After 3 years I finally got a new turntable and some decent software, so I have now been able to clean up these files properly and added the cover art. You can get them here:
Yeah, one heck of a boast, I know. Here’s the story. Back in the mid eighties, two of my cousins were in a short-lived band on Guernsey (Channel Islands - UK). The music scene on this tiny island has always been low key. They recorded one 7” single at the island’s solitary recording studio and pressed up a few copies. I’m guessing about 100. Family and friends were given a copy, but I doubt if they sold more than a handful. After 20 years, I don’t know of anyone else who has a copy of this. At the time, I didn’t like the record too much, but recently it’s kind of grown on me. So here for your aural delight are the respective A and B sides of the one and only single from Seeing Red. Apologies for the poor sound quality - I have not tried to clean it up too much. Let me know what you think!
Seeing Red - Ice (A Side)
Seeing Red - Weekahead (B Side)
‘ice’ went in a completely different direction than i expected after those first few brooding seconds, and is a catchy little tune. i dig the steady gloom of ‘weekahead’ a bit more, but this is definitely a nice slice of obscure wave. thanx for sharing!
No problem Frankieteardrop.
The owner of the 7” just posted this about how truly rare this record is.
I’ve had several email requests for me to “track down” another vinyl copy of this single. When I said it was rare, I wasn’t kidding. I’m not in day-to-day contact with my cousins (one’s in London, one’s in New Zealand) and as far as I know I own the only copy of this still in existence. I’m not planning to part with it any time soon.
There is no crate of the Seeing Red records. I can tell you right now that there is none. I could only get 2 copies. So good luck trying to win this auction. And if you keep posting on forums based on voices in your head then I think the minimalsynthpolice will be coming after you. They know you have been being very bad. You already owe someone around $300, and have not been paying that person. Get off the forums, and get on Pay Pal please.
And then again, it’s not that it hasn’t happenend before, has it? Them crates appearing out of nowhere and artists/lucky finders making a tiny post-career fortune out of them 8)
But everybody with half a brain knows that en route to collector super-stardom, you’re always taking the risk of regretting having bought copy nr. 1 for big bucks seeing the price copy nr. 28 goes for… :wink:
[quote author=“minicold”]Mmmm, without even hearing the songs : 1985 : not my cup of tea. :wink:
Going off-topic, are we? Putting a ban on poor old ‘85, eeh? :wink:
Think we already had a thread with lists what cool stuff got released in ‘81 and ‘82 aka the Golden Years. Though, for me 1985 is definitely still in, the milk only turned sour for good in bloody 1986. Unless your EBM fiend, that is, of course.
There is no crate of the Seeing Red records. I can tell you right now that there is none. I could only get 2 copies. So good luck trying to win this auction. And if you keep posting on forums based on voices in your head then I think the minimalsynthpolice will be coming after you. They know you have been being very bad. You already owe someone around $300, and have not been paying that person. Get off the forums, and get on Pay Pal please.
Thanks,
obscure
Stephen,
That was uncalled for.
I do not accept your hinting that I’m some kind of a non-paying bidder here on the forum. I got an email from you today about this, and paid within ten minutes of reading that, also explaining as well as apologising for the delay.
It has appeared to me to be common practice on ebay to accept payment within 7 days, I was not much later than that.
As for there not being a crate of this single, well, clearly a 7” single record is a mass produced item, and if it has not been distributed the copies must be somewhere. We can discuss this after the auction has clocked out, if you feel there’s anything to discuss.
Reading the New Wave Outpost thread and the related auction, I MUST SAY !!!! THIS REALLY IS !!!!!! GETTING !!! GOOD !!!! FUN !!!!!!
And after all those months (years?) we finally have a new suspect FOR !!!! THE PERSON !!!! BEHIND !!!! THE MINIMAL !!!! SYNTH !!!!! POLICE !!!!!! :wink:
Now when it comes to quantities, it looks impossible to tell, the band might have ritually burned the remaining copies in the garden (re. the Neural Circus story), they might have ended up on a dump deposit or it is one of those magical crates again. But unless a trustworthy source confirms the 7"s have been destroyed swearing by the life of their toy frog, there very well might be a crate.
Anyways, one thing I’d say is safe to say: this is about bidding on the (presumably) rarest, not on the best minimal synth single. Just my poor taste, of course. 8)
