Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Avalon Ballroom

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

I love the cheek of calling this collection by this name. If you happened to be a grouchy manager-type who didn't like fan trading and you wanted to know where the heck this came from, and you also knew that there was a mailing list called Avalon...

Anyway, this is the same concept as the later double-disc As the World Turns, only done as a single disc and, I think, using only the handful of radio shows as the sources for the lineup. It actually repeats three performances from the earlier All Styles Served Here 2, suggesting that just because a mailing list can get behind a fan trading project, it doesn't necessarily follow that all its members have to agree on what the heck should go into it.

As with most of the mailing list trees spearheaded by the older, British fans, this was passed along with a sense of "official secrets act" plausible deniability and no names attached. The project coordinator and artwork designer are, unsurprisingly, anonymous.

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