stephen morris
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Happy Birthday Gillian!! Sorry the icing went a bit runny xx
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Many happy returns!!š„š Gillian. Have a very happy Birthday š š Love you lots. Donāt worry I havenāt baked a cake xx
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So farewell then 2020. You werenāt really much of a year were you? Just when it seemed you couldnāt get any worse -you did.Tbh Iām glad to see the back of you. Hereās hoping for better things ( normal would be nice) for everyone in 2021 All the very best. Happy new yearš„
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When we were young. Another of Gillianās instamatic snaps from Bowdon Vale May 79. Donāt remember where those congas came from.
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64 times around the sun, whoād have thought it? Not me. Thank you so much for your birthday wishes. Iāve had a fantastic day venting my spleen on the drums and doing a halloween Morticia impression.Donāt ask!!
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Happy Birthday Ian-Another of Gillian (or Julie) Gilbertās snaps from Bowdon vale
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Itās that time again when -for reasons no one remembers -me and Gillian take coal and bread into the night. Adios then 2021 -your 12 months are done, you did your best but itās time to move on. Wishing you all the very best for 2022 cheers š„happy new year
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Itās that time again.A wet and windy welcome to 2024.Happy new year one and all!!!.Cheers and all the very best .Hereās hoping for better things in the year ahead
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Carrying synthetic coal -(a recent innovation) and a more traditional barn cake we venture into the drizzle once more to welcome in 2023. Wishing everyone everywhere a very happy new year š¤ all the very best!!
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Wow that went quick hope you all enjoyed it take care of yourselves wherever you are!.This too will pass xxx.
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Shocked and devastated to hear of the passing of Denise Johnson. An absolutely beautiful lady. Rest In Peace Denise x.
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Age 61 work nearly done, almost finished!!!! Thanks everyone for all the tweets ,cards and birthday wishes. I shall now have a big drink and a lie down
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When the CD version was released Peter added individual cards so that any of us could be on the front, very democratic, Let the owner decide. A few years ago CDs started appearing with Bernardās snap on the front. I would spend many an hour at various record shops correcting this.
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Blue Monday!!.Ok if you insist.What can I say about this that hasnāt already been said?.A song that isnāt really a song more a machine that makes you dance. We really REALLY hit our stride on this one.
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Hookyās bass riff on Age Of Consent is fantastic. The drums are recycled from an old song-see if you can guess which one. Clue it was one of ours.
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And weāre off Age of Consent, A great place to start. Every song weād ever done was a search for the elusive Fast dancy number. We definitely found it with this one!!!.One of those songs that you knew was going to be great from the word go. #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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Extract from Gillianās Blue Monday programming scroll. It stretched the entire length of the Brit row snooker table #timstwitterlisteningparties
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And so we say farewell to the decade that I like to think of as the one with no name. Maybe it was just trying to be mysterious. Unlike the Twenties now thatās a nice snappy name . What could possibly go wrong? Hereās to 2020! Happy new year and all the very best
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Well those 60 years went quicker than I expected.Thanks for all the Tweets,Cards,Pressies and specially the extra hour in bed.
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Thank you so much for all the tweets and Birthday wishes on what I like to think of as my third Twenty First. Iām particularly pleased with my pop up rave cheers š„
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New Order Synthesiser Sanctuary-Much like that Joe Exotic geezer I like to care for wild and dangerous synthesisers so the young can pet them and worry that I might be insane. #timstwitterlisteningparty
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9 hours to go.Really looking forward to tonight Power Corruption and Lies Twitter party #timstwitterlisteningparty see you all later.
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Happy new year one and all. All the the best.See you in 2019.
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Itās a dream come true.Finally got my MA in drumfaffery from Yeovil college
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The Other Two In a Fellini kind of mood .Day off in Taranto June 1982
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Merry Xmas one and all from Dexter the Christmas cat. Now for a festive drink cheers š»
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YOUR SILENT FACE.Weāve always loved Kraftwerk. YSFās working title was āthe Kraftwerk oneā (KW1) we were trying to do something like the intro of Europe Endless.That kind of sparkly sound. Bernard worked really hard getting the synth parts just right.
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Your Silent Face soon evolved into something beautiful and majestic- we were afraid we might getting too serious, a problem easily solved by the āwhy donāt you Piss Offā line. Youād never catch Kraftwerk swearing #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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Many thanks for all the Birthday wishes. Itās been a brilliant day. The highlight of which was definitely this recently unearthed portrait of one of my Elizabethan ancestors. Quite a striking likeness Iām sure youāll agree,the eyes really do follow you around the room
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Itās blowing a gale and chucking it down- but itās warm inside. weāre off to a good start .Cheers and Happy New Year everybody
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Blue Monday- Originally an attempt to do an automated encore . Until Bernard started singing on it and Hooky did the signature spaghetti western bass. Rob would rave about this track although I donāt think the rest of us could quite see why. It was really hard work to write!.
