Meet The Ants

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Album Info

Release Date: 2007

Label: Dunnic Records

Compilation bootleg LP of unreleased studio material.

A1 & A2: studio recordings for EG Records, outtakes from Jubilee soundtrack (Chappell Recording Studios, 50 New Bond Street, London W1, recorded 14 July 1977)
A3 to A8: demo recordings (Free Range Studios, 22 Tavistock Street, London WC1, recorded 30 Aug 1977)
B1 to B4 & B7: studio recordings for Decca Records (Decca Studios, 165 Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6, recorded circa Aug 1978)
B5: demo recording (Virtual Earth Studios, 10 Winchester Mews, London NW3, recorded 6 Apr 1978)

A1 was officially released in 1978 on the Jubilee soundtrack, but with Mark Ryan's guitar solo replaced by a new take by Johnny Bivouac
Part of A3 can be heard in the actual film Jubilee, coming from a TV set tuned to Top Of The Pops
A4 was due to appear on cancelled DVD Digital Tenderness in 2006, backing 8mm film of the Ants in concert 1977. (Copies from a leaked test pressing circulate as bootlegs and have been uploaded to Youtube.)

A6 officially released in 2000 in better sound quality on Antbox
B6 is the officially released version from Young Parisians, but in inferior sound quality and sped up


Some songs are mistitled on the sleeve:
A4 is mistitled as "Dirk Wears White Socks" (some sources claim this is correct for the song itself rather than the album)
B2 is mistitled as "Juanito The Bandit"

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