Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:47:36 +0200 60 https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/set/joe-mckechniemy-groups/ contact@hearthis.at en-EN https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/set/joe-mckechniemy-groups/ https://img.hearthis.at/1/6/5/_/uploads/57826/image_set/108311/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1629882047561.jpg no 11241682 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:01:44 +0200 2024-07-08T11:01:44+02:00
Benny Profane for this version -

Peter Baker - Organ Swirly
Mckechnie - Guitar/Drums
Stringer - Bass
Surtees - Slide Guitar Star]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/rob-a-bank-instrumental-256-mp3-01/ 0 79 5ccc31483d828e5875ed46a63c1fe763.wav wav https://stream71.hearthis.at/5ccc31483d828e5875ed46a63c1fe763.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/rob-a-bank-instrumental-256-mp3-01/ 205 5815348 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 02:03:40 +0200 2021-04-09T02:03:40+02:00
Peter Baker - Organ
Mckechnie - Guitar/Drums
Stringer - Bass
Surtees - Fuzz Guitar Star

Originally Recorded/Released 1990

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Jackson - Vocal
Mckechnie - Guitar & Drums [Drums are basic, I was playing guitar at the same time]
Stringer - Bass
Surtees - Guitar

Recorded by Frank Sparks in his studio in Arena, Duke Street, Liverpool]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/benny-profanedrop-deadfeb19master/ 0 71 04dfa1604f16a68e82fe951ea6b149ea.mp3 mp3 https://stream69.hearthis.at/04dfa1604f16a68e82fe951ea6b149ea.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/benny-profanedrop-deadfeb19master/ 223 14655049 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:02:56 +0200 2026-08-31T15:02:56+02:00
All about the newly opened Cosmos Club in Liverpool, headed up by Mr Ernie Woo. [the Ernie to my Eric]

Roger Hill has been a constant when it comes to supporting & promoting the cultural life of Liverpool.
His BBC/PMS show, [with various co-presenters along the way] was essential listening for many years when it came to the what's what in music, Liverpool & the world.

It was a shit day when the BBC got rid of all the radio shows that mattered, not enough likes was it?

Anyway, as so many times before & after, Roger very kindly invited me on to the PMS show to talk, at length, about the newly opened Cosmos Club, Seel Street, Liverpool.
The building is now home to EBGB's.

Another recording rescued from Mckechnie's Cassette Mountain.]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/rogr-hill-interviews-joe-mckechniecosmos-club/ 0 82 f84711fb057e3bf333563b9481ec3f66.wav wav https://stream75.hearthis.at/f84711fb057e3bf333563b9481ec3f66.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/rogr-hill-interviews-joe-mckechniecosmos-club/ 982 14723089 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:22:11 +0200 2026-10-15T10:22:11+02:00
Munich/West Germany/1982

The Passage record a 'Live in Concert' TV Show [Alabama-Halle, footage MIA].

We go to a club, bouncers don't like my badge.
Violence leads to novelty song, me at the microphone.

TV/Alabama-Halle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama-Halle

#thepassage
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Hear that version here -
https://youtu.be/ioZfX7BOY0E.

Going through some old cassettes yesterday [19/07/2026] I found this home recording of me playing another version of the [very short] song, just for fun you understand,

Benny Profane played a lot of gigs in Ernie's pub The Monro, Duke Street, Liverpool, then later in The Cosmos Club on Seel Street [Now EBGB's].]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/joe-mckechnieernie-woo-demo/ 0 82 e2fc55457452046f1ff4730493fa3c7a.wav wav https://stream79.hearthis.at/e2fc55457452046f1ff4730493fa3c7a.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/joe-mckechnieernie-woo-demo/ 47 13655753 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:02:16 +0100 2026-01-11T16:02:16+01:00
From a rather ragged cassette recording of our first time in a recording studio, first time hearing these songs in years.
Recorded by Mike 'Noddy' Knowler in the Open Eye Studio that used to be at the end of Whitechapel, Liverpool. Replaced by Queens Square.

