The Wibbley Brothers Go Weird LP 1982 rare NM synth electro pop

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The Wibbley Brothers Go Weird LP 1982 rare NM!

Very rare (private pressing) & hard to find LP

ABOUT 11 - 1982 RONDELET MUSIC AND RECORDS

"Stereo Rondophonic" High Fidelity Recording

Produced by Guy Jackson and Rob Metcalfe (aka The Wibbley Brothers).

Hard to find debut album by this obscure UK post punk  / no wave / minimal electronic duo The Wibbley Brothers (Ronnie & Terry Wibbley).

Includes the underground classic "Der Wawazawa".

In their own words:

The Wibbley Brothers, Ronnie and Terry, first came to Stretham in 1981 to record the 4 tracks which would appear on our e.p. "Dark Side of the Mune" (sic). For some reason we were signed to a Midlands label which specialised in punk and thrash stuff; I don't think they knew what to make of our more... er... individual approach to music-making, but I persuaded them to book Spaceward as I'd been a great Soft Boys fan. The tracks were engineered by Gary Lucas and "Dan" (according to the sleeve) and produced by Guy Jackson and the band. I think I realised I was entering an unfamiliar world when I was stopped on the platform at Ely station by a porter, helpless with laughter because I was carrying a Walkman. "Look at him; 'e's wearing headphones!" he shouted in disbelief to everyone in sight.

Later on in the year we came back to do the album "Go Weird" (with Joe Bull engineering, and making a vocal appearance at the start of side 2) and were generously allotted 40 hours to do everything - slightly tricky as I was playing all the instruments, overdubbed one at a time in these pre-sequencer days. Amazingly we managed to record and mix about an hour's worth of material in that time, but the real story of the week was the accommodation we enjoyed. This was before the studio had residential facilities, and we were put up in the guest house across the road. It was October and freezing cold yet our hostess refused to put the heating on because "it's too expensive this time of year". We slept every night shivering, fully dressed, with coats over the bedspreads. There was also a yappy little dog that would take chunks out of your ankles given half the chance. Consequently we did everything possible to put off our return until bedtime, which normally meant darts in the nearby pub, even joining in with a women's darts league match on one particularly desperate night. An evening out to Ely was like the bright lights of New York. The whole experience is related in a song on our forthcoming album "Mornin' Jack", together with a description of the fabled Stretham telephone box piled six feet high with leaves.

A few months later, the album still unreleased, we somehow got agreement to return for 2 8-hour days to remix and do a couple of new songs. Fortunately this time there was a room at the studio we could sleep in, although most of the night was spent with the first Roland TR606 and TB303s I'd ever seen, and their instruction manuals. This creative frenzy produced "The Wonderful World of Terry Wibbley" the following morning, along with hours of fun with yards of tape loops running round the control room supported by pencils held aloft. Samplers? Who needs 'em? Then we got our bicycles and pedalled back to Cambridge to catch the train home.  ~  © Ronnie Wibbley

    A1)   Weird

    A2)   Assorted Creams

    A3)   I Am The Pope

    A4)   First Aid

    A5)   Music To Boil An Egg

    A6)   You Don''t Find Spiders Up My Tree

    A7)   Ealing Hygienic Laundry

    A8)   Up My Road

    A9)   Golden Moments

    B1)   Weird

    B2)   Der Wawazawa

    B3)   Frankie Lymon

    B4)   Whistling Thru Milk

    B5)   Alsatian Frith Has Gone Away

    B6)   More Haddock Oh More

    B7)   The Wonderful World Of Terry Wibbley

    B8)   Assorted Creams

CONDITION:

SLEEVE:  VG+ Very slight ring wear, small gold stamp top right front (ex radio station copy), faint sticker mark bottom right rear, 2 tracks marked with small x’s; spine is unfortunately worn almost through in one area (see pic).

RECORD: EX+ to NM—  A couple of minor sleeve marks, small gold stamp on one label, otherwise labels clean and unmarked.