Thread by @Birmingham_81

Echo & the Bunnymen released Porcupine 40 years ago today. So here's a long thread of videos and other bits and pieces celebrating this magnificent LP, starting with the immense Back of Love

Alongside the album, Echo & The Bunnymen released "Porcupine, An Atlas Adventure", a VHS tape featuring 26 minutes of videos recorded in Liverpool and Iceland in 1983. Here's In Bluer Skies (THREAD)📼 🧵

I think Porcupine sometimes gets overshadowed by the two Bunnymen albums that came immediately before and after, but it's just as great IMHO
open.spotify.com/album/4brJ6hWY…

Here's what Mac says

Here's the title track with some cool visuals #Porcupine #Bunnymen (THREAD)

We were lucky enough to see Echo & the Bunnymen just before the release of Porcupine in Jan 1983 and also five months later when they were the most thrilling live band on the planet

Porcupine’s precarious cover pic was taken at Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland by Brian Griffin, who shot the sleeves for the first four Bunnymen LPs. There’s lots more of his photography for the band here briangriffin.co.uk/photography/al…

Still got my Porcupine badges from back then (THREAD)

Here's another great video from the Porcupine VHS - the suitably psychedelic My White Devil

Porcupine was at 32 on the NME writers’ chart of the best albums of 1983, but tellingly made number 7 on the readers’ poll. Here’s a playlist of the singles chart, with The Cutter at 14 and Never Stop at 45 (THREAD)
open.spotify.com/playlist/68xhW…

Cover stars in 1983, the year #Porcupine was released (THREAD)

Heads Will Roll - what a tune! #Porcupine #Bunnymen (THREAD)

They have Porcupine T-shirts for sale over at the band's online merch table bunnymenheritagemerchandise.com/products/echo-…

Saving the best until last, here's the final video from the Porcupine VHS - The Cutter (THREAD 14 of 18)

Here's a press advert for the 26-minute Porcupine video - £14.99 is around £50 in today's money (THREAD 15 of 18)

However, you could save yourself all that money by winning a copy of the Porcupine video in this NME caption competition. What you got? (THREAD 16 of 18)

Here's a photo from when we made a Porcupine Pilgrimage to the (less snowy) Gullfoss Waterfall in Iceland in 2007 (THREAD 17 of 18)

For lots more information, insights and photos relating to Echo & the Bunnymen's brilliant Porcupine, replay #TimsTwitterListeningParty for the album with @Will_Fuzz @Tim_Burgess @LlSTENlNG_PARTY here (THREAD 18 of 18)
timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/replay/f…