{"product_id":"the-courtesy-group-2nd-city-liquor-cd","title":"The Courtesy Group - 2nd City Liquor CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eSince its acclaimed, and BBC 6-played debut, ‘Tradesman’s Entrance’, TCG’s line-up has changed considerably, with\u003cbr\u003eoriginal guitarist and keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield departing to form GUILLEMOTS in 2005 and DELTA drumbo Bird\u003cbr\u003eleaving to play guitar in THE NATURE CENTRE.\u003cbr\u003eAfter traipsing the length and breadth of the Birmingham \u0026amp; Black Country area for a replacement as gifted as\u003cbr\u003eDangerfield, TCG’s founder and verbalist Al Hutchins and longstanding bass anchor Dave Cochrane (HEAD OF DAVID,\u003cbr\u003eGOD, SWEET TOOTH, ICE, JESU and currently TERMINAL CHEESECAKE) finally found the Japanese guitar maestro\u003cbr\u003eHidehiko Nagai living five minutes away from singer Al Hutchins’ Smethwick base, after he had answered an advertisement\u003cbr\u003efor a ‘Sound Scientist’ who “wished to emulate no one, but admired the likes of Funkadelic, Can, Spike\u003cbr\u003eMilligan and Howlin’ Wolf.“\u003cbr\u003eOriginally recruiting the improbably named Leo Crabtree, before losing him to THE PRODIGY, TCG trialled other\u003cbr\u003edrummers, before accidentally recruiting drummer Dave Baker and bassist Saul Hillier - the rhythm\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esection of local\u003cbr\u003espazz-meat-rock racketeers MILLS \u0026amp; BOON in 2006. This created a twin-bass attack, which seemed too dangerous to\u003cbr\u003eroam the world at large, so it stayed to bolster an already driving rhythm section.\u003cbr\u003eFar from being the ‘difficult second album’, the songs you now hear on ‘Second City Liquor’ have been truly inhabited;\u003cbr\u003eorganic, surrealistic, everyday, psycho-geographical slices of lives from a range of different perspectives: from the\u003cbr\u003egoing-mad dervish of BRICK HOUSE BLUES to the “Kyrie Eleison\/I’m on medication!” galley-stomp of IN THE ROCK, ON\u003cbr\u003eTHE ROCK, through the Afro-flecked calypso of “K.P’s day off\/ being worked” in WHEN CLOSED to the bad-hair\u003cbr\u003eday\/aerodrome extraordinaire that is A HECKORY BASE DAY.\u003cbr\u003e“I used to claim that when folk saw us they were witnessing a political rally held by out of work circus clowns, but\u003cbr\u003ealthough there is a travelling-medicine-show madness to what we present live, the songs reflect a range of different\u003cbr\u003eperspectives and emotions,” says Hutchins. “I’d say we are more interested in making little movies encompassing\u003cbr\u003elandscapes, colours and tales-than all that tedious sing yer friggin’ diary stuff ! We have to feel as surprised and\u003cbr\u003eexcited by the songs we’re crafting (sonically and lyrically) as you will, otherwise why bother?”\u003cbr\u003eMarmite to most musical confectionery, set apart in their own musical galaxy, Birmingham's own tunemongering\u003cbr\u003egrinesters, The Courtesy Group, survive against fashion, mediocrity, systematic dullness and impossible odds: live,\u003cbr\u003ethey remain a robust antidote to a fully digitalised itunes world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased August 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info license\" id=\"license\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrack listing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. At The End Of The Credits 02:35\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Brick House Blues 03:01\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Back Out The Fuss 03:21\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Approval Bums 02:48\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Cheapskate Belittles 03:47\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. In The Rock, On The Rock 06:14\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. The Heart Hogger 03:39\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Closing (Seque) 00:31\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. When Closed 03:54\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. Reacreation Point 05:39\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. One Red Stripe Across The Sky 03:05\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. Play Some Music, Play Some Music (Seque) 01:25\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. A Heckory Base Day 05:59\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14. None More Lovely Than A Lost Cause 02:38\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Centrala Cafe\u0026Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39502704541869,"sku":"6","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/7904\/1197\/products\/a3754788247_16.jpg?v=1617009065","url":"https:\/\/centrala-cafe-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-courtesy-group-2nd-city-liquor-cd","provider":"Centrala Cafe \u0026 Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}