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LEAVE ME ALONE.I really like the way that PCL is bracketed by the two most guitary songs Age of Consent and this one. This song is a personal favourite of mine Iāve got to say.
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That really did fly by!!,I hope you enjoyed it.Thanks Tim #TimsTwitterListeningParty are fantastic arenāt they?.
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You can tell itās nearly Christmas when you start worrying if Advocaat does actually go off? What are the first symptoms of Snowball poisoning? Is Baileys a better bet? It is Dairy free after all.Merry Xmas one and all
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I like what @simonday24 says about Blue Monday in his book Comedy and Error.āAn indescribable mix of robotic joy and human sadness that came from the future and took over the planetā. Kind of sums it up.
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Thank you everyone and especially Tim for coming up with such a great idea #TimsTwitterListeningParty.
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Gillian relaxing at Cheetham Hill rehearsal room. It looks quite nice inside? Perfect Kiss video shoot March 1985
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Happy Birthday Gilllian!! Once again in the interests of health and safety I have avoided doing any actual baking. Lovely bit of icing though @cakesmelmakes
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Ok everyone letās turn on the DMX.Start the Drum machine for blue fuckn Monday.5.4.3.2.1.Go,,,,,,,,,.
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Me at the emulator .I wonder whatās in that bottle? My bet would be Pernod
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A fun night at the Rose Hill hotel in Kilkenny 83 photo by Dec Hickey
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A very youthful Dexter getting in the festive spirit. Merry Xmas one and all
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Age Of Consent -An uplifting happy/ sad song- like all the best ones are. An easy one to record this- No sequencers or Drum machines to break down. probably the most recently finished when we began recording which made it fresh and exciting #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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As used on Ultraviolence. Best drum synth ever-got a lot of abuse as you can probably tell. Ultraviolence Live could get ferocious at times
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The new drum machine. The mighty Oberheim DMX.Funky but not particularly stable like most great drummers #timstwitterlisteningparty
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After we left the studio Bernard claimed Blue Monday would be impossible to play live. But we did AND we cut it down for our āsinging live playing liveā Top of the Pop debut. āgreat tvā was how Tony Wilson described it??#timstwitterlisteningparties.
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1,2,3 4 on a snare drum-Always a good way to start an album What a great intro!! The Melodica melody is brilliant, reminds me a bit of groovinā with Mister Bloe .NO MESSING ABOUT ON THIS ONE-It is a fantastic rousing anti-war song.#timstwitterlisteningparty.
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Thank you for all the Happy Birthday tweets. I had a lovely day and enjoyed this delicious and oddly life like cake. But best of all,thanks to the marvel of the end of summer time,tonight, I get an extra hours slumber !
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On Leave Me Alone I thought the way I turned the beat around was very clever at the time-itās pretty good today come to that. For these last few days. It really is the perfect way to end the album #timstwitterlisteningparties.
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Whatever next? It turns out the new book wasnāt as delayed as anticipated. Thatās the first time thatās happened!!
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Ok 2017 get your coat and leave donāt make a mess on the way out.Happy 2018 everyone letās make it better.
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Just in case you missed it. Record Play Pause is now available in paperback and audiobook. The latter, as well as featuring me doing a pretty poor Matt Berry impression, also features some actual music.A kind of literary soundtrack if you will. Hope you like it.
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Too long for the album Blue Monday was ALWAYS going to be the single. Too long for a single too come to think.Title inspired by Kurt Vonnegutās Breakfast of Champions.We wouldnāt consider editing it down. They did in Poland though apparently #timstwitterlisteningparties.
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There are at least 2 versions of Vanishing Point, but thereās also an unreleased version with completely different lyrics and vocal line- maybe thatās one for the box set? #TimsTwitterlisteningparty.
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Outside the rehearsal room in Cheetham hill (where much of Low Life was written) looked like this-doesnāt look exactly inviting does it? We shot the Perfect Kiss Video there too #timstwitterlisteningparty
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The albumās title is taken from the blurb on the back of an Orwell book-Hooky was reading 1984,there is a tale on the net that it comes from a visit to a German art gallery. But itās not true. In 1982 I donāt think any of us apart from Gillian spent much time in art Galleries.
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Tomorrow me and @gillian_gilbert will be having another go at the DJing lark. Weāre on from 5.30 -7.30 @HOME_mcr playing a haphazard selection of tunes to the best of our abilities. Weāve been practicing too,Itās outside, the weather looks nice, what could go wrong? See you there.
