The Astronauts - Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs
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Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs

Label La Vida Es Un Mus ‎– MUS44La Vida Es Un Mus ‎– Mus44
Format Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Barcode 2090503549999
Country UK
Released 2011
Genre Rock
Style New Wave, Post-Punk, Punk, Experimental
A1 Everything Stops For Baby
A2 Protest Song
A3 Sod Us
A4 The Traveller
A5 How Green Was My Valley
B1 Still Talking
B2 Baby Sings Folk Songs
B3 How Long Is A Piece Of String
B4 Amplified World
B5 Midsummer Lullaby
Bass – Max (113)
Drums, Percussion [Synth Percussion] – Ian Cowley
Engineer [Additional Recording At The Crypt. Stevenage] – Simon Jones
Executive-Producer [For Bugle] – Huw Davies
Executive-Producer [For Genious] – Jonathan Barnett
Guitar [Additional Musician] – Bob Green
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Alan Cowley
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Miller
Keyboards, Percussion [Synth Percussion], Guitar, Flute – Phil Thornton
Painting [Cover] – Jan Woolly
Producer – Grant Showbiz
Producer – The Astronauts
Saxophone [Additional Musician] – Nik Turner
Synth, Violin, Backing Vocals – Gordon Walker
Vocals, Backing Vocals, Written-By, Lyrics By, Liner Notes – Mark Wilkins
Correct track-listing on back sleeve; Labels have wrong track order. Tracks recorded on side 1 are mentioned on side 2 and vice-versa.

Lyrics insert with liner notes.

From the insert:

"It was a different world. We made a few EPs and were suddenly offered the chance to make an album. I'd had various songs (or bit of songs) in my head and when we started to rehearse them it came to me that this was not going to be an album that would be easily defined or marketed. But we pressed on in our collective inexperience and eventually we produced a record. Listening to back to it now I'm struck by its innocence and its hap-hazard 'anarcho punk' scene was always going to be essentially peripheral but, nonetheless, that was the movement to which I fel akin, and the songs were a product of that era. Albeit seen through a slighly distorted telescope I would like to thank all the people that made the album. Special mention to Grant Showbiz who managed to harness our aspirations into something tangible and his production was sympathetic and really brings out the 'vibe' of the time. Also, thanks to Nik Turner, legendary space-rock saxophone guru. Lastly, I would like to dedicate this re-release to Max, our bassist who passed away a few years after the initial release.

Many musicians I currently work with weren't born until 7 years after the album originally came out, and in my more nostalgic moments I sit by the fire with my pipe and slippers bewildering them with tales of free tours, Zounds, Here & Now, The Mob, Stone Henge, Meanwhile Gardens, Kif-Kif, Jonathan Barnett, squat gigs, Rock Against Racism and much more. It was a different world and I'm affraid it's not coming back"

Mark Wilkins February 2011

100 copies on green vinyl
400 copies on black vinyl
Barcode (Text and Scanned on sticker (back cover)) – 2090503549999
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etching) – MUS 44 - A1- PETER PAN
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etching) – MUS 44 - B1- HITS THE SUBURBS AGAIN
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