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Album overview
KYRA – Right here I Am, I At all times Am (twenty fifth Anniversary Reissue)
Broken Items
Restricted Peach colored Vinyl / DL
Out now.
Initially launched on Vinyl Japan in 1998, the one and solely album by Kyra from Thee Headcoatees will get a twenty fifth Anniversary reissue together with 5 bonus tracks. That is one in all our favorite albums of the 90’s and we’re over the moon to lastly have it out on Broken Items, say the label. Ged Babey is happy too. It provides him an excuse to get on his hotline to Medway heroes Dick Scum from Armitage Shanks and Billy Infantile.
You might suppose that you simply don’t know who Kyra is…. however if you’re one of many 100,000 individuals who have watched this, you then do.
She sings lead on this with the Headcoatees and Headcoats and she or he is a drive of nature.
ORIGINAL LP SLEEVENOTES – Kyra (that’s pronounced ‘Keera’) is a Flemish lady who sings punk rock and Chansons with coronary heart and abandon. She first got here to our consideration as one in all Thee famed Headcoatees. The vitality and energy of her efficiency satisfied us that she ought to make an album of her personal. So, recorded dwell and in a method that might make lesser hearts tremble, right here she is, (she at all times is).
I requested Billy Infantile (BC) in regards to the album and Kyra.
(GB) What a voice – you possibly can hear her vitality and vibrant persona shining via within the recordings. Was she enjoyable to work with?
(BC) Sure, Kyra was at all times straightforward and enjoyable to work with.
(GB) Am I proper in considering she is Huddies mum?
(BC) Sure, Kyra was within the Headcoatees. We have been collectively for 15 years. 4 months after we cut up up she found she was pregnant with Huddie.
(GB) When was the final time you listened to the album?
(BC) Ahh, I’ll have heard a monitor right here or these – however principally once we recorded it. I believe it’s basically Thee Headcoats with Kyra.
(GB) I’m planning a cocktail party. Do you suppose it will be superb listening for my friends?
(BC) Will depend on the friends and if you need them to remain for pudding or clear off!
Thanks Billy.
There isn’t a deliberate dinner-party. That was a loaded query – the Hammer Horror fashion screams – the Flemish chanson and Kyra’s at instances harsh voice did make me suppose ‘Preferrred music to do away with undesirable friends who don’t dig cool sounds’. However there’s much more to her than that.
She is superb onstage and has a scream that may strip paint off the partitions, as you possibly can see from the Wild Man clip and listen to from the one on the duvet model of Love In A Void by Kyra and Armitage Shanks.
Did Siouxsie ever sing the road as ‘spunk in my eyes’? Apparently not, as Dick Scum explains:
The one model we had on the time was on the programme One thing Else on VHS tape. I transcribed the phrases as I heard them! That’s additionally why I sing ‘Stick one within the fridge’ as a substitute of Sten weapons in Knightsbridge’ on Armitage Shanks cowl of 1977.
I want we had performed an entire LP with Kyra. She was good. Nonetheless is. She was fearless and humorous.
These takes on the one have been first goes, the guitar suggestions and her screaming a implausible accident. A lot later I discovered that she would have appreciated to have labored with us extra. The sensation was mutual. Her work with Billy and likewise Sexton was unimaginable, instinctive and virtually telepathic. On prime of this she and Billy have been so welcoming to me and now we have a friendship that goes means past music. She informed me that her surname means King in Flemish. That’s about proper. (Dick Scum)
Aside from an excellent model of Orgasm Addict with the Shanks, one other cowl is the Electrical Eels tune Agitated. Only a few individuals may sing it with the identical utter conviction and joyful abandon as Kyra.
The identical goes actually for the remainder of the songs, most of that are written by Billy Infantile. Nobody knew him higher and consequently she was the one different one that may sing these songs with any real authority.
The spotlight of the album maybe is a tremendous cowl of Jacques Brels Marieke, carried out in vastly dramatic trend in Flemish. Then once more the Dads Military ramalama punk of Doodlebug is fairly irresistible to.
Right here I Am, I At all times Am shows the Headcoats on absolute prime type. Recorded dwell and with a sharpness and readability. It truly is a traditional Medway album in opposition to which others ought to be measured.
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All phrases Ged Babey, with due to Dick and Billy for his or her enter.
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