I’ll have one from the bottom…0
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It’s sad that my 1st post on here in months is yet another about death but as ever I’ll sidestep the morbid facts of Frank Sidebottom’s demise in favour of some FANTASTIC music.
For those unaware of his work, Frank started life as Chris Sievey, his music career kicking off with Manc-punks The Freshies who shaved the never regions of the UK charts with the really really fantastically titled “I’m In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk” back in 1981.
Sievey’s scope went way beyond his band, what with running DIY label Razz records, and releasing the Spectrum game The Biz which introduced Frank to the world with his confusing combination of working man’s club cabaret whilst looking like The Residents’ road manager.
After the Freshies disbanded Sievey continued his recording career with Frank turning out fantastic versions of Sex Pistols songs, Beatles classics and as you’re about to hear, quasi-post-punk-funk-rap songs about abstaining from eating pork.
“The Oink Psycho Rap” was a reworked version of the Uncle Pigg Rap originally released as a pink flexi on the cover of the curious Oink magazine published in the mid 80′s in the UK. Only available to Oink readers who’d cut out and sent off a voucher, featuring 3 songs produced by Frank, this 7″ was among my 1st handful of purchases back in 1986, maybe not what you’d expect of your average UK rap fair but still a little piece of forgotten history and one more fantastic feather in Frank’s cap.
Mr Sidebottom, we at Trick n Tom towers salute you…
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