Scritti Politti
Re: Scritti Politti-Cupid & Psyche 85 Tour 2021
This is the gig I went to at the Birmingham Town Hall.
Not from the Cupid & Pysche 85 album,but a great single Oh Patti live in Cardiff.
From Wonderland to the World Beyond
Re: Scritti Politti
Issue 139
Scritti Politti + ‘Wood Beez‘ / ‘Perfect Way‘ gold vinyl seven-inch single
Magazine: 100 pages / 210 × 280 mm / soft touch cover
This month's Electronic Sound cover star is SCRITTI POLITTI legend Green Gartside and we're bundling the magazine with a gold vinyl seven-inch featuring the group's much-loved mid-1980s classics 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)' and 'Perfect Way'.
We have an exclusive interview with Green to mark the reissue of Scritti Politti's 'Songs To Remember' (1982) and 'Cupid & Psyche 85' (1985), two brilliant albums that took the band from scratchy post-punk outsiders to electropop giants. The second of these releases gave them no less than four hit singles and led to encounters with luminaries such as Kraftwerk, Miles Davis and Nile Rodgers. It was certainly a totally different world to the scuzzy squats where Green had started his music career. “I was like a non-league player suddenly thrown straight into a Premiership side,” he says. "It was completely exhilarating, but also excruciating."
Our supporting cast to Scritti Politti includes MOUSE ON MARS, whose latest album is an awesome collaboration with LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY recorded a couple of years before the dub kingpin died, while FLUKE discuss updating some of their pioneering tracks for a new compilation and LUKE VIBERT explains why he's revived his Plug project. We've got AR KANE, RICHARD PINHAS, KOGG and LA SÉCURITIÉ too, plus a fascinating article on filmmaker MARK JENKIN, who produces his own electronic scores using a tape loop designed by Brian Eno. It's just as well you've got four weeks to digest all of this.
Alongside the magazine, our latest Electronic Sound seven-inch is a limited edition gold vinyl pressing featuring two of the best-known songs on SCRITTI POLITTI's 'Cupid & Psyche 85' album. The A-side is 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)', a gorgeous blend of pop and funk dynamics that became the group's first UK Top 10 hit when it was released as a single in February 1984. That synth bassline is still a killer more than four decades on. The other side of our record is the similarly poppy and sinewy 'Perfect Way', which was a huge track for Scritti Politti in the US, reaching Number 11 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles in December 1985. It stayed on the chart for almost six months and was later covered by Miles Davis.
As with all of our releases, this record is only available to readers of Electronic Sound, so grab your copy right away.
https://electronicsound.squarespace.com ... /issue-139
Scritti Politti + ‘Wood Beez‘ / ‘Perfect Way‘ gold vinyl seven-inch single
Magazine: 100 pages / 210 × 280 mm / soft touch cover
This month's Electronic Sound cover star is SCRITTI POLITTI legend Green Gartside and we're bundling the magazine with a gold vinyl seven-inch featuring the group's much-loved mid-1980s classics 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)' and 'Perfect Way'.
We have an exclusive interview with Green to mark the reissue of Scritti Politti's 'Songs To Remember' (1982) and 'Cupid & Psyche 85' (1985), two brilliant albums that took the band from scratchy post-punk outsiders to electropop giants. The second of these releases gave them no less than four hit singles and led to encounters with luminaries such as Kraftwerk, Miles Davis and Nile Rodgers. It was certainly a totally different world to the scuzzy squats where Green had started his music career. “I was like a non-league player suddenly thrown straight into a Premiership side,” he says. "It was completely exhilarating, but also excruciating."
Our supporting cast to Scritti Politti includes MOUSE ON MARS, whose latest album is an awesome collaboration with LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY recorded a couple of years before the dub kingpin died, while FLUKE discuss updating some of their pioneering tracks for a new compilation and LUKE VIBERT explains why he's revived his Plug project. We've got AR KANE, RICHARD PINHAS, KOGG and LA SÉCURITIÉ too, plus a fascinating article on filmmaker MARK JENKIN, who produces his own electronic scores using a tape loop designed by Brian Eno. It's just as well you've got four weeks to digest all of this.
Alongside the magazine, our latest Electronic Sound seven-inch is a limited edition gold vinyl pressing featuring two of the best-known songs on SCRITTI POLITTI's 'Cupid & Psyche 85' album. The A-side is 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)', a gorgeous blend of pop and funk dynamics that became the group's first UK Top 10 hit when it was released as a single in February 1984. That synth bassline is still a killer more than four decades on. The other side of our record is the similarly poppy and sinewy 'Perfect Way', which was a huge track for Scritti Politti in the US, reaching Number 11 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles in December 1985. It stayed on the chart for almost six months and was later covered by Miles Davis.
As with all of our releases, this record is only available to readers of Electronic Sound, so grab your copy right away.
https://electronicsound.squarespace.com ... /issue-139
From Wonderland to the World Beyond