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Release Date: 25 April 2025
Label: Esoteric / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 5013929489349
Genres: Rock Progressive Rock
Description
• 5CD / 1 DVD CLAMSHELL BOX SET ANTHOLOGY COLLECTING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY THE SCAFFOLD.
• FEATURING THE ALBUMS 'LIVE AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL’, 'L THE P’, 'FRESH LIVER’ AND 'SOLD OUT’ AND THE HIT SINGLES 'THANK U VERY MUCH’, 'DO YOU REMEMBER’, 'LILY THE PINK’ & 'LIVERPOOL LOU’.
• WITH 13 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM BBC RADIO SESSIONS & STUDIO SESSIONS.
• INCLUDES A DVD VIDEO FEATURING 'SCAFFOLD LIVE AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN’ AND TWO PROMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES
• PLUS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH A NEW ESSAY WITH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AND MANY PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS AND CUTTINGS.
Originally part of a performing revue known as The Liverpool One Fat Lady All Electric Show, Mike 'McGear' McCartney, Roger McGough and John Gorman began working as a trio known as The Scaffold in the early 1960s. Performing a mixture of satirical comedy sketches, songs and poetry, they signed with Parlophone Records in 1966 and released a series of successful singles including the Top Ten hit 'Thank U Very Much’, the number one million selling 'Lily the Pink’ and the 1974 Top Ten hit 'Liverpool Lou’ (produced by Paul McCartney). The trio also released a series of albums between 1968 and 1975, 'The Scaffold: Live at The Queen Elizabeth Hall’, 'L the P’, 'Fresh Liver’ and 'Sold Out’.
Like their fellow satirists The Bonzo Dog Band, The Scaffold had many facets to their work which was reflected both on their albums and in their stage work. Their musical work featured contributions from such luminaries as Jack Bruce, Elton John, Graham Nash, Keith Moon and Paul McCartney and guitarist Andy Roberts was a frequent collaborator.
This new clamshell box set is a long overdue celebration of the originality and inventiveness of The Scaffold and gathers together all of the band’s albums and singles on CD for the first time, along with 13 previously unreleased tracks drawn from BBC radio and studio recording sessions. 'A Box of Scaffold’ also features a DVD video which includes the recently rediscovered 'Scaffold at The Talk of the Town’ live concert recorded by BBC TV and broadcast in 1969 and the promo film of 'Thank U Very Much’ and a performance of 'Lily the Pink’ from BBC TV in 1969.
'A Box of Scaffold’ also includes an illustrated book with many unseen photographs, cuttings and a new essay with exclusive interviews with Mike McCartney, Roger McGough and Andy Roberts.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
1 2 Day’s Monday (A-side of single)
2 3 Blind Jellyfish (B-side of single)
3 Goodbat Nightman (A-side of single)
4 Long Strong Black Pudding (B-side of single)
5 Thank U Very Much (A-side of single)
6 Ide B the First (B-side of single)
7 Do You Remember? (A-side of single)
8 Carry On Krow (B-side of single)
Live at The QEH
9 Ten Whisky Bottles
10 Virginity
11 Son of Lent
12 Love Story
13 Old Folks
14 2 Day’s Monday
15 Father John
16 This Must Be Love
17 Poetry
18 Dear Diary
19 Thank U Very Much
BBC session December 1967
20 2 Day’s Monday
21 Thank U Very Much
BBC session March 1968
22 Yellow Book
23 Carry On Krow
24 Do You Remember?
DISC TWO
L The P
1 1-2-3
2 Oh, To Be a Child
3 Stop Blowing Those Charity Bubbles
4 I Can’t Make You Mine
5 Today
6 Jelly Covered Cloud
7 Lily the Pink
8 Fancy Goods
9 The Little Plastic Mac
10 Bucks
11 10.15 Thursday Morning
12 Father John
13 Tim
14 Birds
15 Poems: a. The Russian Bear
b. Discretion
c. My Busseductress
d. Naughty Girl
16 Boxes
BBC Radio 1 Top Gear 1968
17 Lily the Pink
BBC session 1969
18 Jelly Covered Cloud
19 Gagster
20 Stop Blowing Those Charity Bubbles
21 The Buttons of Your Mind (B-side of single)
22 Goose (B-side of single)
23 Charity Bubbles (A-side of single)
DISC THREE
1 Gin Gan Goolie (A-side of single)
2 Liver Birds (B-side of single)
3 All the Way Up (A-side of single)
4 Please Sorry (B-side of single)
4 Bus Dreams (A-side of single)
5 If I Could Start All Over Again (B-side of single)
6 Do the Albert (A-side of single)
7 Commercial Break (B-side of single)
8 Knees Down Mother Brown
9 You Can’t Hide Away from Me (previously unreleased)
10 Thanks a Million Maximillian (previously unreleased)
11 Hilary Clarissa Sniffleton (previously unreleased)
12 Promiscuity
13 In My Liverpool Home
14 Bored as Butterscotch
15 Happy Song
16 Little Song and Dance Man
17 One Man Went To Mow (previously unreleased)
18 Uptown Downtown
19 Kyria
20 (Take Off Your Little) Wooley Vest
21 Take it While You Can
22 Burke and Hare (previously unreleased)
DISC FOUR
Fresh Liver
1 Knickers
2 Devon’s Dead
3 Plenty of Time
4 Fagorf
5 Fax n’ Figgers
6 Nuclear Band
7 W.P.C. Hodges
8 Knickers
9 Aren’t We All?
10 Twist
11 Psychiatrist
12 Deep North
13 Fish
14 Fish Friars
15 S.S
16 I Remember
17 B Side Yourself with Plod (A Message for Plod Specials) (B- side of single)
DISC FIVE
Sold Out
1 Liverpool Lou
2 Potato Clock
3 Mingulay Boating Song
4 Ramsbottom
5 Beilins Boneyard
6 Liverpool Girls
7 The Cokey Cokey
8 Pack of Cards
9 Mummy Won’t Be Home This Christmas
10 Leaving of Liverpool
11 Julery Shop Leslie
12 Lord of the Dance
13 Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam (B-side of single)
14 The Wind is Blowing (B- side of single)
15 Wouldn’t it Be Funny if You Didn’t Have a Nose (A- side of single)
16 Mr. Noselighter (B-side of single)
17 How D’You Do (A-side of single)
18 Paper Underpants (B-side of single)
19 3 Shirts on a Line (From – Liverpool – The Number One’s Album)
DVD
'The Scaffold – Live at the Talk of the Town'
BBC TV - 24th January 1969
1 Introduction
2 Thank U Very Much
3 Birds
4 Yellow Book
5 Poems
6 Discretion
7 Early Morning Poems
8 10.15 Thursday Morning
9 Do You Remember?
10 Chocolate Eclairs
11 Tim
12 Pack of Cards
13 Dear Diary
14 Lily the Pink
Bonus video material 15 Thank U Very Much (promotional film)
16 Lily the Pink (BBC TV 'Music, Music, Music' March 1969)
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