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“"Radio Sweat" was all recorded and edited together by myself (Phil Platt) at my "Bootleg Studios" (The jingles in between were given to me by CP to edit in later once the actual tracks were recorded and mixed down, another album I did was called "Slime Boy" which was as crazy as "Radio Sweat". It was had a lot of fun doing these albums with what was the Albertos really. CP Lee, Bruce Mitchell, Simon White, Moggs Morris, Jimmy Hibbert and John Scott”

“A belated thanks punkette! :-D”

“Wow, my earlier question is answered, however, the facts are not quite correct, it was actually me who built the studio at Rogers "Big Top toys" I used the wood from Elsie Tanners "Western Front" Boutique, Roger was not sole owner as I was 50% partner (and he was the sleeping one at that) the few sessions he did record were all caberet stuff, it was also myself who bought the gear from Revo as Andy Mac was a mate of mine (That will be why Biting Tongues had to use Bootleg mid album because we had the Otari 8 track machine!), all the punk and rock stuff was mostly booked in by Bruce Mitchell and was recorded by myself, in actual fact nobody wanted to use Roger as he had lost much of his hearing and monitored on the threshold of pain. I originally met him through Tony Roberts and Chris Gill over in Whalley Range, at that time he was in "Uncle Rotters Pigbin Band" we later teamed up to form "Earthbird" an all original band playing songs penned by myself (this would later become "The Ride”

“That's a great addition thanks, did I do the session or was it Roger? Phil”

“Recorded Pauls vocalsl on a few tracks on this album at his home studio in Hale”

“Hi Les, Glad you enjoyed the article, I used to play with Oorman at the Jules as well, great days and even wednesdays were packed out! Best, Phil”

“Hi, Cruise Missike Blues was recorded in Bootleg Studios in the earlt eighties by Adam? (Kid Khaki)Mike King, I did the recording and if I remember right it was a 45rpm limited pressing, the sesioon was booked in by Bruce Mitchell of the Albertos, Charlie Parker were just another incarnation of Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoius anyway as were 'The Sons of Charlie Parker, (the other half of the Berts) in fact the same musicians had loads of different bands, Heavt Duty, CP Lee Mystery Guild, 48 Chairs, Bet Lynches Legs, The Smirks, The Good The Bad and the indifferent to name a few, all these bands were the same people in various formats! clever really, a band for all occasions!”

“Yes TMFD (The Man From Delmonte) did record an album at the studios but under the name of Capt Swing, (see the contract artifact I uploaded on this post, however from what I remeber it was just TMFD in disguise!”

“The Days were managed by a music journalist called John Slater, I recorded them at some point at my 'New Underground, studios which was in my houses basement in Disley, the record company was also called 'The New Underground' and had it's offices at my music shop in Hazel Grove, see news cutting:”

“Thanks Abigail, looking through my archives for 'Knives' stuff I found this and about 160 more 35mm slides of Bootleg and 9 more singles from Dave Powell, Freshies and Victim, I rushed out to buy a slide scanner and am currently looking at stuff I have not seen for 32 years eeek!

Bonus is that other memories come back with them!!”