Demos (bootleg)
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A 12" vinyl bootleg LP with mostly demos and one live track.
Release Notes
- Label: Darkness Records
- Catalogue#: som 17987 / DARK 01
- Format: 12" vinyl LP
- Released: 1987
Remarks
- Limited hand-numbered editon of 500 copies, all on black vinyl.
- 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
- in 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.
- The same information can be found on the labels. The latter do, however, also give a catalogue#: 17987.
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 |
Additional Pictures
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