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Caught in a Landslide

I'm finally ready to give ezarchive another try. It look like I'll be able to share full-quality MP3s both for download and to play in an embedded flash player. I'm glad that I gave it another shot today before taking advantage of apple.com's Black Friday sale on .Mac. I had a subscription to that last year but I definitely didn't use it as much as I could've.

So, the songs that I've wanted to share with you come from a radio session at WKPS that I did my sophomore year at Penn State on 11/21/98. Unbelievable Truth were coming through town opening for Tori Amos at the big campus arena. Somehow we got in touch with the band and were able to get them in the studio the afternoon before the show. Another DJ and I spent an hour or so on the air with them while they talked with us and played a few songs. Any recordings of the interview that may have existed are long lost, but for the past 8 years I've carried around a minidisc with the recordings of the 4 songs that they played. I finally got a hold of a new minidisc player that let me easily transfer the songs onto my computer, so here they are.

For those of you who don't know, Unbelievable Truth was made up of three musicians - Andy Yorke, Jason Moulster, and Nigel Powell. Andy's familiar last name brought the band much of their attention, and in the end may have been the cause of much of the pressure that ended Unbelievable Truth. They tried their best to distance themselves from that; before the interview their manager made sure that we understood that the band would walk out if we mentioned the "R" word. No problem, I remember that we had a pretty good conversation even though I was probably one of the more bumbling interviewers they've encountered. We discussed Andy living in Russia, watching U2's Zoo TV video on the bus, crazy guitar lines that only Graham Coxon can play, and touring with Tori. At the end of it, we were given a couple of tickets to that night's show. Of course, the arena show couldn't compete with watching them play in a cramped radio studio just on the other side of the glass from me. So, here's what they played for us. I believe that two of these songs are on their then-current album, Almost Here (buy here), one is a b-side, and the other wouldn't show up on record until their next album.

1. Settle Down
2. Who's To Know
3. Stone
4. Landslide

And if this has piqued your interest in these guys, Andy has started to work on some new recordings and some European gigs. It looks like Jason and Nigel are joining him, at least in the studio, but at this point it hasn't been called a new Unbelievable Truth record.

note: You should be able to listen to these in an embedded flash player when you click on the links, or you can save them to your disk by right-clicking. Enjoy.
Of course, if anyone objects to these songs being made available, just let me know.

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Posted by: J2 at November 27, 2006 04:39 PM

Posted by: Jerad at November 27, 2006 04:54 PM

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Posted by: Jerad at December 12, 2006 09:58 AM

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