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April 03, 2008 10:01 AM Hi..great to stumble across your site..brought back lots of memories..still have the tracks we recorded there and they are now on cd along with lots of other stuff, including rare Spriguns tracks that were never released! Wayne Morrison is back in Australia but most of the band are still gigging round Cambridge. A really informative site and much appreciated. Dick Powell Hi Dick, great to hear from you - please send me the dates and other details of the sessions for the discography here :) |
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:42 PM Hi Dve
,& all you guys. Sorry Terry, I've lost Roger's email but he should read this here eventually and then I'll put you both in touch :) Thanks for your kind comments. Best wishes! |
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Hi Mark, As promised a thousand years ago, here's The Higs at Spaceward in a nutshell + a couple of photos. We've spoken a little in recent months about doing a reunion show or two, but availability of all 5 members and a large dose of cold feet about it all means that it remains somewhere near the back burner...
Best wishes, Terry Many thanks Terry - there's a place for you guys in the Hall Of Fame :) |
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Monday, February 18, 2008 10:55 AM Hello, Hi
Neil, The Pink Fairies were definitely on top form that night and played
a blinder! We hope to see this released one day but, so far, we haven't
found a label who'll release it. Thanks for the info re the book BTW
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:36 PM Roger Dave Oakes here, your effects and keyboard roadie of old. Seems you are doing OK, not as well as Hans but who is? (who'd of thought such a pretentious keyboard player would do so well). I'm now involved in software - indoor work/no heavy lifting, not as much fun as being on the road, but it pays a tad more. Spaceward looks good, do you remember the Maison Rouge studio? I really liked that place, or was it the babe on reception I really liked? it was such a long time ago. Anyway it's good to know you are fine, do you still hear from beefy, I imagine he's not aged particularly gracefully - I know I haven't! Best Wishes
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:14 PM Wow this site brought back memories. From the feverish aniticipation once we had stuck the pin in the Spaceward ad in the back of Melody Maker, to our arrival in the very posh town of Cambridge. Even the Berni inn was dauntingly upper crust. April 1979. We were "The Big Bad Nasty Band", three hopefuls from deepest rural Yorkshire who managed to record at least one track at Spaceward, "Flying Cats", that made it to the playlist of a NY rock radio station. Why Jimmy Page cannot reconcile himself with the fact that his creative juices may have simply dried up and borrow it (as I have suggested on many occasions) escapes me. Gary was the engineer - a real trooper who despite the fact we had only booked the sudio for the day kept going until gone 2 in the morning, and tidied up some loose ends the next day. I believe he may have started to regret having installed the false window and curtains with artificial daylight behind intended to offset the permanent seasonal affective disorder that comes from working in a basement all day. Unfortunately it had the same effect on us as fresh oxygen and free poker chips in a Las Vegas casino. As it turned out this was probably the start of the middle of the beginning of the end for us - there's no more subtle message than the desperate look in the eyes of a seriously sleep deprived engineer to tell you that your 12 string intonation stinks, and that adding ever more eventide harmoniser (didnt you just love that thing!) to dodgy vocals won't fool the A&R types. So we had no option but to move on from the rock n roll dream and become the presidents of international stockbroking firms etc. As I sit here down the road in Saffron Walden all these years later holding the mastertape with Gary's hand written track list there's just one thing that continues to erk me, especially being unable to play the tape. I simply can't remember playing anything called "Equaliser azimuth 12 decibels below din level" or somesuch - sounds way too Floydy for us.
