Fact #152603
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Short story:
Another Pretty Face record a live session for John Peel of BBC Radio 1 in London, England, UK, Europe. The perform four tracks, This Time It's Real, Lightning That Strikes Twice, Out Of Control and I'll Give You Fire. (Mike Scott of Another Pretty Face will go on to found The Waterboys)
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Nigel Grainge (Founder, Ensign Records) : The song was Out Of Control and there was something about it that struck me deeply. It was a fairly rough version but still had an ambitious, intelligent, literate, even mystical quality. It appealed to me as a music fan and I knew then that this was the kind of act that I wanted Ensign to have .
We did get or wires crossed in the early stages though. While we were trying to reach Mike Scott in Scotland so that we could talk to him directly, a tape had come in to our office and for some reason lay unopened on the front desk for days. When we eventually listened to the tape, which was full of things the band had done at gigs, we found it fairly unlistenable.
So I asked Mike Scott if APF would do a gig for us. One was organised at Tiffany's in Edinburgh and they did this incredibly enigmatic show in front of about ten people. It didn't fit in with anything that was happening at the time but it sent shivers up my spine and was as close as you'd get to the Velvet Underground at Max's or Tim Buckley at The Marquee with no punters in the room.
(Source : 1991 interview at http://www.hotpress.com/Nigel-Grainge/music/interviews/The-Hitman-An-interview-with-Nigel-Grainge/20315964.html)
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We did get or wires crossed in the early stages though. While we were trying to reach Mike Scott in Scotland so that we could talk to him directly, a tape had come in to our office and for some reason lay unopened on the front desk for days. When we eventually listened to the tape, which was full of things the band had done at gigs, we found it fairly unlistenable.
So I asked Mike Scott if APF would do a gig for us. One was organised at Tiffany's in Edinburgh and they did this incredibly enigmatic show in front of about ten people. It didn't fit in with anything that was happening at the time but it sent shivers up my spine and was as close as you'd get to the Velvet Underground at Max's or Tim Buckley at The Marquee with no punters in the room.
(Source : 1991 interview at http://www.hotpress.com/Nigel-Grainge/music/interviews/The-Hitman-An-interview-with-Nigel-Grainge/20315964.html)