[2024-08-30] Fire Engines "Chrome Dawns (Expanded Edition)" 2CD set (Cherry Red UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:46 pm

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Description
• Featuring all Fire Engines’ Codex Communications/Pop Aural recorded output.

• Plus the two 1981 John Peel BBC Sessions, the latter featuring tracks unavailable elsewhere, and essential live recordings including Fire Engines’ debut live performance at Leith Community Centre, the band’s memorable appearance at 1980’s ‘Why Does The Pope Not Come To Glasgow?’ Edinburgh Fringe and one of the band’s legendary 30-minute sets at Edinburgh Valentino’s captured during the summer of 1981.

• And a track from the 2004 ‘reformed’ Fire Engines; ‘influencers’ now covering the ‘influenced’ with 2004 Mercury Prize Winners Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Jacqueline’.

• With a 32-page illustrated booklet with extensive sleeve notes by accomplished writer Neil Cooper together with a recent interview with all four original members (Davy Henderson, Russell Burn, Murray Slade, Graham Main).

Fire Engines’ life as a band might have been over before it had barely begun, but the punk sired Edinburgh band’s short life blazed with incident and colour. ‘Boredom or Fire Engines – You Can’t Have Both’ went the legend. The small and imperfectly formed back catalogue they left in their wake sounded like they had crawled out of a cellar and come blinking into the inner-city light in a parallel universe somewhere between Leith Walk and CBGB’s. Boredom wasn’t an option.

Edinburgh’s incestuous inter-band family tree also included crossovers with The Flowers and Boots for Dancing, both of whom released singles on Bob Last and Hilary Morrison’s Pop Aural label. Following the release of their debut single – ‘Get Up and Use Me’ / ‘Everything’s Roses’ – on the Codex Communications imprint – Fire Engines too found a home with Last and Morrison’s post Fast Product label.

Now remastered from Bob Last’s original master tapes together with two accompanying John Peel Sessions, ‘Chrome Dawns’ is the definite Fire Engines artefact including the 7” inch – ‘Candyskin’ / ‘Meat Whiplash’ – now regarded as a classic; the mini album – Lubricate Your Living Room – as a wilfully perverse objet d’art; and the 12” – ‘Big Gold Dream’ – best remembered by some for its sleeve. Despite such limited output, Fire Engines had a rich history the brevity of their lifespan doesn’t do justice.

Tracklist
Codex Communications CDX 01, December 1980:
1. Get Up And Use Me
2. Everything’s Roses
Lubricate Your Living Room, Pop Aural AAC 001, January 1981:
3. Plastic Gift
4. Get Up And Use Me
5. Sympathetic Anaesthetic
6. Discord
7. New Thing In Cartons
8. Hungry Beat
9. Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 1
10. Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
11. Plastic Gift (Version)
Pop Aural POP 010, May 1981:
12. Candyskin
13. Meat Whiplash
John Peel Session, Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast March 9th 1981:
14. Candyskin
15. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
16. Untitled
17. Discord
Previously Unreleased:
18. Sympathetic Anaesthetic
19. New Thing In Cartons
20. Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
Pop Aural POP 013, December 1981:
21. Big Gold Dream
John Peel Session, Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast November 23rd 1981:
22. The Big Wrong Time
23. Qualitamatic
24. Young Tongues Need Taste
25. Produced To Seduce To

[CD2]
Leith Community Centre, March 16th 1980:
1. The Untitled One
2. Insert Yourself
3. Discord
Wilf Smarties Live Session, August 2nd 1980:
4. Sympathetic Anaesthetic
5. Get Up And Use Me
6. Hungry Beat
7. Everything’s Roses
8. The Untitled One
Why Does The Pope Not Come To Glasgow?, Edinburgh Fringe, August 18th-September 6th 1980:
9. Get Up And Use Me
10. Discord
11. Hungry Beat
12. Everything’s Roses
13. Get Up And Use Me (Reprise)
Edinburgh Valentino’s Club, August 9th 1981:
14. Produce To Seduce To
15. Get Up And Use Me
16. Hungry Beat
17. Plastic Gift
18. Discord
19. New Thing In Cartons
20. Coca Cola Cowboy
21. Meat Whiplash
22. Candyskin
CC Somerville Show, January 12th 1981:
23. Clip (Excerpt)
New NEW!000, December 2004:
24. Jacqueline

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jun 10, 2024 1:05 am

The cover image has been added to the first post.

The Human Top · **Joined:** 29 Jan 2011 **Posts:** 1114

I want this so much. Love this band but I've only ever listened to them via an old, damaged record.

More postpunk! More!

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:53 pm

All of the pre-order links in the first post are now active.

[2024-08-30] Fire Engines "Chrome Dawns (Expanded Edition)" 2CD set (Cherry Red UK)

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