Post by jfoyle on Oct 28, 2004 20:41:37 GMT
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The Radiators (Plan 9)
Telivision Screen 2004
Publication: 625 Records Press Release
The RADIATORS (Plan 9)
Philip Chevron Guitar, Vocals
Pete Holidai Lead Guitar, Vocals
Steve Rapid Synth, Percussion, Vocals
Cait O’Riordan Bass, Vocals
Johnny Bonnie Drums, Vocals
The Radiators release first new recordings since 1989!
On October 27, the newly-reformed Radiators (Plan 9) release a four track CD EP called TELEVISION SCREEN 2004 on their own 625 Records.
Earlier this year, Philip Chevron, Pete Holidai and Steve Rapid, who formed the legendary Dublin punk pioneers [The Radiators (From Space)] in 1976, joined forces with former Pogues bassist Cait O’Riordan and Those Handsome Devils drummer Johnny Bonnie to forge a dynamic new line-up and The Radiators (From Space) became The Radiators (Plan 9).
The new band made its debut in Dublin on June 16 this year and also made a big hit at the Oxegen Festival at Punchestown in July.
The band has been steadily working on new material with a projected album due in 2005. In the meantime, this EP, with four new recordings of Radiators classics, provides a dynamic musical bridge between the original band and the new one.
“Television Screen 2004” revisits the band’s very first 45 from April 1977. This new version updates the song as a commentary on the Iraq War.
Cait O’Riordan performs “Kitty Ricketts”, a song from the band’s legendary second album Ghostown (from 1979). Pogues fans will recall Cait’s featured performances as a vocalist with that band, notably on “I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Everday”.
“Enemies” and “Prison Bars”, two songs originally found on the Radiators’ first album TV Tube Heart (1977) completes the line up.
The recordings were made for, and originally aired on, John Kelly’s “Mystery Train” programme on RTE in July 2004, except “Television Screen 2004” itself, which was broadcast live from Oxegen by 2FM as the band performed.