Hi Richard, many thanks for this welocme addition to the discography :) your email made me laugh out loud! |
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:41 PM dear jim, i am doing various bits of research about the halcyon daze of yore and am possibly going to do a website for formerly fat harry - hux records are about to release a cd of unreleased recordings by them in feb 08. goodbye for good is steve brink still around? if not who would be good to corroborate all those live gigs, dates, line-ups from 70/71 at the dorothy etc? been huge fan/supporter of the soft boys since 1977 and still good mates with mr rew best wishes nigel cross |
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:27 AM
Best Regards ... Peter Robinson
Absoulte gold!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) Sent:
Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:34 PM Remember
Spaceward when it was in a front room off parkers Piece, before they
got all posh. Was always fascinated by Mike`s homemade kit & how amazingly well it all performed. Highlight for me was sticking the front of my enormous 2x15" bass cabinet into the chimney in the basement live room to record it on one occasion. Bit
hazy on titles but mine was "Me and you", Wayne Morrison had
"Sunrise in South Australia" and "Suzy Girl" Happy days! Wow! Fantastic, thank you!I've updated the discography with your info :) |
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Friday, November 09, 2007 2:44 AM Hello Spaceward Studios, My name is Caleb, I run a NYC based record label called Sacred Bones. I am working with the band 13th Chime from Cambridge on re-issuing there music. There first single "Cursed" was recorded at your studio in 1981 by one Joe Bull. Since then the band has lost the masters for there music, and at this stage we are forced to use the vinyl as the master. I know that this is a total shot in the dark, but they wouldn't still be kicking around there would they? Even if not, I would love to know if you have any information or any stories from the sessions. I am trying to compile any and all information that I can. I would really appreciate any help. Thank you so much for your time! All
the best P.S.- Holy shit, what a discography you have!!!! Hi Caleb, I don't have this but I've emailed Joe in the hope that he may a personal copy. Hello to 13th Chime and good luck with the re-issue! |
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Monday, October 08, 2007 8:30 AM
Hey also it'd be great to link The Users myspace page !!!!!
Thanks Chris - got it! :) |
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:23 AM Hello
... I've just discovered the Spaceward history site, very interesting
... especially as I used to help out Mike and Gary in 1975 and 1976
while they were at Victoria Street, and took a couple of the photos
that you've posted on the site (the Lewes castle ones). I'm in the process
of scanning many more old pictures from those years, are you interested
? Fantastic!!! Please, please, PLEASE - send those scans :) |
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:26 PM Love looking at the site and remembering my time there when I was recording with Spiritwalk after winning the great Cambridge rock comp in 1998 .. Now back playing again with some friends in my village, having a great time and finally making the move from endless covers to own material. I was on
the guestbook earlier and said I'd return when we had a myspace page.
Well, its still very much a "work in progress", and the songs
are basically live takes, but give a clue as to where we're at. What
I'd really like is some quality studio time! http://www.myspace.com/cambsshed feel free to check it out. We will be improving song versions, adding new material, videos and maybe a few gig listings if we can generate some interest. cheers |
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:13 AM
The master lost was recorded in the 'Mark Two' studio in Victoria Street and featured the 'new' (I think it was called). ADT which basically automatically double-tracked the vocals or whatever. Bang up to date, i am playing now with a great St Albans based singer-song writer called Pete Waters and his band - Ballyhooley - with me still on mandolin as in the Spaceward days down in the basement!! He's just
cut a new album and is looking for pressings etc so have passed your
details onto him. All the best to all out there and Mike Kemp, you still owe me that pint from the pub near the Victoria Street studios! Bruce Fursman
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Friday, July 13, 2007 4:25 PM Hiya, stumbled across the site. We did lots of pressings for Spaceward Studios "back in the old days! I was a young girl then!! I have found a Master Tape 1/2 " of "Legend". Does it belong to anyone there? Does anyone want it? It is dated 17/6/84. If I come across any others (doubtful now) I will let you know. SRT is still going strong but all CD or DVDs now. Anyone wanting any quality Mastering work with Print & Pressings then please look us up. www.soundrecordingtechnology.com
Fantastic
news, thanks! Glad to know SRT still going strong :) |
