The Prolapse live tapes

In 1996 the Information Service offered a total of ten live tapes for sale...

Charlotte's Legacy
6.12.94, LEICESTER, the Charlotte
Serpico/ Headless/ Space invaders/ Doorstop/ Visa/ Psychotic/ Matthew Stone
11.7.95, LEICESTER, the Charlotte
Dirge/ TCR/ Psychotic/ Flex/ Doorstop/ Headless/ Visa/ Screws

Catatonic Abrasions
31.12.95 NEW CROSS, Venue
Space invaders/ Ten bob/ Slabs / Pull thru/ Flex/ TCR/ Headless/ Coffee Break/ Visa/ Radiator

A Ridiculous Palaver
26.5.95 BULLE (CH), Ibullition
Space invaders/ PDF/ Doorstop/ Serpico/ Kilometrica banco/ Visa/ Psychotic/ Screws/ Flex/ Headless/ Matthew Stone/ Radiator

Strange Graffiti
27.5.95 BERNE(CH), Die Reitschule
Space invaders/ Psychotic/ Headless/ Flex/ Screws/ PDF/ Chill blow/ Visa/ / Matthew Stone/ Cormorant

Biomorphic Horror
5.7.95 SOUTHAMPTON, Joiners Arms
Dirge/ Psychotic/ Serpico/ Surreal Madrid/ Doorstop/ Headless/ Visa/ Flex

Beach Fatigue
4.11.95 BEDFORD, Esquires
Dirge/ TCR/ Black death/ Framen/ Pull thru/ Visa/ Zen nun deb/ Flex/ Headless

No Bullshit, Just Play
9.12.95 DORDRECHT (NL), Zweynzicht
Headless/ Black death/ Pull thru/ Tunguska/ Visa/ TCR/ Doorstop/ Flex/ Psychotic

Melting Anathesia (sic)
12.12.95 UTRECHT (NL), Theatre Kikker
Space invaders/ Tunguska./ Doorstop/ Headlless/ Serpico/ Visa/ TCR/ Flex

Transliterated Pudenda
14.12.95 HAMBURG (D), Heinz Kramer's Tanz Palast
Black death/ Screws/ Doorstop/ Tunguska/ Pile tent/ Headless/ Testation/ Visa/ TCR/ Flex/ Matthew Stone/ 6am Jullander Shere/ Eat Yourself Fitter/ Psychotic/ PDF/ Space invaders/ Radiator

Endless Obsession (2 tapes)
15.12.95 HAMBURG (D), Heinz Kramer's Tanz Palast
Flat velocity curve/ Serpico/ Framen/ Headless/ Bruxelles/ Pull thru/ Visa/ Tunguska/ Flex/ Autobahn/ Black death/ Cormorant/ "The ruby and diamond show"/ Mein minefield/ Psychotic/ Improv I/ Akin to the weasel/ Nag nag nag/ Improv II
12.8.95 LEICESTER, Abbey Park
PDF/ Serpico/ Headless/ Flex/ Visa

Discography - Side Projects

* Cha Cha 2000

Autobahn 10" single (Lissy's liss 3)
Autobahn
Theme from Cha Cha 2000
John Cage Barleycorn

Cha Cha 2000 is Pat Marsden (guitar, mandolin, bodhran and flanger), Mick Derrick (vocals, chanter, vocoder, stylophone, spoons and space invaders), Mark Hibbett (bass and drum machine and co-writing of Theme from Cha Cha 2000), Ruth Po (accordian), and Jock Super8 (Indian keyboard).

* Cha Cha 2000. Tired Legs at the End of the Game, b/w Green and White by Trout. 7" vinyl tribute to Celtic (Flighted Miskick label, Flick 002).




* Ears Go FFF! 'Postoffice Cool Village' on a split single on Kooky records. Features Mick Harrison. Sounds like 'the Mary Chain recite Joe Meek'. The other side is '2 Aqua Manera' by Formula One, produced by Boo Radleys' Martin Carr and featuring Dave, ex-Cornershop.

