All aboard! Here's tonight's mix for The Social Gathering (@thesociallondon). Press play at 6 and follow this thread for a good old wallow in nostalgia. Off we go back to the heady days of 1991... mixcloud.com/soniccathedral…
@thesociallondon We open with the sound of the @worldoftwistuk and the extended remix of ‘Sons Of The Stage’, what an incredible band/song. Here they are performing the single version on Eggs N Baker:
@thesociallondon @worldoftwistuk The football commentary was from the @SunderlandAFC v Newcastle derby match on November 17, 1991. Peter Davenport put Sunderland one up, but the game ended as a 1-1 draw (we'll ignore that)...
@thesociallondon @worldoftwistuk @SunderlandAFC I moved to Sunderland to go to @sunderlanduni (poly) in September 91, and met my wife @ClairDolphin there who, like Peter Davenport, was born in Birkenhead. COINCIDENCE? 
What's everyone drinking? Mad Dog 20/20? Thunderbird? Snakebite?
Washing down my second vaccine with this!
Next up is Intastella with ‘Bendy (In The Disco)’, a remix by @martinmoscrop. First saw them supporting @thecharlatans at Exeter Uni in late 1990. Legendary formative gig experience that was!
@martinmoscrop @thecharlatans @thomyorke I admit having no recollection of Magik Roundabout or their song ‘Everlasting Day’ (apparently they were from New Zealand), but this remix by Youth is great!
@martinmoscrop @thecharlatans @thomyorke Anyone know any more about them? This feels like an AI composite of every indie dance record from 90-91 (in a good way)
@martinmoscrop @thecharlatans @thomyorke Continuing the Magic Roundabout theme is this classic by The Badman, which samples Alain Legrand’s theme to the cult classic kids‘ show...
@martinmoscrop @thecharlatans @thomyorke It was released on the City Beat label, which spawned @XLRECORDINGS which was launched by its office junior, Richard Russell. It also released this classic...
@martinmoscrop @thecharlatans @thomyorke @XLRECORDINGS ‘Ride’ by Parchman, the band formed by Ivor Perry from Easterhouse. Saw this on Snub TV and bought the 12” immediately (14 mins in):
...of course, from ‘Ride’ it could only be to @rideox4 and ‘Unfamiliar’, the lead track from their utterly perfect ‘Today Forever’ EP...
Here they are performing it on Top Of The Pops March 14, 1991, with a Rickenbacker kindly loaned by @paulwellerHQ...
It's Levitation with ‘Smile’ from their debut ‘Coppelia’ EP. I admit I was scared of this band as an 18-year-old. I thought they were a bit too muso; what I described as “widdly”...
I now admit I was completely and utterly wrong. This is stunning…
They could/should have been massive. When I did some work experience at Rough Trade in 94, they were looking after Terry Bickers... I'm sure he'd decided to change his name to Terry Tree... 🌳
Should be talked about in the same way as @suedeHQ and Verve (no The)...
@suedeHQ Here are Moose with ‘Je Reve (I Dream)’ which they recorded as part of their first Peel Session which was broadcast on June 9, 1991...
@suedeHQ It features Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier from @stereolabgroop on guitar and vocals respectively and it's incredible, as is the whole session:
@suedeHQ @stereolabgroop Next up is Modern English and a remix of ‘Life’s Rich Tapestry’ from their ‘Pillow Lips’ LP of the previous year...
@suedeHQ @stereolabgroop Just to prove this stuff isn't thrown together, Mick Conroy from Modern English is now bandmates with KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop in @piroshkaband, who announced their new album yesterday!
More new wave survivors next in the form of @WireHQ who, like lots of people, dropped an E in 1991 (after drummer Robert Gotobed left) and became Wir...
@WireHQ This is a remix of ‘Take It’, from ‘The First Letter’, their one album as Wir, by LFO
@WireHQ I could only follow that with LFO themselves, with the remix of their ‘We Are Back’ single, a timeless @WarpRecords classic:
@WireHQ @WarpRecords The Grid (hi @MrRichardNorris 👋) were in-demand remixers back in 1991, especially for synth duos, it seems. Here they are reworking Dave Ball’s other band @softcellhq’s ‘Memorabilia’...
...and this is The Grid’s version of @petshopboys’ ‘DJ Culture’!
@petshopboys Speaking of @petshopboys – they both turned up on the genius debut album by Electronic on the incredible ‘The Patience Of A Saint’:
@petshopboys I definitely wouldn’t rather watch drying paint!
@petshopboys This is an all-time favourite album for me. I bought the tape in Manchester in the Summer of 91. When I stayed with my brother in Dundee, someone broke in and stole my Walkman but... discarded the tape!
Bought a cool @ScreamOfficial T-shirt at the same time, but it went in a red wash by mistake 😳
@ScreamOfficial This one!
Next we have another Factory Records classic – Cath Carroll’s ‘Moves Like You’. This is the single remix, but the original was on this legendary tape (FAC305) that came free with Select magazine...
What a tune! Bit too jaunty this mix though!
Ah, the Field Mice... This it the opening track from their final album, ‘For Keeps’, with lovely vocals from Annemari Davis:
The link between these next three records is they were all engineered or produced by Ian Catt...
Here’s a refreshing glass of Cola Boy (@bobpetesarah in disguise), with the ‘I Pour The Cola Mix’ of ‘7 Ways To Love’... Here's the single version on TOTP:
@bobpetesarah Now it's the real @bobpetesarah with ‘London Belongs To Me‘. A better soundtrack to those bright and sunny London days (when you feel buzzy and alive) I'm yet to hear:
@bobpetesarah Felt like this when I met my mate Marc in the pub the other night... until the hypothermia kicked in 🥶
@bobpetesarah A @heavenlyrecs classic 💕
@bobpetesarah @heavenlyrecs Anyway, it includes the lyric “to the sound of the World Of Twist, you leaned over and gave me a kiss...”
@bobpetesarah @heavenlyrecs Yep, it’s only @worldoftwistuk again with their cover of The Honeycombs’ sad / creepy / Covid-be-gone anthem ‘This Too Shall Pass Away’...
@bobpetesarah @heavenlyrecs @worldoftwistuk The original was produced, of course, by Joe Meek. So we end with a little sample from the great documentary about him that was broadcast on @BBCTwo on February 8, 1991:
@bobpetesarah @heavenlyrecs @worldoftwistuk @BBCTwo Right, that's enough of this “crap”. Set time machine controls back to the present day... see you on the other side. Thanks for having us @sociallondon! Making plans to do this IRL sooner rather than later!
@bobpetesarah @heavenlyrecs @worldoftwistuk @BBCTwo @sociallondon @threadreaderapp unroll please :)
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