Now That's What I Call A Charity Album
Date: 01/11/03
'The Wish List', Steve Somerset's ten track charity album for the MS Society is now available. Featuring Stephen Duffy and Lilac Time, Justin Hayward,Peter Blegvad, Phil Thornalley, Harold Budd, Steve Hogarth and the H-Band,Martin Newell, Steve's own band The Shadow Kabinet and of course the welcome return of The Dukes Of Stratosphear.
"It was a bit of coup to get all the Dukes back together for this,"
explains Steve.
I'd called Andy at the beginning of the year and he agreed to contribute something to the project but as to what, he wasn't sure. We kicked around a few ideas but nothing seemed to gel. Some weeks later I bumped into actor, and fellow Camden resident, Stephen Mackintosh (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and a host of other stuff), we were talking about what we were up to and I mentioned the charity album and Andy's involvement. Stephen then proceeded to tell me how he had got into XTC via the Dukes. I relayed this story back to Andy who immediately said "Let's do a Dukes track". Earlier that week I'd been speaking to Dave Gregory and he told me about a Coral Sitar Guitar he'd just added to his armoury.The timing was perfect;Lord Cornelius Plum and Electric Sitar! We just needed a yes from Colin and Ian which followed swiftly and before you say 'Where the tin opener?' a can of human beans was being cooked up for your delight and a very good cause.
Steve says, "Forget all the speculation about who didn't record with who, The Dukes Of Stratosphear are back and you're in for a treat!"
'Open A Can (Of Human Beans)' kicks off the album which features some great songs, eight of which are totally exclusive to this album. Dave Gregory should also be mentioned in despatches for appearing on three tracks. He's playing electric sitar and mellotron with The Dukes, guitar with the The H-band and arranging and playing on 'It's Alright' by the Shadow Kabinet.
This is going to be a limited release so don't hang around!
link to order the album from the MS Society :
www.mssociety.org.uk
Date: 01/11/03
'The Wish List', Steve Somerset's ten track charity album for the MS Society is now available. Featuring Stephen Duffy and Lilac Time, Justin Hayward,Peter Blegvad, Phil Thornalley, Harold Budd, Steve Hogarth and the H-Band,Martin Newell, Steve's own band The Shadow Kabinet and of course the welcome return of The Dukes Of Stratosphear.
"It was a bit of coup to get all the Dukes back together for this,"
explains Steve.
I'd called Andy at the beginning of the year and he agreed to contribute something to the project but as to what, he wasn't sure. We kicked around a few ideas but nothing seemed to gel. Some weeks later I bumped into actor, and fellow Camden resident, Stephen Mackintosh (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and a host of other stuff), we were talking about what we were up to and I mentioned the charity album and Andy's involvement. Stephen then proceeded to tell me how he had got into XTC via the Dukes. I relayed this story back to Andy who immediately said "Let's do a Dukes track". Earlier that week I'd been speaking to Dave Gregory and he told me about a Coral Sitar Guitar he'd just added to his armoury.The timing was perfect;Lord Cornelius Plum and Electric Sitar! We just needed a yes from Colin and Ian which followed swiftly and before you say 'Where the tin opener?' a can of human beans was being cooked up for your delight and a very good cause.
Steve says, "Forget all the speculation about who didn't record with who, The Dukes Of Stratosphear are back and you're in for a treat!"
'Open A Can (Of Human Beans)' kicks off the album which features some great songs, eight of which are totally exclusive to this album. Dave Gregory should also be mentioned in despatches for appearing on three tracks. He's playing electric sitar and mellotron with The Dukes, guitar with the The H-band and arranging and playing on 'It's Alright' by the Shadow Kabinet.
This is going to be a limited release so don't hang around!
link to order the album from the MS Society :
www.mssociety.org.uk
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Re: Some new Dukes tracks
Tue, November 25, 2003 - 7:04 PMI just sent off for a couple of copies. Hopefully they will ship it to the U.S. - I included some extra postage & packing to cover it.
Thanks for the tip, I'm looking forward to hearing it.
(Steve Hogarth - I fisrt heard of him wheen he was on The Old grey Whistle test, with "The Europeans" playing "The animal song". I remember him especially as his hands were wrapped in bandages as he played the keyboards). funny what sticks in your mind eh?
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Re: Some new Dukes tracks
Thu, December 4, 2003 - 1:59 PMArgh. I just noticed the date on that press release. They may already be out of the thing. I had the devil of a time trying to find it on the site. All I could find was a Word doc to mail in.
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Re: Some new Dukes tracks
Fri, December 5, 2003 - 7:14 AMAlright. For some reason I had a really hard time finding album info on the site. I wrote them an email and they gave me the direct URL: www.mssociety.org.uk/50th_an...ish.html
Good news: you can pay via PayPal.
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Re: Some new Dukes tracks
Tue, December 16, 2003 - 9:16 PMI just got mine yesterday. Have listened to the Dukes track about 4 times. Like it pretty well although I'm still not sure how it stands up to the 2 albums. "Open a Can of Human Beans" sure is a bit of Partridge lyrical silliness. I could take it purely on that level if it weren't already close to some of the stuff XTC does. So it's hard to believe he's entirely taking the piss.
Anyone else have thoughts on this track?
