Written By : Yan /
Hamilton
Released : December 2001
Cat No. : RTRADES032
Recording Info : Remember Me and A Lovely Day Tomorrow both recorded at Beethoven Street Studio by Mads Bjerke and British Sea Power. Mastered by Adam Nunn at Abbey Road Studios.
Whats special about it : This
was the prize for a competition held on the Rough Trade Records website when
Remember Me came out in October.
The question was what is A Lovely Day Tomorrow about? and I answered correctly
with this answer (it's just a copy from the e-mail I sent so the vocab's not
perfect) :
" This german guy called Reinhard Heydrich was
a nazi leader and he
destabilized Czech. in 1939.
Then crap happened then he made it secure in bout 1941 and the song is about
Heydrich getting attacked by these free czech agents on May 27, 1942. His
car, a mercedes benz went round a corner slowly and these czech's who had
been trained in england to assasinate him shot at him and threw a bomb at
him which exploded and wounded him and then he got out, shot back but
collapsed in the street.
Himmler, another guy to do with the nazis got his private doctor to try and
save Heydrich but he died of blood poisoning after a few days on June 4th
cos of the fragments of the car, steel and his uniform.
He then had a massive funeral and Hitler called him the man with the Iron
Heart or soemthing.
Because of this they found the Czech agents and killed them and then anyone
suspected of being involved in the death of Heydrich was killed, that was
over 1000 people, another 3000 jews were killed and 500 jews in berlin were
arrested with 152 being executed.
And i'm thinking it goes 'it'll be a lovely day tomorrow' cos they think its
going to be nice cos Heydrich who used Czech. was dead but then the nazis
still killed loads of people for it so it was 'a lovely death tomorrow'.
"
So there you go, that was the answer.
The prize was the Remember Me 7" painted on the front green and yellow in
swirly pattern with bits of black paint too, 3 orange figures from the cover and
the title, Remember Me also left unpainted then a twig and a fern stuck on the
front too with 2 little wholes in near the side and a red ribbon put through it
and tied to be all exact.
Also the band have signed the back of the sleeve around the middle part.
It is the only 1 around (I think) so it's pretty cool.
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