So its 30 years old !!!
Id like to tell you all about how i bought it, but i can`t , cos i never bought it, i pinched it , nicked it, as we say here in Manchester. I basically shoplifted it from Woolies in Piccadilly Manchester.
Why ??
Well i went through a bit of a phase in the early 80`s of pilfering things.
My Older brother bought home the Quiet Life single, and i fell in love with it, and so i pilfered the Quite Life album first. Again, i say album, it was the cassette on the `fame` label. And a few weeks later, i did the double deed of pilfering Adolescent Sex and Obscure Alternatives together, both on the `fame` cassettes.
I thought there was something wrong with the tape at first. Sylvians voice sounded so strange, but i could hardly take em back could i ???
But, that summer, those tapes came everywhere with me, and a long-standing love arose for songs like Suburban Love, Television and Transmission.
Later, i bought, legally, a copy of an illegal record
the Live From Budokan album, and i love the version of Suburban Love on that.
I have an original cutting from the NME, June 24th 1978 JAPAN: NIGHT FEVER FOR THE GEISHA BOYS, basically scathing of the band, but you gotta love em havent ya ?
Paul, if you need a scan, let me know.
But in hindsight, no-one could`ve guessed where we all would be now, 30 years later, Sylvians latest release being NAOSHIMA.
From GEISHA TO NAOSHIMA
Its been an exhilarating journey !