I make records I play records. . .. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont / The Soup Dragons / The High Fidelity / Hifi Sean …DJ bookings : lucy.harrower
@defected
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This is the ltd pressing of our new album DAYLIGHT.
June 20th.
It has a free bonus track flexi-disc ,signed art print , downloadable lyric picture book & neon orange vinyl.
There are 200 copies.
Link here for our Bandcamp store to grab one.
@nadhimzahawi
If you had been a single mother, claiming Universal Credit, you would have been prosecuted months ago.
Most people go to jail for £3million of tax evasion.
Will you ?
“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian take-away to sit on a Swedish sofa infront of a Japanese television to watch American shows and all the while being suspicious of anything foreign”.
Yesterday I was heavily trolled and I’m talking over 1.5k of vile comments all because I refuse I’m Free a record I made to be used as a tacky Brexit anthem in the hands of a cheap talk radio host and her followers
I got the dark side of Twitter and just wow to how low people go
Took Barney for his monthly rehabilitation swim at Battersea Dogs Hydrotherapy unit yesterday.
First time ever he has jumped in un-aided.
11 years young.
It was exactly 12 months ago he was paralysed …living his best life now.
Our little fighter. 🖤
Thank you
@Battersea_
@grantshapps
How condescending watching you wander round your million pound residence advising people to stick a bath towel over a letter box to save money …. with a smile on your face !
16 years ago I met this man.
All due to a random phone call.
We joked how crazy it was that day how much we had fallen in love & let’s get married 5 years to the day if we were still together.
16 years later 11 married.
Happy Anniversary to the love of my life Silver (aka Mike) x
Day One
Battersea dogs home hydrotherapy centre.
Trying to re-connect his brain to his legs.
2 days a week for next few months.
These people are angels.
It’s mentally exhausting all this but today felt like finally a step forward.
@Battersea_
Fred 🐶
11 years ago found this puppy dumped next to busy road.
He was in a mess , no eye , hernia from being kicked & mentally terrified.
Took him to
@Battersea_
a few days before I was getting married !
Next day we decided to go back get him give him a new home.
Love him.
Janice Long.
Bless your gorgeous kind heart.
What a radio & TV presenter all a part of our lives growing up.
I’ve also lost a friend I’ve known since I was 18 years old.
I can safely say she was all our cool big musical sister.
Love you Janice I’ll miss your laugh x
#janicelong
@nadhimzahawi
You have a banner on your profile here saying ‘help for households’
You stole from the tax pot that helps those very households.
This sums up your hypocrisy and the Tory thieving govt.
All talk. All lies.
#NadhimZahawi
We did TOTP with Sinead.
She was super nice and the most gorgeous eyes I have ever seen in a person.
She listed I’m Free in her top singles of that year and I always remember how much that thrilled me.
I just wanted to share that. ♥️
#SineadOConner
Out today my remix of
@sleafordmods
approved
@petshopboys
cover of ‘West End Girls’
I went all Italo-Acid on it’s ass with tinges of the orig Bobby Orlando PSB’s debut.
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HOMELESS CHARITY
@Shelter
#sleafordmods
Insane story.
When 14 I made myself an album in my bedroom.
Called myself 'Silent Industry'.
Found cassette last year posted it on socials.
I was contacted by a cool Greek indie label who said they want to release it on vinyl.
200 pressed copies below.
14 year old me says WTF !
9 years ago today I found this one eyed dog dumped by side of road , this is the pic of him on the table of Battersea Dogs Home when I handed him in.
I went back 2 weeks later to get him.
Best thing I’ve ever done in my life.
He is Fred.♥️
@Battersea_
Last 5 days have been very scary.
Thought I was about to lose my dog Barney due to poisoning.
For 2 days he was foaming at mouth with nausea and I was watching him slip away.
Vets were amazing.
Today he has made a huge recovery over night and has his smile back in his eyes 🙏
It was 25 years ago today we lost Michael Hutchence.
Can't thank enough him and
@INXS
taking us on their US tour back then and how much he looked after us those months on the road.
Became friends.
One of the nicest if not thee nicest men I have met in the music industry.
