Fire Engines

Lubricate Your Living Room (1980) ...

Minimalist Magic Band meets jangly post-punk pop music ...from Edinburgh on the Indie pop:Aural label and produced by Bob Last, early Human League manager ...

Lubricate Your Living Room part 1 ... 

Get Up and Use Me ... 

Their debut release for the label was Lubricate Your Living Room, an eight track album of discordant, funky-rhythmed, improvised pieces of music/muzak; no lyrics whatsoever discounting the screams and yelps on Discord. Music to go out to, to put you in the mood for ”action and fun'; this entire concept was Last's albeit with Fire Engines playing the role of willing accomplice. Lubricate had more in common with the instrumental Dub albums coming out of Kingston, Jamaica, and the extended instrumental disco-mixes coming out of clubs like Danceteria in downtown Manhattan. It sounded like nothing else; Fire Engines were then occupying a completely different hemisphere to that of their contemporaries... A history of Fire Engines ...

New Thing In Cartons ... 

Sympathetic Anaesthetic ...