I GET MY KICKS IN NW6 - the TOT TAYLOR group

TOT TAYLOR
‘I GET MY KICKS IN NW6’
7” one-sided vinyl (Collector’s Edition) - 500 copies only -
exclusive to @RoughTrade from their site
CAT NO: CAMPUS 21
also - the new TOT TAYLOR album 'HIGH STREET’ is coming (via Rough Trade) to a record shop
near you!
TOT TAYLOR: vocals, fuzz guitar, piano, french horns, mellotron, Moog VSL, Korg electric
JIM BARBER: lead guitar
JOE DWORNIAK: bass guitar
PAUL BULTITUDE: drums
DUNCAN BRIDGEMAN: vibraphone
Writer: TOT TAYLOR
Publisher: SONGMATIC Music (PRS, MCPS, PPL)
FILM:
Director: TOT TAYLOR
Camera: CATHY GREENHALGH (1980)
Editor & FX: (2024) CHRIS GAVIN
Location: The MUSIC WORKS Studio: London N7
p & c (1980)
from the upcoming feature length film & LP ‘PLAYTIME'
7” SONG:
I GET MY KICKS IN NW6
Writer: TOT TAYLOR
Producer: TOT TAYLOR
Publisher: SONGMATIC Music: PRS/MCPS/PPL
Original recording by
JOE DWORNIAK
at
THE MUSIC WORKS:
Holloway, London (1980)
Additional recording and restoration:
ROBBIE NELSON at RAK London (2022)
MIXED by DUNCAN FULLER at RAK Studio 3 (2024)
with in addition: PAUL CUDDEFORD: guitar & SHAWN LEE: drums
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The song is trailing the documentary film of
the recording of my first album
PLAYTIME
I spent the summer months of 1980 at The MUSIC WORKS studio in Holloway, North London.
I had twenty songs to record and NW6 was the first.
My first ‘flat’ or maybe just ‘bed’ on moving to London from Cambridge had been in
the then run down ‘long and winding’ West End Lane, NW6.
I shared an upstairs room in a large seven room mansion flat there with the singer and writer RIFF REGAN
and twelve other ‘hopefuls'.
Myself and Riff didn’t know each other when we moved into the place though quickly found out
we were ‘blood brothers’ both (separately) in the process of recording what would be our ‘debut’
albums, he for MCA and myself for GTO/CBS.
Unbeknown to myself and Riff both albums we going to be very much ‘budget' recordings as far as the record labels were
concerned which in my case meant that I physically ran between the actual performing studio, the ‘live room’
and the ‘listening' or ‘control-room' (to save precious studio minutes).
My first location having moved up to London from Cambridge was Central Street in the East End
which had been rough, particularly as I had found a full time job locally as a night-porter, working through
the nite 11pm - 9am in a very busy multi-room commuter’s hotel so I was pleased to be moving
from there (escaping) to the leafy streets of NW6, even if it did mean I was sharing a bedroom with four other people.
This song came out of that move and it’s almost too-upbeat energy is a celebration of my first couple of months
of living there. The recording was due to be released on 1 May 1980 but in the month’s leading up to it the record label
- GTO - was sold and absorbed into CBS and I and other ‘new signings’ became part of a bigger machine.
That’s a long story … suffice to say I managed to get this song recorded myself laying in to the energetic performance
style of the time, adding some cute lyrics and warming chords.
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[@K22MDL]

Ha!!! NW6 What a great place to live :)

[@Jean-EmmanuelDubois]

Genius ! I'm nostalgic for that London ! But this song is here and now !!!