British Lions
British Lions

One More Chance to Run (Fiddler)
Wild in the Streets (Jeffreys)
Fork Talking Man (Fiddler)
International Heroes (Fowley/Scott)
Break This Fool (Fiddler/Watts)
My Life's in your Hands (Fiddler/Fisher/Watts)
Big Drift Away(Fiddler)
Booster (Fiddler/Watts)
Eat the Rich (Fiddler)

plus 8 Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks
One More Chance to Run (Fiddler) John Peel R1 session 10 May 1978
Break This Fool (Fiddler/Watts) John Peel R1 session 10 May 1978
Wild in the Streets (Jeffreys) John Peel R1 session 10 May 1978
Wild One (Live) (Fiddler) Plymouth, Devon 1978
Eat the Rich: The Second Course (Demo) (Fiddler)
Can't Get Over You (Fiddler) John Fiddler/Ray Majors Demos 1979
Long Distance Love (Fiddler) John Fiddler/Ray Majors Demos 1979
You Got Everything (Fiddler) John Fiddler/Ray Majors Demos 1979

John Fiddler vocals, guitar
Overend Watts bass, vocals
Morgan Fisher piano, hammond organ, davolisint, korg synth, vocals
Ray Major guitar, vocals
Dale Griffin drums, vocals

Produced and Arranged by The Lions

The Lion Taming Crew:

Maddy the K (lights) Mike Scarfe (F.O.H. Sound) Pat & Gerry (Backline Techs) Big Bazza Ward (God of the Road and the Stage) Stan Tippins (God of Gods) Mary Vango: High Princess of the Powderpuff

Mastered from quarter-inch analogue tapes by Nick Watson at SRT Studios, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK during March 2000.

Tapes supplied by Ray Majors and John Fiddler. Licensed from John Fiddler, Ray Majors, Morgan Fisher, Overend Watts and Dale Griffin for USA and Japan.

SJPCD065 Available in all good record stores, or by mail order from Angel Air Records

Half Moon Bay says... Now, you'll have to bear with me. Although this is the first British Lions release, I have already reviewed the other two and given you the benefit of my thoughts and meanderings on listening to those very fine CDs.

And, when listening to this particular record, one has to bear in mind that it is the first fruits from a new band. That said, four fifths had been treading the boards and laying down tracks together for the past few years as Mott. And the fifth part of the whole that was now British Lions was no green newcomer.

And even after putting it all in some kind of Mott-fan perspective, I think you can tell from the very first chords, riffs and beats that this band know their stuff.

Fiddlers writing, or the songs he came up with, seemed to fit like a glove onto the hands of Watts, Griffin, Fisher and Major. No doubt the Watts and Fisher input into some of the titles helped in this, but whatever, the overall impression is one of a record that was good to make.

I just love the guitar sound and the intelligent use of the keyboards, that are at odds with the lack of interest shown in the band commercially; they are SO new wave, really. And Morgan has to be credited with much of that.

I have had this CD in my collection for a couple of years now and it is still one of the records I choose to play now and again and always sounds fresh and fun and gets me dancing… well, maybe you wouldn't call it dancing… but moving, playing the air guitar. You know the kind of thing.

Great stuff and essential for Mott fans as it carries the guys the carried the torch into a project worthy of their talents and spirit.

Terry Burgess, Half Moon Bay. May 2003.