Single Release Day

Its Single Realease Day and here's Shut All The Clubs / Love -
45rpm Vinyl https://thespeedofsound.bandcamp.com/album/shut-all-the-clubs-love
Digital - via bandcamp £1 for A and B side s 50p each each https://thespeedofsound.bandcamp.com/album/shut-all-the-clubs-love
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Live at The Blue Anchor Byfleet 26March2016

 set list;
Shut All The Clubs
Only Everything
Substitute
Maid Of The Grey
Love
Poison Ivy
I'm Real
Girl On The Roof
I Don't Want Your Attentions

Thanks to Paul Hayes for the photgraphs from ModsForMillie

 27 March 2016 MarchOfTheMods StokeOnTrent

thanks to Stuart Goodwin for these 2 from Stoke

Setlist:
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkered Land
Only Everything
Substitute
I'm Real
Love
Girl On The Roof
I Don't Want Your Attentions
Sit By The River
There's No One There

Thanks to Terry Vine for this photograph also from Stoke:

and Carl Houlton for this one

Live in session

The Speed Of Sound live in session on Caroline Boyd ALLFM 96.9

Acoustic live radio session and plenty of chitchat with The Speed Of Sound and Caroline Boyd on a hot Tuesday Evening in July. Technical gremlins meant the session was only archived for listen-again today. Give it a go. 

What 'influence tracks' did John, Kevin and Pete pick? 

What makes them tick? 

With live versions of Checkered Land and Love.

We are on from 10'30" til 50'00"

Listen here

there are some session photos here: Link to post from 15th July

Love - Live. (The Speed Of Sound)

A live recording of Love - The Speed Of Sound : here

Songs evolve and change over time and this one changes pretty often. There are only three chords and they have remained constant throughout; but they are unusual chords and there is plenty of space to play with in there between them, so Love transforms naturally and frequently, sometimes the mutation is subtle and sometimes it is drastic. The current live incarnation of Love has a very different sound and a much darker feel to the drumless (but not percussionless) album version, which was recorded in 2010.
There is a Japanese poster for Love, produced to mark the world-wide album release of The Speed Of Sound At Tree Level (which includes Amazon Japan among other places to buy).

A film poster is wasted without a film, so there is also a video for the album version of Love. The video is in the YouTube panel on this website, but for ease the direct link is here.

The Lyric doesn't need any complex explanation because pleasure and pain are always bedfellows.


Love

Make me breathe
Make me sigh
Make me close my eyes

Make me fly
Make me glide
Make me feel alive

Make me lie
Make me cry
Make me die inside                

John Armstrong (August 1988)

Love has been in the live set since it was written; so is one of only four songs currently to have been performed live by all three band incarnations The Droogs, The Blood Oranges and The Speed Of Sound (the other three are Checkered Land, There's No One There and Uhrwerk). The personnel line up for The Speed Of Sound's live recording in this post is John Armstrong on guitar and vocal, Kevin Roache with 'Rosso' his beloived Italia Mondial Classic bass and from Spain, the remarkable Raoul Carrino on drums.

Love - the video

The video for Love (from The Speed Of Sound At Tree Level).

Some stills taken during filming and to use as overlays

Love

Love is more cynical than Mr Lennons' song of the same name. It predates The Blood Oranges and was a regular piece in the live set. There are only three chords, but they are not the first three that would normally spring to mind. I listened to a lot of John Coltrane before re-recording this. Re-recorded in May 2010.

Love - Japanese poster

There is something about Japanese script that just 'does it' with film posters.