Chris Coleman
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Today being the 35th anniversary of the Bangles’ Warwick University gig where, I recently had confirmed, I didn’t dream I saw
@SusannaHoffs
perform the splits whilst playing her Rickenbacker, it seems like as good a time as any to retweet this.
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40 years ago, Umbria TV of Perugia in Italy televised one of the last ever concerts - 31st March 1980 to be precise - by Swell Maps
Heres 17 minutes of video I just uploaded from that broadcast.
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As a fledgling fanzine “editor” back in 1981, no-one was more supportive than Pat Fish/The Jazz Butcher.
Fond memories to treasure, both ancient & modern to help deal with the sadness of his passing.
Two photos I took - prob. Black Lion, prob. 1983, with
@glassmodern1
on drums.
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Creation Records’ “Doing It For The Kids” all-dayer.
7th August 1988.
Town & Country Club.
Stage Times.
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It was 1988 and Epic Soundtracks was working on the definitive
#SonicYouth
discography, big enough to warrant a full magazine. Planned, as outlined below, but never realised.
Here’s the postcard he sent me which was to form part of the intro.
#KoolThing
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Epic Soundtracks’ birthday last Saturday, anniversary of Nikki Sudden’s death today.
Here they both are, in happier times, perched on my staircase in Coventry back in the 1990’s.
#SwellMaps
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Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on fire.
Photo c.1987 by Epic Soundtracks.
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The original and very first mix tape Nikki Sudden compiled for me over 40 years ago, and my introduction to
#AlexChilton
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30 years ago this evening, in 1993, I accompanied my friend Epic Soundtracks to see the re-formed Velvet Underground at the Forum in Kentish Town.
Later that year I received a Christmas card from their drummer Moe Tucker.
Just sayin’…
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Annie Nightingale stopped over in my spare room once, left a lovely thank-you note I still have. Also recorded an answerphone message for me. And recorded a “poem” I’d written for my dad’s 60th birthday - 29 years ago! She & I pretended to be in Nikki Sudden’s band one time too.
Memories of teenage Sunday nights are inseparable from memories of Annie Nightingale. (1/6)
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I cannot for the life of me remember how, a few months back, I convinced my wife I should indulge in this extravagance. (Have also conveniently forgotten what it cost…..)
A very special record of the League One Championship Winning season.
Lovely work by
@Coventry_City
.
#PUSB
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We’re away for a few days over Christmas so the cemetery visit had to be a day earlier than usual this year.
Can report all was in order and seasonal wreath has been laid.
#NikkiSudden
#EpicSoundtracks
#SwellMaps
#GodfreyFamily
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Swell Maps, Solihull, 1976. Jowe Head, Epic Soundtracks and Nikki Sudden. Harmony In Our Living Room.
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R-L: Nikki Sudden, Steve Gridley, Me(!).
Late 80’s, early 90’s.
Back garden of the Godfrey brothers’ parents home - Meadowbank, Harbury.
Nikki would have been 67 today.
I know I’m not alone in missing him.
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Epic Soundtracks, in his best Christmas jumper, reading my copy of
@JonSavage1966
‘s “England’s Dreaming”, December 1991. Not sure what his brother Nikki Sudden has fallen asleep reading....
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Thread.
In 1982, Swell Maps consigned to history, Nikki Sudden releases his debut solo album “Waiting On Egypt” on independent label Abstract. It includes a song called “Stuck On China”.
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“Shame For The Angels”.
Pure Rock’n’Roll.
The achingly beautiful ballad “Hearts Are Like Flowers”.
A slice of English psychedelia, “Sparrows” by The Rag Dolls.
Man could pretty much do it all.
#DaveKusworth
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I could spend an hour looking at this and still not take it all in! Another masterpiece from
@Coldwar_Steve
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Remembering Nikki Sudden, who died 17 years ago today, with a couple of the many postcards from around the world he sent to his parents.
One from Athens, Georgia, the other from Rome, Italy, also signed by his band, including the late Darrel Bath.
#TheLastBandit
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Two dearly beloved and much missed Souls.
Rowland S. Howard and Epic Soundtracks.
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That moment, 32 minutes in, when Gus “traps” Fadz’s long ball with the studs of his right boot. Some kind of magic going on there.
#PUSB
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On the 16th anniversary - hard to believe - of Nikki Sudden’s passing, here’s an unpublished shot of him with fellow Swell Map Jowe Head recording “Read About Seymour” at Cambridge’s Spaceward Studios back in 1977.
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Fanzine “editor” that I was in the late 70’s/early 80’s, I was lucky enough to have (the late) Neil Cooper send me tapes on his ROIR label. I’ve kept quite a few.
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Born today in 1956.
Nikki Sudden.
A Swell Map, a Jacobite and THE Last Bandit.
