Ok, I've relented to the pressure. Your final chance to grab this as no doubt it will get pulled again. I will not be reposting this again ....so no excuses if you miss this.
Back in 1985, Leeds based Peel darlings and agitpop noise terrorists, Age Of Chance covered Prince's Kiss for their second Peel Session. After a couple of noisy singles on their own Riot Bible lable, Age of Chance signed to Chakk's Fon label.
Kiss was the first release on Fon in a multitude of single and mini-album formats. The tracker tetered on the edge of the mainstream charts for quite sometime and eventually the band were picked up by Virgin Records.
Virgin gave the band the benefit of a huge salesforce and radio pluggers. This version was passed to John Peel who played it on his show a few times. Eventually the Virgin Sales Force started to pass copies of this white label around the music trade.
I remember grabbing five copies from my rep, none of which found there way on to the record shop racks. Virgin bottled an official release due major copyright infringements. Listen and you'll soon hear why. As a bonus the zip also includes the original Peel session version.
Kiss was the first release on Fon in a multitude of single and mini-album formats. The tracker tetered on the edge of the mainstream charts for quite sometime and eventually the band were picked up by Virgin Records.
Virgin gave the band the benefit of a huge salesforce and radio pluggers. This version was passed to John Peel who played it on his show a few times. Eventually the Virgin Sales Force started to pass copies of this white label around the music trade.
I remember grabbing five copies from my rep, none of which found there way on to the record shop racks. Virgin bottled an official release due major copyright infringements. Listen and you'll soon hear why. As a bonus the zip also includes the original Peel session version.
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Thanks so much for re-posting this, you're a king amongst men! Keep up the great work if you can.
ReplyDeleteawesome, thanks for this! :-)
ReplyDeletegreat blog...keep it up please!
Thank you so much! :)
ReplyDeletethanks very very much
ReplyDeleteYou absolute 'kin star. Bought this BITD thanks to his holiness John Peel! Played the hell out of it, then married a bitch who hated music.... Years later, been married to same ace lady for 13 years and cant find half my old records on CD and cant store anymore vinyl.... So thankyou so much.... This represents a more innocent time in indie dance music, before acidhouse made us all a little bonkers!!!
ReplyDeleteMy friend Nigel found a copy of this in Fon in Sheffield at the time, I've been looking for it ever since. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this!!
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