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Free music series 'WEEKLY WEEPING' Singles Club

No. 13: Cab Williamson/Hank

Has it been a week already? Hmmm.

This week, unearthed from the Manchester vaults courtesy of Dr. Golden, we have the original version (circa 1997) of what is several people's favourite Hank ditty Ferox. Not that different to the version which eventually appeared on 2004's acclaimed How To Prosper In The Coming Bad Years aside from the lack of low frequencies and the absence of the adorable Hank Collective plus there's a couple of different lyrics. But worthy of a spin we say.

Turn the record over to listen to a previously unreleased Hank original. Car Crash was played live just once in 2004 or so in a radically different fast version. This most hymnal rendition was going to appear on The Luck Of The Singers but didn't make the grade. Then it was going to be on Can You Cry? but t'was thought it might be good enough for the next album proper. Well, it isn't so here it is.

WEEKLY WEEPING SINGLES CLUB #13

CAB WILLIAMSON - Ferox (original demo) written and produced by J.C. Singer, recorded in Manchester, circa 1997

HANK - Car Crash written and produced by J.C. Singer, recorded in Toronto, circa 2007

Please feel free to download any and all of the previous WWSC entries below:

#1 HANK - Le Garcon/Who Made The Song (version incidentale)

#2 SOUTHERN CHARLES - Belief & Non-Belief (version 1)/Belief & Non-Belief (version 4)

#3 SIR CLEMENT - Do You See The Love In My Eyes?/Do It Now

#4 SOUTHERN CHARLES - Your Memories Replaced Mine/HANK - Raggledy Road

#5 HANK - Sugar Mound (early version)/JEREMY SINGER - mygiyoi

#6 THE BIG BAD SWAN - Second/HANK - She Is The Ball Rolling (early version)

#7 HANK - John's Gone (midi demo)/Claire Danes

#8 JOHN PINE COFFIN - Coffin Man/HANK - Dante's Hair

#9 HANK - Dieselinstra/CAB WILLIAMSON - Second Strings

#10 SOUTHERN CHARLES - A Phantom/CAB WILLIAMSON - Never Gonna Cry Again

#11 HANK - Whatever Happened To The Forster Appeal? (Sick Wife Elizabeth Mix)/Whatever Happened To The Forster Appeal? (Live At The Bookshelf, Guelph)

#12 SOUTHERN CHARLES - I Started The Fire Which Burned Down The School/JAMES BROWN - Living In America (Southern Charles mix)

What is on the agenda? First off, let us rid ourselves of using the word 'agenda'

It makes us sound like a Monday morning board meeting

TWO NEW HANK LPs TO BE RELEASED THIS YEAR! WE PROMISE!

And behold, the track listings (subject to alteration):

Showers Of Happiness - 1. Four Questions 2. She Is The Ball Rolling 3. They're All Corrupt 4. Border between me and my brother/Welcome To Wales 5. Act It Out! 6. Descendants Of Michael 7. Raggledy Road 8. Sugar Mound 9. You Never Really Let Go Of The Past 10. Open Station, Lines OK 11. Underneath The Paving Stones, The Beach 12. John's Gone 13. You Sound A Bit Down 14. Commentators

Hank Play Rave Anthems Of The 1990s - 1. Do You See The Love In My Eyes? 2. Entering Lush House 3. Career Outta Diplomatic Bag 4. Anthem 5. Give It Mousehouse (excerpts) 6. Why Are You Smiling? 7. The Lights Inside 8. Exiting Lush House 9. Everybody, Everybody

All songs written and produced by J.C.Singer with the exceptions of Anthem and Everybody, Everybody.

Currently, we are in the mixing process. If we were rich and childless, we could quite conceivably tell you these works will be complete and ready for release in a month. But we're not and so we're reckoning they will see the light of day in September. Lots of new videos in the works to accompany the music too.

Other plans:

- Massive rehaul of the Weeping Truckers website. Newspapers have had their day we're realizing.

- Attempts to play live again sometime somewhere or other

We just opened up a Hank bandcamp account too. More stuff to be added there forthwith.

Thanks for your support! Really!

Links to those we love

Have a gander at these WT-approved sites. You've got some time, doncha?

Learn to Swim - Tons of free, downloadable gems. A must for fans of Radiophonic Workshop, Ghost Box, electronica, etc. Also featuring the entire recorded output of pre-Hank Cab Williamson project Cab Williamson's Waxworks. But best to avoid that and concentrate on the rest of the site, wethinks.

Blocks Recording Club - They have very kindly put out all three Hank LPs. Maybe they will put out some more.

Ye Olde Syrup Shoppe - Our favourite female Victoria Kent has finally unleashed her wondrous pop songs.

Lex Vaughn - The legend.

ubuweb - Bloody amazing selection of avant-garde stuff

George Michael Twitter feed - The only reason to be on Twitter

Steve Albini's blog about the meals he makes

Chart Stats - Incredible resource for UK chart obsessives. Makes the Guinness Book of Hit Singles look like a photocopied pamphlet.

Rave Generator - Old skoooool!

Pulsate - Listen to the circles

Oblique Strategies - A little pick-me-up should you be staring with despair into the void

Popular - Brilliant reviews of every UK number 1 single (for fans of Chart Stats)

Trunk Records - Lovely jubbly

Hank music featured in acclaimed online Catalan animation series "Arròs cavat"

It's true. See for yourself. Hank music features in episodes 3, 7, 8 and 12.

Hank music also featured in Sook-Yin Lee's feature film 'Year of the Carnivore'

Or specifically, the song Distraction from 2009's premier pop obscurity The Luck of the Singers. Film website link.

