Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
I Want to Know
Third of the 13 On a Friday songs NME listed when they leaked in 2002.
1991–2002
the courtyard tapes
The batch it belongs to, thirteen recordings, went round online in August 2002, passed between fans through a fan site, and was thought to come from sessions at Courtyard Studio near Oxford in 1991, or perhaps 1990, before the band signed to EMI and changed their name. NME had heard some of the recordings, found them uneven and wide-ranging in style, and could not say that every one was genuine. It was third in the list of songs NME printed. This one still circulates among collectors.
the video
A recording of a song they never released.· Bas Kollenwatch on youtube →
sources2
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives.
- Treefingers news desk, 20 August 2002 (from NME), for the leak, the Courtyard sessions and the doubts.