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festival riff (demo)


composers
Words And Music: Simple Minds


publisher
© EMI Music Publishing


background
This was the first title for New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), conceived during jamming sessions at a Fife farmhouse in early 1982.

Charlie said "we pictured it as being something like Kraftwerk, motorway music." In fact, the song does share some riffs with Kraftwerk's Autobahn.

They even recorded the song onto the audio track of a Jean-Michel Jarre video. "It was great watching him doing his concerts in China with "Festival Riff" coming out" - Pete Walsh.

Rough Mix #1 is the first recording of the track in Virgin's archive. This early instrumental mix, recorded on the 30th May 1982, includes all the elements of the track. Some of Charlie's riffs are in different parts of the track and he also experiments more during the end. It also features a count-in and ends suddenly.

Tk1 Fragment is a brief short extract of the extended version of the song, but includes extra lyrics. It can be found at the end of Reel 7 of the album tapes, which was recored on the 3rd August 1982.

Reel 9, which was recorded on the 14th August 1982, includes Tk1 Full Duration. It is similar to the German 12" Remix but this take differs as it includes extra percussion at the start, and and extra verse towards the end. (A fragment of this appears on Reel 7). Only the Tk2 Edit Sections remain of the second take, which was extracted to the album master tape.

The Tk1 Full Duration Instrumental appears on Reel 10 along with the long fade used for the Edit version of the song.


see also:
New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)


lyrics
The lyrics have not been published


demo discography
Rough Mix #1 (7:25)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Monitor Tape #1

Tk1 Fragment (0:15)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Instrumentals And Full Versions

Tk1 Full Duration (7:01)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Instrumentals And Full Versions

Tk2 Edit Sections (7:01)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Instrumentals And Full Versions

Tk1 Full Duration Instrumental (7:11)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Instrumentals And Full Versions

Tk2 Fade Only (1:04)
Producer: Pete Walsh
Arrangement: Pete Walsh
Engineer: Pete Walsh

New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Instrumentals And Full Versions