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Split Knee Loons 7 inch cover

Artist: The Split Knee Loons
Title: Special Collectors' EP (7" single)
Record Label: Avatar
Catalogue No.: AAA111
Year: 1981

Track listing:

  • Side 1
    1. Mr and Mrs Get Down T'foot Of Our Stairs
    2. Runaway
    3. (She Was A Real) Egg Timer (recorded live at Liverpool Empire, 7th March 1981)

  • Side 2
    1. Salute To The Vikings
    2. Let's Dance In Dub
    3. MITPFAT (Mutually Insured Third Party, Fire and Theft)


Personnel

Track 1 (Side 1):
Vocals: Arthur Guitar
Guitar: Wah! Wah! (Mr Funk) Wahtkins
Drums: Stix Hoypolloy
Keyboards: Cosmo Toons
Bass: Ernie Orme
Saxophones: The Cleckheaton Horns

Tracks 2 & 3 (Side 1):
Vocals: Ernie Orme
Violas: Cosmo Toons
Bassoons: Wah! Wah! Wahtkins
Timpani: Stix Hoypolloy
Vocals & keyboards: Cosmo Toons
Guitar: Wah! Wah! Wahtkins
Bass: Ernie Orme
Drums: Stix Hoypolloy

Track 1 (Side 2):
Vocals: Frank Frank, Frank McFrank, Big Frank, Frank and the Hampster Cage Emsemble, Featuring the Frankettes
Guitar: Arthur Guitarsonsen
Drums: Stixon Trixon
Keyboards: Cosmo Toonsonsen
Bass: Wahsen! Wahsen! Wahtkinsen
Alpine Horn: Bertie Bertiesen
Flugel Horn: Odin Toonsonsen

Tracks 2 & 3 (Side 2):
Vocals: Blind Frank Melonhead
Bass: Ernie Orme
Keyboards: Cosmo Toons
Guitar: Wah! Wah! Wahtkins
Drums: Stix Hoypolloy


Recording details

Produced by: Produced by MMMMBAA Productions
Engineered by: MMMMBAA Wah! Wah!

Recorded at the Wilma Lodge Studios

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 beamed via satellite (courtesy NASA) to Makamint Recorders, West Indies. Mixdown from 46 track dolby computerised digital cassette recorder (as seen in Boots) into Mono, transferred back to near stereo. Overdubs and final mixes linked to the National Grid, recorded with difficulty from a Cleckheaton pay phone.

Egg Timer recording details too vast to explain here. M.G.M.T. Topps Henderson, Arthur Guitar by courtesy of the Hampster Cage Emsemble.


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