Peter Perrett Discography 1973 - 2000
ORIGINAL DISCOGRAPHY/BOOTLEG INFO BY MARTIN LAWSON.
COPIED FROM THE NOW DEFUNCT SIERRA BRAVO WEBSITE.
(NOTE - THIS ISN'T LINKED ON THE MAIN WEBSITE, AND HASN'T BEEN FORMATTED)
This is an attempt to form a definitive discography of the entire recording history of Peter Perrett. As such it is almost certainly the most comprehensive list available anywhere. No doubt there are mistakes in there somewhere but as much as possible has been checked as thoroughly as possible.
Most of the information has been verified. The exceptions are items of extreme rarity and some of the more obscure label details.
No recording quality details have been set against any bootleg recordings that were later officially released as this seemed unnecessary. Any quality details are comparative to other bootlegs so that something described as 'excellent' will still almost always be inferior to an official release. All timings are approximate and the quality ratings are as follows:
P=Poor Av=Average G=Good VG=Very Good Ex=Excellent
// = Denotes a break for an encore
Main sources of reference have been my own collection, Nina Antonia's book, 'Homme Fatale', original music press articles, Record Collector magazine, and the Perrett "users/micks/only/" discography now seemingly unavailable on the internet.
The listings are essentially those of the UK. Exceptions are indicated.
Lastly, thanks go to Jon Newey, John Perry and Steve Brickle for their help in straining their collective memories and answering various questions.
Martin Lawson
England's Glory
Circa Early 1972 - Circa Autumn 1973
Singles: Label Format Date
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Albums: Label Format Date
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8 Acetates Privately Pressed - A /1 /73
25 Vinyl Privately Pressed - V /4 /73
Devotion / The Wide Waterway / City Of Fun / First Time I Saw You / Broken Arrows / Bright Lights / It's Been A Long Time / The Guest / Peter and the Pets / Showdown
Notes: The original eight acetates had a pale blue label. The follow-up vinyl pressings bore the number VEN 105 and had a pink label. As original member Jon Newey states, "any other white label copies should be considered bootlegs."
After rehearsing at Underhill Studios, Blackheath, London throughout the summer and autumn of 1972, the band went into Venus Recording Studios, Whitechapel, London.
Jon Newey in the sleeve notes to the Legendary Lost Recordings CD states that it cost £100 and was recorded on a four track over "four days and mixed in one day during the last week of January 1973."
The second batch of 25 vinyl copies were pressed around March or April of the same year and sold off to friends for £4.00 each. In 1999 Record Collector valued these rarities at around £250.
The line-up was Perrett on guitar and vocals, Harry Kakoulli on bass and backing vocals, Jon Newey on drums and percussion, David Clarke on lead guitar and Zena Kakoulli, Penny Kemp, Menna Clarke, and Mary Kakoulli, Harry ‘s wife at the time, on backing vocals. [Trivia freaks may be interested to note that when Mary and Harry later divorced, Mary married Jools Holland, thus explaining why on different sleeve notes to the Legendary Lost Recordings releases there is both a Mary Kakoulli and a Mary Holland.] Jon Newey’s former flatmate, Michael Kemp, was also brought in to add some keyboards.
Legendary Lost Recordings Five Hours Back V / 5 /87
TOCK 004
Devotion / The Wide Waterway / City Of Fun / First Time I Saw You / Broken Arrows / Bright Lights / It's Been A Long Time / The Guest / Peter And The Pets / Showdown
Notes: In an interview with Record Collector around in 1995 [Issue 186] Perrett mentions that In Betweens was going to be included on the later Legendary Lost Recordings release but was replaced by Peter And The Pets. He also talks of these recordings being done on two track around Christmas 1972 and costing £50. Having spoken to Jon Newey, whose memory is probably better than Perrett’s, it seems likely that Perrett is wrong on these accounts.
In Betweens was recorded by the final line-up of England’s Glory but only in the form of a rough rehearsal tape. It was never properly recorded at Venus or elsewhere. Jon Newey has confirmed that there were no outtakes from the original sessions and that all the tracks that appeared on the original acetate and vinyl pressings have therefore been released.
Both City Of Fun and Peter And The Pets are early versions of songs later recorded by The Only Ones, while The Guest would also feature occasionally in Only Ones live sets and even, in a re-arranged form, The One live sets.
Broken Arrows is the same version that appeared on vinyl version of Remains [Closer CL 0012] where it was mistakenly credited to The Only Ones.
Legendary Lost Recordings [US] Sky Clad V/CD / /91
Notes: Both vinyl and CD issues contain exactly the same tracks as the above release.
Legendary Lost Album Anagram CD / /94
CDM GRAM 73
Predictably Blonde / Weekend / Trouble in the World
Notes: This CD contains all the tracks available on the previous releases of Legendary Lost Recordings [see above] but with the additional last three bonus tracks listed here.
All these additional tracks were taken from the last England's Glory recording session also at Venus Recording Studios, probably around September or October 1973. The band had by this stage broken up but reformed for this last recording session - presumably to give it one last try. The line up was Perrett on vocals and guitar, and probably Harry Kakoulli, Michael Kemp and ex-Pretty Thing's guitarist Gordon Edwards bass, keyboards and guitar respectively. The Underhill studio manager, Bill, played on drums, Jon Newey having left by this time to explore other musical pastures.
Finally, the last song bears no resemblance to the later Only Ones single of the same name.
Bootlegs
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The acetate/vinyl recordings were bootlegged in Australia in the late 70's and early 80's where The Only Ones enjoyed a cult status.
Unreleased Recordings /Rumoured Or Known To Exist
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Reference To Early Acoustic Songs Circa Winter Early 1972
Notes: In Nina Antonia’s book ‘Homme Fatale’ there is mention that Perrett went round to Jon Newey’s house in Streatham, South London in early 1972 and played a number of songs.
In case there is any misunderstanding it can be confirmed that these were played live on acoustic guitar as opposed to simply playing a tape of recorded songs. Readers may be interested to know, however, that Jon Newey recalls Going Back To January and Sweet Morning being played.
Early Rehearsal Tape Circa Spring 1972
Notes: Again, in Nina Antonia’s book Jon Newey talks of a 'rough but quite interesting' rehearsal tape recorded on a Revox with Perrett on vocals and possibly guitar, Harry Kakoulli on bass, Jon Newey on drums and an early guitarist and violin player named Alastair Kinnear.
Interviewed for this discography, Jon Newey says these tapes were recorded at Underhill rehearsal studios and were barely listenable. They are also are long lost but as far as he can recall did consist of a lengthy version of the Velvet’s Waiting for the Man and possibly City Of Fun.
Early Demo Number 1 Circa Late Summer 1972
What You’re Doing To Me / Going Back To January / Sweet Morning / All In White / Good Times / Flowers Die / Here Come The Waves
Notes: Recorded on a Sony cassette recorder with a single microphone at Jon Newey's flat in Streatham. The line-up was Perrett vocals and guitar, Jon Newey on percussion and Harry Kakoulli on bass and Zena on occasional backing vocals. The first official England's Glory guitarist Dave Clarke was not present.
This tape, like the following one, Early Demo Number 2, was crudely recorded and at various point the listener can hear the microphone being turned on and off. At one point you can even hear Perrett asking about the quality of the dope in a spliff that was being rolled. It is similar in feel to the early Dylan recordings made in hotel rooms, or the early Lou Reed and John Cale demos on the Velvet Underground box set Peel Slowly And See, where you can hear ambient noises, conversation between tracks and so on.
In fact the Lou Reed influences are clearly present in Sweet Morning for instance, which even has a riff reminiscent of Sweet Jane, while Here Come The Waves is very similar to Here Comes The Ocean, first released by the Velvet Underground on their Live 1969 album. Going Back to January also has Zena, Harry and Jon on background vocals while What You’re Doing To Me is just Perrett on guitar and vocals. These four tracks are not intended for release [see below under Early Demo 2] as they were considered by Perrett and Jon Newey to be either too derivative or rough and incomplete.
Lastly, What You’re Doing To Me bears no relationship to the song City Of Fun, despite the title of the former being similar to the lyrics of the latter.
Flowers Die was eventually to be released on Remains and Live At The BBC.
Early Demo Number 2 Circa Late 1972
In Betweens / Aurora / The First Time I Saw You / You Knew Me When / Violin / So Divine /
Notes: It was again recorded on the same Sony cassette recorder with a single microphone at Jon Newey's flat in Streatham. This session only features Perrett on vocals and guitar.
The First time I Saw You was later to be known as Give Me A Little More Loving when it was released in a different form on Legendary Lost Recordings.
In Betweens features some different lyrics while Aurora is arguably reminiscent of Counterfeit Woman on Remains
The results of both this session and ‘Early Demo Number 1’ are the same as those mentioned by Pete Makowski on the sleeve notes to Legendary Lost Recordings LP [5 Hours Back] where he mentions "over a dozen acoustic demos featuring versions of Only Ones songs, Flowers Die, In Betweens and many unreleased classics."
A compilation of the best of Early Demos Number 1 and 2 is intended for release by Jon Newey, who owns the tape and has compiled it with Perrett’s permission. The intended title is The First and Last and, all being well, the track listing from the two demo tapes will be as follows:
Good Times / Flowers Die / All In White / In Betweens / Aurora / First Time I Saw You / You Knew Me When / Violin / So Divine
It is also intended that four later tracks by England’s Glory from their first EMI session will also be released at the end of the same CD [see entry below].
EMI Session 8 /6 /73
Predictably Blonde / Bells That Chime / Weekend / Shattered Illusion
These sessions were recorded as demos in an attempt to secure a contract with EMI. Done on a four track and mixed onto mono, the equipment was in fact the same equipment The Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper on when it was installed at Abbey Road. When it became outdated it was transferred to the basement of EMI.
Both are Bells That Chime and Shattered Illusion are unreleased songs, the other two being previously available on some issues of Legendary Lost recordings, albeit as different versions. Bells That Chime is probably the jauntiest Perrett song ever recorded, sounding a little like After Hours by the Velvet Underground.
The line up for this EMI session was Perrett on guitar and vocals, Jon Newey on drums, Harry Kakoulli on bass but with a new guitarist, Julie [nobody remembers her surname.] EMI's A&R man David Sanderson presided over the session and owned the tapes for years before Jon Newey bought them from him. These and the Early Demo tapes currently rest in a bank vault.
Recordings With Members Of Squeeze Circa Mid 1975
Notes: Again, Perrett mentions this session in the interview with Record Collector. No track listing is mentioned but he recalls it being recorded in a bedroom belonging to someone called Andy who played in Arthur Brown's band Kingdom Come. He does, however, say that they are the only demos he'd never want released as they were very primitive.
