06/03/10
Hello Sprouters, plenty for you to get your teeth into this week. Firstly, David Merrheim has sent in a new 12-minute audio interview with Paddy, which he recorded off French station 'Europe 2' in 1997. It's well worth a listen, and can be downloaded here.
Ola Sjostrand sent in this report of Thomas Dolby's gig on February 28th:
Yesterday, I went to see the Thomas Dolby gig 'Circumnavigating the Flat Earth' @ the Union Chapel, Islington, London. This offered a rare opportunity to see Wendy Smith and Martin Mcaloon on stage with Thomas Dolby performing a couple of songs with him. The obvious question came up about when Paddy is planning to release anything new and Martin's response was basically not anytime soon...
Also on getting back together as the Prefab Sprout both Martin and Wendy did not think that would ever happen. In any case both seemed to enjoy themself on stage and for me it was great to hear Wendy sing after all these years!
A typically bleak outlook for the future, but seems like a good time was had by all. Ola also took this great picture at rehearsals, and Stewart found this picture of all the participants, which has Wendy and Martin one-in from either end. Further pictures, collected from twitter by Rivermoving, can be seen here.
Forum member bisonrav, only a few weeks ago responsible for the new gigography, has started a project which involves remastering the live videos from the videos section. So far he has tackled the videos from the Fleadh festival, in 2000, and you can see the improved versions of those here, here and here.
Last but not least, Tristara has 'struck so deep a chord,' and compiled some tabs for 'Earth: The Story So Far', which you can get hold of here.
24/02/10
The Sprout world has been busy. First, you should pay a visit to the Prefab Sprout Gigography, set up by forum member bisonrav, who referred to it as his 'life's work' (and I'm not certain he was joking.) If you have any further information about any Sprout live appearance, contact details can be found on the site. He'd much appreciate it.
Secondly, the new videos that appeared in January have surfaced on YouTube, appearing on the mysterious (but seemingly official) channel 'prefabsprouttv'. Check it out here, particularly the newly discovered videos for 'Don't Sing' and 'All The World Loves Lovers.'
Forum members have noticed that some of the early 90's videos were filmed in the same session, and can be watched in a sequence, linking into one another - if you want to try it, it runs as follows: If You Don't Love Me, All The World Loves Lovers, Life of Surprises, and I Remember That.
Next, the full interview from KCRW in 1988 has emerged. You can download it here (set some time aside, it's 48 megs, nearly an hour of chat). A remastered version of the acoustic piano medley from that session is also available, and can be grabbed here.
Excitingly named forum member lonegroover sourced another audio interview, this one from 2003, from Richard Allinson's late night Radio 2 show, discussing 'I Trawl the Megahertz.' Grab it here.
Forum member Fredster found a couple of Sprout performances on France's INA Archive - 'Hey Manhattan!' and 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll.' Legendary locator Stewart found this article, from 'the Mirror' in 2001, which I enjoyed. And that's your lot for now!
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NEW ALBUM - 'Let's Change The World With Music' - Out 07/09/09
1. Let There Be Music (listen)
2. Ride (listen)
3. I Love Music
4. God Watch Over You
5. Music Is A Princess (listen)
6. Earth: The Story So Far (listen)
7. Last Of The Great Romantics
8. Falling In Love
9. Sweet Gospel Music
10. Meet The New Mozart
11. Angel Of Love (listen)
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