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Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - The Gayfield Enterprise - Demo Tapes From 1986

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1.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Change Of Heart 03:50	buy track
2.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Nothing Else Will Ever Be The Same 04:32	buy track
3.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Your Love 02:58	buy track
4.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Kylie 03:16	buy track
5.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Lonely When You Go 04:54	buy track
6.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Miracle Town 04:09	buy track
7.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Hoochie Coochie 04:25	buy track
8.	Kevin Low & Fiona Carlin - Locked Out Of Love 04:10	buy track

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These tracks were recorded by Kevin Low and Fiona Carlin in Kevin’s bedroom in Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, in 1986. Me and my dad, Kevin, dug out a huge bunch of his tapes over the lockdown (about 80 of the them at first). Some were…better than others, however, the Gayfield Square demos were the pick of the lot. Previously Kevin and Fiona were part of the Post Punk / indie band ‘Wild Indians’, whose first release “Stolen Courage” had come out in 1983 – released on Flexi Disc via the Edinburgh fanzine Deadbeat. Throughout the mid-1980s they performed across Edinburgh’s clubs, including at the Hoochie Coochie Club (name checked on track 7), where they played alongside bands and close friends Pop Wallpaper and Visitors. The band went on to release two 12” singles, “Love of My Life” in 1984 and “Penniless” in 1986.

After the band broke up Kevin sold his guitar amp and 7inch collection, Fiona her saxophone and they went out and got themselves a Yamaha RX-5 drum machine, Yamaha QX7 sequencer and a Yamaha DX-100. These bedroom tracks are the fruits of their first venture with this hardware, combining their experimentation with synthetic sounds (mostly the DX-100’s famous pre-sets) with a post-punk vocal style.

These eight tracks are also, in part, the fruit of the “Enterprise Allowance scheme” - a policy venture of Margaret Thatcher’s UK government that gave unemployment claimants access to an extra £40 to top up the basic dole money. Following Thatcher’s election victories in 1979 and 1983, the policy sought to reduce the figures of mass unemployment which hung over Britain well into the 1980s. This policy, according to Kevin, helped to keep up the credit payments. He notes that, “when Fiona and I turned up at the DHSS office with the sure-fire money-making plan of making a business as a ‘song-writing’ duo they signed us up. However, I still think they thought we said, sign writing as they were filling out the form.”

Kevin and Fiona stopped making music together shortly after these tracks were recorded so unfortunately, they never saw the light of day…until now!

Fiona went on to work in Film and Television sound. Kevin became a photographer, working mostly in theatre. He is now an artist/painter working in Glasgow.

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released March 5, 2021

Original cassettes digitised by Conor Walker at the National Library of Scotland’s Sound and Moving Image Archive at Kelvinhall in Glasgow.

Audio restoration by Jonas Gustafsson

Mastered by Wheelman.

Artwork by Kevin Low.

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