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He was kind enough to give us a detailed insight into those heady days which (lest we forget) also strongly featured luminaries such as Bill Drummond, David Balfe and of course the late, great Bunnymen drummer Pete De Freitas and we are truly proud to present the following text.
W&H: Paul, I know you're rightly proud that the music on Incandescent has finally seen the light of day, but were there times when you'd given up on The Wild Swans' history and thought the wider public would never have a chance to hear the band's magnificent earlier recordings?
Paul: I was levitating the day finished copies landed on my doormat. I was scared that I would go to my grave with no document of that period of the band but, thanks to Renascent, these early recordings are now safe. I always loved those bands who made one or two vinyl singles then disappeared forever like Manicured Noise or Bourgie Bourgie so the idea of double CDs by these lost bands is mind-blowing to me and I can understand why fans are exited. If I were a fan from the old days with just a battered copy of "The Revolutionary Spirit" I'd think Christmas had come early.
W&H: Let's talk about the band's very early days before the recording of The Revolutionary Spirit single. There's a photo of the first Swans' gig at Pickwick's in Liverpool (November 1980) inside the Incandescent booklet. Can you remember much about that gig and did you play many before Pete (de Freitas) approached you to do the single?
