4 ZERO RECORDS – RELEASE SHEET HERE & NOW – COAXED OUT FROM OXFORD Space rockers with dread at the controls captured live in concert in 1983. Lovingly re-mastered with bonus tracks, photos, and liner notes from ‘Le Missile’
From seventies free festival jam band… thru space punk floating anarchists with Daevid Allen (as Planet Gong) … thru reggae infused eighties indie space rock… thru nineties psychedelic trance… to present day warped tecno-retro with members of Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles… Here & Now, along with Hawkwind, are one of the most influential space rock bands in the UK. – and they’re still going strong. This release, a lovingly re-mastered version of their self produced tape, “Coaxed Out from Oxford”, plus bonus tracks from a raucous show at the Polytechnic Of Wales, features the longest running Here & Now line up of Keith ‘Le Missile Bass’ Bailey on bass/vocals, Deano Ferrari on guitars/vocals, Gavin da Blitz on keyboards/vocals and Paul Rose on drums. It’s the spring of 1983, and having just released the highly acclaimed album, “Fantasy Shift” ,and embarked on a yet another intense touring schedule, the band were trying to capture the essence of what they were doing live… ‘Le Missile’ takes up the story: “People were hassling everywhere we played for a good live album – and that was proving less easy to achieve than we’d thought at first. We tried all sorts of ways to get it down well - the live set at the time – using batteries of tape machines, cassette recorders, live mics, off line recordings. But nothing seemed to do the job to our satisfaction. “So along came Tony Gudge, an old friend of ours, who offered to front up the money to pay for a proper 8 track mobile recording outfit to come and capture it.	“We spent a fortnight after the gig jiggling, re-recording a vocal or two, and generally squeezing, coaxing and cajoling absolutely the best sound we possibly could from it… hence the title… Although I’m well aware that some of you out there might have other ideas on that – we’re not going down that road just now… are we… “What you hear on this record is the result… digitally re-mastered with loving care to produce what - in my opinion - is a CD that sounds better than the original master, and I’m not easy to please!” Tracklisting: 23 Skidoo Heart Of The City The Mega Number Salvador Ways To Be Free Theatre Heartbeat Fantasy Shift Secrets Opium For The People Glad You're Here Last Chance Stoned Innocent Frankenstein Jimmy Mac http://www.4zerorecords.co.uk http://www.indiestore.com/4zerorecords http://www.myspace.com/4zerorecords	Label: 4 Zero Records Catalogue #: FZ004 Artist: Here & Now Title: Coaxed Out from Oxford Release Date: 22^th October 2007 Barcode/EAN: tbd Dealer Price: please enquire Limited edition of 1,000 copies Download stores: Indiestore Contact: Dave Weller