"SILVERY, I PRESUME"
Bull & Gate 23-5-09 (An Audience Recording)



Side A

Horrors
Star Of The Sea
Warship Class
The Nishikado

Side B

Foreign Exchange & The Drilling Machine
That Which Is / That Which Is Not
In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)

Side C

The Nod
Action Force
You Give A Little Love (Paul Williams)

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ORIGINAL SLEEVE NOTES:

~ TO BE RECEIVED IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT IS GIVEN ~

IMPERIAL! The scratchy live album – the rock behemoth that was the 70’s and a staple of the car boot sale. Naturally enough, Silvery have one, but this whittled down version of a colossal performance was found on a CD on the Black Market, shared like so many of their early live recordings and demos among fans to enjoy in their ears.

TO BE RECEIVED IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT IS GIVEN! We thought we’d share it with you as it is – the wobbles on the original tape, the cock ups, the inaudible backing vocals. We’ve trusted the original privateer’s sometimes cheeky cuts. A strange gift, sure, but one meant with kindness.

TOP NOTCH! Although you can’t see the flower fights & the bizarre on stage antics (but can probably guess when something happens), you can hear the SHEER VOLUME and the audible descent into a sweaty boozy mess by the end. Hear when the drum stool breaks during ‘The Nod’! Hear the swirling mentalness of Grieg put through a Silvery blender! (For the first time on a Silvery recording!) Join in for the Bugsy Malone cover version! (Until the guitar packs in!)

This is ‘Silvery, I Presume?’

A long time ago, the only way you could hear Silvery was by recording their gigs, and then swapping for other ones, or getting old demo tapes and listening to them on your cassette walkman. On this page, we aim to bring you a selection of the best, for reasons of nostalgia and because we know what it's like to REALLY want things like this when you like a band.