 Mark poking some balls on a table Click for a piccy of the cover. |
Hi kids and welcome to our first throbbing aibum with a big fist on the cover featuring
the best of the Hit The North sessions. Hit The North took to the air on Tuesday the 28th of August 1990 and quickly became a firm favourite with today's youth with the nice long hair. 0nly joking. From the start we knew we had to have a live band to make up for the glaring inadequacies of the presenter, and that was even before Lardy Boy Riley shambled on the scene. Since those heady early days full of early head we've had a top cabaret turn on every show we've ever done apart lrom the ones where we haven't which isn't very many. Each week a van load of unsuspecting innocents undergo the humilialng expenrience of intimate strip search at the hands of the BBC's rigorous security police for the privilege of perfoming on the pop- pickers' fave rave show. The bands perform in a small padded cell off the legendary basement snooker room (pictured here with the finer points of the game being demonstrated by our gorgeous male model). This room is normally used as a recreaton area for the symphony orchestra who jam next door. We're not allowed in the proper orchestral studo because apparently alcoholic breath fumes rust the harp strings. Incidentally the show is now on Wednesdays at 10.10pm on Radio 5, and I'd like to pay my personal tribute to the guys who engineer the sessions (Nicko, Smtfy Uncle Tony and the Boy Robertshaw) coz they'll batter me if don't. And who can blame them So here's the first four bands and I'd like to pay my personal tribute to how great they sound coz theyll batter me if I don't. Oh, I already said that. Is that the time aleady? Must be off, I have supermarkets to open and pens to fill. Hang loose (only joking) Mark Radcliffe Oxford Road, Manchester. March '92. |