England’s Glory having broken up by this time, a support gig at the Marquee in London was booked for June 30th 1975 to start moving things in a different musical direction. Although he wasn’t in the band, Jon Newey recalls it as being under-rehearsed and consequently a little untogether. The line-up for this gig included Glen Tilbrook on guitar - he was living in Perrett’s house at the time, Harry Kakoulli on bass and Jools Holland on keyboards so it’s probable, but not certain, that the same people played on the demo.
First ‘Tooting’ Sessions November 1975
Out There In The Night /
Notes: The above track is the only track not released from this session. This was the band’s first set of demos done in a Tooting studio. The second ‘Tooting’ session was a year later with the full Only Ones line up [see Remains album for details.]
John Perry gives the date for this session as that shown above and recalls that a total of five tracks were recorded - Watch You Drown, My Rejection, I Only Wanna Be Your Friend and Don't Hold Your Breath being the others. These all later appeared on Remains.
He has also confirmed that Out There In The Night was subsequently re-recorded from scratch for release by The Only Ones and that the above version is therefore an unissued outtake, although he added that it ‘sounds substantially the same, as it follows every detail of the Tooting demo.’
John Perry / Robert Hunter Session Circa Mid 1974
Notes: This item is not strictly a Perrett item but has been included as a point of interest. In an interview with Beat Instrumental in August 1979, Perry talks of his collaboration with The Grateful Dead's lyricist Robert Hunter.
He mentions how Hunter was on the look-out for a different kind of band and heard Perry playing with a band called Over The Hill and ended up doing nearly an album's worth of demos including one track called Jack Of Roses that would have taken up the whole of one side of an album Perry: "..........Jack Of Roses comes out sounding rather like Dire Straits - very simple rhythm guitar, very wordy songs, with lots of lead guitar interspersed throughout it." Perrett was not on these sessions and the demos remain unreleased.
A CD by Perry’s band Over The Hill was released in June 1990, although the tracks were probably recorded in the mid seventies, entitled Ratbite Fever on SPM/Worldwide Records [SPM-WWR-CD-0006] and was made by the same line up that recorded the above Jack of Roses demos. It contained just two demo tracks recorded at Newbury Farm Mells but had nothing to do with Hunter although Perry thinks it may just be possible that he is featured in the background chorus of the title track. The cover was drawn by Perry’s then girlfriend Maureen, now Mrs. Hunter. John: "I’ve got a copy somewhere - it just makes me glad my juvenilia isn’t released."
The Only Ones
13th August 1976 - 8th March 1981
Notes: The first date is the day Alan Mair, the final member of the band joined. The last date was the date of the final gig at the Lyceum, London.
Singles Label Format Date
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Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets Vengeance 7" /6/77
VEN 001
Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets Vengeance 12" /6/77
VEN 001
Notes: The first 500 12" singles had a plain white sleeve with the black and white cover of the 7" single stuck on the middle. According to Perrett in an interview with Record Collector, the first 500 didn't have "001" on the label. This was the first release by The Only Ones and, of course, featured Peter Perrett on vocals and guitar, John Perry on guitar, Alan Mair on bass and Mike Kellie on drums. Recorded at Basing Street Studios, Notting Hill, London over the Easter weekend 1977. Produced by The Only Ones and Robert Ash total sales at the time came to around 20,000.
In an interview with Sounds at the end of 1978 Perry said he'd stolen the guitar riff from Martha And
The Vandella’s Heatwave.
Another Girl, Another Planet / CBS 6228 7" 14/4/78
Special View
Notes: Picture sleeve cover. The wallpaper design was taken from the wall in the flat Perrett happened to be hiding from the police in at that time. The same pattern appears on the cover of The Immortal Story compilation album.
Dutch pressings of the 7" release of Another Girl, Another Planet [although it is not certain with which B-side] are apparently extremely collectable and come with the same picture sleeves as the debut album release.
This, song has subsequently been covered by, among others, Dogs d’Amour, The Replacements, The Lightning Seeds, American Ruse, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Greg Kihn, Lower East Side Stitches and possibly The Raincoats, while REM are rumored to have played it live. John Perry has also made mention that he’s heard a recording of The Cure playing it at a soundcheck in Pittsburgh, USA.
However, award for the funniest cover version goes to Nutley Brass for their brass band rendition. Well worth checking out for amusement value!
Another Girl, Another Planet was also to become the title of a 1992 film by US director Michael Almeveyda and, a little later, of a non related science fiction book by Martin Day and Len Beech. Additionally it was also used as a title of a 1998 collective photography exhibition.
Another Girl, Another Planet / CBS 6576 7" 8/8/78
As My Wife Says
Another Girl, Another Planet / CBS 12-6576 12" 8 /8/78
As My Wife Says
Notes: The 7" may or may not have had picture sleeve versions as well.
The 12", however, definitely had a picture sleeve which consisted of TV screens with individual band portraits inside them and was released as a limited edition. Re-released by CBS as it inexplicably failed to ignite the charts first time. Unfortunately this proved to be the case the second time, although it did reach number 18 in John Peel’s All Time Festive 50.
It has also been reported that non-picture sleeve promo versions were made, presumably in the 12’ format, but this is not certain.
You've Got To Pay / CBS 7086 7" 2/2/79
This Ain't All [It's Made Out To Be]
Notes: Available in a black and white picture sleeve with the image of a man rising from a tomb while the band members stand shrouded at the edge of the grave.
This is the only place where the B-side is officially available. The discography on the sleeve notes of the Remains CD mentions a 12" version of this with a catalogue number of CBS 12-7086. However, it cannot be confirmed that this was ever actually released.
Out There In The Night / Lovers Of Today CBS 7285 7" 12/4/79
Out There In The Night / CBS 12-7285 12" 12/4/79
Lovers of Today / Peter And The Pets /
Notes: A not-so-limited edition available on 12" blue vinyl with picture sleeve. Possibly also available on black vinyl. The sleeve's dragon design is similar to Even Serpents Shine LP motif and it has been reported that it came it two slightly different designs. There also seems to be some question whether a 7" version was ever released but it can be confirmed that it was. Both Lovers of Today and Peter and the Pets are the same as previously released versions.
Trouble In The World / Your Chosen Life CBS 7963 7" 16/11/79
Notes: This version of Trouble In The World is different to the version released on the Baby's Got A Gun album, as it contains not only gospel style backing singers and less guitar but also more synthesizers. John Perry was in a police cell in Chelsea the day the studio was booked for overdubbing his guitar part and the band presumed he was at Lords cricket ground watching Somerset in the One Day Final. Both single and album versions are of a similar length.
Available in a black and white picture sleeve with a shot of the band and reminiscent of The Doors first album cover, a tinted version of this photograph appeared on the cover of Remains.
According to a reader who sent in the following information to the music paper Sounds [3/8/85] the original cover for this release had a picture of the band sitting around a table with a tin vase on it and the sleeve of Lovers Of Today on the wall behind them. However John Perry confirms it as being The Only Ones ‘sitting round a table with a large, alter-size crucifix lent me by an antique dealer friend’.
This picture sleeve version is very collectable as it was withdrawn because CBS thought Perry, and quite possibly Perrett as well, looked ‘too stoned’. It was then re-released again a few weeks later [release date given above] in the ‘Doors’ sleeve. The B-side is the same as that on The Immortal Story compilation.
Where this single was released in other countries different covers are also available. In Spain the lyrics were printed on the back of the sleeve and the French release apparently had another different sleeve. The Dutch pressing had the same cover as the UK ‘Doors’ release but with the title on the front.
Fools / Castle Built On Sand CBS 8535 7" 2/5/80
Notes: Picture sleeve versions have a shot of Perrett and Pauline Murray from Penetration who duets with Perrett on Fools. Same versions as those on Baby’s Got A Gun album.
Baby's Got A Gun/ Silent Night Vengeance 7" /1/83
VEN 002
Baby's Got A Gun/ Silent Night Vengeance 7" 31/8 /85
VEN 002
Notes: The unreleased title track from the Baby's Got A Gun album. It was originally wonderfully mistimed for the Christmas market by being released in January 1983. This is quite rare these days despite a re-issue of 1000 copies in August 1985. No picture sleeves are available for either release.
This version of Baby’s Got A Gun is the same version as that released on The Immortal Story despite claims on the album that it is a previously unavailable mix. It is, however, different to the version which appeared on Remains, the speed here being slightly faster.
Silent Night is the same as that on the Anagram Remains CD and was recorded for Radio Hilversum in Holland around the beginning of November 1979.
Albums: Label Format Date
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The Only Ones CBS 82830 V /5/78
The Whole Of The Law / Another Girl, Another Planet / Breaking Down /City Of Fun / The Beast / Creature Of Doom / It's The Truth / Language Problem /No Peace For The Wicked / The Immortal Story
Notes: The original album contained green inserts with band photographs and production credits on. The album reached number 56 in the charts.
As a footnote to the above, this seems a good opportunity to mention that The Immortal Story is the first of a number of occasions when Perrett has used a film title for the title of a song. Other tracks which used film titles for song titles were From Here To Eternity and The Big Sleep while later on with The One, A Company Of Strangers, Hearts Of Fire, Sirens and the demo Dead Man Walking all followed the same trend.
City of Fun was later covered by Celibate Rifles while Whole of the Law has also been covered by Yo La Tengo.
The Only Ones CBS 32077 V / /84
Notes: Re-released. Same orange label as above.
The Only Ones CBS 4773792 CD 15/8/94
Notes: Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
Even Serpents Shine CBS 83451 V 9 /3/79
From Here To Eternity / Flaming Torch / You've Got To Pay / No Solution / In Betweens /Out There In The Night / Curtains For You / Programme / Someone Who Cares / Miles From Nowhere / Instrumental
Notes: Original issues had the title embossed on front cover. The album reached number 42 in the charts. In an interview in Zig Zag in May 1979 John Perry stated that Curtains for You was an old England's Glory number, as were In Betweens and Out There In The Night. This is Perrett’s favourite Only Ones album as well as containing Perrett’s favourite Only Ones track, From Here To Eternity.
Even Serpents Shine CBS 83451 V / /85
Notes: Re-released. Plain front cover. Red Label.
Even Serpents Shine CBS 478502 CD 6/3/95
Notes: Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
Baby's Got A Gun CBS 84089 V 27 /4/80
The Happy Pilgrim / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Me And My Shadow / Deadly Nightshade / Strange Mouth / The Big Sleep / Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] / Re-Union / Trouble In The World / Castle Built On Sand / Fools / My Way Out Of Here
Notes: A press announcement in the NME dated 26/4/80 says that the album ‘comes out tomorrow’ making it 27/4/8 as the probable release date. Indeed, all the main reviews for this album were on or around this date so it seems likely that this is the correct date and not 11/4/80 as stated in Homme Fatale.
The front cover photograph was taken in Perrett's house in South London. Original versions contained a one sided insert with the lyrics of the title track together with production credits. The last track is credited to Peter Perrett but was actually written by Alan Mair. The album reached number 37 in the charts.
