(Live)

Released on Island Masters Records – IMCD 7 – 1976.

Tracks

  1. The Worst Job I Ever Had
  2. This Bloke Came Up To Me
  3. The Worst Job He Ever Had
  4. Squatter And The Ant
  5. In The Lav
  6. Little Flo
  7. Just One Of Those Songs
  8. Winkie Wanky Woo
  9. Bo Duddley
  10. Blind
  11. Top Rank
  12. Cancer
  13. Jump

Sleeve notes

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were appearing on Broadway in the show “Good Evening” when they first happened upon two brilliant new talents. Derek and Clive were working at the time in the toilets of the British Trade Centre. Cook and Moore were quick to see that they had made a major discovery and after much persuasion, including a packet of Craven A and a bottle of Tizer, Derek and Clive agreed to perform at the Electric Lady Studios. With growing assurance they appeared in front of a small, invited audience (Dudley Moore). The record you have bought is a mixture of the two evenings. Once they had mastered which end of the microphone to talk into, Derek and Clive gained enormously in confidence. Their method is basically a stream of unconsciousness, a mixture of Dylan Thomas and Mae West, with overtones of Goethe. At a time when British influence is declining throughout the world, Derek and Clive represent welcome evidence of what this great country could be. They are a ray of hope on a darkening horizon. Their philosophy is both an inspiration to youth and hope for the senile. On this record they discuss fully and frankly the major problems confronting a confused world. Not since Isaac Newton sat in a bath and discovered that apples could stun Archimedes, has such a fully fledged Weltanschauung emerged. Since the recording, Derek and Clive have been besieged by offers, Vegas, The London Palladium, Fiji but they prefer the simple, natural life of the toilets. “There’s a certain rhythm there”, says Derek. “You know where you stand”, states Clive. One cannot but sympathise with them. The seemingly glittering world of ‘Show business’ with its broken marriages, drugs and enormous rewards leaves them uninterested. We can only admire their straightforward point of view. Poets? satirists? philosophers? comedians? social commentators? Derek and Clive sum it up more succinctly. “Just a couple of cxxts” is their frank self-appraisal.

Warning

“This compact disc contains language of an explicit nature that may be offensive and should not be played in the presence of minors”

Production

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York City, and the Bottom Line (Live) late 1973.

Engineer – Eddie Kramer
Produced by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Executive Producer Christopher Blackwell
Cover Design by Cook and Moore
Graphic Arts 382 5908

 
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