Alan Jenkins, Mat Bartram, Marshall Cavendish and Blodwyn P Teabag at The Princess Charlotte in Leicester on October 5th 2005
The Thurston Lava Tube made six albums between 2001 and 2009. Here is a list of them...
1. Me Ka Nahuku
Two of the songs on this CD weren't written by The Beatles
1 Surfin' USSR 2:19
2 A Hard Day's Night 2:25
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer A 0:40
4 Helter Skelter 3:52
5 Maxwell's Silver Hammer B 0:30
6 With A Girl Like You 1:49
7 And Your Bird Can Sing 1:22
8 I Am The Walrus 1:58
9 When I'm 64 2:52
10 Revolution 9 1:48
11 Please Please Me 2:07
12 Across The Universe 4:47
13 I Feel Fine 2:10
14 She Loves You 2:10
15 I Will 0:50
16 I'll Be Back 2:12
17 I Wanna Be Your Man 1:45
18 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body ? 1:12
19 A Day In The Lift 2:17
20 Free As A Bird 4:26
This is a picture of Don Wilson of The Ventures holding it.
2. Move over Rover, let Clover take over
1 Penetration 2:12
2 Gluon Boy 2:30
3 Lumpy Gravy 1:48
4 The Man With No Ping 1:51
5 Dogmatic 2:37
6 Lullaby Of The Leaves 1:51
7 Func_Surf Entity 3:34
8 Rocket Science 3:11
9 Being And Nothingness 2:02
10 Pempslider 2:12
11 Fox Sharp, Badger Minor 3:07
12 Don't Eat Aluminium 6:47
13 Dogs Are From Pluto 2:01
14 Forget About Freeman 2:25
The line-up of the band for the first two albums was Alan Jenkins - guitar, Blodwyn P. Teabag - organ, Johnny Pacino - bass guitar and Mat Bartram drums. After "Move over Rover" Marhall Cavendish took over from Johnny Pacino on bass.
Here is a photograph of the exact moment when Johnny (right) handed over the bass to Marshall (the other bloke).
3. The Pink Elephant with Nipples for Tusks
1 The Anchor Pigs 3:07
2 Argentinasaurus 2:26
3 It Is The Music Of The Thurston Lava Tube But It Is Performed Here By Pigeons 1:20
4 Fritter Capsule 1:48
5 Peruvogator 1:43
6 I Didn't Bite The Dinosaurs 1:03
7 Forgot To Put The Chain On Baxter 1:55
8 It Must Have Been The Mousse 2:29
9 Absurdo 1:24
10 Shit Weasel 4:35
11 Oh, What Happened To The Poor Bear? 2:54
12 Surf Rider 2:32
13 Wonderful Land 2:29
14 Mrs. Robinson 7:44
Live At The Rescue Rooms (Hidden Multimedia Section, MP3)
1 Fox Sharp Badger Minor 3:18
2 The Anchor Pigs 3:35
3 Gluon Boy 2:29
4 Shit Weasel 3:20
5 I Am The Walrus 2:09
6 Beep Beep Beep Inner Swamp 2:49
7 Argentinasaurus 2:26
8 I Wanna Be Your Man 1:31
9 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? 0:51
10 Free As A Bird 3:02
11 Fireball XL5 1:20
12 Forget About Freeman 2:17
A concert opening for The 5678s in Nottingham. A recording of this is included on the Pink Elephant CD - see if you can find it.
4. The Thoughtful Sounds of bat Smuggling
1 Miserlou 2:54
2 Fear The Bat Smuggler 2:37
3 Bag Territory 11:01
4 Death In Duck Street 2:02
5 Hair And Plants 2:16
6 In The Keeler Gap 2:34
7 The Points, As You Call Them, Will Not Be Changed 2:50
8 Guardian Of The Soul Of Derrek 3:53
9 Space 1752 1:56
10 Tide Of Jam 2:34
11 Organ Failure 0:31
12 Message Two 0:39
13 We'll Gather Lilacs In The Spring Again 2:40
This picture may have been taken around the time we recorded the Thoughtful Sounds album.
5. The Year of the Dog
1 The Poisoned Pawn Variation 1:36
2 Ghost Train (Camel) 3:41
3 Ianisation 2:16
4 The Hitler Goat Fuck 2:27
5 Queen Anne's Revenge 3:07
6 Pipeline 1:52
7 Where Is The Hyena Magnet? 2:17
8 I Wanna Hold Your Hand 1:56
9 Mrs Pterodactyl 2:03
10 Ziggy Stardust 2:21
11 Guess What? 2:02
12 Don't Borrow Dominoes From A Black Man 2:56
13 1e4 Nc6 2:47
14 Action Dog 6:26
15 The Poisoned Porn Variation 1:47
...plus computer files with three videos and two live concert recordings one of which is a mulitrack recording of the Lava Tube set from a benefit gig for Jimmy Carl Black in London in 2008.
Barwell, 2009. Here, recording artist and painter John Boulter is talking about the oil painting of his dog, Max, that we used for the cover of the Year of the Dog album while Mat takes photographs of it.
6. The Poodle Collector
1 Beep Beep Beep Inner Swamp #1 2:33
2 Bohemian Rhapsody 5:05
3 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 2:00
4 Rumble 2:04
5 Help! 2:24
6 Let's Go Squirrel Fishing 2:10
7 Sleigh Ride 1:49
8 Penetration 2:12
9 Great Houses 2:16
10 Stay Free 2:11
11 Wannabe 1:44
12 Mr Green Genes 2:47
13 Talking Cat 2:09
14 Walk Don't Run 2:11
15 Space 1:18
16 Fireball XL5 1:21
17 The Idiot Bastard Son 3:01
18 Genie With The Light Brown Lamp 2:29
19 Caravan 2:47
20 Beep Beep Beep Inner Swamp #2 3:47
This one is a collection of everything we did that isn't on the other CDs.
Here are some pictures of Blodwyn playing large percussion instruments on Bohemian Rhapsody.