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Beautiful Pea Green Boat - The Screw (live at Coasters, Edinburgh)

Beautiful Pea Green Boat only played six gigs. 

Their first, on the 1st of October 1986 at the legendary Coasters nightclub in Edinburgh’s Tollcross, was an evening to raise funds for a leukaemia charity, as their original guitarist, Lewis Edwards, had died, suddenly and tragically of this illness the year before. Many people, including some of the city’s top bands, generously supported the event, and it was filmed for a video to raise additional cash for the charity. 

Beautiful Pea Green Boat were on first, so soundchecked last. In between soundcheck and show, their backing tape machine was moved and all the outputs swapped around randomly, and wrongly. The sound was terrible, the band, Heather Wright and Ian Williams, stopped as soon as they started, as they couldn’t hear what was going on. A sound guy tried to sort it out, but in the end they tried to do what they could and eventually managed to finish the set. This made it onto the video… 

A few months later, on the 25th of June 1987, Beautiful Pea Green Boat played a show in Tours, France, at a club called La Fauvette. We recorded it from the mixing desk, put it in a box and forgot all about it until 2018, when it was rediscovered and added to the band’s Bandcamp site (address above). 

Around the same time, Scottish filmmaker Grant McPhee got in touch looking for information about the lineup for the Coasters show and the video maker. Fast forward a couple of years and he kindly sent us through a digitised version of our performance from the VHS tape. But the sound was awful. Really, really bad. So, what we’ve done is to re-edit the video footage to the audio from the show we recorded in France. It’s a slightly different arrangement, and Heather sings it slightly differently, so it looks a bit like a dubbed spaghetti western, but it’s all we have - one video clip and one recording, so why not?

Finally, it’s quite a long song, so only half of it is on the video - we’ve included some memorabilia to take us to the end of the song, including an amusingly accurate review of the gig in the Record Mirror. 

If you were at the show, this is what it should have sounded like!

https://beautifulpeagreenboat.bandcamp.com/

[gaminenews]

Gamine - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlefolk

This is part of our wonderful Christmas EP which you can find on our Bandcamp page: https://gamine.bandcamp.com. 

 The original footage was from a concert at the 12-Bar Club, a legendary venue in Denmark Street,  (also known as Tin Pan Alley) in London. It was intimate (small) and atmospheric (noisy) and we loved to play there. It became a tradition for us to play there around Christmas time, so on this occasion we thought we’d have a go at a Christmas carol. 

As you know, Christmas is a time of much merriment, and as you also know, Gamine have built a deserved reputation for exquisite sadness. How could we reconcile these two seemingly irreconcilable concepts? Well, having scoured the canon for a carol in a minor key, it became clear that ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’ would do the trick. 

When we came to record this new version, we changed the title to 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlefolk’ , as our marketing department discovered that there are not that many gentlemen left, and we didn’t want to leave anyone out.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

Taken from the album, All Becomes Desert, Sahara is one of a series of (mostly) analogue improvisations, done a while back on an old Roland Juno 106 and recorded straight onto DAT (historical note - Digital Audio Tape, popular in the 1990s), then transferred onto a modern setup for processing and mixing.

It is an album which uses processed minimalist ambiences and warm analogue soundscapes to evoke the wide-open, empty spaces of the great deserts and their hostility to human interference.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

Beautiful Pea Green Boat only played six gigs. Their first, on the 1st of October 1986 at the legendary Coasters nightclub in Edinburgh’s Tollcross, was an evening to raise funds for a leukaemia charity, as their original guitarist, Lewis Edwards, had died, suddenly and tragically of this illness the year before.

Many people, including some of the city’s top bands, generously supported the event, and it was filmed for a video to raise additional cash for the charity.

Beautiful Pea Green Boat were on first, so soundchecked last. In between soundcheck and show, their backing tape machine was moved and all the outputs swapped around randomly, and wrongly. The sound was terrible, the band, Heather Wright and Ian Williams, stopped as soon as they started, as they couldn’t hear what was going on. A sound guy tried to sort it out, but in the end they tried to do what they could and eventually managed to finish the set. This made it onto the video…

A few months later, on the 25th of June 1987, Beautiful Pea Green Boat played a show in Tours, France, at a club called La Fauvette. We recorded it from the mixing desk, put it in a box and forgot all about it until 2018, when it was rediscovered and added to the band’s Bandcamp site (address above).

