1 (I Wanna Love You Like A) Mad Dog
2 Edna
3 Smokey Mountain Rhythm Revue
4 Walking Through The Blue Grass
5 The Sundance
6 Give Me That Pistol
7 Slippery Rock ’70s
8 Cajun Band
9 Memories Of Your Love
10 Prima Donna
11 Swings And Roundabouts
12 There's A Wall Between Us
13 Summer Weekends
14 Baby Blue Eyes
15 Big Bad Baby Blondie
16 No Regrets
17 Cradle Of Love
18 Hell Bent On Rock'n'Roll
19 Songs Of Yesterday
20 Gillie's Bar Is Empty
21 Mr Pleasant
22 Just Tell Her Fred Said Goodbye
Centred on the irrefutable talents of Nigel Fletcher and Rob Woodward, Stavely Makepeace began their career in the late 60s releasing singles on 8 different labels. In the mid 1970's they also released records as an alter ego novelty band, Lieutenant Pigeon, and scored massive hits. Enough to keep funding the more serious side to their work as Stavely Makepeace.
We present the first ever collection of their work (no album having been released to date), with the focus on their early - mid 1970's peak period.
Fletcher and Woodward cultivated an extraordinary sound through recording with home made equipment in the front room of Woodward's mums house. Spending up to 15 hours a day running tape loops, sound effects, playing conventional and unconventional instruments, Stavely Makepeace occupy the same territory as Delia Derbyshire and Joe Meek in producing experimental pop music. As such the recordings have attracted followers from today's music tastemakers including St Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker.
The group actually beat their novelty alter ego onto Top Of The Pops when in 1970 they appeared to promote the single Edna. Their records also used to achieve significant amounts of airplay from DJs such as Chris Tarrant and Annie Nightingale. Slippery Rock 70's has today found its way into the pantheon of top junkshop glam records to collect, and took pride of place on the Velvet Tinmine compilation last year.