#INXS
Had to buy a rare old Soup Dragons record via Discogs from
@AmoebaSF
for a future project we're doing.
I paid for it and they refunded my money with a lovely note saying 'thank you for the music'
This already has made my 2022 🖤
Dj’s can be such snobs about ‘Pump Up The Jam’
The original Belgian 12” sounds still is and sounds amazing.
Dropped it 4.20am at the strip club which was officially a lock-in doors closed by that point.
This video looks like the ‘Hitman & Her’ !
Happy Anniversary to my husband Silver.
The day we met we joked that if we were together this day in 5 years time we will get married.
16 years ago to this day we met.
11 years ago to this day we got married.
🖤
“Dad you said you’d accept my friends request on Instagram when I’m 18.
I’m 22 now.”
Yesterday we became Instagram friends. 😱
Say hello everyone to my lovely daughter Tabitha ♥️
For The Soup Dragons fans.
Wow 😮
This just appeared on YouTube.
Never seen it before even at the time.
Us properly rocking out I’m Free with a full gospel choir on peak time U.S television.
Full link below.
#soupdragons
Mariama has been missing now for 10 days.
So why are the UK news media obsessively focusing heavily on one missing adult Nicola Bulley but not this missing child ?
Thoughts ?
#Nicolabulley
#MariamaKallon
I have a strange relationship with I’m Free by
@TheSoupDragons
I basically wrote a fair bit of it but I was refused a writing credit only an arrangement one.
Yes it hurts not to have that artistic credit and artistic acknowledgement.
Today in
@guardian
Interesting how the Robbie Williams doc about his mental health does not tell you he met a folk singer gave him £7k for buying out his song that went on to break him Worldwide.
That songwriter gets zero.
THANK YOU 🙏
@Battersea_
3 months of worry & fear of him never walking again but having you by our side always at hydrotherapy.
Yesterday it was confirmed his muscles are working fine again.
We got Barney back.
Dog owners read up. & be aware of this virus
#polyradiculoneuritis
WE ARE BACK.
Psychedelic punk rock manoeuvres this Oct with friends.
Pre-Sale from 9am this Wednesday
Register for tickets here :
@TheSoupDragons
#thesoupdragons
Tonight on Janice’s radio show on BBC Wales myself & many other artists & friends will be celebrating her memory.
Please join in to share your love.
x
#janicelong
Filming the Channel 5 ‘greatest videos of the 90’s’ show today.
Got the list I’ve to review and so glad ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ is on it.
In my eyes one of the greatest records and videos of the 90’s.
What’s yours ?
Glasgow last show of our tour.
Where do I start.
I cried I laughed I sang my heart out.
I love our band I love everyone in it.
Tonight we had the bands children on stage singing.
The room was pouring with love.
I cried again.
Thank you! We did it. ♥️
@TheSoupDragons
Tonight in Vegas the The B-52’s play their last ever live show.
God bless all who sail on good ship Planet Claire and one of the most unique bands that ever walked this earth.
@TheB52s
I love you.
B 52's - Give Me Back My Man • TopPop via
@YouTube
I really did not get the Britpop scene.
Indie with overblown major label PR expense accounts.
It was also incredibly London journo-centric.
But most of all I disliked the arrogance bred from it.
I don’t & never will do arrogance while making music.
It’s not a nice look right ?
Update … Wow !
3 months ago this one couldn’t even stand or walk a few steps with the virus.
Hydrotherapy twice a month has brought this little man back to life.
Still a way to go but 🖤
These people are angels.
Thank you
@Battersea_
#polyradiculoneuritis
First new single in a hundred years from
@TheSoupDragons
Double A-Side Limited 7" pressing like we used to make.
One side has all our children singing backing vocals on it and our friend Fred Schneider from The B-52's.
Here is the pre-order link :
IT’S OUT.
A track that sounds like no other.
A true original.
The meeting of 3 minds that created something unique.
We are very proud of this record.
On all places you get your music.
It’s all yours now. Tun it up.
♥️
@SeverinoDj
@FERALisKINKY
@FaithFanzine
@DefectedRecords
Dreamers In Bellshill 40 years ago.
