HR151 - Osiris - Jericho Tavern - C35 — 1989
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SIDE A:
CRYSTAL STARLIGHT LADY OF PLEASURE STARCRUISER YOU SHOULD BE FEELING |
SIDE B:
LAZY DAY MOTORWAY CITY CONFIDENCE DRAGON SLAYER |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
I’ll start with history that comes years after Osiris folded: In 2002 Dave Adams recruited Milo Black into a Hawkwind tribute band - Assassins of Silence. Dave later discussed with Milo a desire to resurrect his 1980s band Osiris, which led to two CDs released in 2009 and 2011 as Osiris the Rebirth. Interviewed in a 2011 issue of Aural Innovations, Dave explains that the original Osiris played only one live performance. This tape documents that one show at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford on July 2, 1989.
For this show the band is a six-piece of two guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and dual male/female vocals. The sound quality is decent enough to get a feel for what the band were about. It’s song-oriented space rock with a groove you can often dance to and is reminiscent of Hawkwind and many of the 1980s British psychedelic ‘festie’ bands, especially when Adam Hurst and Simone Starbuck are both singing. With song titles like ‘Dragon Slayer’ and ‘Starcruiser’ you know this is both musically and lyrically in space, and the set also includes a cover of Hawkwind’s ‘Motorway City’. I’d love to hear some studio material from this band!
I’ll start with history that comes years after Osiris folded: In 2002 Dave Adams recruited Milo Black into a Hawkwind tribute band - Assassins of Silence. Dave later discussed with Milo a desire to resurrect his 1980s band Osiris, which led to two CDs released in 2009 and 2011 as Osiris the Rebirth. Interviewed in a 2011 issue of Aural Innovations, Dave explains that the original Osiris played only one live performance. This tape documents that one show at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford on July 2, 1989.
For this show the band is a six-piece of two guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and dual male/female vocals. The sound quality is decent enough to get a feel for what the band were about. It’s song-oriented space rock with a groove you can often dance to and is reminiscent of Hawkwind and many of the 1980s British psychedelic ‘festie’ bands, especially when Adam Hurst and Simone Starbuck are both singing. With song titles like ‘Dragon Slayer’ and ‘Starcruiser’ you know this is both musically and lyrically in space, and the set also includes a cover of Hawkwind’s ‘Motorway City’. I’d love to hear some studio material from this band!