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Friday, June 08, 2007 10:05 PM I'm the
gormless one peering over the edge of the Hammond - C3 wasn't it ? Hi Steve, great to read your post :) Yes, it was a C3. Delighted to see the recent release of "Money & Time" by The Great Divide on Gott Discs btw - so many good tracks there! |
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:14 PM Hi can you help? I am trying to track down a guitarist caled Roger Adams. He played with Krakatoa and The Desperate Dan Band. Back in the late sixties I played with Roger in a couple of local Brighton bands but have lost touch over the last few years. I would be grateful for any contact info or details of any gigs he may still be doing. Hope you can help Mick Fardell |
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:26 PM Hi
there Hi Richard, thanks for the heads-up. Ezio is great! Good luck with the band :) |
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:20 PM Just found the Spaceward page and thought you might want a couple of pictures I took of Julian Cope during the recording of Fried at Spaceward up at Streatham. I went there with Jon Lewin who was interviewing him for Making Music magazine. I should also have some pictures of the Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast which I'll send on when I can find them. Also played harmonica on the 2nd Fish Turned Human ep, didn't know there was a 3rd one, and harmonica on the Hearthrobs, as well (same label as FTH I think, but not in your discography, I've got a copy and sleeve somewhere and can scan these if you want them). Regards, Wow! Fantastic!!! Many thanks for this info David :) I am delighted to add these lost items to the discography |
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Friday, March 30, 2007 2:31 AM Dear Spaceward It's not tooooooo late to give us a contract. We've been waiting (nigh on) 20 years. Folks are starting to do cover versions of our stuff! Well I hope this finds you well. You'll have NO idea who I am but have a look here, please: http://www.myspace.com/theoriginalhippies
Don't matter if not! All the best Matt NB: Definitely
get yourself onto the old MY SPACE. Is easy and fun and strangely life-affirming. |
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Monday, February 05, 2007 11:13 PM Hi Mark, What a great site, a real blast from the past etc! I saw Ali's comments and just wanted to expand on/echo them a bit. We used a lot of different studios in the '80's and none came close to the unique vibe or the sound of Spaceward (not even a famous EMI studio in NW London). Our first sessions there with you were easily the best and even now sound great. To answer your question, no, none of The Brotherhood stuff made it to vinyl and perhaps its just as well considering how horrible the music business is. I have a large selection of photos from the various times we recorded, there are equipment shots, Spaceward personnel pics, cat shots etc. If you'd like to include any of them on the site I can pop 'em in the post. Good memories. Best wishes Duncan
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:58 AM Hi we recordered at Spaceward in spring 1980 Chelsea Girl and I Remember on this link, no idea who did what engineer etc, lol!! http://myspace.com/thezerosband Great to find the Spaceward thingy, you should 'myspace' too! THE ZEROS Many thanks for the heads-up - The Zeros session now added to the Discography :) |
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:08 PM Hi 'Space' men and women! We/I am still trying to locate a stereo master that the Boyo, Dave Dut and myself recorded 'down' in Victoria Street in the late 1970s. It featured tracks such as 'Nothing Really Matters', and probably the best song we ever wrote and recorded called, " Love Me Forever". I only have an old cassete, (Mike's copy) and would love to get hold of the quarter inch master again. Hope to
get some pics on the site as soon as this old PC dies and I get a half
decent one! Great stuff! The session has now been added to the discography. Please, please, PLEASE send those pics! :) |
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Saturday, November 25, 2006 8:43 PM Hi Many thanks Richard - yes please let us have that pic of the cover art :) |
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Sunday, October 22, 2006 9:19 PM Hello. I hope this information is of interrest to you and your site. Best regards |
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:09 PM Hi, Noticed you've listed the Diamond Lil single on your site and thought you might be interested to know the full recording date, it was the 27th September 1976. Would have been nice if the band had told me this BEFORE the sleeves got printed.... Take care, malc Thanks malc - exact date now added to Discography :) |
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:19 PM Hi Mark, Just to let you know, the book's finished now (some info attached). One day we'll crack the mysteries of Raw Records! Anyway, thanks for your help. Alex PRESS RELEASE NO
