HAPPY FAMILY This Business Of Living UK 1984 very rare cassette 4AD JOSEF K PUNK
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THE HAPPY FAMILY - THIS BUSINESS OF LIVING (ORIGINAL C46 CASSETTE)
LTM (Les Temps Modernes) CSBT V:VI UK 1984 C46 cassette
This is the ultra rare original 10-track cassette-only release by the great Scottish band (from Edinburgh) Happy Family (ex-members of Josef with Nick Curie aka Momus), known from the wonderful 4AD LP and 7" single. This cassette was available as mail-order only together with an info bulletin which unfortunately is not avaiulable here. Wonderful indie music on the Postcard and C86 mood including many demos and pre-4AD material. Very rare indeed and in perfect condition.
Some info from the LTM web site:
The Happy Family - This Business Of Living
C46 cassette (CSBT V:VI) July 1984 side oneThe Salesman
Letter From Hall
Revenge
The Luckiest Citizen
The Man on Your Street
side two
March in Turin
Two of a Kind
Innermost Thoughts
The Distance
My Double
Commentary:
I first became aware of The Happy Family by virtue of the Edinburgh/Josef K connection, and between 1984 and 1987 became something of a Nick Currie acolyte as he developed the persona of Momus.
This Business of Living gathered together their original pre-4AD demo (tracks 8-10) and seven demos for the 4AD album The Man on Your Street. The tape was packaged in a plastic wallet with a 16 page booklet, which assembled various band interviews and press cuttings together with excerpts from Nick Currie's diaries. It made for a very entertaining whole, although like the records on 4AD it failed to sell. In fact I doubt the cassette shifted more than 50 copies, again all via mail order and the Rough Trade shop in London.
A day late and a dollar short, the NME printed an enthusiastic review by Jim Shelley (3.11.84), who praised an 'alluring glance back at the brief, underplayed, almost unnoticed history' of the group packaged by LTM 'with the essentials of style'.
Although Ivo Watts-Russell at 4AD kindly sanctioned the release of This Business of Living, I think he suspected the project had been rather more successful than it actually was, and that royalties were due. Nevertheless, he did allow March in Turin to be included on the Heures Sans Soleil compilation album the following year. A very nice man.
Condition
cover: ex
cassette: ex
* Strict Record Collector grading (however I don't use higher than ex/ex grade)
P&P
registered p&p for Europe GBP6.80, all other countries GBP8.80
* If you prefer standard mail please ask - however the risk would be on buyer
* I'm a collector myself so strict packing policies applied (I have never received a complaint for a broken item - all records moved out of ps and put in plain sleeve and picture sleeve in plastic sleeve).
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