FLLR GB001 - GaoBest tapes - Saint Etienne

 

South Parade Pier, Portsmouth

FLLR GB001 = Saint Etienne

This first selection from this Maxell XLII 90 minute tape was recorded on 1993-03-05 at South Parade Pier, Portsmouth.

Taper is abbreviated as YP, who probably recorded with a Sony TC-D3 DAT and Aiwa CM-30 mics.  GaoBest's copy comes directly from the taper.

It's one of his favorites, he played it frequently before it got shelved and then loaned out to me to ascertain and compare to what's already out there.  

This show is already up on YouTube, here, from "whatdoidonow 1997", and my tape source doesn't better it.

Turns out that my tape ran a bit fast compared to this reference, so slowed it down 4.67% or about .79 a semitone, so that it is the exact same 45:00 length.  I've also provided the original transfer so you can compare and conclude it indeed runs too fast.

NOTE: this is not just true for Portsmouth, as it was pointed out to me, but for the entire tape, so I've also speed corrected the other selections mentioned here and upped them to the linked folder.

Next up, we have four tracks from Glastonbury 1994.  While we have the full setlist, we don't have tracks 1-3 or 6.

My tape mostly lines up with the "jeyem archives" BBC TV broadcast, at least pt.2, but starts out with "Hug My Soul", and leaves out the interview material.

Here's a YouTube playlist with all the extant Saint Etienne out there for this festival.

jeyem archives

Sushi Rider [0:10] Like A Motorway [2:17] Nothing Can Stop Us Now [7:55] - the three Marks (Radcliffe / Riley / Kermode) [10:26] (cut) - "anything is possible" (J. Peel) [10:59] - Katie Puckrick interview w/Pete + Sarah [11:05] Who Do You Think You Are? [14:19] - Mark and Jeremy from The Levellers [18:18] (fragment)

The very fit looking lady is one Katie Puckrick, who was actually an American originally from Virginia, but who lived in quite a few places before moving to London in 1984 where she was a dancer for The Fall (I Am Kurious Oranj) and The Pet Shop Boys.

Here's another clip of her and co-presenter Mark Kermode from Glasto '94.

And some audio of the first time Puckrick and Cracknell met during the festival....including when they played with Oasis, who have just gotten back together again

For more info about the legendary Glastonbury '94 festival, try this link from the fabulous Saint Etienne Disco webpage (unofficial) for the band.

Lastly, we have a quartet of BBC Evening session tracks, which actually didn't appear to be on YouTube, so I've just upped them there.  Seemingly uncommon enough that it doesn't appear on the Saint Etienne Disco site... this could be due to some bitterness in that this supplanted the beloved John Peel's show which got moved to weekends.

As indicated earlier, these run fast but won't fix it until somebody on YouTube (or one of you, hah!) post a note.

Everything can be downloaded losslessly here...

FLLR GB001 - Saint Etienne (pCloud download)