The End - Hot Records Cassette

Bazzil from the most wonderful Prehistoric Sounds website
and Blog has digitalized his rare copy of the ends hot
records cassette release. Combining both studio and live
tracks it is a real treat.
Thanks Bazzil for digging out and bringing this into the
digital age.
The liner notes below are brilliant, more information than
I've been find anywhere on the web.

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Don’t Look Back concert series - Ed Kuepper and Died Pretty

“Oh it is such an honour. You’ve got to go into this with a certain amount of professionalism. You can’t just get out of your minds and go on. It has to be an extra, extra special night.” Ron Peno


The Look Back Concert series hit Brisbane last night,
after opening in Sydney the night before and it was fantastic.
After having a Chinese New Year banquet at nearby
Chinatown in the Valley and being subjected to stereo
Chinese dragons at one stage, we headed to the Tivoli.
Just before Ed Kuepper took to the stage,
With a fine 4 piece band, including
legendary Jeffrey Wegener on drums,
they launched into the Fine Kuepper Lp,"Honey Steels Gold."
This is a great choice of Lp for something like this,
not a bad song on the album, quite a few favorites from the
Kuepper canon and some songs that rarely get
an outing, like "Not Too Soon",
which Ed commented on being the first time He'd played it in Brisbane.
"Everything I've Got Belongs To You"
was introduced as the reason the album was made,
some German record company wanted it as a single, send the money
over Ed recorded it and they went broke closing shop,
leaving Ed with a song, so they recorded some more songs
and the song that started it all never became a single.
"The Way I Made You Feel" did however and its a ripper,
which they really pumped out.
Ending the wonderful "Summer Field" , the band came back to do an
incredible encore with "Electrical Storm",
then having blowen us away they left
the stage for Died Pretty.
This was mostly the same band I saw play a few weeks ago
at the release of Ed's new album and they are all incredible musicians.

I got the impression that the lions share of punters had come
especially to see Died Pretty. I've been to the Tivoli on many occasions
but this was one of the biggest and most excited crowds
I've ever seen there.
From the start Ron Peno and the original band that recorded
"Doughboy Hollow" had the crowd eating out of their hand.
It was an electric atmosphere and a very excited crowd,
maybe us old Gen X'ers don't get out enough,
but there was the gigantic roars between each song
and as the new ones started. With Dc second song in
I thought the collective ecstasy would be too much
and there was so far to go.
Peno was in fine voice, Brett Myers guitar incredible
and the band playing as if they'd never stopped.
There was no stopping them tonight, as they worked through the songs,
not a dud amongst them. "Sweetheart", "Godbless", "The Love Song"
among my favorites, ending with the beautiful "Turn Your Head"
they left, returning to the very loud audience to do 6 songs in 2 encores,
with songs like "Stoneage Cinderella","Everybody Moves", "Desperate Hours",
"Stops 'n' Starts" and "Blue Sky Day"
At the end Ron thanked us and left a satisfied and truly buzzing audience.

Died Pretty & Ed Kuepper

Classic albums live!

In the fine tradition of boasting about the fine concerts we manage to see in my home town of Brisbane let me tell you about this. Below is what you find on the Tivoli Theater's site Saturday, 9th of February, 2008 Died Pretty play "Doughboy Hollow" and Ed Kuepper plays "Honey Steels Gold" in this not to be missed classic albums LIVE tour. With the lineup unchanged from the Every Brilliant Eye era, and following exhaustive touring of Europe and the USA, Died Pretty returned to Australia to record Doughboy Hollow with UK producer Hugh Jones. The result was arguably their best album yet; an evocative, rich series of performances with both Ronald S. Peno and Brett Myer at the height of their considerable powers. Peno's voice is fully his own at this point, yearning, mournful, intense, and more all at once, while Myers' guitar work simply grabs the mood and sets it throughout; from the chiming yet dark guitars on Doused, to his often delicate tones on Turn Your Head. While John Hoey's keyboards still sometimes are little more than arrangement, his touches like the persistent then relaxed piano line on D.C. show he has his own skill, while stronger lead performances crop up throughout the album. Chris Welsh's drumming, meanwhile, has grown ever more sophisticated and sharp with time, able to capture the swings from full-on charge to gentler moods. A guest violinist and cellist provide extra shade and elegance, as on the folkish/martial ballad The Ballad of Stanmore, and its immediate follow-up The Love Song, a sweet, gently swinging number that, in fact, delivers the opposite sentiments from what the title would indicate. Last year I did a little reviewing on Overheres wonderful site "They called it good at the time" Robert Forsters return to the stage Here and Here and pig city reviews on the same link I'm quite excited about this gig, after seeing Robert Foster's "Warm Nights" gig last year the whole concept appeals to me. These are two wonderful albums and you could argue one of the best from each of the artists. I've lost count how many times I've seen Ed play, most recently showcasing his new album, but I havn't seen Died Pretty for many years. They used to be on all the Livid line ups back in the 80's it seemed, always a band to see. So I intend to review this fab gig after I see it Until then I've uploaded the remastered "Honey steels gold" The Links are Part 1 Part2