On a Friday Discography
[1990 Demo]
The third known On a Friday demo tape comes from the summer of 1990. It's a compilation of 4-track recordings made from june through to august at Clifton Hampden Village Hall, Nuneham Courtenay Village Hall and at home.
15 songs are included on the cassette:
Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill
Somebody
Mr. B/Jerusalem
What Is That You See?
Everyone Needs Someone to Hate
Upside Down
The Greatest Shindig of the World
Give It Up
How Can You Be Sure?
Life with the Big F
Keep Strong
Rattlesnake
Burning Bush
Tell Me Bitch
New Generation
Apparently there is also a 14 track version with different sequence and some alternate titles.
All the members were by this point at different Universities around the country, but reconvened over the summer, with the exception of Phil who was in Ireland. In order to keep recording and rehearsing, the band drafted in school friend Nigel Powell, who had recorded some previous demos for the band, to keep the drum stool warm. The Clifton Hampden tracks were recorded over a number of weeks with this line up, in between Jonny took the four-track home with him where he, Thom and Colin would continue working on the tracks. When Phil returned the band recorded another demo track in rehearsal, 'What Is That You See?'. 'The Greatest Shindig Of The World' - which would be rewritten as 'Maquiladora' - and 'How Can You be Sure?' would end up as b-sides on singles from The Bends.
The band did not have a settled name during this period, having dropped "On a Friday" temporarily, but not having come up with anything better yet. The band's working title was "Shindig", which survived long enough for Thom to spray paint it on his acoustic guitar case, but by the time of their next 'proper' demo in april 1991 (for which two songs from this 1990 tape would be substantially developed), they had reverted to "On a Friday".
15 songs are included on the cassette:
Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill
Somebody
Mr. B/Jerusalem
What Is That You See?
Everyone Needs Someone to Hate
Upside Down
The Greatest Shindig of the World
Give It Up
How Can You Be Sure?
Life with the Big F
Keep Strong
Rattlesnake
Burning Bush
Tell Me Bitch
New Generation
Apparently there is also a 14 track version with different sequence and some alternate titles.
All the members were by this point at different Universities around the country, but reconvened over the summer, with the exception of Phil who was in Ireland. In order to keep recording and rehearsing, the band drafted in school friend Nigel Powell, who had recorded some previous demos for the band, to keep the drum stool warm. The Clifton Hampden tracks were recorded over a number of weeks with this line up, in between Jonny took the four-track home with him where he, Thom and Colin would continue working on the tracks. When Phil returned the band recorded another demo track in rehearsal, 'What Is That You See?'. 'The Greatest Shindig Of The World' - which would be rewritten as 'Maquiladora' - and 'How Can You be Sure?' would end up as b-sides on singles from The Bends.
The band did not have a settled name during this period, having dropped "On a Friday" temporarily, but not having come up with anything better yet. The band's working title was "Shindig", which survived long enough for Thom to spray paint it on his acoustic guitar case, but by the time of their next 'proper' demo in april 1991 (for which two songs from this 1990 tape would be substantially developed), they had reverted to "On a Friday".
Cassette
The "artwork" for this tape does not seem to be contemporary, but rather something created after the tape was leaked more than 10 years after it was originally circulated.