Biting Tongues - After The Click (Retrospective 1980-89)
UK 2003 CD; LTM: LTMCD 2371

1:58 R.R.O.R.
4:06 Heart Disease
4:04 You Can Choke Like That
2:40 Reflector
5:50 Denture Beach
3:25 Dirt For 485
3:53 Iyahbhoone
3:18 44
4:56 Aair Care
7:21 Evening State/Lock Up State
2:45 Feverhouse Pt 1
4:57 Meat Mask Separatist
4:50 Compressor
4:56 Double Gold St Paul
4:26 House of Hatchets
6:05 Everywhere But Here (live)

Release date:

September 2003

Credits:

1. R.O.R.R.
From Don't Heal (Dark Room Skin Transfers).
Recorded at Drone Studios, 17 August 1980.
Produced by Stuart James
Colin Seddon: bass
Howard WaImsley: tenor sax
Graham Massey: guitar
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Biting Tongues: tapes

2. Heart Disease
From Don't Heal (The White Valise).
Recorded at Pennine Studios, January 1981.
Produced by Stuart James
Ken Hollings: text/voice and klix drinks
Stuart James: surface scarring
Howard WaImsley: tenor sax, voice and percussion
Graham Massey: guitar, voice and percussion
Colin Seddon: bass
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Biting Tongues: tapes

3. You Can Choke Like That
From Don't Heal (Dark Room Skin Transfers).
Recorded at Drone Studios, 17 August 1980.
Produced by Stuart James
Ken Hollings: text/voice
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax
Graham Massey: electric violin and glissando guitar
Colin Seddon: bass
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Biting Tongues: tapes

4. Reflector
From Live It.
Recorded at Bootleg Studios, 1981.
Engineered by Roger Salmon and Stuart James
Eddie Sherwood: dalinian drums
All instruments, tapes and voices: BITING TONGUES

5. Denture Beach
From Live It.
Recorded 1981.
Produced by Stuart James and engineered by Tony Roberts
Colin Seddon: bass
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax and cans
Graham Massey: green ringer guitar
Eddie Sherwood: linens
Ken Hollings: wash tank and tr808 drum machine

6. Dirt for 485
From Libreville.
Recorded at Bootleg Studios, August 1982.
Engineered by Roger Salmon and Dave Pringle
Ken Hollings: text/voice
Colin Seddon: claps, poles, pick axe and voice
Graham Massey: claps, poles and voice
Eddie Sherwood: claps, poles and voice
Howard Walmsley: claps, poles, voice and cr78 drum machine

7. lyabhoone
From Northern Lights.
Recorded 1982.
Produced by Stuart James and engineered by Tony Roberts
Graham Massey: guitar, violins and clarinet
Colin Seddon: bass
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax and umbel
Ken Hollings: clarinet and percussion
Biting Tongues: tapes

8. 44
From Libreville.
Recorded at Bootleg Stubs, August 1982.
Engineered by Roger Salmon and Dave Pringle
Ken Hollings: text/voice and short wave
Colin Seddon: bass
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Graham Massey: can and soprano Iguegliphone
Howard Walmsley: sheet metal and decks

9. Aair Care
From Libreville.
Recorded at Revolution Studios, August 1982.
Produced by Roland Beelan
Ken Hollings: text/voice
Colin Seddon: bass and claptrap
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax and double sax
Graham Massey: guitar and half-clarinet
Eddie Sherwood: drums

10. Evening State / Lock Up State
Recorded at Cavalier Studios, June 1982.
Produced by Roland Beelan. Engineered by Tun Harris.
Ken Hollings: text/voice, piano and percussion
Eddie Sherwood: drums, rototoms and voice
Colin Seddon: bass, piano and voice
Graham Massey: electric and acoustic guitars, trumpet and voice
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax, piano, voice and percussion
Biting Tongues: tunes

11. Feverhouse Pt. 1
From the Feverhouse OST.
Recorded at Bootleg and Spirit Studios, July 1983.
Produced by Dave Pringle and Biting Tongues.
Howard WaImsley: piano
Graham Massey: reed trombone, morello loop diary, trumpet, bone and boettes

