A5 40 page Photo-booklet printed on 130 gsm paper, silk finish, full colour
“Their artistic leanings were more developed than their Rock’n’Roll leanings. Usually a lot of Australian groups who come to the UK have to rely on an Australian audience, but in The Birthday Party’s case the audience would soon be comprised of 70% English and 30% Australian. I don’t think any other Australian group has ever done that. The Birthday Party did something that other bands weren’t prepared to do: come over to the UK and live here. Most come over on a major label deal and fuck off again when the money runs out. They were brave. It was a fairly austere time, living from hand to mouth, doing menial jobs, a very grim existence.”
Chris Carr – Publicist to The Birthday Party and The Saints
The Birthday Party were possibly the most aggressive, confrontational live band I’d ever seen – it was what I imagined The Stooges at their peak would have been like. A million light years from the melodic Postcard stuff I’d been immersed in at the time. I couldn’t work out if this aural and visual chaos was all improvised, or much like Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica - contrary to what was suggested in the sound, it had been meticulously rehearsed for nigh on a year! The rhythm section was hard as nails, but as loose (in a good way) as a cool Harlem Jazz combo in the 30’s. I’d never heard anyone make a guitar sound like Rowland S Howard, and Nick genuinely resembled a man possessed, but utterly enthralling. Lyrically too, they were also fascinating…. then again, if you take your name from Harold Pinter’s late 1950’s ‘comedy of menace’, you kinda know you’re dealing with intellectual beings.
After the gig, Nick Cave brushed passed me, and noticed my Raw Power tattoo and invited us backstage for drinks. I think we went to the following five or six shows around the UK following that eye-opening night. That was the beginning…although I never took photographs then, here are a few I took in the years to follow.
Innes Reekie October2018
The Year Of The Ox –
Limited edition CD
New Leaf
£10 GBP
On Safari - 25th Anniversary Edition –
Limited edition original 1995 CD
New Leaf
£10 GBP
Reasons For Leaving EP –
Extremely Limited Edition original 7" vinyl
The Presidents Men
£15 GBP
The Cathode Ray T-shirt
£12 GBP
Heightened Senses –
Limited Edition 12" Gatefold Vinyl
The Cathode Ray
£20 GBP
Heightened Senses –
Limited Edition CD
The Cathode Ray
£10 GBP
Hoof! –
Hoof! Limited Edition CD
St. Christopher Medal
£10 GBP
Hoof! –
"Hoof!" Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
St. Christopher Medal
£20 GBP
"Nite Life During Wartime - Edinburgh and beyond 1980 - 90" Photographs by Innes Reekie
£10 GBP
Fleam –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
STOOR
£10 GBP
Fleam –
Standard black vinyl
STOOR
£20 GBP
Fleam –
Limited Edition 12" White Vinyl
STOOR
£20 GBP
Hand Rolled Halo –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
The Eastern Swell
£20 GBP
Hand Rolled Halo –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
The Eastern Swell
£8 GBP
An Invitation To Infamy –
Limited Edition CD
The Vintage Calvinos
£9.99 GBP
One Day, A Flood –
One Day, A Flood CD
The Eastern Swell
£10 GBP
STOOR –
STOOR
STOOR
£8 GBP
STOOR –
STOOR
STOOR
£12 GBP
The Sound Of Stereogram –
Limited Edition Compilation CD
Various Artists
£5 GBP
Sunny Day Machine DL/CD –
Limited edition CD
St. Christopher Medal
£7.99 GBP
Lola in Slacks T-shirt
£12 GBP
The Land Of Holy Joy CD/DL –
Compact Disc
Band Of Holy Joy
£10 GBP
"Infinite Variety" CD/DL –
Compact Disc
The Cathode Ray
£7.99 GBP
"Lost Songs Of The Confederacy" LP/CD/DL –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
James King and the Lonewolves
£20 GBP
James King and the Lonewolves T-Shirt
Sold Out
"Lost Songs Of The Confederacy" LP/CD/DL –
Lost Songs Of The Confederacy CD
James King and the Lonewolves
Sold Out
Pretty Blue Eyes EP –
4 track CD EP
James King and the Lonewolves
£3 GBP
One Domino - CD/DL –
One Domino CD
Roy Moller
£7 GBP
"The Cathode Ray" CD/DL –
"The Cathode Ray"
The Cathode Ray
£7 GBP
What's It All About/Mind - CD/Download single –
What's It All About?/Mind
The Cathode Ray
£2 GBP
Stereogram Recordings Edinburgh, UK
We are an Edinburgh based record label run by JEREMY THOMS with press and PR by journalist INNES REEKIE.
Artist roster
includes LOUISE McCORKINDALE, CHRIS REEVE,
THE VINTAGE CALVINOS, THE CATHODE RAY, JAMES KING & THE LONEWOLVES, ROY MOLLER, ST.CHRISTOPHER MEDAL, THE FABULOUS ARTISANS, BAND OF HOLY JOY, LOLA IN SLACKS, NEW LEAF, MILTON STAR, THE EASTERN SWELL, STOOR and THOSE UNFORTUNATES
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