The Official Bog-Set

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-Full Bog Shed back catalogue available on CD for the first time, in clamshell box set.
-Audio remastered for the first time, with restored original artwork.
-Includes the John Peel Sessions, 14 tracks of which have never been released.
-New album 'Who Scoffed The Trill?' of live performances & rarities, only in the box set, not on any streaming services
-28-Page booklet featuring writing from John Robb, Rhodri Marsden, & the original members of Bog-Shed.

Includes unlimited streaming of The Official Bog-Set via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Panties Please 03:28	buy track
2.	Spencer Travis 01:58	buy track
3.	Fat Lad Exam Failure 03:10	buy track
4.	Slave Girls 02:19	buy track
5.	City Girls 01:58	buy track
6.	Hand Me Down Father 04:11	buy track
7.	Mechanical Nun 03:02	buy track
8.	Run To The Temple 03:30	buy track
9.	Adventure Of Dog 01:59	buy track
10.	Tommy Steele Record 03:22	buy track
11.	Jobless Youngsters 03:05	buy track
12.	Tried To Hide But Forced To Howl 02:46	buy track
13.	Packed Lunch To School 02:30	buy track
14.	Summer In My Lunchtime 02:40	buy track
15.	Fastest Legs 02:19	buy track
16.	Oily Stack 02:14	buy track
17.	Hell Bent On Death 02:55	buy track
18.	Can't Be Beat 03:12	buy track
19.	Little Car 00:47	buy track
20.	Morning Sir 03:10	buy track
21.	Story Of Bogshed 02:46	buy track
22.	Raise The Girl 04:02	buy track
23.	Geoff's Big Problem 02:38	buy track
24.	Old Dog New Dance 02:27	buy track
25.	No To Lemon Mash 02:18	buy track
26.	I'm The Instrument 04:11	buy track
27.	Opportunatist Knocks 02:44	buy track
28.	People Equal Greedy 02:22	buy track
29.	Sing A Little Tune 01:30	buy track
30.	C'mon Everybody 03:09	buy track
31.	Uncle Death Grip 03:45	buy track
32.	Spring 00:31	buy track
33.	Loaf 02:15	buy track
34.	Excellent Girl 03:21	buy track
35.	True Rope 02:38	buy track
36.	Stop Revolving 03:17	buy track
37.	Your Science My Sound 06:01	buy track
38.	Packed Lunch To School 02:30	buy track
39.	Oily Stack 02:09	buy track
40.	Hell Bent On Death 02:58	buy track
41.	Can't Be Beat 03:10	buy track
42.	Fastest Legs 02:22	buy track
43.	Adventure Of Dog 02:01	buy track
44.	Morning Sir 02:41	buy track
45.	Little Car 00:49	buy track
46.	Summer In My Lunchtime 02:44	buy track
47.	Tried & Tested Public Speaker 02:18	buy track
48.	Champion Love Shoes 03:18	buy track
49.	Little Grafter 02:09	buy track
50.	Raise The Girl 04:10	buy track
51.	I Said No The Lemon Mash 02:23	buy track
52.	The Gourmet Is A Baby 02:36	buy track
53.	Loaf 02:10	buy track
54.	From The Stubble 04:33	buy track
55.	Six To One And Likely 03:53	buy track
56.	Into Me 07:10	buy track
57.	Duck Fight - US Bands - Wally Wallah 05:18	buy track

about

At the beginning of the year it was reported that Tesco was phasing out CDs and DVDs in its UK stores, with plans to stop selling physical media altogether by the end of February 2022. So obviously the time is right to finally commit Bog Shed's recorded output to CD (and digital platforms) for the first time.

The band formed in 1983 and over the next four years released their debut EP Let Them Eat Bog Shed, followed by two albums; Step On It and Brutal, as well as a compilation of their John Peel Sessions (Tried & Tested Public Speaker, originally a 6-track EP). The version of Tried and Tested Public Speaker released here features 20 of their John Peel session tracks, 14 of which have never before been released.

Mike and Mark were born in Liverpool in 1961 but met at school in Ormskirk aged 9. Their 70s were T.O.T.P, Top 20, Fluff Freeman, John Peel, Probe, Eric's and the peculiar hippy/ punk crossover of the free festivals. Every Saturday they would play rubbish guitars through a home made amp. After leaving Polytechnic Mike and Mark moved to Hebden Bridge soon to be followed by Phil who moved into Northwell Cottage in Heptonstall. This was an ideal space to play and rehearse. Stone-built and clinging to a hill with the toilet in a shed down a steep path next to a well for your water.

Drummers were tried, but were either temporary or just plain wrong. Tris, who befriended the others drinking in the Trades Club, got the job having never played the drums. The Bradford gig on Who Scoffed The Trill? was 2 weeks later and these live songs are early tunes that never got recorded. There were many more, but C90's got recycled and we will never again hear Open Up In The Name Of Fred Feast or I saw Cleo Laine In A Phonebox. Who Scoffed The Trill?'s 22 tracks are exclusive to this box set and won't be available on streaming platforms.

Their debut EP Let Them Eat Bog Shed was released on John Robb's Vinyl Drip label in 1985 and led to their track Run To The Temple appearing on the NME's now-legendary C86 cassette. However, this was the age of DIY and Phil decided they should be even indie-er and start their own label, Shelfish, having declined offers from the Creation and Abstract labels.

Phil was technically the best musician in the band, he could play and sing every Beatles song. John Robb describes him and the cottage, 'A total one-off, Phil was a Stanley Baxter lookalike with flared nostrils and a flared mind who was funny as fuck and had a brilliant quirky worldview. His house was an extension of his unique personae. Every morning at breakfast a horse from the neighbouring field would poke its head through the kitchen window and nibble bits of toast and listen to the clatter of cans being swept up.'

Phil still organised gigs in Britain and Europe but the well-known stresses of travelling in the back of a van for miles and miles to be manic for an hour started to tell. What had been creative tension just became tension. So in 1987 it stopped. Phil had fallen out with Mark and Tris by then and died of throat cancer in 2006. Tris went on to play with A Witness before joining Jackdaw with Crowbar. He played in many side projects on a variety of instruments until he died of brain cancer in 2008. Mike still draws and came up with the new sleeve artwork.

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