Fad Gadget – Fireside Favourites
(Mute Records 1983 STUMM33)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some wear to edges, light crease in top left corner & some general wear
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from a scratch that gives clicks in the last half of Fireside Favourite)
Francis John Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing pop-structured songs with mechanised experimentation.
Fireside Favourites is the debut studio album by Fad Gadget. It was released on 7 November 1980, through record label Mute.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Fad Gadget (Frank Tovey)
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Pedestrian” | 3:20 |
| 2. | “State of the Nation” | 3:48 |
| 3. | “Salt Lake City Sunday” | 2:12 |
| 4. | “Coitus Interruptus” | 4:39 |
| 5. | “Fireside Favourite” (sometimes titled “Fireside Favourites”) | 4:31 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Newsreel” | 3:42 |
| 2. | “Insecticide” | 3:09 |
| 3. | “The Box” | 4:19 |
| 4. | “Arch of the Aorta” | 6:17 |
Personnel
- Fad Gadget – voice synthesizer, tapes, drum machine, ashtray, metal chair, electric shaver, studio
- Additional personnel
- Eric Radcliffe – guitar, bass, banjo, studio
- John Fryer – extra fingers, ashtray, metal chair, studio
- Nick Cash – drums
- Daniel Miller – electronic percussion (tracks 1 & 4), synthesizer, sequencer (tracks 4 & 8)
- Phil Wauquaire – bass synthesizer (track 1), bass guitar (track 6)
- Jean-Marc Lederman – synthesizer not in the mix
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