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A boxed set of three CDs + booklet featuring two studio albums by The Lurkers along with a previously unreleased live recording from 1977!
CHEMICAL LANDSLIDE With this album we wanted to keep part of that old school Lurkers feel – major chords, big choruses, shout along punk etc, but to make it that bit heavier. I think we succeeded. My guitar playing was by this point getting more metallic, and Esso and Nigel were both on top form for this album. One thread that runs through the album the lyrical melancholy. Despite that the album was a lot of fun to make, hopefully that comes across too.
THE FUTURE’S CALLING The Futures Calling seems like more of a "traditional" Lurkers album than Chemical Landslide on the whole. It is not so dark lyrically, and musically it doesn’t venture so far into metal territory. Production-wise we were a bit more confident with this one and we had a good workflow. Unusually for most bands we would bring each track to completion (ie. totally mixed and mastered) before moving onto the next. We were trying hard to keep the tempo and attack up for the bulk of the album, and with hindsight we may have overdone it a tad, a bit more variation might have been a good idea.
LIVE IN MARGATE 1977 It was 1977 and things were progressing extremely well. We had signed to Beggars Banquet and our first single ‘Shadow’ b/w ‘Love Story’ had been released. John Peel had been playing both sides of the single most nights on his radio show, so we were getting heard by a lot of people. But we didn’t yet have a "proper" tour bus, so we all piled into a transit for the trip down to Margate with our tour manager Mike Stone in the driving seat. The actual gig was typical of a Lurkers show at that time, being fairly chaotic with a lot of crowd "interaction". There is a recklessly fast version of ‘Pills’ on the recording, and I think we were playing ‘It’s Quiet Here’ for the first time live. Howard was on good form too; it would be his birthday on Christmas Day. My favourite quip from him is towards the end of the show when he says "eat your heart out Hank Marvin" after one of my more eccentric Shadows guitar intros.
Tracklist
1. Every Night’s a Story
2. Chemical Landslide
3. Army of Angels
4. Don’t Look Around
5. Surviving
6. Here Comes My Life
7. Just a Dream You Had
8. Find Your Own Way
9. Night September Breakdown
10. Beyond the Pale
11. Now is the Winter
12. Crash Landing
13. Bad Caroline
14. Landslide Coda
CD2 – THE FUTURE’S CALLING
1. The Future’s Calling
2. We Had the Best Time
3. Smiling Inside
4. Summer Nights (Are Never Like Movies)
5. Make Me Forget (Where We Are)
6. Filled My World
7. Nearly Home (Turning Pages)
8. Racing Through Time
9. It’s Happening Today
10. New Songs (Like the Old Songs)
11. There Goes Deborah
12. Girls Have Fun
13. So Delightful
14. Not the Real Thing
CD3 – LIVE IN MARGATE 1977
1. Ain’t Got a Clue
2. Self Destruct
3. Love Story
4. Freakshow
5. Pills
6. It’s Quiet Here
7. I Love the Dark
8. Be My Prisoner
9. Then I Kissed Her
10. Total War
11. Time of Year
12. Ooh Ooh I Love You
13. I’m on Heat
14. Shadow
15. Be My Prisoner
16. Shadow