There are rumours of original plans to include a free 7" single which would have included the title track plus two other live tracks. It is not known whether this actually happened or not but no-one so far seems to have seen or heard of a copy.
Baby's Got A Gun [US] Epic V /4/80
JE 36584
Notes: US versions possibly contained a free EP. Unfortunately no track listings are available although it is possible that this could be the same as the 12" Import EP [see below] which contains Another Girl, Another Planet / This Ain’t All [Its Made Out To Be] / Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets.
Baby's Got A Gun CBS 84089 V / /85
Notes: Re-released. Red Label.
Baby's Got A Gun CBS 4836022 CD 4/3/96
Notes: The CD release featured the same tracks but in the order as follows: Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] / The Happy Pilgrim / Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Me And My Shadow / Deadly Nightshade / Strange Mouth / My Way Out Of Here / The Big Sleep / Re-Union / Fools / Castles Built On Sand / Trouble In The World
Notes: Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site. The contents of the original one sided insert [see above] have been reproduced on the liner notes of this re-issue.
Remains Closer V 16 /6 /84
CL 0012
Prisoners / Watch You Drown / Flowers Die / Devon Song / My Rejection / Baby's Got A Gun / Hope Valley Blues / Counterfeit Woman / My Way Of Giving / River Of No Return
Additional Free EP: I Only Wanna Be Your Friend / Broken Arrows / Oh No / Don't Hold Your Breath
Notes. This is the most confusing Only Ones album available, not only because it has been released on different labels with different track listings, but because some of the tracks aren’t credited with personnel or dates. [According to John Perry who helped out with correcting most of the track details ‘there’s no logic anywhere involved with Remains. Just cock up’.
Interestingly, a note to Cherry Red Records in June 1993 from Steve Brickle, Perrett’s manager during the time of The One, mentions that he and Perrett were listening to other tracks together with the original mixes of the Remains album with a view to a possible ‘revamped’ version. This never happened.
It should also be noted that Broken Arrows was actually an England’s Glory track mistakenly credited to The Only Ones and is the same as that on Legendary Lost Recordings.
The main difference between the vinyl and CD release is that My Way of Giving and Broken Arrows are not available on the CD version below. Date and personnel are as follows:
Recorded at the session listed above as ‘First Tooting Sessions, November 1975.’
Watch You Drown: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: bass and small amount of lead guitar. Glen Tilbrook :Main lead guitar. Alan Platt: drums. Gordon Edwards: Keyboards. John Perry confirmed who played lead guitar:.....’ Tilbrook mostly. The sparser parts are mine.. In fact you can probably hear which is which if you can identify styles from Drown.’
My Rejection: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: bass and lead guitar. Glen Tilbrook: lead guitar and backing vocals. Alan Platt: drums. Gordon Edwards: keyboards. Tilbrook and Perry shared lead guitar work ‘50/50’ on this track.
I Only Wanna Be Your Friend: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: bass and lead guitar. Glen Tilbrook: lead guitar. Alan Platt: drums. Gordon Edwards: keyboards.
Don't Hold Your Breath: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: bass and lead guitar. Glen Tilbrook: lead guitar. Alan Platt: drums. Gordon Edwards: keyboards.
Recorded August 1976 at same Tooting studios as above
River Of No Return: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums.
Flowers Die: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. This song was later covered by a band called Breathless on the B-side of their single Always.
Hope Valley Blues: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. John Perry states that the first track is ‘definitely’ from this session while the last two are ‘probably’ from this session. The track Breaking Down, which appeared on the first Only Ones album, was also recorded at this session together with several failed attempts at recording In Betweens.
Circa 1977 at Basing St. Studios, Notting Hill
Counterfeit Woman: Perrett: vocals. Kellie: drums. Mair: bass. Unknown American: guitar. Gordon Edwards: keyboards. Glen Tilbrook possibly played some additional guitar
The line up given on the sleeve lists Peter Perrett on vocals, Glen Tilbrook on guitar and Gordon Edwards on keyboards and is therefore probably only partially correct.
John Perry has confirmed that Mike Kellie was present on drums and Alan Mair on bass but made no mention about Glen Tilbrook being present so it appears perhaps that memories are blurred. He also recalls an unknown American guitarist being present on this song who ‘had a great deal of hair and played a great many notes. I had a second guitar part I liked.........but not a song I ever had a great many ideas for’.
When asked why a hairy Yank ended up playing lead guitar John Perry replied: ‘It’s because we never went in formally to do albums. We booked studio time whenever we felt like it or had a couple of songs ready. If Peter felt like nailing Counterfeit Woman then we’d’ve gone in to do that track. If it wasn’t happening I was always happy to play piano - or maracas - and let someone else have a crack at it. It’s to do with letting the song have whatever it needs to work.’
The exact recording date is unclear but John Perry says it could be ‘sometime 1977 or post 1st LP’.
Recorded August 1979, Romanseigh, Devon
Devon Song:: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums.
Circa Mid 1980, Basing St. Studios
Baby’s Got A Gun: Outtake from the album of the same name. Different mix to that on the single release as well as being slightly slower. Perrett: vocals, guitar, drums, Perry: keyboards. Mair: bass.
CBS Studios, Whitfield St. London - Circa Mid 1980
My Way Of Giving: A cover of a Small Faces song - see also Rumored To Exist below. Perrett: vocals. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. Apparently left off the other version of Remains [see below] for no logical reason whatsoever!
Unknown Locations/Dates
Prisoners: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. Gordon Edwards: Keyboards.
Oh No! : Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. John Perry with reference to both the above. ‘Could be anywhere. It’s the four piece Only Ones line up alright. But we knocked those songs down several times without ever catching a real take. The Peel sessions are better.’ Oh No sounds like it might have been recorded at a gig but John Perry has confirmed it was recorded live in the studio.
Remains Anagram CD 31/12 /93
CDM GRAM 67
Silent Night / Don’t Feel Too Good
Notes: Track listing for this CD release is the same as the Remains vinyl release above [Closer CL 0012] with the addition of Silent Night and Don’t Feel Too Good, but minus My Way of Giving and Broken Arrows. Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
Recorded at Radio Hilversum circa early November 1979
Silent Night: Same as the B-side of the Baby’s Got A Gun single release. Perrett: vocals. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: guitar. Kellie: drums.
Recorded August 1976 in Tooting studios
Don't Feel Too Good: Perrett: vocals and guitar. Perry: lead guitar. Mair: bass. Kellie: drums. Gordon Edwards: keyboards.
Live Mau Mau V 26 / 8 /89
Mau 603
Trouble In The World / Programme / The Beast / Lovers Of Today / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / No Peace For The Wicked / As My Wife Says / Miles From Nowhere / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / City Of Fun / Me And My Shadow
Notes: No location details are given on the cover but John Perry has confirmed it was recorded at the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London. A press advertisement gives the dates of the two gigs as being 9/5/80 and 10/5/80. A bootleg tape of one of the gigs also exists [see below.]
The sleeve notes on the cover say ‘original sound recording by Gary Hill, June 1977’. This was a deliberate mis-titling by John Perry done for contractural reasons. [Some of the songs hadn’t even been written in 1977].
Live Mau Mau CD / /89
Mau CD 603
Notes: It is not known for certain if this Mau Mau release had the same tracks as the vinyl version above or the different label CD version below, but it was probably the former.
Live In London [US] Sky Clad CD / /89
GOD 67CD
The Happy Pilgrim / Strange Mouth
Notes: Same track listing as the Mau Mau vinyl release above but with the two additional tracks Happy Pilgrim and Strange Mouth.
Live [US] Demon CD 31/12/93
2773 603 2
Notes: Again, It is not known if this release had the same tracks as the vinyl version above or the CD version below. Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
The Peel Sessions Strange Fruit V 23 / 12 /89
SFRLP 102
Oh Lucinda / No Peace For The Wicked / The Beast / In Betweens / Oh No / Prisoners /From Here To Eternity / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Miles From Nowhere / Telescopic Love / Another Girl, Another Planet / Language Problem / The Happy Pilgrim / The Big Sleep
Notes: Telescopic Love was later called Special View when it appeared on the B-side of Another Girl, Another Planet.
The Peel Sessions Strange Fruit CD / /89
SFRCD102
Flaming Torch / Lovers Of Today
Notes: Contains all the tracks available on vinyl plus two extra tracks, Flaming Torch and Lovers Of Today.
The Peel Sessions Castle CD / /90
Communications
SFPS 102
Notes: Contains all the tracks on the original vinyl release [Strange Fruit SFRLP 102] plus the extra tracks on the CD version [Strange Fruit SFRCD 102]
The Immortal Story Columbia CD 17/2 /92
471267 2
Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets / The Whole Of The Law / Another Girl, Another Planet / Special View / The Beast / It's The Truth / No Peace For The Wicked / The Immortal Story / From Here To Eternity / In Betweens / No Solution / Curtains For You / Someone Who Cares / Miles From Nowhere / Instrumental / Your Chosen Life / Baby's Got A Gun / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit ] / Big Sleep
Notes: This compilation was chosen by Perrett himself. No Solution and Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] are previously unreleased mixes. Your Chosen Life is the same as the B-side of Trouble in the World and is credited as a ‘rarity’.
Baby's Got A Gun is listed as being a new mix but is in fact the same as the version on the 1983/1985 single release VEN 002 [See above.]
Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
The Big Sleep Jungle V / /93
FREUD 045
Notes: Track listing as below.
The Big Sleep Jungle CD 31/12/93
FREUD CD 045
As My Wife Says / In Betweens / Programme / Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] / The Big Sleep / Language Problem / Miles From Nowhere / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Peter And The Pets / City Of Fun / Trouble In The World / Me And My Shadow / The Immortal Story
Notes: Recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam on the 3rd November 1979. This recording was originally bootlegged as The Immortal Story on the Brigand label [see below] and later on the bootleg CD of the same name.
The unnecessary fade out at the end of the last track indicates that the officially released CD may have been taken from the bootleg CD which fades in a similar manner. However John Perry says that the CD was ‘sourced from the Dutch radio station that produced the original show at the Paradiso’ and that it is therefore from the Dutch master.
Release date shown is that given on Audiostreet.co.uk web site.
Live At The BBC Windsong 080 CD Spring 1996
The Immortal Story / Lovers Of Today / Someone Who Cares / Another Girl, Another Planet / Flowers Die / She Says / The Beast / No Peace For The Wicked / The Beast / No Solution / In Betweens / Programme
Notes: She Says is better known as No Solution. The first 7 tracks are from the BBC In Concert radio series [recorded 5/7/78]. The next two tracks are from the BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test [recorded 13/6/78] while the final 3 tracks are again from the BBC OGWT programme but recorded for a different show, broadcasted on the 19/3/79.
