Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were another singles band: the compressed sounds and 2 1/2 minute duration of the 7" format suiting them ideally, "Take It All" was my favorite of the 4 pre-LP releases with its stomping verse  and the "sister ray" vocal phrasing crashing into that circling guitar motif in the chorus.
 Ive always had a soft spot for drum machines: the 'Lorries, Cocteaus, Big Black, Sisters of Mercy, Godflesh .....I dunno , its probably that discipline thing again: It means the music has to be focused , no wanky "jamming " or  ad libbed make-it-up as-you-go-along extended solos here sonny.
I think Albini used to cheat with a foor pedal, and anyone who witnessed the epic version of Jordan Minesota  that Big Black ended with upstairs at the Clarendon one night knows just what you can do in terms of dynamics, emotion and atmosphere with a beefed up click track.


Take It All - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry


For some reason I taped the whole of the support band at this show (probly cos the singer was a babe...) but only some of the lorries, let me tell you time has not been kind to the skeletal family, on this  they sound like bloody Terminal Burnz on a bad night ...

 Live at Imperial College London, 3rd Feb 1984 (29mb mp3)
instrumental,
beating my head,
sometimes,
silence,
alone?,
take it all,
monkeys on juice.

Heres some more from the next year but north of the river...





Live Kings College London, Feb 1st 1985 (35MB mp3)
take it all,
this today,
sometimes,
alone,
?
hollow eyes,
hand on my heart,
talk about the weather.