The Visitors
Title: The Visitors - Company: Phantom (Aust) - Cat No: (ph 4)
Format: 12" EP - Released: 1980 - Status: Deleted
All of the Visitors recordings emanated from one afternoon session at Palms Studio, a small 8-track that was mainly used for radio ads and jingles. Charles Fisher booked it for the Visitors to record demos. The band set up live and more or less played their current set.
Track Listing:
Side 1:
- Brother John ( D Tek ) (4:26 m:s)
- Life Spill ( D Tek ) (3:42 m:s)
Side 2:
- Journey By Sledge ( D Tek / M Sisto ) (4:30 m:s)
- Hell Yes ( D Tek ) (3:17 m:s)
The Musicians:
Mark Sisto - Vocals & Backing Vocals / Deniz Tek - Guitar
Ron Keeley - Drums / Pip Hoyle - Piano, Organ & Backing Vocals
Steve Harris - Bass / Angie Pepper - Backing Vocals
Technical Details:
Produced by Deniz Tek and Charles Fisher / Engineered by Alistair McFarlane / Recorded live at Palms Studio 1979 / Mixed by Rob Younger
Of Interest:
The only overdubs were some vocal parts. The quality of the live performance that day was such that Phantom Records wanted to put out an EP of the best cuts. That is what appears here. This EP features guitar parts in Life Spill which were edited out of later releases, and is a completely different mix to the full-length albums that came later.
Soon after the Visitors session, Deniz produced the Lipstick Killers first single at the inexpensive Palms. Thereafter, it became thought of as rather "hip" to record there, and Palms was elevated from obscurity to being the site of many Sydney punk and New Wave recordings in the early '80s.
Vivien Johnson wrote the only definitive article on the band.
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