* Ears Go FFF! 'Air Vent Telephone Vasectomy' on a split single on Sorted records. The other side is by the Fabians (srs012).
Notes: "It involved the noise of a car starting through various effects, the noise of a walkman waved over guitar pick-ups and good old fashioned French radio through delay. Last year at school, I had to write a statement of the year. Under the category 'things done out of school' most people wrote 'youth club' or 'football' while I wrote 'released a record of stupid noises that sold 300 copies'."
Chris, 15, Geordie Mick's nephew



* The Fourth Sorted ep (Sorted records). Ten-track ep featuring 'Deep Fried Chewits' by the Washing Up Liquid, another Prolapse spin-off.

* Morocco (Guided Missile). New Javelins, with vocals by Scottish Mick.

* The Inside Ov A Butcher's Shop (Out There records). Banking on Death (Carnage) with vocals by Scottish Mick.

Discography - Compilations

* A Taste of Tea (Tea Records cassette) 1993, includes They Slept in Darkness.




* An Assortment (Cherry Red cdmred 107). Five-track v/a featuring Screws (demo) and PDF (Crate version) 1994.

* Volume 12 - Winter 94 (12VCD12) 1994. 18-track CD includes Visa for Violet and Van. See also: Volume 12 interview.

* Volume 14 - Reading 95 Special (14VCD14) 1995. 36-track double CD includes Move to Limit Slabs. See also: Volume 14 interview.










* Ashtray Heart - a 'sorted label compilation' (sorted srcd1) 1995. 18 tracks including: Irritating Dub by Prolapse and Tres Cabaret by Cha Cha 2000.
Notes: On Irritating Dub, Scottish Mick's dad and his pals share vocals. They recorded them in a booth in Birmingham in the 1960s and they were dubbed onto the track.

* Each Pillow Is Tethered Like a Rock (Sorted Records cassette) 1996. Includes TCR (American Mix).
Notes: This was allegedly only available by going to the Durham Ox pub on Bowling Green Street in Leicester and drinking ten different malt whiskies.





* The Camden Crawl II (pube 12 Love Train Recordings) 1996. 21-track compilation features T.C.R. (remix). Includes tracks by Jack, Sneaker Pimps, the Delgados, Urusei Yatsura, Moby and more.


* Ambitious? (CD) (C & S Records) 1996. Includes Serpico.


* Femme Fatale – Volume 1 (Dressed to Kill) 1997. Includes Chill Blown.



* Grrrl Power: A History of Women in Popular Music (3xCD) (Dressed to Kill) 1997. Includes Chill Blown.


* Collision Damage Waiver (Rebellious Jukebox Records). 16-track CD free with Totally Wired no. 27, features demo of Cacophony No. A.


* UK Rock Manifesto (Warner Japan) 1998. Includes Autocade.




* Drinking From Puddles: A Radio History (Kill Rock Stars) 1999. Compilation of in-studio performances on Portland's KBOO-FM, features Cacophany #A.

* Delicatessen One: 18 Delicious Creations From the Cooking Vinyl Kitchen (Cooking Vinyl) 2000. Includes Adiabatic.

* Cooking Vinyl In Rockdelux (Sinedín Music) 2000. CD includes Fob.com.


* Havock Junction (Sorted Records) compilation, 2001. CD features two unreleased Prolapse tracks: Murdered by Killers #1 and Dunblane Hydro, plus extracts from the tour diary they did for Mary Ann Hobbs' Radio One show.

Discography - Albums

* Pointless Walks to Dismal Places (cherry red cd bred116)

1 Serpico
2 Headless in a Beat Motel
3 Surreal Madrid
4 Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc
5 Burgundy Spine
6 Black Death Ambulance
7 Chill Blown
8 Hungarian Suicide Song
9 Tina This is Matthew Stone

October 1994. Total length 50:57 - Sleeve notes

* backsaturday (lissy's liss 8 cd) - 'a mini album'

1 Flex
2 Mein Minefield, Mine Landmine
3 Framen Fr. Cesar
4 Every Night I'm Mentally Crucified (7000 Times)
5 Zen Nun Deb
6 Drown Radio Therapy
7 Strain Contortion of Bag

November 1995. Total length 37:37

The American version (on Jetset/Big Cat) has a re-arranged track order and additional tracks, Irritating Radiator and TCR.

