Another Bunnymac lyric that has always had me scratching my head. Good job the tune is such a killer:-
mp3 : Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
One of many great singles they released in the early 80s, it reached #8 thirty years ago this month. Where the hell has the time gone?
As you can see from the image above, the 12" version of the single came with a poster which looked like this:-
But what made the 12" really special was the live track. Echo & The Burundimen
mp3 : Echo & The Bunnymen - Way Out and Up We Go
mp3 : Echo & The Bunnymen with The Royal Burndi Drummers - Zimbo (live)
The live track is a version of All My Colours as performed at the first ever World of Music Arts & Dance (WOMAD) Festival held at Shepton Mallet in the south-west of England in July 1982.
Lay down thy raincoat and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaance.
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Listening to the live Zimbo/All My Colours a reminder, if one were needed, of what a great drummer Pete de Freitas was. And what a great live band they were. Some of my most treasured musical memories are Bunnymen gigs.
The Cutter is right up there as one of my fave tracks of all-time.
Had that poster on my bedroom wall for an awful long time, one of the greatest 12" of all time and my 2nd favourite bunnymen song, pipped at the post by the superb Never Stop.
Zimbo live is just tremendous! As it was on Shine So Hard where it was still called Zimbo pre Heaven Up Here.
The Cutter is the Bunnymen showing just what anthemic rock should be...not flag waving or sideways prancing, but calling to arms. No Post Punk band can touch the Bunnymen's use of an orchestra to build a song.
I have it on good authority that
the lyrics are loosely about the band's
relationship with their record company,
Warners. Rob Dickins, who signed them
had an office on the seventh floor of the
building where WEA were based.
The Bunnymen stuff i'd like to get my hands on is the Peel session(s) with early, acoustic versions of Seven Seas, Silver, Killing Moon, Nocturnal Me etc
Ocean Rain version always seemd disappointing by comparison - thought the extended Killing Moon is pretty damned good
Iain, Edinburgh
PS Anyone recall that band who supported the Bunnymen at Tiffany's shortly before Porcupine was released? Called something like Time to forget the Whimpering Child, become the Warrior. Glasgow not impressed.
Iain,
The band you mention was a band from Liverpool that was I don't know much about other than it was Geoff Kelly (bass/vocs) Steve Brown (drums/keys)
- but they were featured on "The Craking Up At The Pyramid" cassette I picked up many years ago (it was released in 1982). Their song on the cassette was a great tune and I searched for more stuff by them but never found anything. Here is some info on that cassette release:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Crackin-Up-At-The-Pyramid/release/3012793
Here is a link to someone else who saw a similar show - http://gigbook.blogspot.ca/2011/02/6-echo-and-bunnymen-now-is-time-to.html
and a poster with them listed - http://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/echo82.html
Wally
I just found this also about them - Now Is The Time To Forget Whimpering Child – Become The Warrior! - band (1982-83) formed by Geoff Kelly (voc,bass) (ex Afraid of Mice), Steve Brown (drms,keys) (ex Jass Babies, later Afraid of Mice, Here’s Johnny)
http://link2wales.co.uk/liverpool-n-z/liverpool-n/
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