Justin Anderson, Aki Omori and Michael Lord. Produced by Blunck and Johnson. Managed by John Hollingsworth. Videos by Douglas Hart.
Influences
Baggy, Daisy age, Acid House, Bubblegum pop.
Sounds Like
The Times March 04, 2006
Soundtrack your life.
A mod-ist man
Interview by Pauline McLeod
The actor Bill Nighy on the 1960s tunes that have stayed with him.
Queasy ryder.
I am particularly fond of a band called Freaky Realistic and always associate their single Koochie Ryder with Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, which I was in at the National Theatre. One of the scariest things in the world is opening a play and I remember the following morning, with the horror of the first night over, putting on Koochie Ryder and launching myself all over the house in untrammelled joy.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2062299,00.html
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Freaky+Realistic
phase_ - 14-Jan-05 07:16 AM
I don't know the true details of what happened with this band but I have to say that it seemed to be a classic example of a project being completely fucked up by the record company. I had got hold of the Frealism album promo on cassette a year or so before it's actual release and we all loved it. It sounded really refreshing compared to all the progressive house I'd been flooded with around that time. The whole thing flowed along nicely with interludes in the style of a radio staion called Frealism FM which promoted "Frealism" as a way of life. The first single (Something New) was fine, but perhaps the sales were slow or something because by the time Koochie Ryder came out, the main single version had been pushed to track 3 as if it was something to be ashamed of..? My dissapointment grew with the release of the Leonard Nimoy single - I eagerly expected to hear the Full Frealistic version from the promo featured but instead it had been replaced with a shity, over produced "extended version" and bunch of mediocre remixes. I can only assume that this was the decision of some visionless cunt at Polydor. Anyway, when the album was finally released it had completely lost the vibe of the promo. Many of the versions had been altered for the worse, some tracks were missing completely and the whole interlude thing had been totally abandoned. Freaky Realistic imploded soon after that. A damn shame in all. I had people begging me for copies of the promo for years afterwords.
I'm not sure that "Frealism" would be relevant now but it was perfect in 1992 and no-one had a proper chance to notice. All because of what appears to be just bad A&R decisions.But I guess that's just freakyreality.
YEEEAAAHH!!! "HELL DICSO EP" OUT NOW!!! HELL DISCO EP TRACK LIST: 1-HELL DISCO 2-BLEEPER 3-DOG WALK 4-CAT WALK 5-DISKO ANGEL 6-LOVEREVO 7-Mangepa/Spacebooks kaz rmx
At one time or another I went through three copies of Frealism, I gave the first two away, not because it wasn't great, but too spread the word. The third copy I lost after leaving it a bar in France. Still breaks my heart.
I remember Leonard Nimoy was given Single of the Week, in Time Out.
