Search - Lords of the New Church :: Stories at Dusk

Cheap Iintroduction to Some Rare Tracks

T.B. | 04/07/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

""Stories At Dusk" is a low budget (or should be) collection posing as an introduction to The Lords of The New Church but what it really is, is a hastily thrown together collection of somewhat difficult to find on cd songs recorded both in the studio and live after the band left IRS Records in late 1985 and were originally released as singles and EPs on small European Record Labels like Bondage International and Perfect Beat. During this period, The Lords experienced several years of instability where the original bass player Dave Tregunna and drummer Nicky Turner left the band at different points and later Tregunna returned for their final year of touring.



So what you get here is the four mostly excellent studio songs from the "Psycho Sex" EP (Things Go Bump, Follow, Bang Bang Baby Maybe, Real Bad Time) and the "Dance With Me" re-recorded in 1987 "slow" version and it's B-Side, their cover of "Walking The Dog." These tracks were recorded with new bass player Grant Fleming who replaced Tregunna for about 2 years starting in early '86. They also used a 2nd guitarist on some of the sessions and live during this period, Alistair Symons (rip).



The last four tracks are all live cuts from 3 shows in small venues in October of 1988, only months before they broke up. These tracks along with 8 others originally appeared on the live cd "Second Coming" released in 1989. By this tour, Nicky Turner had left the band to be replaced on drums by Danny Fury and Dave Tregunna returned on bass and they were back down to a four piece.



It should be noted the jewelcase art tracklist is wrong. This is the correct order and songs included. "Making Time" is unfortunately not included.



Dance With Me

Real Bad Time

Walking The Dog

Things Go Bump

Follow

Bang Bang Baby Maybe

Method To My Madness (live)

Question of Temperature (live)

New Church (live)

Lords Prayer (live)



Overall, worth picking up for completests, but a much better choice would be to find and buy the 2 cd set, "Lords Prayer II, which has the 6 studio tracks noted on this release, plus the studio version of "Making Time" as well as 5 previously unreleased demos, the rare cut from the "Tapheads" movie and a live version of "Route 66." And as a bonus, it includes a second cd featuring a bootlegged show from their first tour in 1982."