New Sundae Club Mellotron-ness... FREE!
2008-05-12 by Colin Crawford
Don't forget your brolly, 'British Summer Time' is here! Now available free of charge (although donations gratefully accepted via the PayPal button!) via our MySpace page in mp3 format is a whole hour of Technostalgic Pleasure. The new album from Sundae Club, 'British Summer Time' is ready to download on to your mp3-player gadgets and i-Tuneses. http//www.myspace.com/sundaeclub As you'd expect from Sundae Club's policy of Continual Improvement, 'British Summer Time' contains a few surprises. Sundae Club takes you on a Journey across Continents with their Travel Trilogy; savour the wholesome meaty goodness (chicken if you're vegetarian) of 'Pies'; spot the Bev Bevan drum solo in 'Honey Bee'; marvel as a moonlighting electrician from the Midlands ignores New Labour's green policy on tungsten light bulb usage and get slightly miffed as the new people move in to the flat above. It's all here. Rather different, but the same arsenal of lovely old keyboards, the trusty Mellotron together with a few more guarantee the Sundae Club Sound. Simply click on the banner at the top of our Myspace page. You will then be taken to our new British Summer Time page for simple download instructions. We hope you enjoy your World of Music more than ever, ever before. SCx Tracklist & Credits: 01 Good People 02 Pies* 03 The Voder 04 Honey Bee 05 The Doddler The Travel Trilogy: 06 Flight Four: India 07 Let's Go To Germany 08 London to Shanghai via Chipping Norton 09 Circles 10 My New Neighbours 11 Holiday Magic 12 Oh Roger Rum All tracks by Sundae Club (Hamstall Ridware and Dr.C.D.Mille) except: Honey Bee: Sundae Club/Parrish Circles: Sundae Club/Holmes/Parrish Pies *(feat. Bottlebag, Donny Choonara and Puppy Bucket): Sundae Club/Wood/Cooper/Lansley Sundae Club played the following instruments and almost certainly a few more besides: Streetly Mellotron M400, Rhodes Suitcase 88, Yamaha CP80, Hammond A100, Leslie 145, Wurlitzer EP200, Moog Etherwave Signature Theremin, No.1 Electronics Theremin prototype, Minimoog model D, Moog Prodigy, Korg micro-preset, Korg microkorg, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Datanomics Synthi VCS3 Mk2, Datanomics Synthi DK2, Hohner Clavinet D6, Octave Cat SRM II, Yamaha DX7, Roland JX-8P, Akai S1000, Roland SVC350 vocoder, Arp Quartet, Stylophone 350S, Casio VLT-1, Hohner Melodica, Estey Reed Organ style 62 (1881), Yamaha G1 grand piano, Suzuki Omnichord OM-27, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Squier Stratocaster, Peavey Foundation Bass, HMV portable gramophone, Erich Werner violoncello (1979), Musikus-Studio Chromatic Elite glockenspiel, Mattel Optigan, VOX Continental 300, Fairlight CMI, Roland CR-68, William De Blaise Harpsichord. Produced by Sundae Club and George Shilling Engineered by George Shilling at Bank Cottage Studio and Technostalgic Towers The Anachrophonic Orchestra and Choir was conducted by George Shilling Pianos supplied by Dale,Forty & Co.Ltd British Summer Time logo by Air Creative design Also appearing on British Summer Time were: Sam Holmes (vocals) Mark Parrish (guitar and vocals) Donny Choonara (vocals) Puppy Bucket (vocals) Jenny Faulkner (french horn) Jay Moody (saxophone) Eric Shilling (the spoken word) Bottlebag: Andy Wood (lead guitar) Beresford Bag (percussion) Jo-Silver (rhythm guitar) PS: Any future hard-media versions will be different from this version with bonus tracks, splendid packaging, other geegaws and of course immaculate audio quality. A few samples on this version have kindly been given the nod for the free download, but would be far too difficult to get cleared for a charged-for version. We'd also appreciate any feedback from you to assess whether there'd be a demand for a black 12" plastic round version. That's 30cm in new money.