Various - Perspectives and Distortion

Side A

Claire Thomas and Susan Vezey - Bright Waves

Matt Johnson - What Stanley Saw

Virgin Prunes - "Third Secret"

Lol Coxhill - The Calm...

Lemon Kittens - ...In Wooden Brackets

Eyeless In Gaza - You Frighten

Kevin Coyne - Hello Judas

Mark Perry - Dear, Dear

Side B

Ben Watt - Departure

Two Daughters - Return Call/We Are

Kevin Hampson - People In Space

Thomas Leer - Kings of Sham

Five or Six - Folded

Morgan-Fisher - Foreign Correspondent

Robert Fripp - Remorse of Conscience

A Tent - No Way of Knowing

David Jackman - Untitled

Credits:

Format: LP

Release Date: 1981

Label: Cherry Red Records

Catalogue Number BRED15:

 

Format: CD

Release Date: 2003

Label: Cherry Red Records

Catalogue Number: CDMRED231.

 

Notes:

A Cherry Red compilation from 1981 featuring Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey's Bright Waves (a different version of the track that appears on the Reprint cassette) and 'Untitled' by David Jackman. The LP was Re-issued in 2003 on CD on Cherry Red's archive series. The Claire Thomas and Susan Vezey 'Bright Waves' track was also re-issued on the On One of These Bends LP by Philip Sanderson in 2018. 

 

Storm Bugs - A Safe Substitute (CD)

1. Mesh of Wire/Objective/Car Situations/Mesh of Wire (Reprise)

2. Hodge

3. Solely From

4. Blackheath Episode

Bonus Tracks

5. He Rose up Again

6. 333

7. Table Matters Soundtrack

 

Philip Sanderson: VCS3 (1-5,7), vocals (1), tape loops (1,6,7), short wave radio (2), guitar (7)

Steven Ball: vocals (1), percussion (1,6), tape loops (6) 

Sarah Pomeroy: guitar/VCS3 (1)

All tracks by Sanderson except "Car Situations" and "333" by Sanderson & Ball 

 

Credits:

Format: CD, 300 copies

Release Date: 2020

Label: Klanggalerie

Catalogue Number: gg337

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball. The sleeve images are from the Storm Bugs Super 8 film Table Matters (1980) by Steven Ball

 

Notes:

Originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980, this 40th anniversary re-issue on CD by Klanggalerie contains a gently remastered version of the original tape plus three bonus tracks, two of which ("333" and "Table Matters Soundtrack") have not previously been released.

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