes (occasionally fours, sometimes twos and as time ticked on one on, one off). We never take this for granted and are genuinely honoured and grateful to be asked to play. The pub started to fill up late afternoon and we had an audience by the time evening arrived. The set wasn't recorded live but we've done our best to recreate it (copious note making while DJing by some, working from memory by others) and you can listen to the full six hours and eleven minutes at Mixcloud.  

If I do say so myself, I think we played some pretty good records and sequenced them pretty well too. The tracklist is below, a set that starts out with The Pogues and ends six hours later with Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve's remix of Ulysses by Franz Ferdinand, a track that David smothered in dub effects and slowed right down so he could take over. Later on he was joined by Michelle McKenzie and the pair took the roof off- David always does at The Lion. 

Adam

• [0:00] The Pogues - Summer In Siam 
• [5:00] Arthur Russell - In The Light Of The Miracle 
• [18:00] World Of Twist - She’s A Rainbow 
• [22:00] Planet 4 Folk Quartet - Message To Crommie 

Dan

• [25:00] Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves) 
• [34:00] Hoodie x James K - Scorpio 
• [41:00] Sault - We Are Gods 

Martin

• [46:00] Saiko Tsukamoto - Higher Than The Sun (Being Borings Remix Demo)
• [51:00] Minotaur Shock - It All Levels Out
• [56:00] Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman - Communal Imagination 

Adam

• [59:00] Klangkollektor - Midnight Express 
• [1:05:00] Lark - Can I Colour In Your Hair (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
• [1:09:00] Electric Blue Vision - Other Skies (Hardway Bros Meets Monkton Uptown Version) 

Dan

• [1:16:00] Andrew Weatherall - Youth Ozone Machine 
• [1:20:00] Autumns - Purely Reasonable 
• [1:23:00] Bill Laswell - Nonmatter 

Martin

• [1:27:00] Boozoo Bajou - Re-Tuff
• [1:29:00] Coreysan - Heavy Load (Nina Walsh Remix)
• [1:36:00] Antoni Maiovvi - Glyph

Adam

• [1:39:00] Five Green Moons - Spider Dub 
• [1:44:00] Totem Edits - 12 Feel 
• [1:51:00] Coyote - Habitual Illusions 

Dan

• [1:56:00] Bill Frisell - 1968
• [2:00:00] David Holmes - Rodney Yates 
• [2:06:00] Frankie & The Heartstrings - Fragile 

Martin

• [2:12:00] Subway - Persuasion 
• [2:18:00] DJ Oil - Addis 
• [2:25:00] The Aloof - Never Get Out The Boat (The Flying Remix) 

Adam

• [2:31:00] Grinderman- Palaces Of Montezuma 
• [2:34:00] Fontaines D.C.- ‘Cello Song 
• [2:39:00] Spacemen 3- Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here) 

{Dan}

• [2:49:00] Scientists Of Sound - Step On Stage (Underdog Remix Instrumental) 
• [2:54:00] Bootman - To The Hip 
• [2:59:00] Rek Shit Rebulz - Bounce (To The Beat)
• [3:01:00] Bedford Falls Players - Cosmosapien Revisited (The Long Champs Remix) 

Martin

• [3:08:00] Smith & Mudd - Janet 50 (I-Cube Remix) 
• [3:15:00] Anatolian Weapons feat. Seirios Savvaidis - Tarachti Katarrachti
• [3:20:00] Apiento - Things You Do For Love (Machine Version) 

Adam

• [3:24:00] Cantoma - First Nothing (Noche Espanola Remix)
• [3:28:00] Deadstock 33s - Minus Shadows 
• [3:33:00] Les Negresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche (William Orbit Remix) 

Dan

• [3:40:00] Quiet Village - Reunion 
• [3:47:00] Speedy J - Beam Me Up!
• [3:52:00] The Black Dog - Cost II

Martin

• [3:58:00] Miguel - Beams Of Light 
• [4:02:00] Donato Dozzy & Tin Man - Test 3 (Unreleased vocal version) 
• [4:08:00] Troels Yuri - Nebular Drift 

Adam

• [4:15:00] Big Hard Excellent Fish - The Imperfect List Version 1 
• [4:22:00] The Durutti Column - The Together Mix 
• [4:27:00] The Clash - This Is Radio Clash 

Dan

• [4:32:00] David Holmes - Yeah x 3 (X-Press 2 Remix) 
• [4:37:00] Depth Charge - Depth Charge 
• [4:42:00] J-Walk - African Custard 

Martin

• [4:45:00] Toddla - Gratitude Is The Attitude Riddim (Raf Rundell's Ever Living Dub) 
• [4:48:00] Andrew Weatherall - Built Back Higher 
• [4:52:00] Eyes Of Others - Safehouse 

