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KEVIN COYNE HOME PAGE 
COVERS AND TRIBUTE SONGS
Kevin himself mentioned some of those... thanks!
(in red: my want list).
NEIL INNES (The Bonzo
Dog Band, Monty Python, The Ruttles) says somewhere on the net that "back in the seventies",
not long after the Bonzo split", he wrote a song for Kevin Coyne called "Lead
Us","In fact, Elton John was actually singing harmonies
on that"...
That was doubtful but Siren's bass player
Dave Clague had played with the Bonzos so maybe there was something to this... In Oct 2005, Tony asked Innes who replied: "
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I'll Go Too (Jo Jo I Geh
A) in his 1979 He Taxi LP Image;
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Threw
It All Away (Trog Des Weg) and
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Talk is Cheap (Redn Kaun Ma Boid)
for a LP called "05 Vor 12" (1980) Image;
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Little Miss Portobello (Miss Salzburg) for his "Der Tag
is Net Weit" LP (1982) Image,
Those two LPs with Bob Ward as a producer (other connexion with Coyne: "Der
Tag Is Net Weit" was recorded at Alvic, Kevin's favorite studio in the
70s, and Coyne musicians Paul Wickens and Vic Sweeny were playing too).
Formula
Eyes by THE RUTS,
b-side of a "Different View" single, Virgin VS396, 1981. The Ruts
had played the song with Kevin Coyne on the SANITY
STOMP LP.
PIPILOTTO RIST:
You Called Me Jacky (Jacky and Edna), 1990, video. 4
" (#V09*). Pipilotto Rist is a video artist. "Some of
her video works resemble video clips, like You Called Me
Jacky, the song being pregnant with meaning, encompassing the images
like a blanket. In "You Called Me Jacky", Rist mimes to a Kevin
Coyne song, interspersing the images with shots of a desolate train journey" (from http://absolutearts.com). This video is now on youtube.
Having A Party by THE
MEKONS on their Makes No DiffErence single and their F.U.N. "90" EP (1990). Reissued (2001) on a compilation CD: Curse of the Mekons/F.U.N. "90". Says Kevin Coyne: "I think
they did it too close to the original. They didn't quite get into the song.
They should have mucked it up and messed it around more" (from Beautiful
Extremes book).
- JACQUES MAHIEUX (French artist) recorded
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House
upon the Hill and
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Mad Boy N°2 (the lattest in a French translation)
on his "Chantages" CD (1991)
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Parler à Personne
(Talking to no one) (half English/half French) on his LP "Mahieux"
(1993)
Are You Deceiving Me by
RIGUELLE & HAUTEKIET (piano and vocals, Belgium) on their CD A MINOR
THING (1998).
Riguelle had played with Brendan
Croker. Their web site.
A review here. (see also below)
- The Sun Shines Down On Me and
- I Confess by
WILL OLHAM (Palace, a.k.a. Bonny Prince Billy) on the 'Bonnie Prince Billy Performs Songs Of Kevin
Loyne' single [yes: Kevin
Loyne because - says Oldham - the Portugese label never heard of Coyne before].
Low Fly records, Portugal, (3 different artworks)
(1999).
Check this Oldham article about Coyne and Babble ("Last night, a record changed my life").
Oldham later included I Confess in his 2006 cd "THE LETTING GO".
The cover was also included in "Whispers from the Offing - A Tribute to Kevin Coyne" (2007) as a downloadable bonus track.
There are also live versions of the song, one in Chicago Nov 11 2004 and one recorded at THE KEVIN COYNE MEMORIAL NIGHT HIDEOUT CHICAGO in 2005.
The English version is now included in the "World is Full of Fools" Tribute cd - see below).
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Saviour,
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Fooled Again
- Juliet and Mark and
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I Realy Live Round Here. He also wrote a tribute song called: No Competition (these two last songs are included in the "World is Full of Fools" Tribute cd - see below).
