Bogie
Goes to
Bennadrove
(1985)
Personnel:
Alasdair (Bod)
Mackay:
Guitar;
Vocals;
Drums;
Harmonica
Roddy (Huggan)
Huggan:
Vocals,
Drums,
Guitar
Iain (Dead Olac Jr)
Livingstone
: Bass;
Drums;
Chanter;
Vocals
Ken
(Bandwagon)
Livingstone:
Vocals
Martin (Hank
the Yank)
Strell :
Vocals
Neil (The
Hippy) Shaw
: Vocals
Sleeve
by Alasdair
(Bod) Mackay
Recorded in
3 different
locations
over a few
months in
1985.
Tracks 1-6
were
recorded in
the Dead Olac brothers'
sitting room
again over
Xmas and New
Year 1984/5,
guest
starring
bemused
American visitor
and
Velvet
Underground
freak
Hank
on vocals on
“Waiting
for the Bus”.
Tracks 7 and
9 were
recorded at
Noel
Eadie’s
Croft studio
in Tong
(still using
a cassette
player, but
with a real
drum kit for
the first
and last
time ever).
The
remaining
Tracks were
recorded in
Huggan’s
kitchen one
Saturday in
the spring
or summer of
1985, as is
obvious from
the variety
of utensils
pressed into
service as
percussion.
Guireans Manager Coinneach (The
Other
Accountant
of Rock)
Livingstone
made a brief
reappearance
backing
Neil
The Hippy’s
lead vocal
on “Gimme
All your Bog
Roll”.
Having heard
that it was
being
recorded in
a real
“Studio”
he’d
obviously
thought he
could sniff
fame and
fortune.
In
retrospect
it seems
Huggan was
going
through a
Bowie
phase at the
time, with 2
covers on
one C30.
Track 11, “Iain
Stardust &
The
Peatcutters
from Borve”,
penned by
Perceval
Road
cyberpunk
and
occasional
Guireans
vocalist
Derek ("No
Head
Jackson")
Macleod,
was a
classic, but
there’s a
better
version on “Hey
Hey We’re
Gordon
Macleod’s
Guireans”.
For the
anoraks
among us,
the Ukelele
on “Zing
Frankie Mix”
was a very
sad AGOFR
in-joke. The
hype
surrounding
dreadful
Scouse
mincers
Frankie Goes
to Hollywood
was
scarily
reminiscent
of the
rhetoric
surrounding
ukelele-wielding
AGOFR
posturers
Zing
Pop
a few years
previously.
The Guireans
were
convinced
that
Frankie’s
success was
orchestrated
not by
pretentious
ex-NME hack
Paul
Morley
as
claimed, but
by Sinister
Matheson
Road Pop
Svengali
CJ
Mitchell.
In 1981,
Mitchell
(58), known
as “Not
Another Fleekeen
Accountant
of Rock”,
masterminded
the
publicity
stunt which
was to
become the
model for
Frankie’s
infamous
“Relax” ban
hype. Sales
of
Zing-Pop’s
inferior “Lord
of the Zings”
shot to an
incredible 3
after
Mitchell
(71)
cleverly
didn’t send
it to
Radio Nan
Eilean
and
cunningly
forgot to
ask
Maciver and
Dart
to
put a copy
on the
shelf.
Alternative
Sleeve
by
Alasdair
(Bod)
Mackay
Tracks:
1.
See
Murchaidh
Play (Sid
Mucus for
Pink Sid
Peepil)
2.
Cailleach Comedienne
3.
Goat Mucus
for McAlpine
People
4. Dog
Mucus for
B****s People
5. Be
Mucus for
Bop People
II
6.
Waiting for
the Bus
(Hank Mucus
for Yank
People)
7.
Zing Frankie
Mix Next
8. Angus
Mhurdaidh (1st
attempt)
9.
Gimme all
Your Bog
Roll
10.
Angus
Mhurdaidh
11. Iain
Stardust &
the
Peatcutters
from Borve
12.
Cocktail
Twits
13.
Hippy Tigh
14.
Sultans of
Swainbost