Compilations / Other Appearances Label Format Date
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Hope And Anchor Front Row Festival WEA K 66077 V / 5 /78
Creatures Of Doom /
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Recorded live at an early gig somewhere between 22nd November and 15th December 1977. The track is wrongly titled so that 'Creature' appears in the plural, not the singular as it later would on the Only Ones debut album. Apparently Perrett was not at all happy. Some copies may have been produced on blue vinyl.
Alone In The Night [US] Dojo V 11 / 6 /86
JoJo LP 43
Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Another Girl, Another Planet / From Here To Eternity / Strange Mouth / Fools / Out There In The Night / Me And My Shadow / Flaming Torch / Immortal Story / Deadly Nightshade / You’ve Got To Pay / Big Sleep / My Way Out Of Here
Notes: Possibly originally released on Castle Communications in 1987. A compilation with nothing of any interest to the serious collector.
Alone In The Night Dojo CD / /91
DOJO CD43
Notes: See above.
Special View [US] Epic JE 36199 V /9/79
Another Girl, Another Planet / Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets / The Beast / City Of Fun / The Whole Of The Law / Out There In The Night / Someone Who Cares / You’ve Got To Pay / Flaming Torch / Curtains For You / >From Here To Eternity
Special View [US] Epic EK36199 CD ?
Special View [US] Sony 7464 36199 2 CD ?
Notes: An American compilation with nothing of any interest to the serious collector.
That Summer - Original Soundtrack Arista V / /79
SPART 1088
That Summer - Original Soundtrack Arista Cass / /79
TEART 1088
Notes: The soundtrack to the film. Contains Another Girl, Another Planet and was available in yellow vinyl. Another Girl features only briefly in the film.
Rock ‘80 CBS 84172 V ?/?/80
Notes: A compilation of various artists. Includes one Only One’s track, Trouble In The World, although it is not clear if this is the album or single version.
Permanent Wave Epic ??? V ?/?/?
Notes: Includes two Only Ones tracks, Lovers Of Today and Another Girl, Another Planet.
Another Girl, Another Planet / Columbia 12" / /92
Pretty In Pink 6577750 2
Notes: A single release. The A-side is the standard studio version while the B-side is the Psychedelic Furs playing their own original. Released presumably to promote the Sound Of The Suburbs soundtrack.
DIY 1: Anarchy In The UK - UK Punk 1 Rhino R271171 CD / /93
Notes: Includes the track Lovers Of Today.
DIY 3: Teenage Kicks UK Pop 1976-79 Rhino R271173 CD / /93
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains Another Girl, Another Planet.
In Session Tonight Strange Fruit CD / /94
BOOKCD1
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains The Beast from The Peel Sessions album.
The Best Punk Album Ever Circa CD / /95
VTDCD 42
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains Another Girl, Another Planet.
Rewind Columbia CD / /95
477453 2
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains the same version of The Beast contained on the first Only Ones album.
The Number 1 Punk Album: Polygram CD / /95
47 Punk Rock Classics TV 535 658-2
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains Another Girl, Another Planet.
Sound Of The Suburbs ? CD ?
Notes: Compilation album of various artists. Contains Another Girl, Another Planet.
Bootlegs Time /Qu /Type Format Date
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Rochester Castle, London 45m / P /Mono Tape 11/8/77
I'm Yours / This Ain't All / The Prisoner / As My Wife Says / The Guest / Special View / Lovers Of Today / In Betweens / Another Girl, Another Planet / The Whole Of The Law / Oh No / Peter And The Pets // City Of Fun
Notes: Audience recording with muffled vocals. The tape runs slightly slow so that the pitch is a semi-tone lower than it should be. One of the early gigs at the Rochester Castle pub, possibly in Stoke Newington, London, where the band played a number of gigs. The audience is obviously small judging from the clapping. Interesting in that it shows a set list with many classics already established.
"This song is for anybody who's ever been institutionalised. It's called The Prisoner" says Perrett in the only piece of talking clearly audible.
The guitar solo on Another Girl, Another Planet is slightly different - more improvised and not as tight as the officially recorded version later became.
John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1 13/9/77
Special View / Lovers Of Today / In Betweens / Oh No!
Notes: Originally available as a tape recorded from the radio and subsequently released on The Peel Sessions CD. The date given is that of the recording date, not the actual broadcast date. One of the broadcast dates given on a bootleg tape was 20/9/77 while Nina Antonia in Homme Fatale gives another date as being 29/9/77. Peel sessions were usually aired twice.
John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1 5/4/78
Another Girl, Another Planet / No Peace For The Wicked / Language Problem / The Beast
Notes: Originally available as a bootleg tape recorded from the radio but subsequently released on The Peel Sessions. "Some of Malcolm Brown's best production work on this, you know. Perhaps he ought to be doing the album," remarked Peel. It is not know if the above date is a recording or broadcast date although a repeat broadcast date on a bootleg tape is given as 24/8/78
Capital Radio Sessions 6m / VG / Stereo Tape / /78
As My Wife Says / Watch You Drown
Notes. Although slower versions of As My Wife Says are available as live recordings on both Live In London and The Big Sleep, this is the only known studio recording done at a slower tempo. Watch You Drown is similar to the version released on Remains.
The exact recording date is unknown but an interview in the NME dated 19/8/78 Perrett refers to the BBC In Concert and Capital Radio sessions in the past tense and how many of their radio appearances have been superior to album or single releases. [In fact it was mentioned that the band were considering releasing an album of recent radio appearances.]
The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV 13 /6/78
No Peace For The Wicked / The Beast
Notes: Originally available as a bootleg tape recorded from the TV but subsequently released on Live At The BBC. The date given is the date of the recording.
In Concert, BBC Radio 1 5/7/78
Immortal Story / Lovers Of Today / Someone Who Cares / Another Girl, Another Planet / Flowers Die / No Solutions / The Beast
Notes: Originally available as a bootleg tape recorded from the radio but subsequently released on Live At The BBC. The date given above is the date of the recording at the Paris Theatre, Lower Regent Street. The date given on a bootleg tape is 15/7/78 which is almost certainly the transmission date.
Rock On, BBC Radio 1 20m / Ex /Stereo Tape 26/8/78
Notes: Perrett and Kellie interviewed on how the band was formed and later about the possible lack of band image. Interspersed with tracks from first album which had just been released.
John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1 19/12/78
Flaming Torch / >From Here To Eternity / The Prisoner / Miles From Nowhere
Notes: The date given above is that of the actual recording. Originally available as a bootleg tape recorded from the radio but subsequently released on The Peel Sessions. "You never hear much about The Only Ones in the gossip columns of the music papers. I mean, they're never to be seen hurling blancmanges at Phil Lynott or jamming with bands that probably don't want to be jammed with and obviously they're just getting on with the job and doing it very well, too," said Peel.
For the record, Nina Antonia gives reference to 1/3/79 as one of the broadcast dates.
The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV 19/3/79
No Solutions / In Betweens / Programme
Notes: Originally available as a tape recorded from the TV and subsequently released on Live At The BBC. Two privately taped versions of this session have a date of 20/3/79 against them while the date set against footage on the Faster Than Lightning video has a date of 19/3/79. Take your pick.
Town Hall Crypt, Middlesborough 45m/ Av / Mono Tape 22/3/79
No Solutions / The Immortal Story / In Betweens / Lovers Of Today / It's The Truth /As My Wife Says / The Whole Of The Law / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Programme / Miles From Nowhere / Peter And The Pets // City Of Fun // No Peace For The Wicked / This Ain't All
Notes: A reasonable quality audience recording with clear vocals but little bass.
Barbarellas, Birmingham 65m / Av / Mono Tape 31/3/79
No Solutions / The Immortal Story / In Betweens / Programme / No Peace For The Wicked / Miles From Nowhere / As My Wife Says / The Whole Of The Law / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets / City Of Fun // Watch You Drown / Oh No // This Ain't All // Curtains For You
Notes: Audience recording. Reasonably good mix with fairly clear vocals but with a fair amount of tape hiss. No recording date was given on the copy of the tape heard, but the band did play Barbarellas on this date. Peter And The Pets has three breaks in this recording and Curtains For You fades out just before the end.
John Perry. ‘That was the night Plant and Bonham turned up.....spectacularly boorish, ill-mannered drunk, Bonham. No redeeming graces whatever.’
Oscars, Liverpool 50m / VG / Mono Tape 2/4/79
No Solutions / The Immortal Story / In Betweens / Miles From Nowhere / Flaming Torch / Lovers Of Today / Programme / The Whole Of The Law / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Watch You Drown / As My Wife Says / City Of Fun // No Peace For The Wicked / This Ain't All
Notes: Audience recording. Probably one of the best audience tapes around. Excellent, tight performance and a good all-round mix with clear vocals. Watch You Drown is superlative with John Perry at his very best. It’s a shame a live version of this song was never released. A list of dates taken from different music papers confirm that the above date is correct but differ in their choice of location. One gives the Royal Court Theatre while the other says the gig was at Liverpool University. The location listed above was the one given on the cassette. Once again, take your pick.
John Perry: ‘....this Liverpool gig sounds very good indeed.....the ensemble here is definately tighter [than the Lyceum 8/3/81 and Glastonbury 22/6/79 tapes].... the effortless tightness of a band in midtour.....a cracking show all the way through.’
Nina Antonia's book incorrectly states that the above date is the date of the Rainbow gig which was in fact on 28/4/78 as a ticket confirms.
Apeldoorn, Holland 5m/ G / Mono Tape /6/79
The Beast /
Notes: Audience recording. Clear vocals with a reasonable mix but one track only. When asked if he knew of any bootlegs not listed here John Perry replied: ‘I once taped an entire Dutch tour from sidestage - Gronigen, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Arnhem and three or four others and I know from who stole the tapes that they would have entered circulation.’ And later: ’ I don’t have copies anymore, but collectors have ‘em’.
Sittard, Holland 47m/ G / Mono Tape 29/6/79
No Solution / As My Wife Says / The Guest / Programme / Lovers Of Today / The Beast / Flowers Die / Language Problem / Another Girl, Another Planet / No Peace For The Wicked / Miles From Nowhere / City Of Fun // Peter And The Pets
Notes: Audience recording. Clear vocals, reasonable mix with lots of treble. The version heard cuts off both The Beast and City Of Fun before they finish.
Glastonbury 38m/ P / Mono Tape 22/6/79
No Solutions / As My Wife Says / The Guest / In Betweens / Programme [false start followed by PA breakdown] / Programme / Lovers Of Today [cuts due to 2nd PA breakdown] / Mike Kellie Drum Solo / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Flowers Die / Miles From Nowhere / Peter And The Pets /
Notes: Audience recording. Fairly clear vocals but other instruments are muffled. The beginning of No Solutions is missing. Programme suffers from a false start and then, according to a press review, during the second attempt the generator packed up for an hour.
"Actually there was nothing wrong with the generator at all. We just wanted to check our make-up', says John Perry.