MORE HEROES Release Date: October 2006 Cherry Red Books Punk rock: it’s a well-worn subject, but this new book extends the searchlight beyond the King’s Road, Roxy and West London – though that crucial scene is by no means neglected. It also encompasses some of the truly fantastic music (and sometimes truly less than fantastic records) that emerged in the wake of the Sex Pistols. The idea has been to give the progenitors their due, but to listen to the reverberations around the UK, from Exeter to Inverness. Participants (musicians, fanzine writers, observers) recount first-hand stories of flea pit gigs, desperately financed singles and local rivalries – punk as it was understood and lived on the ground. The enduring impact of punk belonged to the shires of Britain as well as the celebrated urban gene pool of the capital, where it played out, with a mixture of indomitable personal courage and amoral teenage mischief-making, amongst the alienated of shitsville UK. In the process punk is revealed as a much broader church than other histories have depicted, an entry point for young men and women (and a significant helping of old codgers) from differing backgrounds, with widely ranging sensibilities and aspirations. The book assesses each of the major ‘punk artists’, candidly, on their output, following their development to the present day. There’s an effort to redress perceived wisdom about the value of those careers as the 70s turned into the 80s, when many of the original punk bands actually made their best records. While many names will be familiar others will not. Hence time is devoted to punk’s splintered personality post-1977. From those bands that took it as an inviolate template, to those who embraced it as a rebirth for the original spirit of rock ‘n’ roll to those, finally, who judged it the end of rock music and a jumping off point for something completely new. There is no unifying view or theory behind these accounts, instead the book serves as an attempt to capture the beautiful chaos engendered by competing voices as the walls came tumbling down. The idea is to be inclusive and celebratory rather than cynical. Therefore opinions are sought from outside the tight huddle of usual suspects and would-be elitists, drawing on bemused and bewildered non-participants to events, as well as those who served in the trenches. There is no attempt to locate the ‘meaning’ of punk, nor to run a slide rule over qualifications for its status. The author has instead, in the majority of cases, let the protagonists make their own cases. Where possible the bands concerned have exercised the right of reply, leading to a more balanced account of their own history. Some 200 interviews were completed in the course of researching the book, leading to a plethora of first-hand insights and anecdotes. A secondary aspect of the book is the comprehensive documentation of the releases, both contemporary and retrospective, of the bands of the era. It’s an attempt to address the jungle of retrospective CDs and box sets, the sheer volume of which indicates the continued fascination around this period in British musical history. •
Over 300 individual band/artist biographies http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/nomoreheroes.htm
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:31 PM Hello ,
first off I'd like to say what an intresting site you have there. so for
the sake of completion they are : Fantastic news! Very many thanks for this info on an Obscure Gem :) |
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Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:07 PM Hi all, Can't believe
I found this site, after all these years, and have just spent a highly
nostalgic evening reading through the pages. The sessions in Cambridge were a pure delight, with some hilarious and emotionally charged moments. Funny how you remember the trivia though, innit.... like Mike and Gary's delight, when my girlfriend cooked everyone a blinding "roast dinner", at the end of a particularly long (and stressful) day! Keep up the good work, and I'll keep looking in. Stewart Booth Hi Stewart, many thanks for your post :) I'm particularly pleased we were able to furnish Shadoks Music with the master tapes from these sessions so that a high quality CD could be released. If you happen to find any old photos... |
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:40 PM Hi guys, I ahem. stumbled on this website. Actually, I received an email from J W Middendorf II from whom I had not heard for like 10 years, and I started to sort of google around. I've got some original 10" masters here done by you! If only I could put them onto DAT, or something, I could probably do a lot more with them ... maybe I can donate them to your archives in exchange for a fresh, nice digital copy? Well ... miss you all
Somtow
Sucharitkul Hi Somtow, many thanks for this kind offer :) We gladly accept! |
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Sunday, July 30, 2006 5:29 PM Hi,
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Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:46 PM Stumbled
on your site............ My 1st
band The Disrupters recorded our 2nd single at Spaceward back in 83.