Adam

• [4:56:00] A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down To This 
• [4:58:00] Fat White Family - Bullet Of Dignity (Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Re-Animation) 

Dan

• [5:05:00] Hugh Mane - Live Drama
• [5:12:00] Round - Glass

Martin

• [5:17:00] Mr. Beatnick - ile Flottante
• [5:21:00] Blancmange - Living On The Sealink (To The Bone's Dub For Vernon) 

Adam

• [5:27:00] The Fall - Touch Sensitive 

Dan

• [5:30:00] Andrew Weatherall - Privately Electrified

Adam

• [5:36:00] Ben Hunt - Shimmering Lights (Cosmikuro Remix) 

Martin

• [5:43:00] Max Essa & Eddie C - Melon Steppin 
• [5:50:00] Steve Cobby & Third Attempt - B Human 

Adam

• [5:54:00] LCD Soundsystem - Freak Out/ Starry Eyes 
• [6:06:00] Franz Ferdinand- Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Remix) 

The Flightpath And The Lion

On Saturday 16th November The Golden Lion in Todmorden hosted another ALFOS, the long running travelling cosmic disco started by Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston in 2010, now flown single handedly by Sean. The Golden Lion is one of A Love From Outer Space's spiritual homes and a capacity crowd is guaranteed. The upstairs room hosted a pair of live performances, Psychederek and The Thief Of Time (both of whom I saw play at Yard in Manchester in the summer and asked to play at the Lion by landlord Waka following my post about the gig). Downstairs, from 2pm through until Sean taking over at 8.30, saw the return of The Flightpath Estate DJ team- myself, Martin, Dan, Mark and Baz. Due to being required in Birmingham early the day after Baz went first and played for an hour. After he'd finished his set the remaining four of us rotated playing three tracks each for the next five hours. 

You can listen to a re- creation of our set at Mixcloud, six hours of music starting with Billy Fury's Wondrous Place and finishing with a very unofficial and unreleased edit of The Fall, Blind Panic, by Skip Wimbish that Mark actually played twice. We had planned to record the set live but the gear let us down. Instead the version of the set you can hear is a fairly faithful recreation of what we played but with a couple of unreleased things swapped out for legal/ release date reasons. As ever we had a blast and are eternally grateful every time we play for the opportunity. This time around, the Lion began to fill up fairly early so we actually had an audience too. And to everyone who told how much they enjoyed our sets, thank you. After us, Sean came on and lifted the Lion's roof. 

Barry

• [0:00] Billy Fury: Wondrous Place
• [3:00] Coyote: Living In Heaven
• [10:00] The Bats: We Do Not Kick The Ones We Kiss
• [13:00] Kid Congo: La Llarona
• [16:00] David Sylvian & Riuichi Sakamoto: Bamboo Houses (7" Mix)
• [20:00] Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins: Scandinavian Waters
• [25:00] Escape-ism: Almost No One (Can Have My Love)
• [28:00] Vito Ricci: I'm At That Party Right Now
• [31:00] Happy Mondays: Bob's Yer Uncle
• [36:00] Maximum Joy: Simmer Till Done
• [39:00] Chain And The Gang: Deathbed Confession
• [45:00] Richard Sen: Eleven Eleven
• [51:00] Dean & Britta: Not A Young Man Anymore
• [55:00] Coyote: Dover
• [59:00] The Stranglers: Strange Little Girl

Martin

• [1:02:00] Pmxper: Stitch
• [1:05:00] Elucid: In The Shadow Of If
• [1:08:00] Holy Tongue Meets Shackleton: The Other Side Of The Bridge

Adam

• [1:14:00] The Fall: The Steak Place
• [1:17:00] Iraina Mancini: Undo The Blue (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
• [1:25:00] The Cure: Pictures Of You (Extended Dub)

Dan

• [1:31:00] J-Walk: Spring Well, Wellspring
• [1:35:00] Cocteau Twins: Cherry-Coloured Funk
• [1:38:00] The Sirons: Cruise Missile Blues

Mark

• [1:42:00] Skip Wimbish: Blind Panic
• [1:49:00] James Hardway vs Rude Audio: Unreleased Vocal Remix
• [1:54:00] James Hardway vs Rude Audio: Unreleased Dub

Martin

• [1:59:00] Autumns: Interpretive Dance Is A Scam
• [2:02:00] REDACTED
• [2:08:00] Om Unit: Pursuit

Adam

• [2:11:00] My Bloody Valentine: Don't Ask Why
• [2:15:00] GLOK/ Timothy Clerkin: Scattered
• [2:21:00] David Holmes: Hey Lisa

Dan

• [2:25:00] The Cure: Lullaby (Extended Mix)
• [2:33:00] J-Walk: Botox Fomo
• [2:37:00] Five Green Moons: Spider Dub

