Description
for the very first time ever … the double Lp as it was initially intended .
BLACK VINYL
Jacobites
Robespierre’s Velvet Basement
TRBLP033 Barcode: 5060446072158
Side A
1-1 Big Store 3:22 (Duffy)
1-2 Snow White 3:45 (Kusworth)
1-3 When the Rain Comes 3:55 (Sudden)
1-4 Every Girl 3:31 (Sudden)
1-5 Fortune of Fame 3.02 (Soundtracks, Sudden. Kusworth, Cartwright)
1-6 Hearts Are Like Flowers 4:13 (Kusworth)
Side B
2-1 It’ll All End Up in Tears 3:00 (Kusworth)
2-2 She Never Believes 3:08 (Sudden)
2-3 Silken Sheets 3:23 (Kusworth)
2-4 Ambulance Station 2:42 (Sudden)
2-5 Son of A French Nobleman 3:27 (Kusworth)
2-6 Where the Rivers End 6:06 (Sudden)
Side C
2-1 All the Dark Rags 4:58 (Sudden)
2-2 Into My Arms 3:17 (Kusworth)
2-3 If I’m Crying 1.48 (Sudden)
2-4 Country Girl 3.19 (Kusworth)
2-6 Sloth 3:21 (Swarbrick, Thompson)
2-7 Someone Who Cares 4:53 (Kusworth)
Side D
2-8 Before I Die 4:25 (Kusworth)
2-9 Pin Your Heart to Me 4:19 (Sudden, Kusworth)
2-10 Road of Broken Dreams 3:10 (Scott)
2-11 One More String of Pearls 3:41 (Sudden)
2-12 I Am Just A Broken Heart 2:57 (Kusworth)
2-13 Only Children Sleeping 4:15 (Sudden, Kusworth)
gatefold sleeve with printed inners
Notes by Dave Kusworth & Mark Lemon as interviewd by Chris ‘ what a nice way to turn seventeen ‘ Coleman
Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Organ [Chord Organ], Synthesizer, Bells, Vocals, – Nikki Sudden
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Vocals, – Dave Kusworth
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Tambourine, Sitar, Backing Vocals – Mark Lemon
Drums, Tambourine, Maracas, Guitar [Lou Reed Guitar], Noises [Feedback], Piano – Epic Soundtracks
Backing Vocals – Lizard
Harmonica, Keyboards [Casio], Backing Vocals – Andrew Wickett
Slide Guitar – Tyla
Mixed By, Tambourine, Maracas, Cymbal – Bob Lamb
Design [Original Cover Design] & 2019 Design – Dave Twist
Photography By – Bleddyn Butcher, Sandy Fleming-Cooley
Recorded At – 122a Studio, 22nd & 23rd April 1984 and 9th May 1984 by Bob Lamb except
“Country Girl “Recorded At – Woodworm Studio, 10th September 1984 by Mark Powell
“If I’m Crying “Recorded at WSRS, Leamington Spa, 27th November 1984 by John Rivers
Produced by Dave Kusworth, Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks, Bob Lamb
Originally released on Glass Records in July 1985
2019 Version project co-ordinated by Carlton P Sandercock
Remastered at WSRS November 2000 and for Vinyl by Anders Peterson at Ghost Sound mastering & Post Sweden 2019
Special Thanks to: Chris Coleman, Dave Kusworth & Mark Lemon
Licensed from Jacobite Sound Recordings. Recorded in Regency Sound.
P 2018 Easy Action Recordings Ltd C 2018 Easy Action Recordings Ltd
Walter Hogewerff (verified owner) –
What a superb release of one of the classic albums of the 80s. Lots of extra songs that were always hard to get by. Quality FOC with inserts, heavy vinyl, fantastic sound. A must have if ever there was one.
T Jurek (verified owner) –
"Robespierre’s Velvet Basement, the shambolic second album by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth’s Jacobites, is a masterpiece of free-wheeling songwriting, loose arrangements, tossed-off vocals, and straight-to-the-gut emotional expression. The Jacobites were never influenced by what was going on around them; they preferred an earlier, more decadent era in rock, and in their sound one gets the jagged shards of Jagger and Richards, Stewart and Lane, and Ronson and Hunter. Not that the Jacobites sound anything like the Rolling Stones, the Faces, or Ian and Mick. Acoustic guitars are more prevalent than electronics, and the spirit of Marc Bolan’s folky years hovers just above the cloud of cigarette smoke that made the studio blue. This is rock & roll of a type that had not been made since the ’70s, and is only starting to be made again in the 21st century, but in the guitars and voices of the Jacobites — with Nikki’s brother, the late, great Epic Soundtracks, on drums — one has to ask why it sounds so timeless, as relevant today as it was when it was made, as wondrously loose and garagey as only the best in rock & roll can be. Tenderness, pathos, vulnerability, humor, bitterness, who-gives-a-damn clarity, and genuine fire are what make Robespierre’s Velvet Basement one of the great, unsung classics of the ’80s." (Thom Jurek)