Quickspace Initially, in a premonition of the rotating-squad system employed by many of today's top football teams, line-ups changed drastically and dramatically with band members leaving, coming back, and then leaving again. Sometimes all during the same song. Legend has it that uncertainty over who was and wasn't in the group became so confusing that Quickspace shows are said to have even taken place with no official members whatsoever taking the stage. One night at Camden's Dublin Castle, former Faith Healer, Tom Cullinan walked in on one of these unfortunate performances. Though memories have faded, more reliable accounts recall that his attempts to call a halt to the proceedings were hampered by the beer-sticky floor, which left him rooted to the spot. It is widely held that this was the moment that a more settled team was arrived at. Setting up their own Kitty Kitty Corporation to release music instinctively at odds with current trends, Quickspace remained enigmatic throughout their existence. |
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Their chaotic, frenzied live shows have inspired, baffled and entertained across icy Northern Europe, and outings to Spain and Italy have spread the gospel to the balmy south. Veterans of four John Peel sessions (the band recorded a cover of the Misunderstood’s neo-psychedelic masterpiece 'I Can Take You To The Sun' for his 60th birthday), and in the wake of the classic double lp 'Precious Falling' and a brace of spikey pop classic singles (Happy Song #2 and The Lobbalong Song), to discover their new opus proclaims 'The Death of Quickspace' is a point of concern for all not-quite-right minded individuals. The album was once again recorded in a barn in the wilds of Staffordshire, but this time in the knowledge that the pine forest that had sheltered them on previous visits was due for the chop. By day our intrepid heroes skipped through the woods to the tune of bird song (A Rose), and Tom's bohemian violin reels (Lobbalong Song), while as night fell Nina Pascalle's caterwauling (Gloriana), and the plague-ground taunt that is "Munchers" only just kept the devils at bay. This is not, however, simply a story of Blair-Witch style lo-fi paranoia as the story ends on a high note. Worldwide distribution for one of their releases at last. |
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The Kitty Kitty Corporation released “The Death of Quickspace” on March 20th, 2000 in the U.K. The album came out on Domino Records in the rest of Europe and the rest of the World on Matador Records. Praise from the Guardian for 'The Death of Quickspace': "Quickspace live on their own planet and suffer few comparisons. and then..... Tom Cullinan released a complete cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' LP under the pseudonym Dougal Reed, but no new Quickspace songs materialised for over three years. In 2003, an unexpected single was released on the Italian Homesleep label, but it would take two more years until a completely renewed Quickspace featuring Cullinan, Ed Grimshaw (drums), Louis Jack-Jones (bass) and ex-Faith Healerette Roxanne Stephen (vocals) released their next single 'Pissed Off Boy' on the Domino label in 2005. After this Cullinan reformed Th' Faith Healers for some concerts in early 2006 but there has been no further activity under the Quickspace banner.
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| Records/tracks released by quickspace other than those that appeared on the KittyKitty Label : | ||
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| Superplus E.P. [Label: Domino Recording Co., RUG40CD] | ![]() |
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| Godz Is Not A Put-On L.P. [Label: Lissy's, Liss 5] The Wiffenspoof Song Other artists contributed to the L.P. also. |
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| The Camden Crawl CD L.P. [Label: Love Train Recordings, pube07] | ![]() |
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| NME C96 [New Musical Express Mail Order Only Cassette Tape] |
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| Amigo 7" [Label: Elefant Records, ER-182] | ![]() |
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| Pissed Off Boy 7" [Label:Domino RUG197] | ![]() |
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