Sorely missed.
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Well, this was a moment, before the game on Saturday.
Sky blue fans and flags in their tens of thousands. Tough to ignore the result but this felt special at the time.
#PUSB
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One of my favourite photos of
#SwellMaps
.
I can only presume
#NikkiSudden
is in the sidecar….😉
#BigglesBooks
#JoweHead
#EpicSoundtracks
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Remembering Epic Soundtracks (23 March 1959 – 6 November 1997).
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The Jacobites, 1987.
Nikki Sudden, Dave Kusworth and Epic Soundtracks.
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Nikki Sudden “working” in Covent Garden’s The Vintage Magazine Shop. Probably 1976.
#SwellMaps
#BeforeIWasAPunk
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My friend, John Howard, who recently watched his 1,000th CCFC game (& remembered every one) sadly lost his battle with cancer today, at 3.00pm.
In this screen grab from the 2018 playoff game at Notts County, he’s in the light coloured top, centre.
RIP old friend.
#PUSB
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Yesterday, Nikki Sudden with Marc Bolan, today his brother Epic Soundtracks with Captain Beefheart.
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Test pressings just in for the upcoming Swell Maps double LP “Mayday Signals” - with extract from sleeve art, a collage by Epic Soundtracks and Jowe Head.
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2/2 Talking of “Read About Seymour”, here’s an Epic “designed” poster that I believe was on display at Rough Trade’s shop when the single was released in 1978.
#SwellMaps
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Replacing the lovely roses I laid a few weeks back on behalf of our friends from Bruges, Geert and Marijke, with a traditional Christmas wreath, and remembering Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks and their parents Lois and Trevor.
#SwellMaps
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One of Nikki Sudden's many T.Rex tickets, this one signed by Marc Bolan.
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Massive thanks to folks
@firerecordings
for this pair of crucial
#PaisleyUnderground
artefacts, curated & compiled by the splendid
@PatThomas1964
- who, if you don’t already, you should follow. Man has his finger in a lot of very worthwhile pies.
#DaysOfWineAndRoses
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I challenge anyone to watch today’s 95 minutes with an unbiased eye and explain to me how Viktor Gyokeres did not win a single free kick all game. Unreal.
#PUSB
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Nikki Sudden’s T.Rex gig itinerary from March 1977 and tickets for some of the shows, one signed by Marc Bolan. PLUS autographs from tour band members Miller Anderson and Dino Dines.
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Swell Maps.
(Peel Sessions coming soon from Mute Records)
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If, like me, you were there last night, you might have missed the BBC Coventry & Warwickshire commentary for the four goals. Here it is.
#PUSB
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Alex Chilton (28.12.50 - 17.03.10) and Epic Soundtracks (23.03.59 - 06.11.97) at the Mean Fiddler, London (16.10.85).
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Deluxe gatefold 2LP of Nikki Sudden’s sophomore solo album “The Bible Belt” just landed.
Fine work once more from
@easyactionmusic
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Sonic Boom’s “Hot 10 (Top 15 Actually)” compiled in 1987 for What A Nice Way To Turn 17
#7
.
#unreleased
#Spacemen3
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A somewhat ghostly instamatic camera double exposure I took of Epic Soundtracks at my house in Coventry, one Christmas time (the “tree”…😳) in the early 90’s.
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As we bid farewell to what would have been his 60th birthday, one more picture of Epic Soundtracks. With Captain Beefheart.
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#TRex
If you were a child of the revolution this is what your bedroom may have looked like in the mid 70's.
Photo by Nikki Sudden.
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Unpublished photo by Nikki Sudden of Johnny Thunders, taken in 1980.
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Hard to believe, but Dave Kusworth “hated” this stunning picture of
#TheJacobites
in Dublin taken by
@cartogram
.
Wouldn’t let us use it for the Robespierre re-issue.
Didn’t like how his hair looked.
As I (very nearly...) asked him, have you seen the cover?!
God bless him.
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Whilst I try and make birthdays & anniversaries, I always make a Christmas Eve trip to Warwick Cemetery to lay a wreath and red roses. Tuesday this week.....
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Late to the Bangles party but just wanted to remember seeing the band play at Warwick University back in the day and (**possible false memory alert**) seeing
@SusannaHoffs
doing the splits whilst playing guitar. Mind bending at the time.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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On what would have been Epic Soundtracks’ 65th birthday, a classic photo from 1994 by Valéry Lorenzo.
(Maybe a good time to mention plans by
@SeventeenRecs
for the release of Epic’s last ever concert in Hamburg 1997.)
#RiseAbove
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Neil Cooper set up Reach Out International Records (ROIR) in 1979, “capitalising” on the then recently released Sony Walkman by focusing on cassette only releases. Here’s a few I still have.
