Third Door From The Left - Face The Firing Squad
TDFTL is a duo comprising of Raymond Georgeson & Kevin Thorne, who met at a Throbbing Gristle gig.
Kevin Thorne about TDFTL :
Third Door From the Left was born out of frustration and thirst.
Let me start at the beginning. I was walking up Tottenham Court Road one Saturday with Jim Ross, a friend from school when we saw Cosey, Chris, Gen & Sleazy (Throbbing Gristle) walking toward us. We asked for their autographs – they were really nice and told us about a concert they had the next week (at Centro Iberico). We decided to go. We then listened to DOA at a market stall in Soho, and were absolutely awestruck by this new totally different sound. We went to the concert and although Jim found them a little too eerie, I was changed forever. Everything about the sounds, the atmosphere, the video, impressed me. I wanted to be a part of this. Jim and I went to see TG again, this time they were playing with Cabaret Voltaire and rema rema. Here we met Ray. We got to chatting and realized we lived near to each other. Raye & Jim later decided to start a band - Scenario three. This band never got off the drawing board, but from this, Raye & I did eventually form Third Door From The Left. I can't recall exactly the first instruments we bought, but it may have been a WASP synthesiser and violin-bass for me and a Korg 770s for Ray. I do remember buying an echo machine from Mark Perry, which we used a lot! I bought a Dr. Rhythm drum machine - a little marvel! Later (around 1978?) I spent most of my college grant on a Roland chorus echo bought from Chris Carter. Raye & I recorded most weekends, generally with no planned "sound", meandering (if that could be used to describe our sound!) around a basic drum rhythm. We found that we got better results recording "on the fly" like this and taping everything, then editing out the crap to reveal...something! When we had a backing track done, we would play that tape, and add to it. All very basic, all very poor quality, but there was no other way for us back then; and to an extent recording this way was a part of the overall atmospherics, a part of the "punk" ideal that was still lingering. Occasionally we would write some lyrics down first, and work from there. when working with the speech tapes (recorded from TV, radio etc) the "on the spot" technique turned out to be the best with things clicking into place nicely the first time, and never repeatable! After TDFTL Kevin Thorne formed We Be Echo. An absolute must for Cabaret Voltaire en Throbbing Gristle fans. Face The Firing Squad was original released on tape by Cause For Concern (CFC 017) in ? The tape posted here is the re-release on Cthulhu Records (CR 01) in 1981. All tracks are recorded between October 1980 and August 1981. Third Door From The Left are now dismantled.
Tracks :
1. Under Attack
2. Pause
3. Ritual
4. Tear My Heart Out
5. In The Room
6. The Party
7. Jack / Mission To Kill
8. Endorphin
9. Erik Dorf's Diary
10. It's Not Us
11. People Like You
FROM THE ARTIST: This album is to be re-released in 2008 on vinyl and later on CD, and therefore we cannot have it freely available for download. (Thanks for respecting requests like this.)