Demos (bootleg)

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A 12" vinyl bootleg LP with mostly demos and one live track.

This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible


Release Notes

  • Label: Darkness Records
  • Catalogue#: som 17987 / DARK 01
  • Format: 12" vinyl LP
  • Released: 1987


Remarks

  • Limited hand-numbered editon of 500 copies.
The hand-numbering ... / 500 appears on the back of the cover
as well as on both of the labels.
  • Unnumbered vinyls do, however, exist as well.
  • For the cover and the labels, both of which are kept in black and white, a Gothic font is used.
  • Inside a rectangle in the centre sized about two thirds of the format, the cover front shows
a b/w print with a stage photo of Andrew Eldritch tendrilled with thorny vines, above that
the band name and below the bootleg title "Demos",
  • The cover back has a column in the second quarter of the format with a similar vine motive on
the top part that is twined around the names of the band members in the following order:
- Craig Adams -
- Andrew Eldritch -
- Wayne Hussey -
- Gary Marx -
 
  • Below this ornament are the track lists of both sides of the vinyl and further information on the release.


Further Back Cover & Label Notes

written  &  produced
by  andrew  eldritch
DARK 01, dec.1985
lim.  edition .../500
DARKNESS  REC.


Track List

Side A

  Track / Song   Cover & Label Notes     Remarks
   A1   afterhours   part II, remix   standard version as on Body And Soul 12" single (b-side)
   A2   first&last&always            diff. lyrics demo   Red Skies Disappear - unreleased demo with First And Last And Always music,   
  Wayne Hussey lyrics and Andrew Eldritch on vocals
   A3   a rush   special disco-mix   A Rock And A Hard Place   
  - alternative studio version from the WEA In-House Tapes 1985  
   A4   garden of delight   andrew eldritch - version         demo version with lyrics and vocals by Andrew Eldritch
   A5   ghostrider   30.05.84   recorded live at Zeche, Bochum, 30 May 1984


Side B

  Track / Song     Cover & Label Notes     Remarks  
   B1   emma   demo - version   
   B2   the corrosion   us - mix   
   B3   dance on glass             demo   unreleased song with Black Planet music and Wayne Hussey lyrics
  - demo version with Andrew Eldritch on vocals
   B4   body electric   john peel session .01.84           standard Body Electric 7" single version - broadcast on January 16th, 1984 by   
  John Peel during the weekly BBC Radio One John Peel Show