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Prince Of Wales Conference Centre, August 1979 and a four day ticket for £6.00.
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To celebrate what would’ve been the 61st birthday of Dave Kusworth, one of this country’s most under-appreciated & under-rated songwriters, pleased to formally announce the summer 2021 release by
@SeventeenRecs
of “Obviously 5 Believers” by The Hawks.
#TheGreatestAlbumNeverMade
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New Musical Express, 1985.
An Alex Chilton Top Ten, notionally selected by my fanzine What A Nice Way To Turn 17 but, in actuality, all the work of Mr Epic Soundtracks.
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Remembering Dave Kusworth who we lost a year ago today.
Talented almost beyond compare.
Here’s an extract from “Kings & Queens” by The Jacobites playing drums on Czech radio in November 1994.
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I got a message end of last week:
“I bought this record at Josey Records in Dallas, TX yesterday for my daughter. She’s actually turning 17 today and is into collecting records. Are you the person who put this together?”
Then, a day later, this screen-grab from said daughter….
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Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks on the stairs at my old house in Coventry, late 1980's.
#Brothers
#SwellMaps
(
#CheapBrownCarpet
)
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David Walter Cusworth (1960-2020)
Rock’n’Roll is poorer without him.
#DaveKusworth
#HeartsAreLikeFlowers
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Proof of what I guess I always suspected - that all roads in Rock’n’Roll lead from - or to - Swell Maps!
This chaotic “family tree” was created by the band’s Epic Soundtracks.
Pete Frame it may not be, but no less fascinating for that.
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Today’s fond talk of the dearly departed Dave Kusworth, Pat Fish and Nikki Sudden almost inevitably lead me to remembering Nikki’s brother Epic Soundtracks.
Short clip of his “Jelly, Babies” (w/Robert Wyatt on vocals) with Paul Caton’s original painting of Epic.
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There was one moment after the game as the players came over to the fans where the noise level went off the scale. Breathtaking.
Cannot recall hearing anything quite like it at a Coventry game.
#PUSB
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I believe we can expect an official release very soon of Swell Maps’ three “Peel Sessions”.
@keepingitpeel
@johnpeelarchive
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1994 was the last year of Unemployment Benefit, to be replaced by Job Seeker’s Allowance.
You still needed to “prove” you were looking for work.
A rejection letter from an employer helped.
So, for a musician, friendly contacts came in handy.
Here’s one Nikki Sudden “sourced”.
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“Farewell” by my friend Nikki Sudden, who died this day in 2006.
(from “The Last Bandits In The World - Complete”, available Record Store Day 2018)
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Epic Soundtracks with producer John Rivers during recording for Swell Maps’ “A Trip To Marineville” at the original Woodbine Mobile Recording Studio in Leamington Spa in 1979.
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“Alexa, show me the coolest looking rock band of the late 1980’s”
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14 November 1994.
The night Epic Soundtracks shared an NBC TV studio with Mickey Rooney, performing “C’mon Daddy” with Evan Dando on Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
#LivTyler
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Epic Soundtracks with a fraction of his justifiably famous record collection. CDs & singles only. Two other walls full of albums out of shot
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The Adverts live at Barbarellas, Birmingham, 11th June 1977.
Punk artwork by Epic Soundtracks.
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@MickPuck
It’s late and I really should be sleeping. Maybe give myself a 4/10 for this attempt to erase you from history.
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A trip to Warwick cemetery is now pretty much enshrined in the Coleman Christmas Eve Constitution.
Flower arranging a work in progress still.
Remembering Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks, dad Trevor and mum Lois at Christmas.
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Nikki Sudden during photo shoot for Robespierre’s Velvet Badement in Warwick, back in 1984.
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Tweeted a picture of his brother Nikki Sudden earlier so seemed only fair to come up with one of Epic Soundtracks. Here, with Jowe Head, from 1982, around the time of their Rough Trade “Rain, Rain, Rain” 12”.
#SwellMaps
#DagaDagaDaga
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Swell Maps in the studio back in the day.
Mr Jowe Head, partially obscured by an Epic Soundtracks drumstick.
#Blam
!
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Nikki Sudden and his brother Epic Soundtracks, 1980.
Even I was rocking a touch of eyeliner back then....
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Shortly before recording “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” (re-released early 2019 on double vinyl - as originally intended - for the first time), The Jacobites, Nikki Sudden, Dave Kusworth and Epic Soundtracks, on a short Italian Easter tour.
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Almost impossible to believe it’s 3 years today since the great Dave Kusworth left us.
Here’s a shot from his wedding day - featuring no less than TWO ex-members of Duran Duran…..
(And an excerpt from his and Nikki Sudden’s version of “The First Cut Is The Deepest”).
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