Wednesday 10 September 2014

Camberwell Now – "The Ghost Trade" (Ink Records ‎– INK 19) 1986


An definite improvement on “Meridian” was Camberwell Now's debut LP, “The Ghost Trade”. Starting off with old This Heat number, “Working Nights” it begins to sound less like solo Wyatt, and more like Camberwell Now; although far inferior to This Heats version,as heard on The “Live in Amsterdam” bootleg, it misses the lead guitar melody provided by the absent Charles Bullen.

“Sitcom” sustains the standard sufficiently,to excuse the blatant disco of “Speculative Fiction”.

This fine album finishes off with the classic “Green Lantern”,and the title track, which marks some kind of a return to form.

Tracklist:

Working Nights 7:41
Sitcom 4:40
Wheat Futures 6:11
Speculative Fiction 6:09
Green Lantern 3:11
The Ghost Trade 11:11
 

6 comments:

diego said...

Thaanks a lot for Camberwell Now discography
Greetings from Mexico

Anonymous said...

thanks you very fucking much! from chile :3

Jonny Zchivago said...

My fucking pleasure.....have you seen the live Camberwell Now stuff....there's a new one coming up soon too.

/Jörg, Sweden said...

Cheers. Bought this on LP in 1986. Missed a gig with This Heat in Lund, southern Sweden (near Malmö), in July 1983 due to the fact that the Residents played in Copenhagen the same day...but I managed to catch This Is Not This Heat in Elsinore/Helsingør (next to the "Hamlet Castle", Kronborg), ½ an hour north of Copenhagen 2 years ago, so...there you go.

Charles Hayward has a new album out now, (Being There);

https://www.discogs.com/Charles-Hayward-Begin-Anywhere/release/13483831

https://youtu.be/I8pQlygClhQ

DAN GUSTAVO said...

THANX!

DAN GUSTAVO said...

THANX!