Activity Minimal

Kevan Chapman - Guitar
John Hawkins - Vocals/Bass
Joe Mckechnie - drums
Robert Ward - Guitar

Deep Sleep written by John Hawkins [Subjectively & Objectively]

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[Home Taping 1982]

Written by
Dave Lee - Vocals/Words
Joe Mckechnie - Music/Words

Transfered from cassette 2026.

After Dave's group Chinese Religion came to an end in 1981 he I did some writing & recording.
All in the Modern Eon practice room, located above Modular Design, Duke Street, Liverpool.
I've not heard the recordings since back then. I was expecting to hear just drums & vocals, I'd forgotten I'd overdubbed Bass/Guitar/Casio Viletone, all taped/bounced on a borrowed Reel to Reel machine [that I didn't know how to use].

Anyway, the recordings were forgotten about, then, a few years back, Dave died.
I've given this song a remix/remaster job mainly because my pal Paul Cavanagh [Chinese Religion's guitarist] expressed an interest in hearing the tapes.
Here you go Paul, you asked!

I played drums on the Chinese Religion single My Motive.
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From a rather ragged cassette recording of our first time in a recording studio, first time hearing these songs in years.
Recorded by Mike 'Noddy' Knowler in the Open Eye Studio which used to be at the end of Whitechapel, Liverpool.
Replaced by Queens Square.

I think this is the first recorded example of a song where I wrote the words. I doubt it comes across, but it's supposed to be about a person who finds themselves being edited out of existence by unknown forces, being disappeared if you will. 1978 you say, fun times.
The audio quality is reasonably dreadful, but it's over in less than a minute.
Joe

Activity Minimal

Kevan Chapman - Guitar
John Hawkins - Vocals/Bass
Joe Mckechnie - Drums, maybe some vocals

Edited written by Joe Mckechnie [Words] John Hawkins [Music]

Remastered from Cassette 25/01/2026]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/activity-minimaledited16bit-master25012026/ 0 80 a3bd685b6c2e4b92d69cb9e891e62ad5.wav wav https://stream78.hearthis.at/a3bd685b6c2e4b92d69cb9e891e62ad5.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/activity-minimaledited16bit-master25012026/ 43 5147877 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:13:05 +0200 2020-09-22T12:13:05+02:00 [Live Royal College Of Art 3rd April 1981]

Joe Mckechnie
Andy Wilson
rick Witts

RCA Photo: David Lister

https://thepassage.co.uk/

https://www.ltmrecordings.com/pindrop_degenerates_ltmcd2589.html

they said: tell us who owns this place?
we said
you
they said: tell us, who runs this place?

but then we thought:
are they from down the road?
is this another trap?

they said: you're not being clear
you're not very clear
tell us who runs this place?
we said
power
they said: you're still not clear
tell us, who runs this place?

but then we thought:
are they from the back room?
are they from down the road?
is this the right word?
love?

but then we thought: it's always the same
that things won't change
we've nothing to lose
and so we agreed
we'd tell them the truth

they said:
you're free to go if you say that again
you're free to go if you say love again
tell us who runs this place
but we said
fear

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Recorded at The Ritz 11/10/1982
John Peel Session first broadcast 27/10/1982

Joe Mckechnie - Drums
Andrew Wilson - Vocals/Guitar/Xylophone
rick Witts - Keys

Recording sourced from a bootleg cassette, thanks to the Bootfinder General Nick Blakey

https://thepassage.co.uk/]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passageempty-wordslive-ritz-mcrpeel-session/ 0 36 656553074bab5d11ac79bf7eb26ef916.flc flc https://stream17.hearthis.at/656553074bab5d11ac79bf7eb26ef916.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passageempty-wordslive-ritz-mcrpeel-session/ 309 5967837 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:11:49 +0200 2021-06-03T16:11:49+02:00 [John Peel Session No1/November 1980]

Lizzy Johnson - Vocals
Joe Mckechnie - Drums/Vocals
Andy Wilson - Guitar/Vocals
rick Witts - Keys/Vocals

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[May have been 1983, all records destroyed]

Angleland
Drugface
Tattoo
Man Of War

Joe Mckechnie,
Andrew Wilson,
rick Witts

With the horns & harp of Geoffrey Snowden, Ian Daykin, Rachel Barrett Whiting, Paul Mundle & Eira Jones.

