Raw Material #05 1983 09 18 Floreat Hotel album (cover)

Desk tape from the late Fireman’s Curse era.

Released In: [Australia / NZ].

Release Date: Digital: 18 February 2022.

Australian Chart Position: N/A.

Availability: Streaming audio only.

Track Listing(s)

Legend:

 Commercial single.
 Promotional single.

Version: Digital album.

Album length: 79 minutes, 47 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -3.26dB.

1. Eggheart
2. Sway
3. Towtruck
4. Long Walk Home
5. Lumps of Lead
6. Judas Sheep
7. Mouthtrap
8. Hayley’s Doorstep
9. Curse
10. Whelan’s Gantry
11. Mr. Right
12. Cat Fence
13. Boo Boo Kiss
14. Little Chalkie

Original studio source of the songs on this live album:

• Hunters And Collectors contains:
  • Boo Boo Kiss
• Payload EP (attached to most The Jaws Of Life albums) contains:
  • Towtruck
  • Lumps of Lead
  • Mouthtrap
• The Fireman’s Curse contains:
  • Eggheart
  • Sway
  • Judas Sheep
  • Curse
  • Mr. Right
• The Jaws Of Life contains:
  • Hayley’s Doorstep
  • Little Chalkie
• Unreleased:
  • Long Walk Home
  • Whelan’s Gantry
  • Cat Fence

Review

N/A.

Liner Notes

In late 1983, there was major upheaval in Hunters and Collectors. The Fireman’s Curse album was released to mixed reviews and the band subsequently fell apart. The band that reappeared in 1984 with The Jaws of Life was a different beast: drum and bass driven pub rock replaced earlier experimental leanings. Songs from before Jaws disappeared from live set lists.

This recording is pre-implosion late 1983 Hunters and Collectors. It is arguably the most fascinating and unexpected of recordings we will be sharing in this series. This is an adventure of a recording.

A major revelation is that the transition from The Fireman’s Curse to The Jaws of Life was not as sudden as it seemed. In this recording musical and lyrical elements that come to the forefront in Jaws are forming.

Australiana themes are edging in via the unreleased Whelan’s Gantry and the band even appear to be having fun in the also unreleased Long Walk Home and Cat Fence. Two Jaws tracks – Hayley’s Doorstep and the irrepressible Little Chalkie – appear here in early experimental forms. Boo Boo Kiss from the debut album is included while Mouthtrap, Lumps of Lead and the epic Towtruck feature from the Payload EP. In between are choice cuts from The Fireman’s Curse – are they better live than on the album-?

Turn it up.