Various Artists - "Felixstowe Rocks" (Peeved Records – PV008) 1983

 

Felixstowe,on the evidence provided here, certainly does NOT Rock!

And the artistes and groups bands and duo's featured on this compilation all sound the same,or,in other words,they all seem to try to be an East Anglian Durutti Column.

I suspect this to be one of them Fake compilations,where one person tries to be person plural,per-son-zzz in fact. Yeah, we all believe the person (singular) has lots of groovy musician friends,and comes from a happening sector out in the sticks where everyone is Vinni Reilly.

One was never acquainted with any thriving music scene in Felixstowe ever,but indeed there was one in Norwich in the mid eighties I recall,but Felixstowe...Nah!. Famed for its Ferry port, and enormous container traffic capacity, but music,specifically 'Rock' music,it simply cannot be.....and why not? The only rocking this east England backwater does is the constant swell of the converging wakes from the massive container ships of the kind that are being attacked by Houthi Guerrillas in the Red Sea.I challenge thee to Write a rocking tune about that

It was all done by one Robert Cox,unlikely impresario of the Unlikely cassette label in the mid eighties i understand;who appears under his own name on this very compilation,and is,himself, the other artistes and groups, bands and duo's.

Here's what that cheeky so and so has to say on the subject:

"FELIXSTOWE ROCKS was a fake sampler of music being created in the town; it was almost all me. There is a conceptual joke in the title; this was/is not rock music and Felixstowe does not have any rocks. There are sandy and pebbly beaches below sandstone cliffs."
Robert Cox - December, 2020

I wish they did Rock in Felixstowe,then maybe this comp wouldn't be so dull....more Nosebleeds and lots less Durutti would do.....or maybe this chap invented Post-Rock and I'm too thick to see it?

Tracklist:

A1 General Motors– Tubular Turd
A2 Piers Of The Realm– Manic
A3 Someone Else – Something Else
A4 Robert Cox– Sync Or Swim (Original Version)
A5 General Motors– Tubular Turd (Reprise)
A6 The Same – If You Want To, Do So!
A7 The Same – Base Parts
A8 The Same – Instrumental 7/3/82
A9 The Same – 453-549
B1 The Same – Instrumental 18/3/82
B2 The Same – Welsh Water
B3 Robert Cox– D Scapes (Major, Mixolydian, Dorian, Chinese, Major)

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