Recorded on the stage of The Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester 1982.
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I made a short intro music recording & was ready to start playing as it ended...
The rest of the group thought it would be funny to leave me out there onstage on my own.

Factory Star had been going for a while. Not long after I joined my mate Revo asked me if we'd like to support Silver Apples in Liverpool for an Evol gig..

I suggested to the group that we should do the gig as Blue Orchids as it would go well with Silver Apples on the poster, & the rest happened after that

On the night Blue Orchids were:
Martin Bramah
Chris Dutton
Ann Matthews
Joe Mckechnie
John Paul Moran

Recorded from the audience. [Toc & The Bopper]
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Number 9

Recorded in Graveyard Studio, Prestwich, Manchester 9th December 1980.

Graveyard was the last studio Joy Division ever recorded in, 4 days before Ian Curtis's death.
https://prestwich.org.uk/history/places/graveyardstudios.html
Devils & Angels was, in part, a response to the Joy Division song Heart & Soul.

We read about John Lennon being shot as we set off for the studio on the morning of the 9th.

Released as a single February 1981

The Passage -

Elizabeth Johnson
Joseph Mckechnie
Andrew Wilson
rick Witts]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passagedevils-angels-7inch-320mp3-joe-mckechnie-december-2019-remaster/ 0 75 77cc683fa1a29fbb0072a3652330ce11.mp3 mp3 https://stream31.hearthis.at/77cc683fa1a29fbb0072a3652330ce11.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passagedevils-angels-7inch-320mp3-joe-mckechnie-december-2019-remaster/ 234 4582338 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:50:49 +0200 2020-04-13T21:50:49+02:00 [Live ICA Rock Week, London Thursday 1st January 1981]

From an audience recorded bootleg cassette.
It's a ropey racket recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Elizabeth Johnson - Vocals
Joe Mckechnie - Drums/Vocals
Andrew Wilson - Guitar/Vocals
Rick Witts - Keys/Vocals

Poster -
https://www.ltmrecordings.com/ica_poster_1980.html

ICA Rock Week staged in December 1980 through January 1981.
Groups featured include Orange Juice, Josef K, Blue Orchids, Cabaret Voltaire, This Heat, Altered Images, Mass, The Passage, Lemon Kittens, Crispy Ambulance, Biting Tongues, Dislocation Dance, Basement 5, The Sound, The Soft Boys, Doll By Doll and Athletico Spizz 80.

Dorothy Parker - Resumé

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.]]> https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passageshave-your-head-ica-1st-jan-1981-320/ 0 53 662641dd8c7770697ff24d86deffff39.mp3 mp3 https://stream55.hearthis.at/662641dd8c7770697ff24d86deffff39.mp3 no contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/the-passageshave-your-head-ica-1st-jan-1981-320/ 264 2987114 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:48:43 +0200 2019-04-02T23:48:43+02:00
There are snakes in the grass
There are locusts hogging crops
But the mongrel called John Bull
Is the lowest of the lot.
https://thepassage.co.uk/discography/enflame.html

The Passage
Photo: Kevin Cummins
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Audio taken from a bootleg cassette. [I think Alan Wise made the recording]
We decided to play this song just before we went back onstage for our encore. I'd never played it before, & as far as I can remember we never played it again.
The gig was recorded by the BBC & selected songs were broadcast as our fourth [& final] Peel Session.
https://thepassage.co.uk/
Joe Mckechnie - Drums
Andrew Wilson - Vocals/Guitar
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