4,000,000 Telephones' self-titled first album is available for the first time on CD after 20 years out of circulation. The album, originally released on the band's own label, has acquired the status of a lost masterpiece, and has been re-released in response to a steady flow of requests.
Originally launching the album on their own Bunker label, the band signed to Summerhouse Records where they released two singles and a second album.
But it was their debut album that defined the Telephones' characteristic sound and built up a fanatical following for their extraordinary live shows. Their angry, angsty, half-sung and half-shouted lyrics, spliced snatches of throwaway sounds and insistent brand of hard-edged avant-garde funk were several years ahead of its time, and contemporary comparisons with groups like Chakk, 23 Skidoo and The Fall were always just a bit wide of the mark.
Touted in late 1985 in the Melody Maker as one of the bands ..most likely to.., the Telephones very nearly did, and left behind an intense emotional afterburn in all who experienced their music. Featuring six composers, two singers, a found-sound specialist and an Action Man doll, the band was always likely to self-combust and they eventually split up in the late 1980s after a spectacularly successful tour of Germany.
The band are temporarily reforming to launch the re-released album, and members Jack Rabelais, Malcolm Tent, Eg, Carl, Richard and Rick are reviving the album for performance and developing new material.
Hey 4,000,000 TELEPHONES, wir brauchen DEINE Stimme!
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Hi Richard, Long time - Chapterhouse is still looking good. Would have msg you but its turned off all the time! Crazy women fans still chasing after you???
Check this site out- you'd be able to paste your live concerts onto bullitins for all your fans.
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I promise I'll get back to Lincoln for a night out when your not busy (never?), tell Dave Clayton all is well and get him to look me up.
HallelvijaH !
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Thanks for the calls!
...btw!...I have piles of
answering machines over here,
in my head!...interested?
Nice price! Since were friends!
:) from Rotterdam!
Thanks for the toonz download link... sounds good... I can remember the lyrics and everything. Hope all is going well wi you ol pank rockers, We demand more gigs!! t-ra. adam
Don't recall Mental Health and 4,000,000 Telephones ever playing on the same bill but, through the boozy 1980's haze, I do remember us being at each other's gigs. Still got your first album from back then!
