Fruupp Masquerading With Dawn, Live, Double Vinyl LP
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Released on 01 Sep 2022. Live double album, originally recorded at Friars Aylesbury, 6/12/75. Bespoke new artwork, corrected lyrics and liner notes. On coloured vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Released on Bad Pressings label. Just 500 copies of the double LP are available, each with its own Certificate of Authenticity. These are two 12 inches vinyl records in yellow and orange colours.
Please note: this is an archival recording, enhanced from an original bootleg recording. Considering this, while not studio quality, it has been recognised by experts in the field as remarkable sonic quality for such
a recording.
Fruupp were a 1970s progressive rock band, which originated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but developed a fanbase in Great Britain where they were particularly popular on the student scene and as a supporting act, opening for such bands as Genesis, Queen, and King Crimson.
The group was assembled by guitarist Vincent McCusker in early1971 in Belfast, and consisted of musicians Peter Farrelly (bass guitar and lead vocals), Stephen Houston (keyboards and oboe), and Martin Foye (drums and percussion). After two years of performing, they created a demo tape, and were signed by Pye Records for their underground music and progressive rock label Dawn Records. Between 1973 and 1975, the group released four studio albums and three singles. Despite having played hundreds of concerts in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe during that time, no live output had yet been released, although audience bootleg recordings of live shows in England and Ireland do exist. A concert at the Friars Aylesbury club played on 6 December 1975 was recorded using a mobile unit for a possible album Live at Friars Aylesbury, but the master tapes were later destroyed by fire in a flat the musicians shared in Peckham, London.
In January 1975, Stephen Houston left the band and became a clergyman. He was replaced by John Mason, with whom Fruupp recorded their last album, Modern Masquerades (1975), produced by multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, best known as a founder of King Crimson and Foreigner. Although the band was working on the fifth album Doctor Wilde's Twilight Adventure in 1976,poor record sales along with the advent of the punk/new wave movement caused Fruupp to break up in the end of the year.
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