A bit of a one off for me this one. Many many years ago (1988) I played in a band and at our first gig, the support was a duo called Paper Toys. We've known them on and off ever since. They went through other incarnations and several personnel changes, including being known as Desire and Eden's Rage, before splitting up in the mid 1990s.
In 1988 they went from supporting my band to supporting Gary Numan on his UK tour that year. This tape is a recording of that tour, recorded at The Astoria, London, 12 October 1988.
The lineup at that time featured founder members Joe Quinton on guitar and lead vocal, Paul Nichols on bass and vocals, with Jenny Startin on keyboards and also Ultravox drummer Warren Cann who came on to play guitar on their last song.
Originally released officially by the band at the time, I was approached by Paul and asked if I could tidy it up a bit. So with a fair bit of 30 band EQing and a bit of noise reduction, and a little editing here and there, here's the result.
With the band's permission, it now exists for download as 1 MP3 here.
Side 1
Too Much Of A High Touch
Love Off The Rebound
When There's Two Of You
Someone Like Myself
Roman*
Side 2
Cold Surrender
Truth Unblessed
Feeling Good Now
Love In Me
When There's Two Of You (Double Mix)**
*4 track demo
**Mix produced by Warren Cann
I remember seeing these supporting Mr Numan. Any chance of the other cassette getting a similar treatment?
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ReplyDeleteCheers mate.
ReplyDeleteI saw them support Gary Numan, then, as Desire, in Dudley and a few shows at the Marquee. I remember the last I saw they were supported by No-Man. Sadly, they were completely blown off-stage by their support. What happened to the support, well Steven Wilson is doing rather well having played several nights at The Albert Hall and their vocalist, Tim Bowness is regularly releasing very good albums and helps run Burning Shed an independent online record and magazine store.
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff, thanks for that. Joe and Paul ended up in the early 90s I think as Eden's Rage - I also saw them a couple of times at the new (at the time) Marquee, which replaced the old one. Last I heard it had been turned into a pub.
DeleteYes, they face me a tape of their songs recorded as Eden's Rage. Sadly lost touch with them a short while after that. Still have the tape somewhere. Along with my Paper Toys records and live VHS tape from a Marquee show.
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