Live At the Hacienda, by New Fast Automatic Daffodils aka New Fads

Live At the Hacienda

by New Fast Automatic Daffodils aka New Fads

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mickeymacksnack The best things about Alternative and Indie mixed with a bit of fuzz and stripped of all pretension. An unusually intimate view of a time and place long gone.

ilovemyexwife It's Friday 24th Nov '23 and downloading this album was the first thing I did today and it sounds magnificent. Fantastic performance and recording, great setlist, love the unreleased songs, so so good from end-to-end. An essential and unexpected release from one of the truly great bands. Thanks for sharing. Favorite track: Every Once In A While.

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1.	These Foolish Things 04:37	info
2.	Beatlemania 04:59	info
3.	Less & Less 04:32	info
4.	Get There 03:19	info
5.	Stockholm 04:02	info
6.	Life Is An Accident 02:56	info
7.	It's Not What You Know 03:45	info
8.	Big 04:05	info
9.	This Is Fascism 05:31	info
10.	Every Once In A While 06:24	info
11.	Justify 04:09	info
12.	Bong 03:47	info
13.	Lorries And Trains 04:14	info
14.	Fishes Eyes 05:09	info

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On January 23, 1996, after splitting from label PIAS, the band aimed to encapsulate their live energetic performances With a hiatus of four months and members busy with other pursuits, Danny Evans and Tom Piper orchestrated a recording at the Hacienda’s acoustically superior room, The Gay Traitor.

Scrounging for equipment, they assembled a 16-track ADAT system. The show was a typical Fads show full of energy and new material yet it marked their final performance—not by design, but that’s the way it worked out.

An attempt was made to finish off the mix but enthusiasm dwindled and the band members dispersed and the project was abandoned.

A decade later in 2006, reunion whispers surfaced, buoyed by alluring promoter offers. The recordings were revisited, only to be lost when the studio was burgled. Left with the half-finished mixes In 2023, during their now annual retreat, releasing the unfinished mixes was proposed.

Out of courtesy Danny who had put so much work into previous attempts the band informed him that they were releasing the unfinished recording. However, perhaps promoted by the text he had received earlier, two days later he stumbled upon a file named “Fads Monitor” on Elbow’s hard drive library. Rooting around an old cupboard he found the drive and Tom leaped into action getting the old Mac he had held onto out of a pigsty in Stafford and with some tech wizardry fired it up and got the contents of the hard drive onto a modern system.

Danny stripped off all the overdubs and just mixed the performance as they were. With the advances in technology and the all-important benefit of hindsight, primarily that some things are just best left as they are, the recordings then sprung to life in all their original glory. Turns out you can catch lightning in a bottle!

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released November 24, 2023

All tracks performed by the New Fads - Dolan Hewison - Guitar / Justin Crawford - Bass / Andy Spearpoint - Vocals / Pez Saunders - Drums / Icarus Wilson-Wright - Percussion

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New Fast Automatic Daffodils aka New Fads Manchester, UK

Formed in 1988 by Dolan Hewison (Guitar) Justin Crawford (Bass) Peter Saunders (Drums) Andy Spearpoint (Vocals), and Icarus Wilson-Wright Percussion, the New Fads had a legendary live reputation touring heavily in the UK, Europe, and the US as well as releasing three critically acclaimed albums. Back now with unreleased Demos and Live material in 2023 showing their timeless originality and energy. ... more

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