Igginbottoms's Wrench: Angel Air liner notes: Difference between revisions

''These are the liner notes added to the Angel Air 2000 reissue of Igginbottom's Wrench. Take note that, as implied in the text, the band had no involvement whatsoever in this reissue, and that the liner notes have all been written by the original production team behind the album. Original band member Mick Skelly has disowned the story as told here as a "fairy tale". The notes should be read against other available sources on the topic, but information is rather scarce. The transcription is a little rough around the edges, as it was done from a YouTube video.''

Unique. Unique. Unique. UNIQUE! NO Yes - Unique. Just roll the word around your tongue and tonsils (if still in situ) for a while. Enjoy it in its true sense. Undiluted. Pure. Freed of the normal day-to-day contamination from that great dissembler of language, hyperbole. It is after all a very special word for those very special people and things that are - er – unique.

Dale Griffin Longville in the Dale Shropshire, England 12th March, 2000

I am sure that all music lovers have a few moments in their lives when they discover a new artist who completely overwhelms them and makes life worth living on that particular day. Discovering Igginbottom was like that for me. It was one of those classic northern English grey days I had jumped on a train with Mick and Maurice, to go up to Bradford and see a new band that Mick knew, and decide if they were worth producing. Arriving at a scruffy little studio, little did I suspect that once these four charming, but ordinary-looking chaps started playing, I would be instantly transported to other words, where the sun always shone and life was a surrealist poem.

Morgan Fisher and Maurice Bacon are still very much in the music business - Morgan has a Year Two Thousand follow up to his 1980's classic Miniatures album, the new version featuring 60 artists performing 60 songs lasting no longer than 60 seconds each. All miniature masterpieces. Due in March, 2000 from Cherry Red Records. Maurice Bacon is kept busy with his Bacon Empire Publishing, Strike Back Records and Strike Back Management companies. Michael Jackson is a prominent businessman in Yorkshire. And all three of them have something musical up their sleeves.

None of the 'MUM trio recall a great deal about the recording of the album, which was completed inside a 24hr period in a small studio in the West End of London. Just about everything was a first take, Maurice Bacon recalls. The only major problem encountered was the minimal volume employed by the group, meaning the signal-to-noise ratio of their amplifiers heavily favoured the noise aspect. Be assured that Nick Watson will have used every tool at his disposal to attenuate the amp noise on the original tape, without compromising the overall sound of the album.

Of course, the proper spelling is Higginbottom, but in Yorkshire, as in many areas of Great Britain, it is common, in everyday speech, to ignore the aitch, thus 'lgginbottom, 'Argreaves, 'Ancock Ereford, 'Ampstead 'Eath and 'Ap 'Azard. This has given me a little problem in the text. So not wishing to lard the pages with apostrophes and inverted commas Igginbottom always appears as just that, with no other markings. It's called Griffin's Law of Grammar and Punctuation. So sue me!