Straight from the Desk

Straight from the Desk

Infobox Album
Name = Straight From The Desk
Type = Live album
Artist = Ian Dury & The Blockheads



Released = 2001
Recorded = 23rd December, 1978, Iford Odeon, Iford, Essex
Genre = Rock
Length = 1:13:21
Label =
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Mr. Love Pants
(1998)
This album = "'Straight From The Desk"
(2001)
Next album = "Ten More Turnips From The Tip"
(2002)

"Straight From The Desk" is a live album by Ian Dury & The Blockheads recorded 23rd December, 1978 at the Ilford Odeon, Ilford, Essex.

There is little information about the album available other than what can be heard on the record. During the performance of Billericay Dickie the audience break the venue's floor, presumably in excitement causing Dury to warn the audience to mind the hole as an introduction to Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and mention it repeatedly later in the set. Dury forgets the words totally on "Ther Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" forcing the Blockheads to carry on playing while he remembers them and gets back in time.

Also featured at the concert was a 'Blockheads light' that was presumably a piece of on-stage equipment that falls over and fails to work at the same time Ian Dury breaks his microphone. This can be heard at the start of "My Old Man"

Though the set features Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll it is mostly a long instrumental featuring band introductions and their respective solos with only the song's first verse and an end repetition of the song's title and lasts over 12 minutes. Clever Trevor features a lengthy instrumental break also featuring a saxophone solo by Davey Payne and also an ad-lib name checking West Ham United FC. and Gants Hill, Ilford, Romford, Barking and Dagenham, Dagenham is also name checked in the performance Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. These are all areas near the venue.

The album was the first time a recording of "I Made Mary Cry" was released. A song written during Ian Dury's time with 'Ian Dury & The Kilburns' the latter day incarnation of his influential pub rock band 'Kilburn & The Highroads' with Rod Melvin (who also co-wrote his first hit single What A Waste) and a song that Ian Dury continued with the Blockheads as late as 1979, this version like other live versions with the Blockheads features a much happier ending than the studio version with the song's protagonist, a criminal, being released rather than dying on the floor of his cell. Also included is a version of Kilburn & The Highroads song Upminster Kid, like You're More Than Fair Dury sings it in his own regional dialect rather than the accent used on the studio recordings.

Track listing

# "Wake Up And Make Love With Me" (Dury/Jankel) - 4:33
# "I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra" (Dury/Jankel) - 3:00
# "Upminster Kid" (Dury/Hardy) - 4:08
# "Clever Trevor" (Dury/Jankel) - 7:41
# "This Is What We Find" (Dury/Gallagher) - 4:52
# "You're More Than Fair" (Dury/Hardy) - 2:46
# "Blackmail Man" (Dury/Nugent) - 2:42
# "Billericay Dickie" (Dury/Nugent) - 3:16
# "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (Dury/Jankel) - 4:55
# "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" (Dury/Hardy) - 3:48
# "Plaistow Patricia" (Dury/Nugent) - 6:10
# "I Made Mary Cry" (Dury/Melvin) - 4:03
# "What A Waste" (Dury/Melvin) - 3:34
# "My Old Man" (Dury/Nugent) - 5:08
# "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" (Dury/Jankel) - 12:27

Personnel

* Ian Dury - Vocals
* Chas Jankel - Guitar, Keyboards
* Norman Watt-Roy - Bass
* John Turnbull - Guitar
* Davey Payne - Saxophones
* Charley Charles - Drums
* Mickey Gallagher - Keyboards

Trivia

* In his introduction for Clevor Trevor, Dury makes an amusing reference to Jimmy Saville and his television show Jim'll Fix It telling the audience to, if to drunk to drive, take a cab and send the receipt for the fare to Saville asking if he'll fix it.
* During Blackmail Man, where in the studio version the torrent of rhyming slang for swear words would be (Berkshire Hunt, J. Arthur Rank etc) Dury sings the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb.

ources

*"Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury" by Richard Balls, first published 2000, Omnibus Press
*"Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song" by Jim Drury, first published 2003, Sanctuary Publishing.


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