Rare Power Pop / Punk Single The Rochdale Fairies, 3 Green Bottles & Edelweiss
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Description
Extremely Rare & Collectable Limited Edition Power Pop / Punk Rock 7" Single
Only a few hundred records were pressed : For Promotion and to sell at a Rock Against Racism gig.
The Rochdale Fairies, Three Green Bottles & Edelweiss
Brand New Copy Direct From Label Archive Never Been Played!
The Rochdale Fairies were formed in 1982 and were produced by Brian Connolly of The Sweet.
The band only lasted a few weeks, The record was made as a promotional copy for major labels to consider and to sell at their first of only 2 gigs.
Extremely tight, punk, at 90mph, the record is particularly interesting for its cover of Edelweiss, from The Sound Of Music!
Chappel Music, the publishers, were not happy about it at the time!
The band played just a couple of gigs, a Rock Against Racism fund raiser and a local night club called Whispers.
They were, Rosie Geary-Vocals, Wendy Glock-Vocals, N BEE (Nigel Browning)-Drums and Syn Drums, Simon Lague-Bass & Steve Kane-Guitar.
The single was recorded at The Legendary Spaceward Studios in Cambridge, UK, their website describe it as a Rare Gem!
SNT Records was owned and operated by Nigel Browning (Ward)
This is one of a handful of new copies found in the label archive.
The band bio reads :-
Rock Against Racism' ask a bunch of Amersham based musicians to put a band together for a fund raising gig in 2 weeks time!
Above Strings N Things Music shop the 3 get together and scratch their heads, Nigel Browning (Drums) Simon Lague (Bass) & Steve Kane (Guitar). No songs, no singer and not a lot of time. They are accompanied by friends Wendy Glock & Rosie Geary, aah they'll do as singers, so the Rochdale Fairies were formed. An idea arose, lets cover some otherwise different songs at 90mph. There followed these two tracks, plus Waterloo by Abba and I can't remember what else. About 5 in total I think.
Brian Connolly of 'The Sweet' fame, did a bit of production in rehearsals and before the gig, these two tracks were recorded at Spaceward Studios in Cambridge, pressed onto 7" vinyl to be sold at the gig. That was some going for those days!
The gig came, the band did their 4 numbers, got encored, so did them again, they did a second gig at 'Whispers' night club in Chesham with the addition of Cliff Levens on guitar, Steve left, Mick joined and the band split!
The single was picked up by Carrere Records and was intended as a Christmas release but the A&R man doing the signing got seriously injured in a car crash and the deal fell apart.
It was great fun to do, but the magic only flowed for a few weeks and the buzz died and we all went and did different things. It was Wendy & Rose's only ever band, the others are all still involved in music one way or another, Update : sadly though, Steve Kane is no longer with us!
It was all done in fun, and fun was had!
More info, licensing etc from Nigel Ward
Influences
Influenced by all the bands that smashed what had been a very stale music industry at the time, especially of course The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Buzzcocks, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Ian Dury, Motorhead, Sham 69, The Skids, Snatch, Stiff Little Fingers. The Stranglers, Subway Sect, Transvision Vamp, UK Subs, Vibrators, Vice Creems, Wreckless Eric, X Ray Specs and many more! Also of course the original Friars Aylesbury and The Marquee Club!
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