Joe Bull fucking hated us if I remember correctly :) Strangely enough the single did OK and the A-side has just been reissued on a "best of...." CD from Overground Records. Was cool
browsing your site and we felt back in 1983 that using the same studio
that recorded "Inflammable Material" by SLF was a bit like
entering hallowed ground. Regards BS Hi Steve, many thanks for your email - I've added an entry for The Disrupters in the discography |
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Monday, June 05, 2006 9:09 PM Stumbled across your site whilst web-searching for somewhere to record my curent band. It was nice to be reminded of the short time I spent at Spaceward c1981. I recorded with a band called Nightclass from Nottinhgam. It was only one session to do a 4 song demo but the quality and sound engineering were top quality...tape still sounds great. Patrick
Gallagher Hi Patrick - many thanks for your kind words and the low-down on your session which I've added to the Discography :) |
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Monday, May 15, 2006 3:30 PM Hi there, I came across your web site and found it interesting.. I used to know Graeme many years ago (I'm Toni from ATV Music) and was wondering if you still see him..if you do can you please let me have his contact details, if you are uncomfortable with that you could perhaps tell him that I was enquiring after him. Thanks and regards Toni |
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Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:37 AM hello all We all miss Graz - he was magic. A retrospective Great Divide CD is scheduled for release later this year on Gott Discs. Graham Fuller features on several tracks. Watch out for it.
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March 19, 2006 10:01 AM Subject: for the record
http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/PW.html best wishes
Paul Wheeler Hi Paul! I've added your session to the Discography thanks for the heads-up and kind words.
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Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:12 AM hi there, this is Ita here. I'm working punk records shop called Nat records Tokyo, Japan. I checked SPACEWARD studio site, am very interested in! I love RAW records, and some punk band recorded by SPACEWARD studio. I started
some '77 punk band interview for our web-site. so I want to talk with
legendary producer/mixer I hope
to hear from you soon! Ita NAT records Hi Ita! Many thanks for your email - I'll pass on your requests to Mike & Gary :) Which is your favourite Raw Record? |
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Monday, January 23, 2006 6:58 PM
Kevin Harrison
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 7:13 PM Hi people, Just found this site, very good too. I remember recording a few things at the old studio as bass player for Johnny Curious and the Strangers - my first time in a 'real' studio (apart from some stuff somewhere else with a band that included Charles Smith, later Sal Solo out of Classix Nouveaux), and I loved it. I seem to remember playing with a finger and thumb heavily bandaged due to a drunken punkrock accident with a knife the night before - ok I was trying to make a new hole in my guitar strap. As Johnny Phillips notes elsewhere, those first sessions and gigs were our high point, we weren't really vut out for da biz. I've been in and out of bands, played solo etc ever since (it's my art, man, I can't not do it), currently mucking around with jazz musicians playing alto sax. Great to see you're still about, love to you all. Cheers, Bob Green Hi Bob, great to hear from you :) I rescued some Johnny Curious & The Strangers tapes from Gary Lucas's attic recently. Lee Wood has written... "The one regret I have. I visited Spaceward studios one day and they played me a tape of a band called Johnny Curious & The Strangers. The recordings were STUNNING. Especially "Back In Pissheadsville Again". I approached them but they had a manager called Sue Black who only wanted them signed to a big label. In the end they re-recorded the four songs and released them on Miles Copeland's label. The re-recordings are total shit compared to the originals." Maybe it's time the originals were released? Would anyone be interested do you think? Anyway, it looks like we have them :) Hope to hear, |
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:28 PM I stumbled across your website and found mention of a lost tape. Can this be true? It was 1972 I think and we were TERRIBLE (we were called Tramp. Female singer, flautist, lots of rhythm changes, complete rubbish). But I'd love to hear it. I think we recorded it in Fisher Hall. I don't think anything survives from the 1980s live Radio Cambs show but I remember that Dave Stewart (the other one) was with us. best
Trevor Great to hear from you Trevor but sorry, no Tramp tapes exists :( |
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:33 PM
Just surfin and found the studio page. Fantastic!! we recorded our first single at the old school house in 82 we had a great time as far as I remember : ) . just sorry we never thought to take any photo's of Gary doing the work The single
was "Sheralee" b/w Force (reached no3 in Italian metal charts)
cat number HEAVY 12 We are still around - we have just released a new album on Heavy Metal Records! getting a bit long in the tooth now though : ) Heavy Metal is getting nearer to zimmer frames : ) One thing
I do remember about the session was the on the track "Force"
I wanted some reverse echo on a part of the vocals and poor Mike had
to set it up by turning the tape round to run and record backwards,
a lot of work just for an effect to last a second or two! (dont think
he ws too impressed!) but it still sounds great in fact better than
we can produce today with all the new technology ! Regards
Brill! Many thanks Garry for the info and picture :) Now added to the Discography |
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Saturday, December 03, 2005 6:25 PM hi
spaceward: just a note to let you know the disco students have just
released a new 7 track CD - "My Black Girlfriend". If
you visit the website: discostudents.com
you'll find a photo of a youthful Gary Lucas.