Perrett comes on stage to say " Hello again. This is fun innit?". You can't see us but......Before we were so rudely interrupted, this is called Programme". The band play on, apparently in darkness as the generator was on half power, although a cheer just before the end of Programme indicates that the lights have come back on.
The tape suddenly stops during Lovers Of Today due to a second PA breakdown and after a brief pause a muffled drum solo can be heard. .According to the review, Mike Kellie carried on playing despite this second loss of power. Finally, on this copy at least, the end of Peter And The Pets is cut off.
Minneapolis, USA 80m/G / Mono Tape 2/10/79
First Set:
City Of Fun /In Betweens / Programme / As My Wife Says / The Big Sleep / Miles From Nowhere / Lovers Of Today / Another Girl , Another Planet / Peter And The Pets
Second Set:
Me And My Shadow / The Big Sleep / Oh, Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] /No Solutions / Out There In The Night / The Whole Of the Law / Curtains For You /Another Girl, Another Planet / The Beast / Peter And The Pets / No Peace For The Wicked / City Of Fun
Notes: Audience recording. Reasonably good mix with fairly clear vocals but with some tape hiss. John Perry's guitar work on Programme features a slightly different and superb solo.
"This song was our first single which we did on Vengeance, 'til the Cramps ripped it off," says Perry before Lovers Of Today. A half hour break is followed by a slow version of The Big Sleep.
"As this is a full set we're going to do songs we've never done before on stage, if we can remember them. This one's called Out There In The Night," says Perrett.
Afterwards Perry adds "That one was a request. We don't usually do that one. Any more requests can be handed up to the front on twenty dollar bills and we'll do them."
Towards the end of the second set the band begin to sound a little tired although John Perry must have picked himself up a bit as it was after this gig that he spent a night in jail for speeding.
Lyceum, London 60m/VG / Mono Tape 24/2/80
Trouble In The World / Programme / The Beast / The Happy Pilgrim / Deadly Nightshade / Strange Mouth / Lovers Of Today / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / As My Wife Says / Miles From Nowhere / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / City Of Fun / Me And My Shadow // No Peace For The Wicked / Peter And The Pets //Watch You Drown/ Language Problem
Notes: Audience recording with clear vocals but an otherwise slightly murky mix for the rest of the band.
"This is a song about what a waste of time it is to take drugs," says Perrett as an introduction to The Beast. And before launching into Lovers Of Today he says; ‘This is the first time we’ve been on a stage in four months-it feels great."
Later on he introduces Koulla Kakoulli and Pauline Murray from Penetration as backing singers on City Of Fun. Lastly, Language problem is unfortunately faded out at the beginning.
Mayfair, Newcastle 60m/ VG / Mono Tape 17/4/80
Trouble In The World / Programme / The Beast / The Happy Pilgrim / Deadly Nightshade / Strange Mouth / Lovers Of Today / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / As My Wife Says / Miles From Nowhere / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / City Of Fun / Me And My Shadow // Peter And The Pets // Fools
Notes: Audience recording of reasonable quality, again with clear vocals.
This was the first night of the UK 1980 tour to promote Baby’s Got A Gun which was due to come out in the following couple of weeks. As Perrett says, apart from the preceding Lyceum 24/2/80 event, this was the first gig they’d played in the UK for the last nine months. The last track features a guest appearance from Pauline Murray of Penetration on vocals.
Electric Ballroom, Camden, London 55m/ P /Mono Tape 9/5/80
[Trouble In The World] / Programme / The Beast / Lovers Of Today / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / No Peace For The Wicked / As My Wife Says / Miles From Nowhere / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / City Of Fun / Me And My Shadow // No Peace For The Wicked / No Solutions // In Betweens / Peter And The Pets
Notes: Audience recording of average to poor quality. Some of this is also on the official Live/Live In London releases. Advertisements for this gig say that The Only Ones, supported by Athletico Spizz 80 and Wasted Youth, were playing two gigs at this venue on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th May. The official release is almost certainly a mixture of the two gigs which would account for the slight difference between this track listing above and that of the official release. Trouble In The World is unfortunately missing on this recording.
At the beginning of The Beast Perrett says "This next song is a warning to all you kids who think it's cool to take drugs, especially Heroin. Drugs are a waste of time. They don't make you a better person and they always lead to destruction. This song is called The Beast." Enough said.
In Nina Antonia's book it is mentioned that this show was widely bootlegged from a Revox recording.
John Peel Session, BBC Radio 21/5/80
Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] / The Big Sleep / The Happy Pilgrim / Why Don't You Kill Yourself?
Notes: Originally available as a bootleg tape recorded from the radio but subsequently released on The Peel Sessions. The date given above is the date of the recording. A broadcast date given on a bootleg tape is 3/6/80.
Hope And Anchor, Islington, London 50m /Av / Mono Tape 3/11/80
Trouble In The World / Programme / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Lovers Of Today / The Beast / City Of Fun / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / The Guest / The Whole Of The Law / Peter And The Pets / No Peace For The Wicked / Miles From Nowhere // Language Problem / No Solutions // Curtains For You
Notes: An audience recording with muffled vocals. The band performed in a small room downstairs at the Hope And Anchor pubin Islington, London in front of about 150 people. This was a charity gig to provide blankets for the elderly and part of a series of gigs at the venue by a number of different bands.
"I know you've been reading everywhere that we're splitting up. It's just that we haven't seen each other for four months, that's all. Tonight's the first night." says Perrett. Perry called for requests towards the end of the set and then the band went off, seemingly for hours while the audience speculated about what kind of backstage activities could cause such a long delay.
Lyceum, London 50m / P / Mono Tape 8/3/81
From Here To Eternity / Trouble In The World / Programme / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Lovers Of Today / City Of Fun / The Guest / Miles From Nowhere / The Big Sleep / Another Girl, Another Planet / The Beast / Peter And The Pets / Language Problem / As My Wife Says / Me And My Shadow // Watch You Drown / No Solutions / Another Girl, Another Planet
Notes: Average to poor quality audience recording which is quite often distorted, although the vocals are comparatively clear.
The final gig which proved to be one of their best. As My Wife Says and Me And My Shadow were both requests from the audience.
"I hope none of you are sad that this is the last gig. Look on it as the beginning of something rather than the end of something. This is an old song that was written about ten years ago that we never recorded and this is called The Guest," said Perrett. At the end of the gig the Lyceum mirror ball started turning for the reprise version of Another Girl, Another Planet and then Perrett thanked the crowd for the last four years and said "see you again very soon," while Kellie threw his drum sticks into the crowd.
Most copies of this tape omit the last half of No Solutions and the whole of Another Girl, Another Planet. There is a very rare recording which does have these last two tracks in their entirety. Recorded from a different source, they are, however, almost unlistenable due to massive diatortion.
Perrett was supposed to appear supporting John Cooper Clark at the Marquee on 20/8/80 but didn't turn up. He did however appear on stage with Johnny Thunders at the Lyceum 9/10/81 and London Pipeline 6/12/83.
His first return to the stage was not until a guest appearance with the Heartthrobs at The Camden Underworld 25/10/91 where he played Lovers Of Today and Patti Smith’s Pumping My Heart on the encore. It is not known if any of these post Only Ones gigs were recorded.
The Immortal Story Brigand V ?/?/? BRG 022
As My Wife Says / In Betweens / Programme / Oh Lucinda / The Big Sleep / Language Problem / Miles From Nowhere / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Peter And The Pets / City Of Fun / Trouble In The World / Me And My Shadow / Immortal Story / No Solution / Creature Of Doom / No Peace For The Wicked / Silent Night / The Immortal Story / Lovers Of Today / Someone Who Cares / Another Girl, Another Planet / Flowers Die / No Solution / The Beast
Notes: This was a double bootleg on vinyl. The first 14 tracks are credited on the sleeve as being from Appledorn, Holland, 4/12/79 but are, in fact exactly the same gig as the 3/11/79 gig at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, which was officially released on CD as The Big Sleep.
The next track, No Solution is credited as being live USA 1980.
Creature Of Doom has been blatantly stolen from the Live At The Hope And Anchor compilation album [see above].
No Peace For The Wicked is credited only as being live sometime in 1978, while Silent Night is the same as the version which appeared on the Anagram Remains CD release.
The last seven tracks are from the BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast and later appeared officially on the Windsong Live At The BBC CD release. Lastly, it should be mentioned that all the tracks run fast.
The Immortal Story ? CD ?/?/?
As My Wife Says / In Betweens / Programme / Oh Lucinda [Love Becomes A Habit] / The Big Sleep / Language Problem / Miles From Nowhere / The Beast / Another Girl, Another Planet / Peter And The Pets / City Of Fun // Trouble In The World / Me And My Shadow / The Immortal Story
Notes: A bootleg CD release with the same name as vinyl release above. This CD is of Italian origin. The tracks and recording quality are identical to The Big Sleep album which is the officially released version of this gig.
The only points of difference are John Perry's comments after The Big Sleep where he says, "You're quiet, aren't you? I can't hear you. [shouts from audience] Still can't hear you. I don't believe there's anybody there." And later on, "This one is probably going to be our next single - in England, anyway. I don't know what our very wonderful record company is doing over here. It may well be the next single. Er, it's called 'Trouble In The World."
Finally, this gig was also recorded for Dutch cable TV, four tracks of which - Programme, The Big Sleep, The Immortal Story and Trouble In The World - all appear on the Faster Than Lightning video [see below.]
Dope And Glory ? CD ?/?/?
I'm Yours / This Ain't All / Prisoners / As My Wife Says / The Guest / Watch You Drown / Lovers Of Today / In Betweens / Another Girl, Another Planet / The Whole Of The Law / Oh No / Peter And The Pets / City Of Fun / The Immortal Story / Lovers Of Today / Someone Who Cares / Another Girl, Another Planet / Flowers Die / No Solution / The Beast
Notes: The first thirteen tracks were recorded 2/6/77 at Mannos rehearsal studio on the corner of Lots Road and the Kings Rd, Chelsea on two Revox tape recorders. John Perry: ‘Widely bootlegged. Good portrait of the band at 10 months’.
The following seven tracks are again from the BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast.
Flaming Torch ?/?/? ? ?/?/?
Notes: In May 1989 Record Collector mentioned the existence of a bootleg with the above title. It was said to contain Peel session tracks and an FM broadcast. No label details seem to be available but it is likely to have been a vinyl release. It is possible that the FM broadcast is the same as the BBC In Concert recording.
Unreleased Recordings /Rumoured Or Known To Exist
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Keith Richards Session Circa 1976
Notes: Rumoured to exist but according to Nina Antonia's book it seems he only attended a session rather than actually played on one. John Perry has also confirmed that no recordings took place with Keith Richards actually playing - ‘He slept mostly. Heroically’.
At one point Richards was interested in producing the track Prisoners but it seems the band ended up producing this track themselves. [See Remains.]
