Footage from Fast Forward festival in Holland and the Covered Wagon in SF. Put together by Jean Smith for Normal History our weekly Magnet Magazine collaboration.
Are You Hungry Joe?
Fight For a Little
I Walk Alone
Orange Sunset
Beaten Down
Who Told You So?
Smile Baby
Don’t Shoot
Will He Change?
Trapped Against
Armchairs Fit Through Doorways
Strong White Male
23 years after the fact! The only live album! Mecca Normal with Peter Jefferies on drums! Unlike most of the other albums in the Brave New Waves series, our session was recorded at a show and not in the CBC studios.
Available in early 2019 on CD // LP (fewer tracks) // BandCamp (Artoffact Records)
CD
1. Water Cuts My Hands (5:09)
2. Prize Arm (1:41)
3. Don’t Shoot (3:23)
4. Tower Island (3:00)
5. Revival of Cruelty (2:12)
6. The Dogs (4:16)
7. Drive At / Peach-a-Vanilla (3:31)
8. Ribbon (5:28)
9. Man Thinks Woman / Strong White Male / I Walk Alone (7:00)
10. Armchairs Fit through Doorways (4:28)
11. Are You Hungry Joe? (4:04)
12. Crimson Dragnet (5:00)
13. Mecca Normal, Brave New Waves CBC interview, 1986 (1:25)
14. You’ll Never Know (3:09)
15. Black Star (2:03)
16. Hideous (4:15)
17. Alibi (3:39)
Tracks 1-12 recorded live at The Cabaret in Montréal, Québec, April 16, 1996 for broadcast on CBC Brave New Waves.
Track 13 recorded at the CBC in Montréal with Brave New Waves host Brent Bambury in 1986.
Tracks 14-17 recorded by Kevin Komoda at DNA Studios in Montréal for a Mecca Normal Brave New Waves session with Patti Schmidt on September 21, 1993.
Jean Smith’s $100 USD paintings (11 x 14″) on the LP insert and CD digipak interior
Rough mix. The song was originally released on a 7″ by K Records and then on the Jarred Up compilation, also on K Records.
Jean Smith – vocals
David Lester – guitar
Peter Jefferies – drums
