Another ARTERY release

[Rubellan]

For those who may be interested, the long delayed compilation of early Artery material is being released via the Spinney label out of the UK. From what I read on Simon Hinkler's website, the whole CD is from original master tapes, so it looks to be good.

Though it covers all of the bands early singles, and the missing songs I could not include on the "Into the Garden" collection, I noticed one B Side is absent. Either way, it's a must for fans.
Though the CD is not officially released until August, you can purchase it now through their website. I just ordered mine! Also, the licenses for the BBC material is very limited so the CD will not be in print very long. If I was smart I'd order 10 copies...

http://www.spinneyrecords.co.uk/index.p ... release=13

[Grunch]

Thanks Rubellan!! Got mine ordered today also. Love their earlier sound the most.

[Grunch]

Thanks for the track info. I am glad Simon wants this early material released also.

P.S. - by the way, the quality of that Artery collection on Cherry Red is extremely good, now I know why. Hope they let you have at some more of their releases.

[Grunch]

Same here. My faith in their releases is from one CD to the next only, now knowing that they are not too concerned with the sound quality, just the money. I work hard for what I earn, and really, as a customer, expect a good quality product. Wish they'd just open their eys and aloow someone like you to have at their catalgo and bring things up to standard where possible, as well as their future releases. Interesting how some labels philosophy about quality is so lacking. In most of the business world, not caring about, and putting out poor quality products would be a sure business death sentence.

[Barmy]

The Cherry Red "Artery" is fantastic. One of the best ever CR releases (maybe that's not saying much...)

As far as I can tell the Spinney website doesn't deduct VAT, so I'm sticking with Amazon.

[Rubellan]

The Spinney site does not subtract VAT, though shipping to the U.S. is only 1 pound, so that could be the way they are doing it for non-UK buyers. I got a confirmation that my CD is shipping today.

[Rubellan]

Talk about fast! I got my Artery CD today, and I have to say it's excellent. Though it is missing two tracks that would have made it a complete representation of the era, it's an excellent package. There are great liner notes with comments from Simon Hinkler and Mark Gouldthorpe, as well as the following disclaimer that I think should be on every CD:

The recordings on this compilation have been remastered with great care from the original tapes, some of which have deteriorated over the years. Every effort has been made to make them suitable for listening but some small glitches remain.

Overall, the CD sounds excellent. The most important songs, IMHO, all sound flawless. The small glitches mentioned are just that, small glitches.
This kind of effort is admirable and the finished results are excellent.

[Barmy]

I went ahead and ordered this, and received it almost instantly. Actual postage was 1.66 pounds, vs. the 1 pound they charge, but I think there is still some VAT "skim". (It just bugs me that some bloke in England is laughing at the stupid American paying VAT that the seller just keeps.)

I thought the sound was fine, given that this band was hardly high tech. I do note there is some overlap with the Cherry Red CD (maybe the versions are different, I'm too lazy to check). Also, I already have a bootleg Artery CDR that has 4 or 5 songs not on either compilation. Anyway, it's pretty amazing that this extremely obscure (and possibly slightly overrated) band now has two quality CD compilations.

[yipyipcoyote]

The inevitable question :

Which one sounds better?[}:)]

[Barmy]

My bootleg CDR has the following tracks not on either CD: Little Boy Blue, Life and Death, Diamonds in the Mine and Ringing the Bells.

[Rubellan]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Barmy[/i]
<br>My bootleg CDR has the following tracks not on either CD: Little Boy Blue, Life and Death, Diamonds in the Mine and Ringing the Bells.
[/quote]

That might very well be one of the old CD compilations I made. I did a two CD set many years ago.

[beelzebomb]

I got quite excited when I saw that Amazon had "Oceans" scheduled for an early August 06 release - I set a reminder in my phone and it went off today, so I logged on - only to find no mention at all!? What happened?
I actually put a gig on for Artery in Chelmsford & my band supported them back in about 83-84 - Tony Perrin, their manager at the time, said even the band didn't have hardly any copies of Oceans - it's been that rare for that long!
Will it be released or was that Amazon message a false alarm?

[Rubellan]

It's been released. The original title is "Afterwards", though don't be confused my another mis-titled complilation of the same name, which is actually titled "Into the Garden". I got it last month through the label's website.

[yipyipcoyote]

I corrected amazon.co.uk about the title of "Into The Garden", but the cover scan still shows "afterwards - a collection" as of today.

[mark]

Just found this thread (and indeed this forum) through Googling for Artery related stuff. Nice to see this marvellous band getting a bit of recognition. A few years ago I wrote a book called 'Truth & Beauty - The Story Of Pulp' and tried to big up Artery a bit there as there were quite a few connections beween the two bands (as well as being a massive influence on Jarvis, various early Pulp line-ups included various sometime Artery members, plus both bands were managed by Tony Perrin for a while). Of course at that point their music was incredibly difficult to track down, so it's great that some of it has made it onto CD now. Speaking of which...
[quote][i]Originally posted by Barmy[/i]
<br>My bootleg CDR has the following tracks not on either CD: Little Boy Blue, Life and Death, Diamonds in the Mine and Ringing the Bells.
[/quote]
These were tracks from a later album called The Second Coming, recorded by a different Artery line-up. It's pretty different in style to the 'classic' Artery material, but worth a listen evenso. They did a live album around the same period that was in a similar style.

As for early tracks that haven't made it onto either of the first CDs, there are quite a few. These are the ones that I'm aware of:

- Live bonus tracks from the Unbalanced single: Perhaps/Turtle/Toytown/Heinz
- Exclusive version of The Slide released on the Bouquet Of Steel compilation in 1980
- Life And Death (B-side of Cars In Motion)
- The Slide (BBC version released on Oceans)
- Afterwards & Potential Silence (unrelesed BBC versions from Jul '81 Peel session)
- Louise (unreleased BBC version from Jan '82 Peel session - never heard this!)

The main conclusion to be drawn from this is that they recorded Afterwards and The Slide far more times than was sensible. There's also the film of the full set from the 1980 Futurama festival, one track from which was released on the Made In Sheffield vid.

One release that I'd love to get hold of is the 'Afterwards' rarities compilation that came out in the mid '80s - see http://web.archive.org/web/200401070419 ... /ps011.htm (you'll have to copy and paste that URL to view it properly, the forum seems to be splitting the link in two for some reason). A copy has just gone for quite a lot of money on Ebay, and has a load of stuff that's never been released elsewhere. Maybe one day...