Dingwalls, Camden, London 18/12/80
Programme / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / In Betweens / Trouble In The World / The Guest / Another Girl, Another Planet / The Happy Pilgrim / Lovers Of Today / Me And My Shadow / City Of Fun / The Beast / Language Problem / No Solution / Miles From Nowhere / Peter And The Pets
Notes: A video of one of the last Only One’s gigs at Dingwalls, London just before Christmas 1980 exists and there are rumours of it being available on bootleg video. Mention has also been made of releasing it officially. John Perry now owns the master tape for this.
John Perry: "Dingwalls, as I recall, came after a [relatively] long layoff. Not that we ever hung out together much between tours anyway, but the intervening months in this case were different. We’d split up. The reasons for this gig happening at all were moot. As far as I was concerned apart from a [general] enjoyment of playing, there was no reason whatsoever to be there."
When asked about the performance that night he replied: "All shows were as ‘jammed’ as this one is. It’s just the joins show here ‘cos the rust is creeping in. Too long away from the front."
Never the less, it still has some great moments and is an interesting souvenir of a complete Only Ones gig.
12" Import EP ?/?/?
Another Girl, Another Planet / This Ain't All [It's Made Out To Be] / Lovers Of Today / Peter And The Pets
Notes: Rumoured to exist according to an article in Sounds 13/8/85. It is supposed to have the same cover as the Special View compilation and may have had the same title.
John Perry and Mike Kellie Collaboration ?/?/?
Tall Stories /
Notes: Like the Perry /Hunter collaboration in the England’s Glory section, this is not strictly a Perrett item but has been included as a point of interest. In an interview with the NME's Max Bell dated 19/8/78 it is mentioned that Perry and Kellie had written a track together with the above title and that the band were trying to decide how to fit non-Perrett tracks into the scheme of things. This track was recorded and featured Robert Palmer on bass.
Sessions For 4th Album Circa Mid 1980
Mamma, You've Been On My Mind / My Way of Giving / Distant Drums / Guantanamer / You Can’t Hurry Love / Girl From Ipanema / Sugar Sugar
The tracks above are rumoured to have been recorded for an album of covers which would have been done to fulfil the CBS contract. This album was never completed.
The first track is a Dylan song, the next a cover of a Small Faces song. According to Nina Antonia’s book, both of these were recorded in the CBS studios in Whitfield St. London.
However, while My Way of Giving did appear on Remains, the album of covers was never at any time a serious option.
John Perry: ‘........that’s all nonsense. It was just flim-flam to keep CBS in the ring long enough that their option expired. [It] meant that they broke the contract, not us, rendering £180,000 un-recoupable from any future earnings. Distant Drums, I ask you.......’
Finally, when asked if there was anything else by The Only Ones worth releasing John Perry said that ‘everything of the band worth releasing is released.’ He went on to add ’there are a few songs that have never appeared and ain’t on live tapes. God knows where the 24 tracks are though. The iron oxide will be falling off the tape anyway unless they’re in very good storage - unlikely’.
Look out for fake versions of Guantamera and a couple of other numbers supposedly from these sessions that are floating around somewhere.
Videos/TV Appearances Date
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Revolver, Channel 4 Video 2/9/78
Another Girl, Another Planet /
Notes: Re-broadcast later as part of The White Room TV series of old rock footage. The band performed live with graphic, comic book style frames and captions superimposed on and around them. Peter Cook acted as the belligerent compere for the series and remarked after The Only Ones performance; "Direct proof that there is unintelligent life in outer space."
Max’s, Kansas City, With Johnny Thunders Video /7/80
Stepping Stone / Great Big Kiss
Notes: Possibly originating from a TV source, this ten minute clip is merely a guest appearance by Perrett in July 1980 as part of Johnny Thunder’s backing band. Perrett plays rhythm guitar and makes an occasional contribution to the backing vocals but that’s about it. The quality on the copy seen was not great and as a whole is not really worth seeking out.
Faster Than Lightning Video / /91
Lovers Of Today / Another Girl, Another Planet No.1 / Someone Who Cares / No Peace For The Wicked / Another Girl, Another Planet No.2 / Out There In The Night / You Got To Pay / No Solution / From Here To Eternity / Miles From Nowhere / Programme / The Big Sleep / The Immortal Story / Trouble In The World / The Beast
Notes: Official release containing a compilation of old footage together with more recent, post rehabilitation interviews with Perrett filmed in his basement flat in the summer of 1990.
The only track unavailable elsewhere on vinyl or CD is a live version of Another Girl, Another Planet recorded for Belgium RTBF TV channel.
Lovers of Today: Mimed performance recorded April 1977 for Prod. Interna, France. Who Prod. Interna were or are, or for what purpose this was recorded is not known but it has the feel of a poor quality promotional film rather than a TV performance. Incomplete performance. John Perry: ‘Lovers was recorded at The Speakeasy, very early on for some continental European production company.
Another Girl, Another Planet No.1 :Mimed performance recorded Spring 1978 for CBS, as a promotional video.
Someone Who Cares / Out There In The Night: Mimed performance recorded 29/1/79 for CBS, again as a promotional video.
No Peace For The Wicked: Performed for the BBC Old Grey Whistle Test 13/6/78. Same as Live at The BBC CD release.
No Solutions: Recorded live for the BBC Old Grey Whistle Test 19/3/79. Same as Live at The BBC CD release.
Another Girl, Another Planet No.2 / The Beast: Recorded live for the Follies show 26/5/79 on the RTBF channel in Belgium.
You Got To Pay: A badly mimed performance with inferior sound quality. John Perry confirms this was recorded at Basing St. Studios, Notting Hill and done as a promotional video for the single.
From Here To Eternity / Miles From Nowhere: Mimed performance recorded for Irish TV 27/1/79
Programme / The Big Sleep / The Immortal Story / Trouble In The World: Recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 3/11/79. Same as bootleg album The Immortal Story and The Big Sleep CD release.
The One
September 1993 - 1/11/96
Notes: September 1993 was starting date of The One when Jay Price, the last member to be recruited, joined other band members Miyuki Katsuno on keyboards, Richard Vernon on bass, Steve Hands on drums and, of course, Peter Perrett on guitar and vocals. The last date is the date of the band’s final gig.
The band made their first live appearance on at the Melkweg, Amsterdam on January 19th 1994, followed by gigs in Rotterdam [or possibly Groningen] on the 20th, Haarlem 21st, Appledorn 22nd, and Den Haag on the 23rd.
The first UK gig was at the Underworld in Camden, London 27/1/94 followed by other London gigs at The Subterania, London 23/3/94 [the guest list for this included Robert Ash, Mick Taylor, Nick Lowe and Chrissie Hynde] and the Mean Fidler 22/4/94.
Another short tour of Holland in May followed and included Groningen [25/5/94] Eindhoven [26/5/94] Nijmegan [27/5/94] Deventer [28/5/94] with another possible gig somewhere else on the 29th of May.
Later in June a short UK tour included The Venue, New Cross, 3/6/94, Leeds, Duchess of York [5/6/94] Sheffield, The Leadmill [6/6/94] and Southampton, Joiners Arms [8/6/94] where the band were filmed on the bus and possibly at the venue.
A date at the Phoenix Festival over the weekend of the 15-17th July was planned but it is not known if this gig actually went ahead. Japanese dates the following month did include, however, Tokyo, The Loft [6, 7 & 8th August] and Osaka [10th August.]
An autumn UK promotional tour was organised to promote the release of the Cultured Palette release and the venues were Manchester, Roadhouse [1/11/94] Newcastle, Riverside [2/11/94] Glasgow, King Tuts [3/11/94] Edinburgh, The Venue [4/11/94] York, Fibbers [6/11/94] Leeds, Duchess of York [7/11/94] Sheffield, Union [9/11/94] Leicester, Princess Charlotte [10/11/94] Northampton, Road Menders [13/11/94] Bristol, Fleece [14/12/94] and London, LA2 [15/11/94]. Guests for this last gig included Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay of Roxy Music and John Perry.
Other shows for Liverpool and Brighton were also planned but it is not known if they went ahead.
It seems from management memos from the time that an acoustic session was recorded to accompany some pre-recorded/live Perrett interviews to be aired on some of the local radio stations in order to support the autumn tour [see below under Unreleased/Acoustic Demo Session, Autumnm ‘94].
The final gig of ‘94 was at The Garage, Highbury Corner, London on December 15th.
There then seems to have followed a six month break in activities until the next UK gig at The Splash Club, London sometime in April ’95 and then again in on the 17th of June. This seems to have been followed by another long break from live activities.
The 18th of July ’96 saw the band play on The Mean Fidler Stage at the Phoenix Festival and this was followed the day after by an appearance on the LWT Richard Littlejohn show [see below]. Another TV appearance was made, this time on French TV on the 3rd of September of that year where one [unknown] song was played.
The last UK gig was at The Mean Fidler, London on the 26th of September 1996. It should be noted that the above list of dates is not necessarily a complete list.
Unlike The Only Ones, no termination date was ever announced for The One. The last gigs were, however, at Patronaat, Haarlem 31/10/96 and the Melkweg, Amsterdam 1/11/96, so it seems reasonable enough to say that it was probably at this point the band’s career finished. It seems both band and management gave up in frustration at Peter’s unreliability.
Steve Brickle, Perrett’s manager at the time explains: ‘Every one had got fed up with Peter just being a dick, always late, ego out of control. Just fucking hopeless really. The last show was the Dutch Melkweg [1/11/96.] Peter was later than usual for the show.......I have known Peter since mid ‘74 but I have given up entertaining any idea of a Perrett comeback - it’s a real drag because on a good night he can be really good but the down side of any involvement with Pete just rules it out’.
He also gave his thoughts on how things might have turned out for the better. ‘When I look back at what went down I think we should have continued with the Pete/Miyuki thing and not formed a band, instead getting together with someone like Pat Cusack [possible alternative producer for the Woke Up Sticky album] and making music that way, at least in the beginning. Pete is such hard work that touring became a real drag whereas if there had only really been three people focused on turning out the music in a studio then it would have been relatively easy to minimise the negativity of Pete’s approach to life. Just have him focus on the writing and singing.’
Singles Label Format Date
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Cultured Palette EP Dwarf VEN 003 CD /10/94
Baby Don't Talk / Twilight World / Made To Fall Apart / A Company Of Strangers
Notes: Four songs originally intended only as demos, they were recorded at The Gallery Studios, Chertsey, Surrey in May 1994. Arranged and produced by The One and Porl Young.
Baby Don’t Talk and Twilight World originally existed as earlier demos with John Perry.
This was voted single of the week by Melody Maker, while Music Week gave it three stars. It was also single of the week on Teletext!
Woke Up Sticky / Transfixed / Demon CD /5/96
Wildlife / Dead Love Syndrome VEX CD 1
Notes: Wildlife originally existed as a demo with John Perry.