* The Italian Flag (scan 25/on Jetset in US)

1 Slash/Oblique
2 Deanshanger
3 Cacophony No. A
4 Killing the Bland
5 I Hate The Clicking Man
6 Autocade
7 Tunguska
8 Flat Velocity Curve
9 Return of Shoe
10 A Day At Death Seaside
11 Bruxelles
12 Visa For Violet And Van
13 Three Wooden Heads

October 1997. Total length 69:45

* Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes (cook cd 177)

1 Essence of Cessna
2 Fob.com
3 Adiabatic
4 Cylinders v12 Beats Cylinders 8
5 One Illness
6 After After
7 Government of Spain
8 Planned Obsolescence

May 1999. Total length 50:04

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Discography - Singles

Crate: Songs for Ella (7" only cherry 128), 1994

1 Psychotic Now
2 p.d.f. (pete de freitas)
3 Screws
4 Kilometrica Banca

Pull Thru Barker (cherry red cd cherry 133) subtitled Songs for Grandpops Manterfield, 1994

1 Pull Thru Barker:
2 Dirge
3 They Slept in Darkness
4 E.O.P.O. (end of part one)

Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc (cherry red cd cherry 135), 1994

1 Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc (concise version)
2 Pile Tent
3 Muscovite Parricide Song
4 Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc

'Pull Thru Barker is a real feller who got that nick-name in the army for his utter skinniness, so says Mick's dad.'

'You leave me and I'll scratch your eyes out' is nicked off and dedicated to the Shop Assistants (RIP).

When Space Invaders Were Big/ Love Like Anthrax (cherry red cherry 136), 1995
7" limited edition. (Space Invaders from Peel session, Anthrax is a Gang of Four cover.)

T.C.R./ Irritating Radiator, 1995
7" limited edition on Love Train (pube 06)

Flexed/Unroad Kill (lissy's 12"), 1996

'Unroad Kill was made up for a live radio broadcast in Portland, Oregon. Flexed is a remix. You could dance to it, but you probably wouldn't.'

Killing The Bland (radar scancs24), 1997

1 Killing the Bland
2 Move to Limit Slabs
3 Snappy Horse
4 Fear of Teeth

Also available as two 7" singles. Snappy Horse/Fear of Teeth was available as limited edition from the Prolapse Information service

Autocade (radar scancs26), 1997

1 Autocade
2 Testation
3 Autocade (Didactic feral control)
4 Pro-Loop

Also available as two 7" singles

Deanshanger (radar scncs27), 1998
1 Deanshanger
2 Liquid Compliment
3 Diamonds o' Monte Carlo
4 (Deanshanger) Carlo Rama Remix

Fob.com (frycd 081), 2000
1 Fob.com
2 Marconi's Wife
3 Hairdryer

Split singles

* The Sorted ep (srs003), 1995. A four-track 7" with P.D.F (demo version) by Prolapse, Bachelor Party by Fish from Tahiti, Burnt out Ken by Gonzo Salvage Company and Precious Cargo by the Mighty Silence.

* Warped Reality. A flexi single free with the 4th issue of this American fanzine. Featured Psychotic Now - version from Crate, backed with a track by His Name is Alive.

* Easter Egg-splosion, a 6-track 7" (Basketcase records flop 02), 1995
Flippity side: Soldier Field by Elevate, Butterfly by Bob Tilton, Sweet Dreams by Snuff. Floppity Side: Kung Fu on the Internet by Lung Leg, Extra Plus (33.3% extra free) by Quickspace Supersport, Headless in a Beat Motel by Prolapse. This is a live version recorded at the Sausage Machine on 29 May 95. 'It took 73 takes to get that Bacharach and David sound just right.'

* Shared Stereo (co-op) Four-track single featuring Akin to the Weasel.