Mark

• [2:42:00] The Sabres Of Paradise: Lick Wid Nit Wit
• [2:53:00] Lockdown 187 Kung Fu (unknown white label)
• [2:59:00] The Sabres Of Paradise: Smokebelch II Edit

Martin

• [3:02:00] Radiohead: Everything In Its Right Place (Reinier Zonneveld's Filth on Acid Remix)
• [3:08:00] El Deux: Gletscher (Mehmet Aslan Edit)
• [3:14:00] Sweet Exorcist: Testone

Adam

• [3:21:00] The Clean Trip: Lobster Boys (Hifi Sean Remix)
• [3:28:00] Four Tet: Three Drums
• [3:36:00] Marshall Watson & Cole Odin: Voyager (Extended Guitar Mix)

Dan

• [3:42:00] Conforce: Aphelion
• [3:48:00] Mudd: Spielplatz (Quiet Village Deep Space Dub)

Mark

• [3:59:00] The Pink Diamond Revue: Elvis Presley
• [4:03:00] Ron Rogers: Yaya (Nelue Rework Mutant Disco Edit)
• [4:08:00] Jua: Akio Nagase

Martin

• [4:14:00] Georges Chatelain & Getaroom: Mandrake
• [4:19:00] Flash Atkins, Sirius Rush: Who Am I
• [4:25:00] Andrew Weatherall: Walk Of Shame (Hardway Bros Inglorious March Of Shame)

Adam

• [4:33:00] Galliano: Cabin Fever Dub
• [4:38:00] The Clash: This Is Radio Clash
• [4:42:00] The Fat White Family: Bullet Of Dignity (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-animation)

Dan

• [4:49:00] Escapismo: Nada Importa
• [4:54:00] Tolouse Low Trax: Rushing Into Water
• [5:02:00] Stylic: Egregor

Martin

• [5:08:00] Pinky Perzelle: No Games (Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold Remix)
• [5:15:00] Edwin Starr: Get Up/Whirlpool
• [5:19:00] Satellites: World At Your Feet (Johnny Vic Remix)

Adam

• [5:25:00] Public Image Ltd: This Is Not A Love Song
• [5:30:00] Essaie Pas: Futur Parlé
• [5:36:00] A Certain Ratio: We All Need (Jezebell's Ghost Train Mix)

Dan

• [5:42:00] Broken English Club: Godless
• [5:47:00] Pete Blaker: Andrew

Mark

• [5:57:00] Skip Wimbish :Blind Panic (Revisited)

Put Your Money In My Box

Acid Klaus played The Golden Lion, Todmorden, on Friday night, a launch party for a five track EP P.T.S.D. By Proxy that came out on Golden Lion Sounds last month, with a DJ set afterwards by Maxine Peake. Acid Klaus came on stage under the Lion's mirror ball and red lights to a busy and excitable crowd, the pub filled with people young and middle aged determined to have a party from the moment the first note was played. The recent EP was played in full, Adrian with hat pulled right down and collar of coat pulled right up and dark glasses too, on keys/ synth and vocoder, a poncho'd and behatted stand up drummer and twin vocalists who gave it all, Cat Rin stage left, singing in Welsh and English and Amelia Lace, centre stage, wearing a helmet. They powered their way through the songs from P.T.S.D. By Proxy, from the revved up synth pop call for revolution The Solution, to the Detroit techno sounds of Aerodromes, Amelia singing of cruising the council estates and having to get it right. Pour Some Wood On The Fire mixes Hi NRG and blurry acid house with Adrian on robotic vocals, and then abandoning the synth completely, leaving the stage and entering the heaving throng on the floor with microphone firmly clenched for Losing Our Way, his north Manchester vowels and the 303 ricocheting round the stone floor and walls. Adrian says the EP is 'dance music you can cry to', electronic sounds to frug around to while the world goes up in smoke. The last song is a riot, the twin vocalists chanting 'put your money in my box' while Adrian counters with the robotic 'heaven's for sale' and the crowd dance like no one's watching. Or cares about anyone who is. 

The EP is still available at Golden Lion Sounds, 10" on yellow vinyl. If you buy the vinyl you get a digital only remix of Aerodromes by David Holmes with a video filmed in the Golden Lion

Maxine Peake played records afterwards, the self described 'leftie luvvie' spinning Northern Soul 7" singles and floor fillers, psyche, indie, guitar bands, Motorhead and more. I had to run for the 11.36 train back to Manchester and found myself sitting on the train with a group of twenty- somethings who, on finding out I teach history for a living, asked me to tell them some history. There followed a long, rambling and probably incoherent monologue about the Spanish Civil War with multiple digressions. If you're reading this kids, thanks for humouring me/ looking after me.