Session recorded for Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour on BBC Radio Wales.

Tracks:  I Look Good, You Don’t / 72 Hours Deceased

There is a little confusion as to the date this session was actually broadcast and if there were any other tracks. I Look Good, You Don’t was initially aired on 15.12.02, and the rest of the session may not have been broadcast because Adam played the entire new album by Soft Hearted Scientists that night. The same track was again aired on 16.03.03 and 72 Hours Deceased on 05.01.03.

Wayne Cotton (voc,bass) remarks, ‘Fucking hell fella! This is how I remember it. Camera (who were the Benjamins back then) went to that studio of Melys’ in Betws so we ended up going to do some demoing, next thing we know Mr Walton calls us for a session at the same studio as it was/is used for the BBC Wales stuff etc. We set up in a circle and played live, vocals on afterwards. Good session, captured something good. End of “I look good” was a fluke so we kept it.’
‘We used it as the ABBEY RODE e.p. with permission from the Beeb,this was broadcast in its entirety’

First cast in almost 16 months for whatever reasons, if I could be bothered to look it up I may even be able to tell you why, but to play on puns I think Pocket Venus could teel you why, as I had released their 2nd single ‘Tell Me Why’ on my Secrets of Sound label.
I had also just produced an Alien Matter demo, which I still rate very highly, I never remember the real name of the track so I used to call it ‘Does my Bomb Look Big in This’, which is a better name anyway.
The Fudged track was also a demo I had produced, although not as good as AM or PV due to the band being completely mashed on weed in the studio!
Redshift too were a Llandudno band I had sat in the studio with, they weren’t really cut out for recording at the time, being very young and very nervous.
Talking of mashing Soundhog was also making waves on the net mixing The B52s with Beyonce’s old band (can’t remember their name, only their curves!).

POCKET VENUS – Tell Me Why
ALIEN MATTER – Does My Bomb Look Big In This
FUDGED – Come & Mosh With Me
MR GIT & MR WEEN – Gangsters
SOUNDHOG – 52 Scrubs
CARSONDOWN – Safety Pin For Stitches
RED SHIFT – demo track

on Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour, BBC Radio Wales

Tracks: [Untitled] / Fall Away / Sell Your Friends

Session repeated 03.02.2002

Recorded at Sylem Studios, Betws-y-Coed.
Produced by Neil Crud. Engineered by Geraint Jones

Chris Yates – voc/gtr
Steve Jones – gtr
Naldo Algieri – bass
Dave Robinson – keys
Pete Ryan – drms

There may have only been 3 tracks recorded for this session, and judging from the playlists Adam also played the entire debut EP by Pocket Venus.
Band fizzled out 2003 after rel a 2nd single.

Session broadcast on BBC Radio Wales for Adam Walton’s Musical Mystery Tour.

Tracks: Lay Your Soul Bare / Where The Wind is Blowing / Mr Go Right Down / Will You Ever Come Down?

Instruments:  Fender Rhodes 55 Electric Piano
Hammond Organ
Leslie Speaker
Acoustic Guitar
Bass

Ralph Latham : Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Guy Latham : Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Bass

Guy says, ‘The other members had left by this point so we were just a duo. It was a pre recorded acoustic session with overdubs. This was done at our home studio. We just passed the recordings onto Adam. There wasn’t an interview as far as I can remember, but I may be wrong.’