Clear Your Screens, by Biting Tongues

Clear Your Screens

by Biting Tongues

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1.	First Use All The Gs (Moon Landing) 06:26	buy track
2.	Evening State (ICA) 04:04	buy track
3.	Iyahbhoone (Plan K) 06:34	buy track
4.	The Reflector (Shunt Vaults 2) 03:35	buy track
5.	Denture Beach (Moon Landing) 03:39	buy track
6.	Glorious Stranger (Moon Landing) 05:10	buy track
7.	Heart Disease (Shunt Vaults 1) 03:14	buy track
8.	Where The Birdlands (Moon Landing) 04:17	buy track
9.	Unhook That Boy (Islington Mill) 05:07	buy track
10.	Everywhere But Here (ICA) 05:00	buy track
11.	Aair Care (Islington Mill) 05:12	buy track
12.	When It Breaks On You (Islington Mill) 05:12	buy track

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“Clear Your Screens” is a series of battle re-enactments from Manchester’s least celebrated post-punk group Biting Tongues. Their tritone tribalism, mixed with intense language flow and layers of tape concrète, was perhaps a bit too much for the early 1980s when they released records with New Hormones, Factory and Beggars Banquet.

Always an astonishing experience live, the classic early line-up returned to the stage near the start of the 21st century with the musical and performance experience accumulated over another twenty years working apart. Applying modern digital mixing techniques ten years later to these live recordings reveals the rare blood chemistry of a team of specialists who have only grown more passionate over time.

Surely a worthy part the 20th century musical canon even if they have handed in their homework late.

“Clear Your Screens” features Biting Tongues in performance at: ICA, London, 29 May 2003; Islington Mill, Salford, 23 February 2007; Shunt Vaults 1, London, 19 November 2008; Shunt Vaults 2, London, 20 November 2008; The Moon Landing, Salford, 19 July 2009; Plan K, Brussels, 12 December 2009.

Biting Tongues were: Ken Hollings: celebrated author, academic and broadcaster #exorcist #cut_up_oracle. Graham Massey: electronic music pioneer, 808 State, music producer and broadcaster #pre_and_post_guitar_landscapes #weird_woodwind #shit_trumpet. Colin Seddon: band leader and music educator #biblical_bass lines #lord_of_the_trichord. Howard Walmsley: film director/producer #muscular_beef_sax #transistor_organ_fist. Eddie Sherwood: music educator and band leader #reverse-wired-bespoke_voodoo_drumming

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released July 10, 2020

Ken Hollings: text and voice. Colin Seddon: bass guitar. Eddie Sherwood: drums. Howard Walmsley: tenor sax, organ and Moog. Graham Massey: guitar, trumpet, woodwind, electric violin.

All songs written by Hollings, Massey, Seddon, Sherwood and Walmsley. Tapes remixed and produced by Graham Massey. Compiled by Ken Hollings. In memory of Barry Seddon, 1938 – 2019.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering, June 2019.

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