12. Meatmask Separatist
From Trouble Hand ep.
Recorded at Out of the Blue, May 1885.
Phil Kirby: drums
Howard WaImsley: tenor sax, glass cuiqua, lowenbrau shakers, ams piano
Graham Massey: soprano sax, glass cuiqua, balescha drums and pyrex gongs
Mark Derby: bass
Tom Barnish: trombone

13. Compressor
From Compressor ep.
Recorded at Yellow Two by Chris Nagle, 1986.
Howard Walmsley: soprano sax and percussion
Tom Barnish: trombone
Phil Kirby: drums
Paddy Steer: bass
Graham Massey: guitar, vocals, vss100 sampler and akai s800

14. Double Gold St Paul
From Recharge.
Recorded at Spirit and Square One
by Graham Massey, November 1988.
Howard Walmsley: soprano sax
Graham Massey: atari st, 909 drums, guitar, h1 sampler, flutes, d50, syncussion and r8 drums

15. House of Hatchets
From Read Over Ears compilation.
Recorded at Yellow Two by Chris Nagle, February 1887.
Phil Kirby: drums
Paddy Steer: bass and bass balls bass
Tom Barnish: trombone
Graham Massey: vocals, dx7, vss100 and akai900
Howard Walmsley: tenor and soprano saxes

16. Everywhere But Here (live)
Previously unreleased.
Recorded live at The Venue, Landon, 7 April 1983
Ken Hollings: text/voice
Colin Seddon: drums
Eddie Sherwood: drums
Graham Massey: guitar
Howard Walmsley: tenor sax, voice
Biting Tongues: tapes

Tracks 1 to 11 and 16 written by Seddon, Massey, Walmsley, Hollings and Sherwood
Track 12 written by Massey, Walmsley, Barnish, Kirby and Derby
Track 13 written by Massey, Walmsley, Barnish, Kirby and Steer
Track 14 written by Massey and Walmsley
Trask 15 written by Massey, Walmsley, Barnish, Kirby and Steer
All tracks Copyright Control.
All material licensed from Biting Tongues.
Colour images by Graham Massey.
Artworked by Julien Potter @ The Boxroom.
Thanks to Frank Brinkhuis, Alan Hempsall, Ken Hollings, Klive Humberstone, Neil Jones, Graham Massey, James Nice, Pierre Vale, Howard Walmsley

Press Release:

BITING TONGUES
Artist: Biting Tongues
Title: "After the Click (Retrospective 1980-89)"
Cat No: LTMCD 2371 (16 tracks)
Released: September 2003
Barcode: 502 4545 2433 21
Price:

LTM are pleased to announce a comprehensive programme of CD reissues by Biting Tongues, the post-punk avant-funkers from Manchester who recorded for cult labels including Factory, New Hormones and Cut Deep.

The first three CDs, due for release in September 2003, include Compressed (LTMCD 2373), their collected works for Factory between 1985 and 1987, Recharge (LTMD 2376), the dance/electronica album recorded in 1988 by Graham Massey in tandem with Quadrastate by 808 State, and After The Click (LTMCD 2371) a comprehensive career overview which draws from ail phases of the Tongues' career between 1980 and 1989, and includes several cuts which will not be released on any other CD.

Stand-out tracks on After The Click include Heart Disease (1981), Compressor (1987), Double Gold St Paul (1989), and the live cut Everywhere But Here, never studio recorded but here performed live at The Venue in April 1983.

One of Manchester's more adventurous groups, the band combined angular funk rhythms with musique concrete, and backed live performance with films and slides. An audiovisual laboratory, if you will. The Tongues went on to record five albums, including Don't Heal (1981), Live It (1981), Libreville (1982), Feverhouse (1985) and Recharge (1989). For an 80s band they clearly had a lot of 90s musical language going on: Northern industrial psychedelia at its uncompromising best.

Live It!: On May 29th 2003 the original Biting Tongues line-up will play live at the ICA in London, comprising Ken Hollings, Colin Seddon, Howard Walmsley, Eddie Sherwood and Graham Massey. Also on the ICA bill are Crispy Ambulance, with whom the Tongues shared fuzz boxes and a basement studio. The last time the two bands shared a bill was at - karma! - the ICA on New Year's Day 1981.