Frances McKee (The Vaselines), Hifi Sean (The Soup Dragons), Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits) and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) in Bellshill 1984.
Photo by Kim Mclachlan.
@DuglasTStewart
@MrNormanBlake1
@the_vaselines
In 50’s my grandfather moved to Hong Kong and joined the HK police.
He moved back when I was a kid.
He had the best Batik shirt which was given to me when he died.
It never did fit me.
Surfing EBay other day I found a vintage exact same shirt from HK.
It fits.
He was a cool dude
2 weeks on tour with Soups then an insane DJ set last night in Manchester.
Train back to London this morning with the Creation Records legend Alan McGee with us both having a right laugh telling each other stories.
Suns out.
Happy Sunday ! 🌞
Loved Billie Eilish at Glasto.
So funny reading all the dad rock boring posts today.
It was alien ,it was new, it was futuristic, it was unique.
What it was not was Liam Gallagher rechurning tired rock cliches or Thom Yorke trying to be a modem zen Pink Floyd.
#BillieEilish
‘The next record I hear may be the best record I’ve ever heard.”
John Peel told me this once over his kitchen table.
That moment my mind exploded and I’ve never went back.
Bless you JP
30th Aug 1939 -
25th Oct 2004
❤️🙏
#johnpeel
How perfect that today in 1990 on Pride day a record I was on was released where I sang
‘I’m Free’.
With the hook ‘Don’t be afraid of your freedom’
It then took me 20 years to not be afraid.
We all get there in the end.
Happy Pride.
#Pride
RIP Seymour Stein
The Soup Dragons are very proud to be on SIRE Records for a few years with some of our all time favourite bands.
Seymour ran a major record label like a fan of a band.
Name one major label who does that now.
@seymourstein
#sire
I did it !
I just finished ‘Couch to 4K’ and ran 9 weeks course reaching 3 x 30 min non stop runs this week
Jo Whiley said I’m king of the World in my ear while my lungs were in my shoes.
Need recommendation for new app to go from here please 🙏
@jowhiley
thank u x
#Couchto5K
Best thing of 2021 🖤
That Prince mispress of The Soup Dragons first album on the flip of ‘Lovesexy’ (both came out same week on Warners)
Someone I didn’t even know sent me it as a present.
WOW.
This was just amazing after years of hunting for one.
@PaisleyPark
#prince
Do you know what I think is wrong with the music industry these days ?
Everything has a number beside it.
Streams , plays , likes , downloads , followers etc etc
Before people even listen they judge it’s merit by it’s popularity score.
I just saw this.
@JeremyClarkson
should be locked up for inciting hate speech.
The newspaper fined for printing this.
What has Meghan Markle ever done to you to write such vile words.
#HarryandMeghan
That night I was really late for djing & found a 4 month one eyed puppy dumped on a road & took him to
@Battersea_
went back a week later to get him , roll 8 years later Fred is a best mate who has helped me a lot mentally , let’s today thank our dogs as I thank you Fredster 🙏
The Soup Dragons were formed in Bellshill 1985 by Sean Dickson, Jim McCulloch, Sushil K. Dade, Ross Sinclair, the line up changed and moonlighting as the BMX Bandits was part of the creativity. This 1990 classic still remains a TUNE
@HifiSean
@jim_mcculloch
This is beautiful 🖤
The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other standing for hours together. x
When I was a teenager I started a band called The Soup Dragons.
We did many wonderful sessions for our friends John & Janice’s radio shows.
Grab these below this Friday to feel the rush of that youth , enthusiasm and unbottled teenage angst.
4 x 10” singles.
@PrecRecs
COMING UP ! THE SOUP DRAGONS sessions released on
#BandcampFriday
Lovingly compiled 10-inch vinyl, mastered by
@HifiSean
sleeve notes, postcards, unseen photos - code SOUPYSTUFF for 15% off for 24hrs. You're gonna want these
@jim_mcculloch
@keepingitpeel
I’ve spent my whole life trying not to be shit.
It’s lot of work trying not to be shit.
It’s also quite hard.
Big up all the other people who try not to be shit 🖤✊ x