Orlando - A Popumentary (1995)
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Orlando never made a demo tape or played any gigs, as you're supposed to do when you form a band. The truth is we couldn't afford to make a demo and couldn't get any gigs without one.
But I had occasional work at BBC Elstree so was able to pull some favours and make this absurdly pretentious documentary about our ambitions for the band. It features short clips of us playing early versions of our second single Don't Kill My Rage and Something To Write Home About, which ended up as the b-side to our first single.
We only made about 5 copies of this video and accompanied it with an A4 manifesto. Then we gave copies to Suede's management, Smash Hits and Simon Price at Melody Maker.
After Simon's extraordinary review of our first gig, representatives of pretty much every record label in the country started phoning my house asking for a demo tape. And of course, we didn't have one. Just this stupid video.
I thought we'd blown it. But the lack of availability and the fact you can barely hear any music worked in our favour. It made it seem like we were playing hard to get and a major label bidding war began, without any of them even hearing us. I was told of one label exec being caught trying to nick a copy of our tape off the desk of a rival label exec.
Oh the 90s.
This is amazing, thanks so much for making it available. Please release Sick Folk!
Thank you!
I discovered last year that the Sick Folk masters are lost. We left them in storage at the studio. That studio is now Tony Visconti's and I went to the launch of it and inquired about the masters in the basement and the studio manager said it had been cleared out before they arrived and the previous owners no longer exist as a company. So that's that then.
I'm kind of happy about it. A proper lost album!
@@timchipping Thanks for the reply. It's a shame, but i'll still treasure the demos you posted on the site back in 2002. Are you still making music or writing?
@@nonstopinertia No, I run a record label called River Lea, with Geoff and Jeannette at Rough Trade (so kind of back where I started, but on the other side). store.roughtraderecords.com/collections/river-lea
@@timchipping I've still got the tracks you uploaded to the Ear Medicine website if that's any help. I was listening to them on my iPod on the train back from London just two nights ago.
plus you could always track down the people who got the 10 CD copies of the album.
Enjoyed the video, it does give off an aura of mysteriousness! Thanks for the upload & the write-up, very amusing.
Now this is quality air - Orlando. Welcome to proper proper people. What a quality second they had. Pearls before swine. Tim and Dickon eh? This is a brilliant band on a (near) Associates par - to have done that counts as very something in my annals. We spoke for 3 hours in the back of your tourbus maybe 20 years ago and I still remember. I cherish your 45s and CDs, what a fucking brilliant band and it is sadly apropos that we meet again here, me 43, you diarists. Everyone good around me at the time loved your Motown/ Mozzer, Richey, Larkin aesthetic . God speed to you and Merry Christmas and sticking on 'Just for a Second' in Tribute tonight Tim
Just for a second is a great track ,still listen to it now ,reminds me of the pet shop boys theatrics
I L.O.V.E Orlando !
These guys wrote great songs
These days you can recoup the cost of a demo by just calling it your debut EP and releasing it.