Woke Up Sticky PERRETT 1 CD /5/96
Notes: Title track only promotional release.
Woke Up Sticky Demon 7 V /5/96
VEX 14
Notes: Title track only on 7" vinyl.
Albums Label Format Date
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Woke Up Sticky Demon V 3/6/96
FIEND 773
Notes: The Vinyl version came without the bonus track My Sweet Angel [see below].
Woke Up Sticky Demon CD 3/6/96
FIENDCD 773
Deep Freeze / Woke Up Sticky / Nothing Worth Doing / Falling / The Shame Of Being You / I'm Not Like Everybody Else / Sirens / Law Of The Jungle / Land Of The Free / Shivers / My Sweet Angel
Notes: The last track is a 'hidden' track and is not referred to at all on the cover. My Sweet Angel would, however, seem to be a logical title. Recording for the album started around October ‘95.
The album was produced by Mark Waterman who was Peter’s choice although Pat Cusack, who had just recorded with Tricky, was the producer favoured by Steve Brickle.
Again, several of the songs on this album - Falling, Deep Freeze and Land of The Free, existed first as demos with John Perry.
Peter Perrett Live With The One Dwarf VEN 004 CD 22/9/98
Lovers Of Today / The Shame Of Being You / Hearts On Fire / The Big Sleep / Shivers / Falling / You Gave Birth / Skin Like Armour / The Company Of Strangers / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby Don't Talk / Daughter / The Beast / Made To Fall Apart / Flaming Torch / Land Of The Free / Law Of The Jungle
Notes: An audience video recording of this gig also exists and is dated 22/4/94 [see below.] A release date of 8/3/99 is given on the Audiostreet.co.uk web site but it is probable that the date above is correct. At this time The Company Of Strangers was simply known as ‘B Minor’ as the band had only learnt the song the previous day. This was a pretty typical set list for the time.
Hearts On Fire NMC Music CD 3/7/2000
Lovers Of Today / The Shame Of Being You / Hearts On Fire / The Big Sleep / Shivers / Falling / You Gave Birth / Skin Like Armour / The Company Of Strangers / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby Don't Talk / Daughter / The Beast / Made To Fall Apart / Flaming Torch / Land Of The Free / Law Of The Jungle
CD ROM: Another Girl, Another Planet / No Peace For The Wicked
Notes: A double CD release. All tracks on the audio CD are identical to the Live With The One release [see above.]
The remaining two tracks on the CD ROM were filmed at the GLR 20/3/99 session [see also below.] The 10 minute film opens with brief shots of Perrett Towers in Forest Hill and moves swiftly on to reveal Peter, minus a front tooth, playing with both his sons, Peter and Jamie.
For some reason an audio only version of Falling is available on the CD ROM but this appears to be the same as the live version on the audio CD.
The sleeve notes in the 20 page booklet at first replicate the sleeve notes to Live With The One but also contain additional notes together with a short interview with Perrett which go onto partially explain his second retirement.
Compilations / Other Appearances Label Format Date
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Volume 10 Volume 10VLP V /6/94
Volume 10 Volume 10VCD CD /6 /94
Daughter /
Notes: One track only. A compilation of various artists complete with colour booklet containing interviews etc. Perrett is interviewed and photographed.
The booklet says the track was recorded for the radio station VPRO Radio 3 in Holland. Steve Brickle, though , mentions that he believes it may have been one of the takes from the Villa 65 session [see below.] in which case it would have been recorded on 20/1/94.
The reason Perrett can be heard asking for more reverb on the vocals, which the soundman seems slow to deliver, is because the wrong take of Daughter was sent to Volume 10 by mistake!
Bootlegs Time /Qu / Type Format Date
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Dutch Radio Session 20 m / VG / Stereo Tape 20/1/94
Daughter / Wild Life / Hearts On Fire / Shivers / You Gave Birth / Mutilations In Space
Notes: All songs are similar to versions available elsewhere with the exception of Shivers which is performed at it's original faster pace. Curiously, there are no introductions by either DJ or band so the overall feel is that of listening to a demo tape.
Steve Brickle has let it be known that he has a tape [bootleg or master?] mysteriously entitled Villa 65 and dated 20/1/94. This may be the same as the above. [See also below in Unreleased]
Dutch Radio 15m/Ex / Stereo Tape 22/1/94
Baby Don't Talk / The Shame Of Being You / Daughter
Notes: This item was confirmed by Steve Brickle. Recorded live for Dutch radio in front of what sounds like a small audience. This is almost certainly the same as the PPATO, Leidsedake item listed below in the Unreleased section.
Underworld, Camden, London 85m/VG/Mono Tape 27/1/94
Lovers Of Today / Five Minutes To Midnight / The Shame Of Being You / The Big Sleep / You Gave Birth / Wildlife / Why Don't You Kill Yourself? / Shivers / Baby, Don't Talk / Another Girl, Another Planet / Daughter / Hearts Of Fire / Mutilations In Space / The Beast // It's The Truth / My Sweet Angel / Programme // Law Of The Jungle / Land Of The Free
Notes: Audience recording with very clear vocals, good all-round mix and performance. This was the UK debut of The One. The guest list included music critics who had once been Only Ones fans - Max Bell, Steve Sutherland, Aldous Eveleigh - while the list of reserved tickets included Jon Newey, Patti Palladin, Chrissie Hynde, Glen Matlock, Giovani Dadomo and Dogs d’Amour and Paul McCartney’s daughter, Mary. In her book, Nina Antonia incorrectly states that this gig was on the 25th.
According to a set list this is a complete gig. Why Don't You Kill Yourself is introduced by Perrett with "I have to apologise for this next song. My only excuse is that I was a little boy when I wrote it. Up until last week I never realised anyone had taken it too literally. I've got to practice really hard at growing up into an adult." This is probably a reference to the fact that when The One played in Holland just before this gig, some fans told Perrett that a guy had killed himself while listening to this track.
Baby, Don't Talk is similarly introduced with the revealing comment. "One day I woke up, took me a year to learn how to get out of bed. Took me a year to learn how to get out the front door. Took me another year to learn how to talk to people again. And this is the first song I wrote." Perrett goes on to introduce Another Girl, Another Planet by saying "This song is about the variety inherent in human relationships. But, then again, once you've been everywhere in the universe, there's nothing left to see."
Shinjuki Loft, Tokyo 80m/ Ex / Mono Tape 7/8/94
Lovers Of Today / Falling / Five Minutes To Midnight / No Peace For The Wicked / Hearts On Fire / C Voyager / The Shame Of Being You / Twilight World / From Here To Eternity / Land Of The Free / Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby, Don’t Talk / Daughter / The Beast // You Gave Birth / The Big Sleep / Flaming Torch / Law Of The Jungle
Notes: This audio tape was taken from a video recording and although of quite listenable quality, suffers from some distortion [see also Video/ TV appearances below].
‘I see some of you were here last night, I hope you enjoyed it. I’m going to try and pace myself tonight as I almost suffered from heat exhaustion and collapsed - a bit like the Irish team in the World Cup. At least I played better than them,’ says Perrett. This reference to the heat, together with Perrett’s comments from the following night’s gig [8/8/94], indicate that the dates given on the cassettes may just be the wrong way round. Alternatively, there was also a gig at the same club on the preceding night, which may also have been pretty hot.
No Peace For The Wicked features an unusual introduction by Miyuki.
Shinjuki Loft, Tokyo 70m/ Ex / Mono Tape 8/8/94
It’s The Truth / Lovers Of Today / Falling / Five Minutes To Midnight / No Peace For The Wicked / C Voyager / The Shame Of Being You / Twilight World / From Here To Eternity / Land Of The Free / Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby, Don’t Talk / Daughter / The Beast // Made To Fall Apart / Flaming Torch / Law Of The Jungle
Notes: The set starts off, unusually, with Perrett doing a solo rendition of It’s The Truth as the bass player was having difficulties. It was obviously recorded in a small club on a very hot night: ‘I used to suffer from hydrophobia a bit but with this heat I’ve had more baths than I’ve had in five years’ says Perrett just before launching into Five Minutes To midnight. Later he apologises for being so exhausted as he’s not used to the heat.
Muse Hall, Osaka 70m/ Ex / Mono Tape 10/8/94
Lovers Of Today / Falling / Five Minutes To Midnight / Flaming Torch / C Voyager / The Shame Of Being You / Twilight World / From Here To Eternity / Land Of The Free / Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby, Don’t Talk / Daughter / The Beast // Shivers / Big Sleep // Law Of The Jungle
Notes: Like the above two Japanese tapes, this is also a good quality recordings with, as usual, good clear Perrett vocals. You get the impression of a very restrained audience in these tapes, possibly because of all the new material but also because of the language barrier. Perrett asks them if they are having a good time and if they prefer The One to the Only Ones, but there seems to be only a limited reaction.
Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 1 20m/ Ex / Stereo Tape 22/8/94
Five Minutes To Midnight / C Voyager / Interview / Baby, Don't Talk / Shivers-Hearts On Fire
Notes: Five Minutes To Midnight is a much slower version than the earlier, rockier version recorded at the Camden Underworld 25/1/94 while Shivers is a faster version than the later CD release.
During the interview Perrett introduces the band and explains that his disappearance was due to the fact that he was kidnapped by aliens in 1981. The last two tracks blend together without interruption.
Pete Curran Show, GLR ? m / Ex / Stereo Tape / /94
Notes: Perrett gets to review the best of the recent releases including Bob Dylan. He talks about Dylan and reviews the latest singles. Perrett does come up with one all-time classic quote after referring to a couple of Dylan lines when he says ‘there’s no one else in music apart from me who can write lines like that’.
GLR Radio Session 5m / Ex / Stereo Tape 19 /4 /95
Falling /
Notes: The track listed above is known to exist in ‘bootleg land’. The other track known to be recorded at this session was Woke Up Sticky.
Mark Lammarr, GLR Radio 45m/ Ex / Stereo Tape Spring 1996
Notes: An entertaining but not particularly in-depth interview to promote the studio CD. Various tracks from the studio CD played. The exact date is unknown, although Steve Brickle does recall dragging Peter out of bed on a sunny Sunday morning!
GLR Radio 25m/ Ex / Stereo Tape 19/9/96
Does Your Mother Know? /
Interview with Perrett and author Nina Antonia to promote Perrett’s biography, Homme Fatale.
Perrett brings in the unreleased Abba cover recorded at Chiswick Sound studios on the 10th and 11th of August 1995 and originally intended for a tribute album which never materialised. Perrett mentions, incorrectly, that he thinks it's one of the best things he's ever done.
Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London 40m / P / Mono Tape 26/9/96
Another Girl, Another Planet / Deep Freeze / Good Times / Woke Up Sticky / Black From Red / Time To Cry [?] / Nothing Worth Doing / Falling / Does Your Mother Know? / Shivers
Notes: Audience recording on a Dictaphone. This gig got off to a good start but seemed to go downhill with long delays between numbers, sometimes caused by technical problems but later on the impression was that Perrett simply couldn't decide what to play.
