Out now, featuring...

Exclusive interviews with:

• Sky Saxon (of The Seeds)
• Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly (and the Ghost Box label)
• Mary Lee Kortes of Mary Lee's Corvette (re: performing B.Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks in its entirety)
• Samuel Nilsson
• Sophia of Noisy: Essex Music Fanzine

Also:

– Albums covered in their entirety
– ‘Bonus tracks include Ballroom Blitz featuring bass solo by Lemmy’ (by Ian Midloth)
– The Cat Brothers
– Damo Suzuki live review (by Jim Cook)
– Interesting music-related books: The Rough Guide To The Best Music You’ve Never Heard (review by David Bushell)
– Interesting non-music-related books: Luton Haiku
– ‘Introducing the band’ (by Elliot P. Smoke)
– Luke and Ann’s Music Van
– ‘Mandolin’ (by David Hughes)
– ‘New talents night’ live event review (by Rick Barrett)
– Record reviews (by Matusek)
– Ruth L. Fisk’s Bootleg Discs
– ‘See cats, score points’
– ‘Some concerts I’ve been to’ (by Chris Lemon)
– and ‘much, much more’

As mentioned before, this is now being sold at a very small charge to cover my costs. If you are featured in this issue, you will get a free copy in the post over the next couple of days.

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• To buy a copy through PayPal, go to this page: www.myspace.com/stephenfall

• To find out more about ICFQ, go to this page: www.myspace.com/icecreamforquo

• For all other queries etc, please send me a PM or e-mail me at icecreamforquo@yahoo.com


(Have found a better printer now, so it's a lot easier on the eye.)

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Other exciting news: ICFQ will be on Resonance 104.4 FM tonight between 8 and 9.

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All feedback welcome. Please post any comments here, as it’s nice for the authors to know what you think of their work.

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Back issues:
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Issue 6
Issue 7

Wow, they're coming thick and fast - I've paid for it to be sent to my Canadian address if that's OK, it's nice to receive Red Cross parcels every now and again.

Could anybody please tape this for me? Because of the time difference it will be impossible for me to gather round the wireless at the right time.

quite excellent QUO intro...

yes, I pressed record...


:devil: the last 15 minutes the stream went buggy :(

I should be able to get together a recording for anyone who's interested... It will take a day or so.

Huge thanks to those who contributed to this.

can you host it on yr myspace page??

Still trying to get the recording...

Ok, Stephen, I think I have just entered the exciting modern world and ordered a copy.

that would be very kind.

last wednesday I was humming the show’s title tune

cheers for the link to "Silver Apples", I am starting now with "The Garden".

The Luton Haiku book really is strongly recommended, by the way. It is absolutely excellent. Also, the website is updated with five new haikus per week, all Luton-related.

my copy arrived today; many thanks Stephen.
The postponement of gratification is a sign of maturity, so I shall ration it out.
Good work (again)

ps, that Sky Saxon is a bit, errmm, eccentric???

I really tried to take this one slowly, but ended up getting engrossed (hopefully i'll forget it soon so I can revisit it afresh)

Highlights for me include: the front and back covers, Sky Saxon, being made aware of Mary Lee Kortes, Elliot Smoke's nicely observed article, being made to go out and buy Machine gun Etiquette and hearing it for the first time in 30 years, 'New Talents Night', Chris Lemon's concerts piece, the Mandolin story and the Albums Covered In Their Entirety piece - on the whole all very thought-provoking and often very amusing, which is more than can be said for Mojo.

Thanks for the kind words. I wish more people would post feedback.

Londoners can now purchase Ice Cream For Quo from Sister Ray record shop on Berwick Street. But it will be a lot cheaper to buy it directly from me.

that was my favourite record shop when I lived in those parts.

A superb publication. Enjoyed it in it's entirety. Very high standard of writing. :applaud:

I liked best:

- The Sky Saxon interview, he's barking I tell ya!
- The thing about Ballroom Blitz
- The Mandolin Story
- The new talent night in Leicester review

However, I only scored 4 points when I played the cat game after reading it.

But it is all good.

How does one get to hear that Mary Lou Kortes album? Is it widely available - it's drawn blank stares so far.

I scored zero on the cats

It's credited to 'Mary Lee's Corvette'. I'll be in touch with info.

The Residents covered A James Brown live record. I really need to hear that.
Also some obscure group covered a Lee Hazelwood album in its entirety. B)

Yes, one side of the Residents' George & James is a cover of Live At The Apollo - although a big Residents fan, I've never plucked up the courage/energy to buy this, although their version This Is A Man's World is a classic (probably on YouTube as it has a typically odd video to accompany it)

I have bought a Belbury Poly CD.

Any good?

It hasn't arrived yet.

The thing about ICFQ -- the great thing, if I may so so -- is that it features a lot of music I've never heard of, but now want to.

As a result of this issue (which is the best yet) I want to hear virtually everything on the Ghost Box label, Mary Lee Kortes, the Dudes of Neptune, It's In the Trees, It's Coming, The Elgin Yarbles, Samuel Nilsson and several things reviewed by Matusek. What a result! You don't get that from Mojo.

My Belbury Poly CD has arrived.

I must admit, having been seduced by talk in the mag of the aesthetics and packaging -- and how it was better to buy the physical CD for that reason -- I was a disappointed in that aspect of it. Turns out the care and attention extends only so far as an inlay book, which is nice, admittedly, but other than that the case is nude, which makes it feel a bit like a promo CD, frankly. Including p&P it came to almost £13, so I must admit to making this face at first: <_<

To the music, then, where things improve dramatically. Jim Jupp's definition of Belbury as Disco Sci-Fi is spot on, so I won't try to improve upon it. Suffice to say that it's marvellously evocative: Clockwork Orange by Way of Goblin, with a bit of Wicker Man thrown in, and I've been playing it almost constantly since I got it, making this face: B)

I'll be going back to Ghost Box, though I think I'll investigate less expensive options next time round.

Which one did you get?

From An Ancient Star.

Just popped an order through mate and look forward to it!

Did you get it OK?

I did mate thanks, very enjoyable it was too!