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I think there maybe health and safety issues with the new dishwasher
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Hookyās bass melodies on Elegia are majestic- I eventually ended up sticking some drums on it at the end along with backwards cymbals-always fun!!. Listening to Elegia Reminds me of the sun coming up outside the studio, #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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More Wires!!!!The new Emulator 2 was a very emotional keyboard. some days it would get moody and refuse to work at all. The fix was to wallop it hard with an iron bar, frustrated owners would ring me up and ask where exactly the blow should be aimed to make their e2 behave.
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Touring was tough in the 80s Trevi Fountain Hi-Jinx Roma June 1982 La Dolce Vita.We had so much fun on that Italian tour!Probably why it took us so long to go back
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Donāt forget -tonightās the night for Music Complete @LlSTENlNG_PARTY 8pm Uk time featuring @PhilCmusic @tommychap01 and of course @gillian_gilbert see you later
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586 had been around since the start of 82, we originally did it on the old set up of Clef master rhythm Drum box, Powertran sequencer and the Pro-one synth like the video 586 and Peel session versions. The old drum machine was a modded version of this
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Round and Round was entirely put together in the studio. Upbeat was an ace early little sequencer program for the Mac. All of the electronic rhythm parts and synth bass on Technique were written on it. #TimsTwitterlisteningparty.It looked a little bit like this
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On YSF the Bernardās Melodica get another outing. it was along with BM a song we had to figure out how to play live. As soon as we got to Australia straight after leaving Brit row. Here are Bernard and Gillian at the Hac in 82 #timstwitterlisteningparty
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A highlight of the recording of Perfect Kiss (long version) for me was the recording of the Cowbell. Me and Bernard ended up a Cowbell duel in the Brit Row Recreation room-best appreciated on the twelve inch.-MORE COWBELL -#timstwitterlisteningparty.
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The Village is the one song on PCL that seems to reference the cover with the flowers though that was complete coincidence. The first song we wrote with more than one sequenced bass line in it. #timstwitterlisteningparty
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The albumās only completely synth-less track Hookyās ace bass riff and Bernard and Gillian doing what they used to call trading licks on the guitar. I think itās a really emotional song. Live these changes could happen randomly most of the time #timstwitterlisteningparties.
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A souvenir of Strawberry number 1.Movement track sheet for Senses. Martin used torn off bits of this for joint rolling supplies
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Technique US tour dates and the tour program Peter Saville did for it. It eventually turned up on the last night.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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ECSTACY.I really canāt say where the title came from, letās just sat we were ahead of our time in many respects and move on. It was for a brief time known as only the lonely.#timstwitterlisteningparties.
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ULTRAVIOLENCE .We had the title for this one before we even had the idea for the song. We had a cassette of the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. That got played a lot on the way to gigs.A big influence of some of sounds on PCL #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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When we first wrote Face up in early 1984 we thought it was the best thing ever. We insisted on closing many gigs with it particularly in Germany where nobody had heard it before and wanted something more familiar instead. There were complaints. #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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At last my own limited edition t shirt-itās a dream come true!š.
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The drums always sounded great in the live room at Jam-Iād just bought a new snare drum at the time -a Ludwig Black Beauty - I just liked the name, Iām still using it today.Another trivia fact-Sunrise is Gillianās all time favourite New Order song . #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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āIām one of the few people who live whatās called the Low-Lifeā the virtually inaudible quote at the start of this time of night is from Jeffrey Bernard-Journalist and regular at many of Sohoās seedier pubs. Thatās where the albumās title came from #timstwitterlisteningparty.
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Only two days to go.@edgarwright fantastic doc #TheSparksBrothers gets itās Uk release 29/7/21. If youāve never heard of Sparks- go and see this you wonāt regret it. Tickets for a special screening with satellite Q/A with Ron and Russell from Sparks from
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Athens 19th September 1982 featured a spirited version of Age Of Consent.For me playing this song live is always a bit of an endurance test . I just start playing as fast as I can and donāt stop,It usually works
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Peter Savilleās concept for the sleeve of Low Life was to de-mystify the band. This he thought could be best achieved by sticking our photos and the bandās name on the front .To give the record buying public a clue as to whose record they were buying. #timstwitterlisteningparty
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Oh my giddy Aunt!! Great night last night djing @acrmcr .Shame we never got round to playing Ejection (technically not Hawkwind but still brilliant) maybe next time? Now it turns out the bookās a Best Seller!! I never ever expected that.Thanks to everyone. It really means a lot.
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