''Blubberknife'' (also known as ''Many a Wonderful Picnic Has Been Ruined by Blubberknife'') is the third studio album released by the
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experimental
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group
Severed Heads
Severed Heads were an Australian electronic music group founded in 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both left the band b ...
, originally as a
C90 cassette tape. The first approximately 200 copies were packaged inside cassette cases that were spray-painted silver, stuffed with loose cassette tape and had parts from the insides of television sets glued to the front of the case. Five copies were specially packaged inside fully operational calculators.
It's the first album by the group to feature contributions by
Stephen Jones, and it is also the first recording by the group to catch the attention of UK label Ink Records, who helped release ''
Since the Accident'' a year later
and reissued ''Blubberknife'' in a standard cassette case with new artwork in 1984. As with most of their discography, ''Blubberknife'' has been reissued several times.
Track listing
Original C90 cassette (Terse Tapes (Australia)--TRS822–1982; Ink (UK)--IT 00A—1984)
Double C90 cassette reissue (Terse Tapes (Australia)--Terse 881–1988)
This reissue incorporated almost all of the contents of the 1985 2LP release ''Clifford Darling Please Don't Live in the Past''.
Double CD-R/Bandcamp download reissue (SevCom (Australia)--2002)
3-12 are the full live performance at the Stranded Club, divided into tracks based on the main tape loop used in that part. The Bandcamp version restored these to one 33:54 track, and also combined 14 and 15 into one track (7:42).
Early releases of the CD-R set divided "Nightsong
ive into the main track (9:29) and an untitled ninth track (4:30).
Personnel
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Tom Ellard
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Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
- synthesizers, tape loops
*Simon Knuckey - guitars
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Garry Bradbury
Garry Bradbury (1960 – January 2022) was a British-born Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene from 1979 to 2022.
Career
His first significant collaboration was in 1980, along with brothers Simon and Ti ...
- synthesizers, tape loops
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Richard Fielding
Richard Fielding was a founding member of the Australian electronic dance group Severed Heads in 1979 in Sydney. He has been a member of other experimental, avant garde music groups such as Z-Glutz, The Loop Orchestra and Budgie Woops! He has ha ...
- synthesizers, tape loops
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Stephen Jones - video synthesizers, artwork
*Grahame Brown - recording on "Rocket Summer"
*Philip Samartzis - recording on "J. Edgar Hoover" and "CMID"
References
External links
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Severed Heads albums
1982 albums