Perrett introduces Good Times by saying it's a new song but it sounds more like a radical re-working of The Guest .
A hand-written set list from this gig can be viewed on a Perrett web site and shows a track called Time To Cry scheduled to be played after Falling and before Does Your Mother Know? This title has therefore been put against an unidentified track on the cassette label as it is likely, but not certain, that the set list was later re-ordered.
I’m Not Like Everybody Else was listed on the set list as the last song to be played but for some reason it never was.
Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4 5m / Ex / Stereo Tape 6/3/99
Another Girl, Another Planet /
Notes: One track only with Perrett on acoustic guitar and son Jamie on electric guitar. Not a great performance though as Another Girl, Another Planet doesn't really work on acoustic guitar.
GLR, Radio Session 15m/Ex/Stereo Tape 20/3/99
It's The Truth / Another Girl, Another Planet / No Peace For The Wicked
Notes: Features Perrett on acoustic 12 string with his sons Peter on bass and Jamie on electric guitar. In a brief interview Perrett sounds indifferent about the new live CD and says we are more likely in the near future to hear from his sons before we hear from him as he has to sort his life out.
Unreleased Recordings /Rumoured Or Known To Exist
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When asked about the existence of unreleased material from The One Steve Brickle went on to say that there are DATs, demos and radio sessions but didn’t specify any plans for immediate release at the time of writing [January 2001.]
As for specific, unreleased songs, there is a list of tracks from a memo created by Steve, dated 26/9/96, which lists in alphabetical order a number of Perrett songs which exist in some form on tape and that were to be registered with the PRS . Many of those on the list have yet to officially appear and they are as follows:
Black From Red, Dead Man Walking, Five Minutes To Midnight, Hostage To Fortune and Smokescreen.
A number of other unreleased, and at the time unrecorded, titles are also mentioned on the same memo, although they may subsequently have been recorded:
Break And Enter, Close Enough To Touch, She Dreamt She Could Fly, Geordie Girls,
Like A Dog, Love At All Costs, Man Of Steel, Place Of Safety, Solid Ground, Troika,
Waiting For The Resurrection and World In Chains.
Demos with John Perry /2-3 / 90
Wildlife Park / Twilight World / Baby Don't Talk / That's The Way It Goes
Notes: Recorded at Ruxley Manor on the Kent borders between mid February and March 12th. Sparse recordings using a drum machine and simple guitar overdubs. The last track is a re-visitation of an old England's Glory track originally called Shattered Illusions [see England’s Glory EMI session 8/3/73].
John Perry has also mentioned the titles of some other demo tracks done with Perrett sometime between 1990 and 1992 although the exact dates are uncertain. The tracks were: Keep It Out Of Sight, Like A Dog and Deep Freeze.
Demos With John Perry / /90
Place Of Safety / Happy Families / Dead Man Walking / World In Chains
Notes: The second session recorded again at Ruxley Manor with John Perry and with later additional overdubs by Perrett on his own and also using Koulla Kakoulli for backing vocals.
Demos With John Perry /5/92
Land Of The Free / She Dreamt She Could Fly / Love At All Costs / Black From Red
Notes: Recorded in The Beat Factory in Euston, London over three days.
Villa 65 20/1/94
Daughter / Wildlife / Hearts On Fire / Shivers / Twilight World / You Gave Birth / Mutilations In Space
Notes: Villa 65 is a Dutch radio station and a DAT tape is known to exist. [There are two takes of Daughter, one and a half takes of Shivers and five takes of Twilight World.] Steve Brickle believes that this is where the version of Daughter on the Volume 10 sampler may have came from [see above.]
This item may also be the same as Dutch Radio Session 20/1/94 [see above].
PPATO, Leidsedake 22/1/94
Baby, Don’t Talk / The Shame Of Being You / Daughter / Mutilations In Space / Interview
Notes: Confirmed by Steve Brickle, this, too, is almost certainly from a Dutch radio station. [See also Dutch Radio 22/1/94 in the Bootlegs section].
GLR Session 25 /10 /94
Twilight World / Baby, Don’t Talk / Nothing Worth Doing
Notes: This may also exist somewhere in bootleg land. Track listing confirmed by Steve Brickle.
Acoustic Session Circa Autumn 94
My Sweet Angel / Twilight World / Made To Fall Apart / Nothing Worth Doing / Shivers
Notes: The above tracks were recorded as a radio promotional item for the autumn ‘94 tour. The idea being that they would be accompanied by Peter giving an interview. Twilight World exists in two different takes. Again, this may also exist somewhere in bootleg land.
Woke Up Sticky Album Mixes ?/?/? Tape / 6/96
Notes: There are rumours of bootleg tapes in existence which are supposedly different mixes of the Woke Up Sticky album. No other details are known.
Videos /TV Appearances Date
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Live and Rehearsals [Unreleased Video] Circa Spring 94
Notes: Early in 2000 a notice was put on the Perrett web site that it was intended that a video of The One in rehearsal and live at the Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London would be released in the near future. The gig in question is the same as the one on the Peter Perrett Live With The One CD which was recorded 22/4/94.
Richard Littlejohn, TV Show 19 / 7 /96
Another Girl, Another Planet / Woke Up Sticky
Notes This show went out on LWT at 10.30pm, the day after the band appeared at the Phoenix Festival, England. This TV appearance was followed by another on French TV on 3/9/96 where the band played one song, the title of which is unknown.
Promotional Video for Woke Up Sticky Mid ‘96
Notes: Low budget video shown on MTV at some point.
Bootleg Videos Date
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Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London 30m /G Video 22/4/94
Lovers Of Today / The Shame Of Being You / Hearts On Fire / The Big Sleep / Shivers / Falling / You Gave Birth / Skin Like Armour / Company Of Strangers / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby Don’t Talk
Notes: Audience recording on a camcorder. The quality is quite watchable but some of the tracks are incomplete. Lovers Of Today only contains the last 30 seconds while Skin Like Armour consists only of the beginning. Company of Strangers is only half complete. Another Girl, Another Planet is interrupted and Baby Don’t Talk consists only of the intro section.
Shinjuki Loft, Tokyo 7/8/94
Lovers Of Today / Falling / Five Minutes To Midnight / No Peace For The Wicked / Hearts On Fire / C Voyager / The Shame Of Being You / Twilight World / From Here To Eternity / Land Of The Free / Why Don’t You Kill Yourself? / Another Girl, Another Planet / Baby, Don’t Talk / Daughter / The Beast // You Gave Birth / The Big Sleep / Flaming Torch / Law Of The Jungle
Notes: Apparently the nape of the neck is considered extremely sexy in Japan. Anybody wishing to study such Oriental erogenous zones would do well to track down a copy of this video and study the first fifteen minutes or so. That said, the camera angles do eventually improve and this video becomes quite watchable after that.
Perrett Production Credits / Other Appearances Date
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Nick Kent And The Subterraneans Skydog ? Late ‘77 /Early ‘78
Chinese Shadow /
Notes: Band formed by music journalist Nick Kent who invited Perrett, Perry, Kellie and Tony James of Generation X into a studio. The results appeared on a compilation bootleg called Punks from the Underground on the Skydog label and the date given above is the approximate recording date. The date of the bootleg release is unknown. Perrett appears only on the track listed above and his contribution is not particularly apparent - in fact it is John Perry and Mike Kellie who are the more prominent Only Ones.
In Homme Fatale Nick Kent recalls ‘a couple of things which have since come out on bootleg,’ but Chinese Shadow is the only track on the album by The Subterraneans [although another track credited solely to Nick Kent and entitled Switch-Hitter Dub is also present.] Other bands included The Heartbreakers and The Shits [whose main members were Pete Makowski and Giovanni Dadomo, Writers for Sounds and Only Ones enthusiasts.]
The All Stars - Living Dead NDR 01/02 V 1992
Subway Train / She’s Untouchable / Steppin’ Stone / So Alone / Dead Or Alive / Be Bop-a-lula
Notes: The date of the actual recording of this double 7" single bootleg package was 18th February 1978, the venue was The Speakeasy and the sound quality is reasonable. Perrett and Mike Kellie and Alan Mair together with Patti Paladin on vocals worked with Johnny Thunders under the name of The All Stars - The Living Dead. Like the Subterraneans bootleg above, Perrett is not particularly apparent in the mix. Available in a picture sleeve with a picture of Johnny Thunders on the front with credits on the back.
The Living Dead went on to play more gigs in Paris in March 1978 although it is not clear which of the free-floating members, who included those already mentioned above together with Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious of The Sex Pistols together with Henri-Paul, Andy Gray and Steve Nicol from the Hot Rods, actually played.
However, Perrett and Kellie did join Thunders at The Lyceum for a gig on 12th October 1978 presumably to help promote Thunder’s So Alone album which had just been released.
There is also a 12" single by Thunders and Patti Palladin which features John Perry on guitar, Jerry Nolan on Drums, Billy Rath on bass and John Earle on sax. The tracks are Crawfish b/w Tie Me Up, released on Jungle Records in 1984 [Jung 23T]. It has been described as ‘not worth tracking down’
Johnny Thunder’s So Alone Album Real Records V 6/10/78
Pipeline / You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory / Great Big Kiss / Ask Me No Questions / Leave Me Alone / Daddy Rollin’ Stone / London Boys / [She’s So] Untouchable / Subway Train / Downtown
Notes: Personnel for this album included Johnny Thunders, Peter Perrett, Mike Kellie and Koulla Kakoulli, Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols, Walter Lure and Billy Rath of The Heartbreakers, Chrissie Hynde, Steve Marriott, Patti Paladin, Paul Gray of The Hot Rods, Henri-Paul, Phil Lynott and John Irish Earle. Recorded in June 1978 at Island Studios and produced by Steve Lillywhite and Thunders.
None of the song writing credits go Perrett who appeared with Mike Kellie on five tracks - Ask Me No Questions, [She’s So] Untouchable, Subway Train, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory and So Alone. This last track didn’t appear on the album itself but did appear a later release.
Wasted Youth Bridge House V / /80
BHS 10
I'll Remember You / All My Friends Are Dead / Do The Caveman
Notes: Perrett wrote the lead guitar introduction to I’ll Remember You and played the bass on the same song. He also helped supply backing vocals on the B-side and rhythm guitar at the end but remained as producer only on the last track.
Lonesome Nomore Rage Records V / /81
Rage 3
Turned Insane / ?
This single release featuring Koulla Kakoulli on lead vocals apparently featured Perrett but contains no credit
Love’s Young Nightmare ? ? / /90
Dream On / It’s All Too Much
Notes: Single release. The boyfriend of the producer of The Only Ones video Faster Than Lightning was a member of this band and Perrett agreed to produce this single.
Le Fin
Discography