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Friday, December 02, 2005 3:45 PM Dear Mike & Gary,
Stumbled upon your site by accident while doodling around at work this afternoon. Many happy memories of Spaceward and of pints between takes in the Clarendon! Funny enough, as I write a box of Spaceward reel to reels lies in my hallway at home as I ponder where to store them. Dave and me self recorded in Victoria Street a couple of times in the 70s. Once in the very old studio – mattress in the hallway job etc and where there was a cry of ‘cut’ as I think either Mike or Gary’s chair collapsed in the ‘control room’ during a take!
I’ll have a look at the tapes when I get home for track listings of the other session and email back. But just for your info, Dave Dutfield years later played and recorded with the Elaine Morgan Band who I think – knowledge a bit rusty here! – were linked to the Albion Band who were in tern linked to Spaceward etc etc. My strange link was that as a schoolboy of 15/16 I had supported with my band, the Folkomnibus the (now) famous Nick Drake at his first gig at the Goodwill to All pub in Harrow. I played an old Neapolitan round back mandolin at that gig that Nick - in the break - very much admired. I recorded with that mando (& slept overnight in the studio!) about 5 or 6 years later at Spaceward. It was in the ‘new’ expanded basement studio that I think was under the corner house? I was unaware that Nick Drake had himself been at Cambridge not long before – I just wonder if he had any connection with Spaceward?. Will be in touch,
Bruce Fursman
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Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:34 PM
Well, what
a wonderful thing this interweb is...
Hi Robin. Fantastic information - many thanks :) I've added your session to the Discography here and will be pleased to reward your proposed tape submission with... ...a replacement gold Lame Bunny badge! :) |
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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:22 PM
How nice to find this site - brings back some good memeories from years past... I was a budding musician/songwriter/producer/sound engineer as a young teenager and wrote to about every studio in the south east of England whilst still at school asking for work experience. Spaceward was the only one that replied and the only one that let me go to to the studio and get involved. I remember Owen, Rachel the office manager and the tape op Patrick with whom I spent most weekends on sessions making tea or sweeping the leaves in the car park!! However good times! Got to assist on sessions with The Bible (still one of my favourite bands) and played about on JJ Burnels steinberger bass while no one was looking! After school went to work in The Master Room then onto Livingston studios then a spell in a band called Please signed to Polydor for one single which sold about 6 copies then after all illusions of pop stardom had evaded me went into aviation (my second love after music). Now live in Sofia, Bulgaria where I have my own aircraft handling company - funny old game life ain't it!! Anyway, once again a great site and I'm sure a great trip down memory lane for anyone involved in the studio - however insignificant... Cheers, Dean Jones Hi Dean! Welcome to you in Sofia, Bulgaria - trust you're still finding time to play some music! :) |
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| Hi Mike, Mark, etc.. My heart is racing, it was really exciting to see so many memories in such a short space of time. Mike, Gary and Joe gave me my dream job straight out of school but I was too young to appreciate it at the time. Slightly dissapointed that I didn't get a mention, as I was tape op there in 1980 at Victoria Street, helped build the new mixer and the new studio in Stretham (if the accoustic panels ever come off the walls you'll find self-piteous teenage angst, poems and cries for help from me scribbled on the bare walls!), recorded at both studios with the Sinix and also the Friendly Hopefuls ("Tribute to the Punks of 76" medley which got to number 29 in Sounds alternative chart in 1982 when I naively left Spaceward thinking I was about to hit the bigtime!) AND later returned to work at Spaceward Microsystems from 1985-86. Oh I also got credited as "assistant producer" with Gary on an albumn by a band called Grace on MCA records. Nowadays I live in Streatham (South London, not Ely) and play in a modern jazz band called The Goodbye Look, how times change..... Hope you are all well. Love Dan MEA CULPA! I'm ashamed to admit that these oversights were entirely my fault and I'm delighted to rectify them :) It's great to hear from you, Dan :) |
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:57 PM Hi Mark
Many thanks John! I'm delighted to add your session to the Discography :) |