Around the same time, Scottish filmmaker Grant McPhee got in touch looking for information about the lineup for the Coasters show and the video maker. Fast forward a couple of years and he kindly sent us through a digitised version of our performance from the VHS tape.

But the sound was awful. Really, really bad. So, what we’ve done is to re-edit the video footage to the audio from the show we recorded in France. It’s a slightly different arrangement, and Heather sings it slightly differently, so it looks a bit like a dubbed spaghetti western, but it’s all we have - one video clip and one recording, so why not?

Finally, it’s quite a long song, so only half of it is on the video - we’ve included some memorabilia to take us to the end of the song, including an amusingly accurate review of the gig in the Record Mirror.

If you were at the show, this is what it should have sounded like!

[ianwilliamsmusic]

Listen/purchase: Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds) by Ian Williams

This album is music produced for the soundtrack of Eric Michel’s documentary film Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds), which looks at the Gabonese town of Mounana, previously the site of a uranium mine which was the biggest supplier to the French nuclear industry, and the effect on the town of the mine closing down in 1999. The album includes all the music which features in the film as well as material that was composed for it but ended up on the digital cutting-room floor.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

Taken from the soundtrack album for ‘Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds)’, a documentary by Eric Michel, which looks at the Gabonese town of Mounana, previously the site of a uranium mine which was the biggest supplier to the French nuclear industry, and the effect on the town of the mine closing down in 1999.

This video features clips from the 8mm cine films which appear in the documentary, clips which date back to the 1950s - 1960s, showing the life of the local people before the mining began and the construction works involved in the project.

The album includes all the music which features in the film as well as material that was composed for it but ended up on the digital cutting-room floor.

Many thanks to Eric Michel, cameraman Frédéric Mainçon, and all those who appeared in the film.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

I produced for the soundtrack of Eric Michel’s documentary film Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds), which looks at the Gabonese town of Mounana, previously the site of a uranium mine which was the biggest supplier to the French nuclear industry, and the effect on the town of the mine closing down in 1999.

URA 235 was the name of the works football team at the mine, and is also the name for the type of uranium that was mined there. Since the mine closed, the team carries on under the name Académie Sport de Mounana. The video is made of footage which mostly does not appear in the final cut of the film, but these are the sequences the music was originally composed for, so we’ve made an edit especially for it.

Many thanks to Eric Michel, cameraman Frédéric Mainçon, Académie Sport de Mounana, and all those who appeared in the film.

[slaughterback]

Listen/purchase: All Becomes Desert by Ian Williams

This is a series of (mostly) analogue improvisations, done a while back on my old Roland Juno 106 and recorded straight onto DAT (historical note - Digital Audio Tape, popular in the 1990s), then transferred onto a modern setup for processing and mixing. It is an album which uses processed minimalist ambiences and warm analogue soundscapes to evoke the wide-open, empty spaces of the great deserts and their hostility to human interference.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

It Was No Accident

This is the first video from my new solo album, ‘The Dream Extortionists’.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

They Could Find No Cure

Taken from the album, ‘The Dream Extortionists’.

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Ian Williams - It Was No Accident

Taken from the album 'The Dream Extortionists'. Directed by Eric Michel. Listen or download on Bandcamp: https://ianwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream-ext...

This is the first video from my new solo album, ‘The Dream Extortionists’.

[ianwilliamsmusic]

And We Shall Never Know

With Ian set to release his album The Dream Extortionists on the 29th of March, he has made a new video for the track And We Shall Never Know, featuring the vocals of long time collaborator, Claudia Barton (Gamine). The video, shot on the far reaches of the galaxy using pioneering technology, features footage of an actual crashed UFO to provide indisputable proof that aliens are among us. They’re here. Warn your friends…

[ianwilliamsmusic]

It’s been a long time coming! Here’s my new album, The Dream Extortionists by Ian Williams

[ianwilliamsmusic]

Ian Williams - It Was No Accident

Taken from the album 'The Dream Extortionists'. Directed by Eric Michel. Listen or download on Bandcamp: https://ianwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream-ext...

This is the first video from my new solo album, ‘The Dream Extortionists’.

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Beautiful Pea Green Boat on Bandcamp

Music available to stream and download here: https://beautifulpeagreenboat.bandcamp.com

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