Tracks 10 and 11 from “Neil’s Heavy Concept Album”.
Spoken material on all tracks by NIGEL PLANER with Dave Stewart, Ted Hayton, Rowland Rivron, Simon Brint, Roberta Green and Nick Revell
HORRIBLE ELECTRIC MUSICIANS
Heavy metal drummer Bryson Graham
Flash studio drummer Gavin Harrison
Drunken cabaret drummer Pip Pyle
Heavy and psychedelic guitarist Jakko
Keyboardist, heavy metal bassist, useless drummer and fifties guitarist Dave Stewart
Cabaret bass & Rickenbacker 12 string – Rick Biddulph
BEAUTIFUL ACOUSTIC MUSICIANS
Flute, saxaphone and piccolo Jimmy Hastings
Trombone Annie Whitehead
Backing vocals Barbara Gaskin (with Ted Hayton on Hole in My Shoe)
12 string guitar – Rick Biddulph
CAST OF CHARACTERS
neil’s mum, she wolf: Barbara Gaskin
Policewoman: Dawn French
Horror narrator: Roger Planer
English actor voice: Stephen Fry
neil, potato, BBC voice, American cabaret voice: Nigel Planer
HEAVY TECHNOLOGY FREAKS
Producer/Arranger Dave Stewart
Engineer Ted Hayton
Assistants Mike Dignam and Greg Wilson
Recorded at SPACEWARD and TAPESTRY Studios “MY WHITE BICYCLE” mixed by Dave Stewart, Ted Hayton and Mike Dignam.
Additional musical material on “LENTIL NIGHTMARE” by Dave Stewart.
MEDIA AND PACKAGING RIP-OFF MERCHANTS
Photographs Sheila Rock
Make up Miranda Boyer
Special thanks to Harry Bromley-Davenport and Robbie Coltrane and to BEN ELTON, RIK MAYALL and LISE MAYER who wrote “The Young Ones” TV series and to PAUL JACKSON who made it.
A heavy time is guaranteed for all
22 Comments
Amazing album!
Thx for uploading Arianddu!
I can't even begin to describe the nostalgic journey I've been on. Thank you so much for upolading this, it's great because it's a bit rubbish, but a bit rubbish because it's great. I've been sat here with a massive grin. Thank you
Coloooours, yeeeah 😀
A well worthy upload if ever there was one!
Superb. A mate of mine picked this album up from a charity shop years ago. What a total hippie classic, it gave us ours of laughs and trippy weirdness.
Awesome.
Thanks for uploading this. Been wanting to here this for ages.
Out of interest, does anyone know what the Cassette Jam track which follows on from Cosmic Jam is like? And is it available to listen to anywhere?
Is it okay if I ask another question, is the "Big Black Skatey Bit" placed in the record's run out grove?
@Meanmanmartin2007
Yes, big black skatey bit is where the side of the record ends.
As for 'Cassette Jam', as I recall (from 20 odd years ago), it was Neil complaining about Cosmic Jam when the 'tape machine ate the tape' noises cut him off. I think you can just make him out complaining about your crappy tape deck – like I said, it's been over 20 years since I heard it.
@Arianddu Thanks for your help there
I'm hoping that I'll get my own copy of this album one day. Its brilliant that you managed to upload the album onto here.
I heard that the cassette version of this album also had the song Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man which is the B-Side of "Hole In My Shoe".
They blanked out 'bloody bastards' in "Cosmic Jam"!
Bloody Bastards!!!
Castellorization, exactly! He's my favorite character too!
I have the cassette version of the album and cassette jam was only included on the cassette version and it was added to substitute for cosmic jam because the big black skatey bit wouldn't work to the same effect on cassette – so it was Neil imitating a cassette being chewed up.
Anyone notice that at 5:24 it burrows from I Am The Walrus?
Dawn French playing the Golf Girl.
Thank you for putting this on i was around 14 when i heard this i loved it then i love it now god or whateva name you give it bless
Golf Girl was composed by Richard Sinclair and arranged by Dave Sinclair for Caravan. The song was inspired by Canterbury golf course, where the band were renting a bungalow in Stodmarsh Road that overlooks the green, or at least it did back then.
The golf girl, Pat, was Richard's girlfriend at the time.
Wow, amazing album. Used to piss myself laughing to this when I was 9/10. Thanks for posting this and keeping the concept album alive.
So cool. I grew up listening to this as a young girl. Brings back great memories. Thanks heaps.
Missing the bonus part (Cassette Jam) from the cassette version! Comes straight after "Oh no, it's the black black skatey bit now"!
Absolutely brilliant album btw, listened to this over and over back in the 80's!
Sounds like King Crimson….
5:24 if you ever wanted to hear the orchestral part of "I Am The Walrus" sound like it's on a Super Nintendo.
("Cosmic Jam":) Best space rock parody I ever heard!
The bleeped out "bloody bastards".
BLOODY BASTARDS!!!