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It's Fire Engines Week in Outsideleft: Getting to Know the Fire Engines A video collection from the Fire Engines

It's Fire Engines Week in Outsideleft: Getting to Know the Fire Engines

A video collection from the Fire Engines

by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: August, 2024

approximate reading time: minutes

Get Up and Use Me, Meat Whiplash, Big Gold Dream, Candyskin, Everything's Roses...

In light of the new, extensive, Cherry Red retrospective, 'chrome dawns' the OL Fire Engines Week feels... Just right. So how about a little video introduction? Just right too. In his recent piece about legendary and lost post punk band Rema-Rema, Alan Rider found nothing but a tiny fragmented online footprint. From the early 80s, The Fire Engines material that can be found online is often equally scratchy and unkempt. Maybe all music in the future will be disregarded as media codecs change and the no longer upscalable resolution deemed unbroadcastable.  Where will we be then? Well I know where I’ll be. Meanwhile, by way of introduction, five Fire Engines videos that show the band smouldering, crackling and wholly burning. This is some of the most explosive sounds short of the MC5 that pop music has ever made. I-n-c-e-n-d-i-a-r-y, some people might have it.

GET UP AND USE ME

MEAT WHIPLASH

BIG GOLD DREAM

CANDYSKIN

EVERYTHING'S ROSES


Essential Information 

It's Fire Engines Week
It's Fire Engines Week in Outsideleft
Getting to Know the Fire Engines
A Dayglo Mohair Jumper - An interview with Davy Henderson
Everything Happens So Fast
Cheekbones and Speed
chrome dawns

LamontPaul
Founder & Publisher

Publisher, Lamontpaul founded outsideleft with Alarcon in 2004 and is hanging on, saying, "I don't know how to stop this, exactly."

Lamontpaul portrait by John Kilduff painted during an episode of John's TV Show, Let's Paint TV


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