"'Out of True’ (Iron Man Records) is the first Nightingales-LP for 20 years, & it is their most cohesive work to date! Main man Robert Lloyd via a machine-gun etiquette name-drops: Blackfoot Sue, Pussycat, Brut and Robin Asquith! NB Open those 70’s files! This is the best LP The Fall didn’t make in the 80’s, but it is also an ’06 triumph! 14 songs of Midlands maverick offers both unusual tune titles: ‘UK randy mom Epidemic’, and ‘Taking away the stigma of free school Dinners’; & killer lines, e.g. : ’With all the grace of a ticket tout’,’ the texture of catarrh’ & ‘son if you invested in cemeteries well people would stop dying’! Led by the Kevin Coyne cover-‘Good Boy’, ‘Workshy Wunderkind’, and ‘Born & bred in Birmingham’ this is an epic punk v. rockabilly trip! 'Out Of True' also features beauty in its beast via the ‘Black Country’ duet with Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and ‘There’s a new world just opening for Me’. Please let these Nightingales sing on your square ...NOW! A top album of this year or any year, ‘Out of True’ is out of this world!"
Pass into the Night, a song about Kevin by CLIVE PRODUCT. Clive is the author of the book "Beautiful Extremes, Conversations with Kevin Coyne", he is curently working on an up-date of the book, scheduled for a 2007 release. Download the song here. "It's about the last time I visited Kevin Coyne in Nuremburg (in 2004). He died on December 2nd of that year - he was suffering from lung fibrosis (a hardening of the lungs which makes breathin difficult). He wasn't able to walk great distances so I spent much time pushing him around in wheelchair. Despite the obvious sadness - and the fact he needed to be connected to an oxygen cylinder for 16 hours a day - we found ourselves laughing and talking in silly voices (hence th line "we were Pete and Dud and maybe Tony Hancock..."). We walked by the river, stopping of to eat cake at a local cafe, before going into town to do some CD shopping. Later, back at his flat we sat in his room and he played me some of his favourite tracks (King Oliver, Ramones, Tal Talk, some old doo wop stuff, etc). Pass Into The Night is a personal tribute to an old hero who became a dear friend." Unreleased.
Smile Right Back by LIZ NICHOLS (2006) produced by Michael Lipton (who co-wrote the song with Coyne), played by some of the Carpenter Ants (feat. Lipton). Unreleased.
Victoria Smiles by HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE as a bonus track on his 2007 CD "Klare Verhältnisse". The song later appeared on the Whispers from the Offing Tribute to Kevin Coyne cd (2007) Image
FRANK BANGAY has recorded several Kevin Songs:
- I Stood Up for "The World is Full of Fools - A Fan Tribute to Kevin Coyne", (2005),
- Mad Boy n°2 for "Whispers from the Offing - A Tribute to Kevin Coyne" (2007, he was one of the organisers),
- Something Gone Wrong, (2007?), unreleased,
- Looking for the River (Feb 08) on his myspace page
- Are We Dreaming (Jun 08) also on myspace
PERE UBU put their version of Kevin's Turpentine to download here (Feb 2008). For 1$, check this amazing version where Pere Ubu meets Kevin Coyne! This was initially recorded for the forthcoming Tribute to Kev which, as Pere Ubu singer David Thomas puts it "ran out of steam". Line up is David Thomas - vocals, Keith Moliné - guitar, Robert Wheeler - EML synthesizer & theremin, Andy Diagram - trumpet, Michele Temple - bass, Steve Mehlman - drums.
Take me back in your Arms (not on youtube anymore), Really in Love , The World is Full of Fools ,Ponytail Song by MAREK W. and CHRISTOPH NOVE a.k.a. www.Novemberclub.de- All appeared on youtube with a film shot at Happening 2006 for the 1st song. 2nd appeared in March 2008, 3rd and 4th in November 08.
Big White Bird by SERGE ZENI - it used to be on his myspace page. (2008)
House on the Hill by BRUYNEN also on myspace (2008)
Check also:
- "Kevin Coyne Covers", a CDR compilation of most of covers mentioned here.
- "The World is Full of Fools - A Fan Tribute to Kevin Coyne" CDR, by members of the Kevin Coyne Group (2005)
- "Whispers from the Offing - A Tribute to Kevin Coyne" (2007)
- "Kevin Coyne Tribute Night, 5th June 2008, Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden, London" feat. several contributors from "Whispers"