This week we are posting the fourth and final episode of Aymeric’s interview with Mark Fletcher.

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28.01.24

Once again we have Martin Mycock to thank for this recording of Short Wave on their inaugural and, as it turned out, only UK tour of sorts.

 

 

26.12.23

Rotterdam, Mephisto – 29 March 1985
Another ambient cassette recording from Hugh Hopper’s first tour with In Cahoots, and yet another different setlist with a couple of pieces (both of them on the freer end of Inca’s repertoire) not heard in either the Eindhoven or Paris concerts available elsewhere on the site (4 days before and the next day, respectively) – Elton’s Janna, named after his daughter, and Calyx, in its only recorded performance by the line-up we are aware of. This is very likely incomplete, with five other potential inclusions missing, but still a substantial amount of music. Of particular note are the two pieces by Pete Lemer, including the rare Bring It To Me, played in succession in the second ‘set’ (or at least side 2 of the cassette in the archives) – no material by Hugh had yet been added. Instead tribute is paid to the late Alan Gowen with Reflexes In The Margin.

 

 

26.11.23

In Cahoots: Lichfield, George Hotel – 31 October 2003

Recordings of In Cahoots playing their then-new album “All That” are pretty rare. The go-to document for that is definitely the Tritonales Festival from June 2003 as it’s a good soundboard/audience matrix, whereas this, one of 4 UK gigs later the same year, is definitely a slightly boomy audience source, but it’s nearly the complete concert, with just seconds missing at the start and end, and it’s as dynamic a performance as you’d expect from this line-up, not long before Elton and Jim left.

 

06.08.23

Here is another recording from the 1986 European tour, again drawn from a cassette tape from Phil’s personal archive that shows its age although it’s still very listenable. Although it misses the first few seconds of the opening “Above and Below” it otherwise seems to be the complete performance…

 

 

09.07.23

Today we have added a brand new master class by Fred Baker. Which you can find here.

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19.06.2023

This is not a previously unheard performance – although it should be pointed out that the footage filmed on that day for the French TV programme ‘Pop 2’ was captured earlier in the day during soundcheck – but this version comes from a very low generation copy that hasn’t circulated much until now. It is somewhat ‘brick walled’ but a more pleasant listen that one would surmise from the corresponding waveforms…

 

11.06.23

I was recently sent this recording by fellow fan Pierre Tassone, of Music By Mail mail-order in Denmark, who was intrigued by it being labelled as being from the Villebon-sur-Yvette gig from 1998…

 

14.05.23

This was the last in a series of UK gigs In Cahoots performed at the tail end of 1988, the first since the Split Seconds sessions the previous summer, and the last until the European tour nearly a year later. It’s also the only one we have a recording of, and all the luckier for it as it has a piece that appears nowhere else, an untitled contribution by Steve Franklin…