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Track 0363: ATLANTIS (Savage/Todd) 3:14 (BASCZAX) (4th May 1980)
Musicians: John Hodgson – Yamaha SY1 synthesizers, Jen synthesizer, Alan Savage – guitars, lead vocals, Mick Todd – bass guitar, Jeff Fogarty – saxophones, Alan Cornforth – drums
Recorded: The Lodge, Hertfordshire (16 track) (produced by Basczax)
The OMD tour dominated the first half of 1980, what with the anticipation, the experience, then the aftermath of the whole thing. It was a great success, with the band playing to some large crowds, and winning them over to the extent that a gang of fans actually started following us, dressed in white and calling themselves “Zoo Boys”, which would inspire me to write a song entitled “King Bitch (For The Zoo Boys)” that appears later.
We were signing autographs, playing five-a-side with OMD before gigs, and generally doing all the things that touring bands do, we even had a fan club run by an uber-fan called Bik Bok who lived in Huddersfield. I produced two fan club magazines in the style of a fanzine called “Terminal Madness”, but once the tour concluded things settled down again.
Only one tape survives in the archive and that was the Huddersfield gig, but it is not a good recording so is not featured here.
Side projects and other distractions also surfaced, including producing sessions by Dimmer's band The Commercial Acrobats, which resulted in a single on my new label, Teesbeat, and one for mod band The Sines, which didn't.
I also started working freelance for the local commercial radio station, Radio Tees, under the guidance of then station manager, Dave Cousins, singer with folk-rockers The Strawbs.
All this caused Basczax to lose focus, after OMD we expected things to happen, but nothing really did, and new songs were becoming increasingly harder to find.
We had been posting out the Pipeline single to lots of record companies, and were getting rejections back, so it was decided we needed another recording session to freshen up our portfolio.
We took the bold step of booking a weekend at the prestigious Lodge complex in Hertfordshire, home of prog rockers The Enid.
The choice of songs was eclectic, with two well established tunes “Hollywood Strut” and “Atlantis”, alongside a new Sav tune called “Ego Therapy”, and a rare contribution from Alan Cornforth called “Animation (Life)”.

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from Legend & Lunacy: 50th Anniversary Box Set Vol​.​21, released October 4, 2016

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Fast Cakes aka John Hodgson presents his Fast Cakes releases, plus his older releases with other bands, and also the massive "Legend & Lunacy" a 50th Anniversary box set of 1261 tracks celebrating 50 years of songwriting and music making with a variety of bands including Blitzkrieg Bop, Basczax & Makaton Chat amongst others. From pop tunes to indie anthems, all human life is here. ... more

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