THE ORIGINAL 5TH BIRTHDAY POSTING

The announcement of the Butcher Boy gig last Friday overtook everything....which is hardly a surprise.  Many many thanks to all of you who said such nice things in the comments section and via email.  Really does mean a lot to me.

The scheduled posting for last Friday had much the same sort of intro about 5 years, 1700 postings etc and then went on to say this.

If I had the chance to get my hands on one piece of vinyl, it would of course be the first ever release on Postcard Records, a bit of vinyl so rare that even Edwyn Collins doesn't have a copy.  Record Collector magazine states there were 963 of them pressed, complete with folded sleeve, postcard and flexi disc.  Any copies that do come on-line for sale go for very silly money - as much as $450 US in some instances - and I have now officially given up even dreaming about it having a copy.

Part of what drove me on to try and get my grubby paws on this particular release was the fact it was the only single in the Postcard catalogue that I haven't tracked down over the past 5 years as I tried to re-build the collection of 7" singles.  But I'm really just kidding myself.  Yes, I have the Postcard singles, but my copies are, for the most part second pressings and some with replacement sleeves and very few of the all-important inserts, so I've a damn cheek trying to find 'the holy grail.'  To illustrate what I mean, this the full detailed discography, with what I have highlighted in orange:-

80-1: Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing/Moscow/Moscow Olympics
(sky blue labels, early copies came with free I wish I was a postcard flexi and white and blue drumming cat logo postcard)

80-2 : Orange Juice - Blueboy/Lovesick
(first pressing came with royal blue labels and a wrap around poster sleeve hand coloured by the band, the second pressing featured brown labels and brown cowboy sleeve was also a misspressing with yellow and red labels and a white cowboy sleeve)

80-3 :Josef K - Radio Drill Time/Crazy To Exist
(first pressing came with royal blue labels and a wrap around poster sleeve hand coloured by the band, some copies with "Josef K on stage" poster, the second pressing featured brown labels and brown cowboy sleeve, there was also a misspressing with yellow and red labels and a white cowboy sleeve)

80-4 : The Go Betweens - I Need Two Heads/Stop Before You Say It
(brown labels and brown cowboy sleeve, there was also a misspressing with yellow and red labels and a white cowboy sleeve)

80-5 : Josef K - It's Kinda Funny/Final Request
(brown labels and brown cowboy sleeve, initial copies with 7" size two sided colour paper insert)

80-6 : Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey/Breakfast Time
(brown labels and brown cowboy sleeve, initial copies with 7" size two sided colour paper insert )

81-2: Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul/Poor Old Soul (part 2)
(black kilts sleeve, initial copies with lyric postcard)

81-3 :Aztec Camera - Just Like Gold/We Could Send Letters
(black kilts sleeve, initial copies with lyric postcard)

81-4 : Josef K - Sorry For Laughing/Revelation
(Released on the Belgian Crepuscle label under licence from Postcard with catalogue number TWI 023 with full colour picture sleeve)


81-5 :  Josef K - Chance Meeting/Pictures
(black kilts sleeve, initial copies with lyric postcard)

81-8 : Aztec Camera - Mattress Of Wire/Lost Outside The Tunnel
(full colour picture sleeve)

* 81-6 was to be Wan Light/You Old Eccentric by Orange Juice but was withdrawn
** 81-7 was The Only Fun In Town, the debut LP by Josef K

I know.  I'm an anorak.  And as a reward for wading through all of that, here ripped from vinyl are all the Postcard singles in the cupboard:-

mp3 : Aztec Camera - Just Like Gold
mp3 : Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters
mp3 : Aztec Camera - Mattress Of Wire
mp3 : Aztec Camera - Lost Outside The Tunnel

mp3 : The Go-Betweens - I Need Two Heads
mp3 : The Go-Betweens - Stop Before You Say It

mp3 : Josef K - Radio Drill Time
mp3 : Josef K - Crazy To Exist
mp3 : Josef K - It's Kinda Funny
mp3 : Josef K - Final Request
mp3 : Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
mp3 : Josef K - Revelation
mp3 : Josef K - Chance Meeting
mp3 : Josef K - Pictures

mp3 : Orange Juice - Blueboy
mp3 : Orange Juice - Lovesick
mp3 : Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey
mp3 : Orange Juice - Breakfast Time
mp3 : Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul
mp3 : Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (part 2)

And courtesy of the astonishingly wonderful Coals In Newcastle boxset (in which your humble scribe got a totally unexpected name check in the list of thank yous....)

mp3 : Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing
mp3 : Orange Juice - Moscow
mp3 : Orange Juice - Moscow Olympics
mp3 : Orange Juice - Felicity (live)

Now with 24 bits of music to amuse and entertain that should keep you all going for a few days.  I'll return soon......

Happy Listening.  The sound of the not so young anymore Scotland.....