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Side Room Archives — SRA-053: Tommy Sideburn — Still Ringing (1974)

Side Room Archives — SRA-053: Tommy Sideburn — Still Ringing (1974) ------------- Tommy Sideburn — Still Ringing (1974) Recorded as the Market Street Sessions, 1973 ------------- Still Ringing was recorded across several Saturdays in early 1973 in a single upstairs room above a retail unit close to the city market. The space was not a studio. It had low ceilings, thin walls, and a single window overlooking the loading bay. Equipment was borrowed, mismatched, and set up fresh each week. The musicians played live, often starting late morning and stopping once footfall picked up below. Traffic, voices, passing radios, and delivery carts occasionally bled into the recordings and were left untouched. No session logs survive. Track titles appear to have been written after the fact, reconstructed from loose pages found with the reels. The performances suggest familiarity rather than rehearsal — songs shaped by repetition rather than arrangement, confidence without polish. Tommy Sideburn’s vocals sit unusually close in the mix, sometimes uncomfortably so. He sings with conviction, but not clarity. Certain consonants never fully arrive. Rather than correcting this, the recordings lean into it. What might have been treated as a flaw becomes a defining feature — a voice working harder than the words themselves. Musically, the album sits somewhere between late-night pop, lounge, and soft rock, with jazz phrasing and odd instrumental choices drifting in and out. Tempos waver. Solos appear briefly, then vanish. Endings feel more abandoned than resolved. The sessions were never formally released. Contemporary paperwork suggests the label intended a small regional pressing, but most of the catalogue was reportedly destroyed in a warehouse fire later that decade. No advertisements, reviews, or broadcast records have been found. Only a handful of copies appear to have survived. Still Ringing is presented here as it was discovered. No edits, no enhancement, no attempt to complete what was left unfinished. It’s not a lost masterpiece. It’s a document — of someone convinced he belonged in the room, even if the room didn’t last. Track List & Timeline Side One 00:00 — The Wrong Line Home 03:20 — I Lost My Shoe at the Bus Stop 07:16 — Everybody Clapped (But I Didn’t Bow) 11:29 — I’m Standing in the Middle 14:29 — Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind Side Two 18:06 — If You Lean, I’ll Lean 22:14 — I Thought About It Twice 25:10 — Too Much Room 29:26 — Still Ringing 33:02 — So Turn the Lights Back On 36:38 — Where You Leave the Light On ------------- Side Room Archives documents recordings that never made it past the rooms they were created in. These are not unreleased classics or lost stars. They are records that fell between infrastructure, timing, and circumstance — small labels that folded, pressings that were destroyed, sessions that were never followed up. In this case, the material surfaced during a building clearance near the city market. Most of the label’s catalogue appears to have been lost in a warehouse fire in the mid-1970s. Only a small number of copies are believed to have survived. The recordings are presented as they were found. No restoration, no modernisation. Room sound, performance drift, and imperfections remain intact. This channel exists to make material accessible before it disappears again.