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Monday, September 12, 2005 12:10 AM
Thanks for the excellent info. Sadly no protection or other copy remains in our archive. If I do hear of one, we will of course let you know - good luck with your release :) |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:55 PM please
could you supply on CD a copy of a session by The Carburretors recorded
approx 1980 which included Roman Jugg an Bryn Merryck both of whom later
joined THE DAMNED.I was with the band at thje time. Unfortunately my Please ring me on 07711 280770. Regards |
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Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:23 AM Hi there
(Alex ?) best wishes
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:11 PM i'm completely obsessed with a band called the jellies who released one 7" on jelly records in 1981. i've tried desperately to find out the story about it, but have found 0. it appears to be the only release on jelly records, and i heard it once in 1998 at a thurton moore concert and became obssessed with it. I spent five years tracking down my copy and have since got it pretty populuar with a variety of underground music snobs, band members & record collector geeks. i'm not sure if you're familiar with wfmu, but it is a world reknowned underground radio station station which i d.j. on. you can check it out at www.wfmu.org. if you do an artist search for the jellies, i think you'll see the ridiculous frequency which i play this track. also, btw, i play lots of other spaceward things, as does most of my station, ranging from mandy morton to the limit. Michael Goldstein
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:03 PM Hi there at Spaceward studios I'm from Compost Records / Angora Steel in Germany and we are interested in licensing the Fish Turned Human Song "The International". Since you
released the made the Record I wanted to ask if your own the rights
for this track or from where can We license it from? Thanks
in advance and cheerio from Germany...
Sorry, we can't help :( but maybe someone will read this... |
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:24 PM I was a trainee tape-op / teaboy / receptionist at Spaceward @ 81 -82 / 3 ?
Hiya Mark! Good to hear from you :) |
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:17 AM Greetings
Mr Kemp!
Sadly we can't remember exactly what kit the band brought with them :( - there were no special secrets beyond the acoustics of the room itself and, of course, the in-house designed and built mixing desk and equalisers. |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:02 PM Greetings. Thanks Paul - I've started a Hondo page here |
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:32 AM
Thanks. Rosina Rhodes Hi Rosina, For "The Englishman" cover etc please see here and for "The River" see here Here is the track listing for "See The Morning"... 1.
Smile Again |
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The Ray Morgan Quartet
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Old tape Hi,
Sorry Dave, no old tapes remeain :( but great to hear from you :) Your (sadly lost) session has now been added to the Discography. Hopefully your're still making plenty of that HOT & THIRSTY music!!! |
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Group called Needles Hi, i wonder
if you can help me. Thanks
George |
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Re: How long do keep old 2" tapes? Date: 16 February 2005 17:09 To Whom it may concern,
I recorded there in '86 with Owen Morris and J.J. Burnel as the Dave Howard Singers. The 2" multi-track would've been left there and I wondered if it had survived over the years? We were recording the song Rock On, as well as a couple of original songs. I'm sure this is a bit of a reach, however I really am anxious to know and I would look forward to discussing it with you. Sincerely,
Hi Dave, great to hear from you :) Sadly, when the studio closed, all master tapes (2" and 1/4") were either returned to their respective record companies or were thrown away :( |
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The River, Mick Stevens Date: 11 February 2005 00:45 What
a gas to come across this site! I was the drummer on Mick's album and
remember enjoying it immensely - I got on with Gary really well, I remember
getting home at 5.00 am and my dad being cross with me for not getting
up for work 3 hours later! And
I think Gary and I worked together later with a singer called Louise
Fox and her manager Steve Black?? But not at Spaceward. If
Gary or Mick ever read this, well, hi guys, it really was great fun,
visit www,drumsense.com to find out what I did next! ps I still have the album, sounds good to me...............
Colin Woolway Great to hear from you Colin :) What with intere |
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