Another pre-Pigbag post – Hardware, the band in which James Johnstone and Andrew Carpenter played before Pigbag, are releasing their “Untitled 1979” album.
The album is available for listening or as a digital download on Hardware’s Bandcamp page with a vinyl release coming in October from Dirty Knobby Records.
It’s been a long time coming but finally, Angela Jaeger’s diaries are going to be published.
The 250 page softcover volume, titled “I Feel Famous – Punk Diaries 1977-1981” will be published by Hat & Beard Press, shipping Winter 2024. The diaries are extensively illustrated by Angela, as well as having accompanying photos from 1977-1981, when Angela was living in New York’s East Village.
Click below for more information and to pre-order!
My thanks (again) to Roger Freeman for pointing me to the video for Pigbag’s “Sunny Day” – something I hadn’t seen previously and which had been unavailable for the past 40 years, until it was posted on YouTube by Videowave Music Videos. It was filmed in 1981 and edited by Ed Steinberg and includes footage of the band playing at The Peppermint Lounge in New York. Guest appearance by Y Records head honcho Dick O’Dell with the cash.
On Friday 15th December 2023, ZTT released “The Value of Entertainment – Time Capsule Highlights”, a compilation of tracks by ZTT acts recorded live at the Ambassador’s event in 1985.
Included is Instinct’s “Sweat To Pay”, previously available only in video format on “The Value of Entertainment” (see Instinct page).
The album is available on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music and Apple Music.
Several months ago, Roger Freeman sent me a draft of an autobiographical story he’d been writing. A few drafts later, and getting past my own lethargy, I’ve published the writing on here as ‘Roger’s Story‘.
Friday 23rd June saw another release of Instinct material by ZTT.
You wait 38 years and then two releases appear within weeks!
Ian Peel, who is managing the ZTT releases posted on Twitter:
The thirteenth of forty new digital releases to mark the 40th anniversary of Zang Tumb Tuum: originally scheduled as 12 XZTAS 11, Sleepwalking (A Sleeping 12″) by Instinct. Out tomorrow. Definition Series 40-13 #TheDreamDepartment #ZangTumbTuumForty
The tracklisting this time is:
As before the tracks are available digitally on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music etc.
As part of ZTT’s 40th Anniversary celebration, they are making 40 new digital releases available. The eighth release in the “Definition Series” is Instinct’s “Sleepwalking”, originally scheduled for release in 1985.
The release consists of 3 tracks:
That first track title may be a typo from “Sleepwalking” to “Sleepingwalking”, we may never know.
Although only the third track (an instrumental version) is previously unreleased, it is great to see the first release solely in Instinct’s name.
The release is available from all the usual digital sources – Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music etc.
Congratulations to the band and thanks to all involved in making it finally happen.
My thanks to Roger Freeman for letting me know that someone has posted the Instinct section of the ZTT “Value of Entertainment” compilation on YouTube.
Chip Carpenter, also ex-Pigbag, can be seen on drums during the performance.
In 1982, Pigbag appeared at the first ever WOMAD Festival at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, alongside acts such as Echo & The Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, The Beat and Rip Rig & Panic.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of that first festival, Real World Records have put together a compilation album from restored tapes of performances from the 1982 festival.
Included in those is an unreleased live recording of ”Big Bag”, a track from Pigbag’s first album.
The new album will be released on double vinyl LP, CD and digital download on 29th July 2022. It can be preordered directly from Real World Records Bandcamp site
A few years ago, Ollie Moore wrote a piece about how he became involved in music and Pigbag. He posted it on Facebook but has kindly given me permission to include it on this site.
Read Ollie’s Story here
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