Radio Birdman fans will be thrilled with the news that numerous lost reels of the legendary Australian rockers' peak-period studio recordings have just been found. According to founding guitarist Deniz Tek, who recently revealed the fantastic find on his blog site (see below), the tapes are in excellent shape and there's enough solid material for a box set. Can I get a Yeah, Hup! somebody?
"Radio Birdman management has located dozens of boxes of 24 track tape recorded by the band in the mid 70's. These tapes had long been thought to have been destroyed. The tapes were found at AC/DC's famed Albert's Studios in North Sydney. They had been kept in a climate controlled archive, and are in pristine condition.
The band will be sorting through all of the many hours of this material in the next month, to prioritise material for a box set that will include outtakes, unreleased songs, and alternate versions. In addition to studio material, there is a complete multitrack recording of a concert at Paddington Town Hall, from 12/12/77. With a production session scheduled for April, fans can expect a release by years end.
In other Radio Birdman news, production and artwork is completed on a live album recorded in Texas during the North American leg of the bands 2007 world tour. Notable for the absence of Pip Hoyle the keyboard player, this album features a stripped back but furious sonic attack."
In the meantime, check out these awesome Radio Birdman performance/interview clips taken from a TV appearance on Rockturnal originally broadcast in 1978:
What Gives and Descent Into The Maelstrom
Burn My Eye and Search & Destroy
LINKS
Deniz Tek deniztek.blogspot.com
Radio Birdman http://www.radio-birdman.com/indexM.html
http://www.myspace.com/theofficialradiobirdman
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