Camberwell Now - TegenTonen Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 8th 1986 FM Reseed

Recorded and broadcasted by VPRO radio.

After THIS HEAT broke up in 1982 Gareth Williams departed for India to study music and dance, and Charles Bullen recorded sporadically but concentrated on work as a sound engineer. Charles Hayward formed THE CAMBERWELL NOW with Trefor Goronwy, who had been part of the short lived touring 4 piece version of THIS HEAT, and tape manipulator Steven Rickard who was initially This Heat's engineer. The band continued to work in Cold Storage, THIS HEAT 's studio, and released an album and two 12" singles from 1983 - 1986.

Charles Bullen appeared as a guest on their first 12" single, 'Meridian'. There was a slightly tentative feel to the music, as though the band had yet to establish its identity, but it contains some strong material. Their solitary album, 'The Ghost Trade', came out in 1985 and was a superb piece of work that established THE CAMBERWELL NOW as a musical force to be reckoned with. Their final release, 'Greenfingers', was another 12" single that included an old THIS HEAT song. On all of their releases there is a sense of space that was often lackig in the sometimes claustrophobic recordings of THIS HEAT. Hayward and Goronwy coalesced into a phenomenal rhythm section, and the recordings gave them plenty of room to flex their musical muscles. Steven Rickard's tape work was innovative - he designed a keyboard set up to trigger the recordings, effectively creating an analogue sampler. His “Cassette Switchboard” was an original and possibly to this day unique method of switching between several freely-running tapes which could contain anything from musical drones (notes, chords, whatever) to field recordings to slowed down metal sheets being banged together to whatever one could imagine.
The lyrics were explicitly political, something Hayward sees as contributing to the band's limited commercial success.

Line up : 

Charles Hayward: voice, drums, kazoo, etc. 
Trefor Goronwy: bass guitar, ukulele, voice, etc. 
Stephen Rickard: studio and field recordings, tapework
Maria Lamburn - Saxophone

Setlist :

1. Working Nights
2. Daddy Needs A Throne
3. Sitcom
4. Identity Parade
5. Billboard And Beyond
6. Greenfingers
7. Green Lantern

Seven songs are presented here of which the last is brutely ended due to the tape's end. 

Linage : FM > cassette > Audacity > CD Wave EDITOR > FLAC 8

Another one from the box of old tapes !
 
ENJOY !

FREDHEADSET