Aiken Drum: Nine "Evil rules this world today..."
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1 Evil Rules (Case/Peacock) 2 High And Low (Case/Peacock) 3 Stay (Rainsforth) 4 For The Rest Of My Life (Peacock) 5 Untitled ix (Peacock) 6 Cold Turkey (Lennon) 7 Heart Of Stone (Case/Peacock) 8 i) Conservative Destruction (Case/Peacock) ii) Conservative Restructure (Peacock) iii) Not I, Said She (Peacock) 9 Wait (Peacock/Rainsforth) 10 What's The New Mary-Jane? (Bostock/Peacock) |
EBCD07 1995
After a couple of years hiatus Simon reformed Aiken Drum as a 3-piece studio band, enlisting the help of Colin, who had previously guested on the vocals of Dreaming and rock vocalist Adrian Case. The mood was much grungier, with longer, heavy guitar-driven tracks to the fore. Jim Bostock made a surprise appearance at the studio one day, and contributed to a new version of the AD90 classic What's The New Mary-Jane?
Adrian Case Simon Peacock & Colin Rainsforth
With special thanks to:
Equipment we used to make this album: Some notes on the 2005 Digitally Remastered Version The bulk of these tracks were recorded at Earlsdon Avenue South and Mary Herbert Street in Coventry at various points between 1992 and 1995. In true Aiken Drum tradition these tracks were originally recorded on 4-track cassette, and in some cases (tracks 4 and 7) in glorious mono. The tracks were ‘cleaned up’ in the mix, where a small number of drum samples may have been added. Cold Turkey was recorded on an ancient 8-track open reel recorder with no noise reduction, and mastered straight to chrome cassette. Which is why it sounds like it does. The backing track for Wait was recorded in the conservatory at Cranfield in 1991 with Mike Walbank. The sequencer on Cold Turkey belonged to Ben Ackerman, and the organ on Not I, Said She belonged to my grandfather, Jack and was recorded in his front room in Westmill, 1991. Jim’s contribution happened quite by chance; he popped in while we were recording vocals for the new version of Mary-Jane. My thanks to them all. Thanks also to Col and Aidey for keeping my interest in music ticking over. I digitally remastered this album, where possible, from the original multi-track cassette tapes. Mmmm, hissy.
December 2005
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