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Long Time Coming is the latest album by Renadlo & The Loaf, recorded live in 2018, it captures the group's second ever live performance, with the first being a 17 minute improvisation in 1980.
Tracklist[]
- BPM
- Lonely Rosa
- Scent of Turnip
- Ow! Stew the Red Shoe
- Scottish Shuffle
- Absence
- Green Candle
- Henri Rise
- Bearded Cats
- Corset Vendor
- 16 Going on 17 (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
- Spratts Medium / Medical Man
- Gladsome Vane
- Encore: Hambu Hodo
Liner Notes[]
It may have taken us over 38 years to get round to it, but finally to the surprise of many, but not least of all to ourselves, we took to the stage to perform live on the 16th of June 2018 at Replugged in Vienna to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Klanggalerie. Up until that point we had only ever graced a stage on one previous occasion in 1980 where we performed a 20 minute improvisation... that was not exactly a show. We had never previously showcased our songs live and following some mild persuasion by Walter Robotka, we finally agreed to attempt it. This is the result…. we had a great time, the audience of around 250 were amazing and, needless to say, we shall never forget that night. Renaldo and Ted."
Our special thanks to Walter and Lisa for making it all happen, Bernhard Hansbauer for audio/video cueing and all-round help and George Ackerley for his invaluable computer skills.
Additional Notes[]
Before 2018, Renaldo & The Loaf only ever graced a stage once, in 1980, for a 20-minute improvisation:
Brian, “We did it to promote the local LP South Specific which we had 3 tracks on. We were one of 4 bands to play, a rock band, a punk band, a ‘pop’ band and us. Each band had it’s fans/friends there…there were a lot of heavy looking punks and skinheads in the audience which worried us a bit.
“Our music was very much constructed in a studio so we knew we couldn’t play our recorded songs live, so we decided to do an improvisation which was often a starting point in making our songs at that time. So we set up a long-delay tape system using two Akai decks we had – the idea was borrowed from Brian Eno. The machines were separated by about one metre, the sound was recorded on the first deck and played back on the second then fed back to the first and so on. This produced a long echo which repeated and decayed slowly. We went on first and did a 20 minute piece. When we decided to stop, the music carried on by itself so I had to tell the audience we’d finished…which itself carried on repeating. I doubt if anyone there would have heard anything like it before but it was well received…even the punks applauded. So that was that.
“We almost played another show in 1985. We were asked by Doublevision (Sheffield-based label closely associated with Cabaret Voltaire) if we could do a live presentation at a theatre in London to support a showing of Residents videos they were planning. We worked with some guys from the Portsmouth School of Art to design a stage set and planned to do 4 songs to a backing tape with me singing live…Dave was going to construct a loop tape live on stage which would play out at the end. We were planning to do ‘Hambu Hodo’, ‘The Elbow Is Taboo’, ‘Like Some Kous-Kous Western’ and one more that I can’t remember. One of the guys at the Art School knew Neneh Cherry and she agreed to dance for us with two other women….this was just before she became well-known. Needless to say this all never happened as the theatre was a new building and couldn’t get it’s fire safety license in time so the show was cancelled…..I think one small advert appeared in NME for it.” Renaldo and the Loaf Official Facebook Group