Prolapse - Mary Anne Hobbs sessions 97-98

After the sold-out release of their Peel sessions, Prolapse return to Precious Recordings of London for an album featuring two blistering sessions recorded for Mary Anne Hobbs’s Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1.

Prolapse like to do something special on their visits to Auntie, and these two live four-song outings (from 1997 and ’98) were no different in that respect. With both sessions aired completely live – one from the BBC’s legendary Maida Vale Studios, the other from Golders Green Hippodrome – they even made up two songs on the spot, ‘Golfer’s Elbow’ and ‘XA14 1997’. What were they thinking? Neither of those recordings has ever been available before on vinyl, and they feature here as part of a collection that straddles ‘The Italian Flag’ and ‘Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes’ albums.

Let’s just say it’s eclectic: alongside favourites such as ‘T.C.R.’ and ‘Killing The Bland’, a song like ‘Return Of Shoes’ has hardly ever been played live so this version is also something of a deep cut, a rare gem or whatever you like to call it.