Weeping Truckers EXCLUSIVE - New Beatles LP!

We are thrilled to announce that Weeping Truckers has obtained the rights to the highly sought after cassette-only release by Glaswegian combo The Please Please Love Me Do Long Long Long's featuring such classics as I Want to Fuck Your Hand, And Your Bird Can Fuck and Fuckia. Watch this space.

It is impossible, therefore it is not

It is not, because it is impossible. It is, therefore it is possible. If it is, it cannot be impossible. (with apologies to R.D. Laing)

About Weeping Truckers

WT is a creative outlet, mostly masquerading as an olde thyme record label, run by a man called Jeremy Charles Singer who appears in various projects, including Hank and Sir Clement.

For a full list of recordings by Hank, please go here. A more complete discography will appear once we have vetted all the potential interns.

Comments and donation offers here: info@weepingtruckers.com

Thanks to Michael Corrin for writing some code for this page. Otherwise, it would be an incoherent jumbled mess. What's that you say?

Sir Clement - Can't Count Corn E.P. is available for free download (see below). Also, here is the critically-acclaimed promotional film for the eponymous number.

Download Can't Count Corn E.P, as a 3-song zip file right here.

Or, if you are picky, you can select the individual numbers:

1. Can't Count Corn - Chorus: I can't count corn I can't count corn I can't count corn I can't

2. You Fetter It - Chorus: Yooooooou fetter it! Yooooooou fetter it!

3. Best Kind of Cock - no chorus but multiple allusions to sex

Sir Clement in a tunnel

Jeremy and Lex enjoy a brisk summer walk in the glorious wonderland that is Toronto, July 2011.

Sir Clement at Toronto Pride 2011

Sir Clement bask in the rays of goodwill emanating from the masses at Toronto Pride, July 2011. That's Lynne T on tambourine. What a woman.

Jeremy Singer prepares dictaphone compilation

Over the last few years, Hank frontman Jeremy Singer has recorded hundreds of hours of dictaphone recordings: sketches, improvisations, personal musings and ansamachine messages. These initmate analogue excerpts are now in the process of being handpicked for the upcoming Cab Williamson presents 'Dictabeat, volumes 1-9', soon to be available via mail order. There will be a strictly limited edition box set of CDs and dictaphone cassettes as well as yer precious mp3s as a free download. This is a rare instance where the limitations of mp3 audio work in favour of the material. All the recordings are hissy and in mono and sound like ghostly echoes of memory. Perfect for your early morning gym workout, what?

Anyone here from myspace?

Fuck you, Murdoch.

Southern Charles is alive and well and living in pyjamas

Our fine friends over in Blighty, Learn To Swim, recently released an exclusive Acid Wilhelm remix of the Southern Charles B-side and soon-to-be-released Hank LP cut The Lights Inside. It is eerie and spectacular. Go here to download it. Download the first 10 Southern Charles singles right here. And here is a Southern Charles tune which is called 'Playah' for some reason. What is he saying? What are you hearing? Southern would love to know: southerncharles@weepingtruckers.com

Exclusive Plot video here! This song was voted Favourite Hank Song About Graves in an online poll recently

Directed by Victoria Kent. Taken from The Luck of the Singers. WATCH IT!

Hank Archive Video Jukebox

Here is a quite lovely live version of He Forgot My Name from the debut Hank LP Ackrill/Venning '91. That is Paige Gratland singing lead. This appearance launched her international career. Footage is from Toronto's Cameron House, June 2003, Ackrill/Venning '91 release show.

Whatever Happened to the Forster Appeal Video Remix!

Here is a video remix of the previously unreleased Sick Wife Elizabeth Mix of Whatever Happened to the Forster Appeal? Compare and contrast with the original video for added fun times.

Weeping Truckers Upcoming Releases

Hank - Showers of Happiness/Hank Play Rave Anthems of the 1990s (strictly limited handmade CDR edition/download)

Jeremy Charles Singer - Cab Williamson presents 'Dictabeat' volumes 1-9 (strictly limited dictaphone cassette edition/download)

Southern Charles - Living Between Peacocks and Bones

The PPLMDLLLs - The Fuck Album (reissue)

We imagine these will be available sometime in 2012 or thereabouts unless you want to give us a load of money to speed up the process. Didn't think so.

Go on, do buy 'The Luck of the Singers' by Hank (Blocks Recording Club, 2009) - strictly limited vinyl edition, sleevenotes by Bentley Arthur, includes the hits 'Exclusive Plot', 'My Black Year (My Black Bottle Of Beer)' and more, reasonable price, includes download, etc.

Vinyl record

Buy Hank on vinyl here and here

Email us if, at any point in your life, you have floated or flown in the air by yourself.

hank@weepingtruckers.com

Weeping Truckers alumni directs Mantler video

This is the sort-of-new video by Hank member Christopher A Cummings a.k.a. Mantler: 'I Guarantee You A Good Time' co-directed by Jeremy Charles Singer and Chris. Filmed in the tropical climes of East Toronto and Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. This song was recently awarded the coveted BBC 6Music Record of the Week. Jolly good show, Christopher!

'Slabcake' from our English cousins Learn to Swim

Learn to Swim Recordings recorded four quite excellent podcasts recently featuring an eclectic selection of the weird and wonderful. Show 3 contains an exclusive 13-minute suite of Living Between Peacocks and Bones by Southern Charles and there is some Hank scattered amongst all four programs. Go here to listen: http://learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/broadcasts.htm