Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Without You
Two leaks, in 2002 and 2006, pointed to two different songs as the first “Maquiladora”.
1991
on a friday
“Without You” was among 13 recordings by On a Friday, the band's name before Radiohead, that leaked in August 2002, thought to come from sessions at Courtyard Studio near Oxford. NME.com, reporting the leak, called it an early version of “Maquiladora”, the B-side on the “High and Dry” / “Planet Telex” single of February 1995. When a tape they made in the summer of 1990, while calling themselves Shindig, surfaced in 2006, the reports traced “Maquiladora” to a different song on it, “The Greatest Shindig of the World”.
the video
A recording of a song they never released.· Bas Kollenwatch on youtube →
sources3
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives.
- The site's news archive, 20 August 2002, for the Courtyard recordings and the link to “Maquiladora”, drawing on NME.com.
- The site's news archive, 3 January 2006, for “The Greatest Shindig of the World”, drawing on NME and Spin.