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This is the story of an unexpected musical friendship which makes a mockery of a fifty year age gap. In the red corner is spry avant-gardener Anthony Moore – of Slapp Happy and Flying Doesn't Help fame – who will be releasing a collection of his formative fragments (some of which ended up being recorded by Pink Floyd, but most of which didn't) under the title Home of The Demo on Drag City records on October 25th. In the blue corner are the young Hastings independent trio Borough Council, who will be selling a physical only CD of their current…
MoreThis is the story of an unexpected musical friendship which makes a mockery of a fifty year age gap. In the red corner is spry avant-gardener Anthony Moore – of Slapp Happy and Flying Doesn't Help fame – who will be releasing a collection of his formative fragments (some of which ended up being recorded by Pink Floyd, but most of which didn't) under the title Home of The Demo on Drag City records on October 25th. In the blue corner are the young Hastings independent trio Borough Council, who will be selling a physical only CD of their current demos at gigs on their nationwide tour in October. To commemorate this happy confluence of events, Anthony Moore will be the opening act on the last night of said tour at the Lexington, Kings Cross – on the exact day his album is released!
I was working in a record shop in St Leonard's when a man in his seventies who I'd never met before came in and said he was looking for a record to send to a friend in Japan. I recommended him something by Naran Ratan – it's an album where a lot of it's recorded on a Casio CZ 2000. He bought it, took it home and listened to it straight away to check it was the sort of thing his friend might like, then came straight back to the shop tell me how much he'd enjoyed it.
The shop is next to the laundrette and I think we became a laundrette stop off for him because he always seemed to have bags of clothes with him when he came in. The next time he dropped by he walked in with a synth on top of a pile of laundry and said "Do you want it?" Of course I did!. We used it on the demo for our most recent single, Strobe Lights.
I still didn't know who this guy was until he was introduced to me as Anthony Moore. We were rehearsing a lot in the shop at that time and the whole band was obsessed with the first This Heat album, so when Joe and Tom found out the guy who produced it only lived down the road they were freaking out.
Once Anthony and I had been properly introduced we went to the pub together and I started listening to his records from then on and really got into his solo stuff and then Slapp Happy as well – the was a kind of gateway to the best Kraut-rock for me – but Out is the one I like the most – for me it's on a par with George Harrison. I've played a few gigs with Anthony and one time when we were playing world service I was sure he shushed me onstage… although that might have just been my insecurities.
– Haydn Ackerley, Borough Council
Haydn is one of the most naturally gifted guitarists I've ever come across. He picks things up so fast but then quickly moves away from an obvious reading of what he's learnt and reworks it in unusual and interesting ways – he develops themes. For example, the kind of picking he started doing on the chords in my song 'World Service' when we played it together was something I never would've thought of, but it actually worked really well. When I was thinking of three guitarists to play with on a recent homage to Terry Riley called 'In D,' he was a natural choice and I was not disappointed with what he came up with. I really like what all three of Borough Council do so I'm looking forward to having a chance to see them on tour. But I've never played The Lexington before so I'm interested to find out how my stuff will go down with the people who come to see them there.
– Anthony Moore, Anthony Moore