Line #13 Trivia/Space


1	!! Trivia for the band Music/{{Space}}:
2	* CreatorBacklash: Although it was released on an EP, the lead track of which was 'Bad Days', Space's then record company sent [=CDs=] of their cover of 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' to radio stations, and it ended up being the song that featured in a car advert, got played on the radio and on TV, and had a video made for it. The band were not pleased and felt that the record company had manipulated them.
3	** 'Dark Clouds' also incurred CreatorBacklash, probably because it came out around the time Jamie was having a nervous breakdown and Tommy Scott had lost his voice, plus Tommy sees it as being 'too wacky'. Whilst Tommy has admitted to have grown to love the song in recent years, he felt that the album version didn't do it justice. Before they split up, they played a garage rock version of 'Dark Clouds' at a couple of their gigs, and have now revived the track, sometimes with 'La Bamba' tagged on at the end, sometimes in a different key and more stripped down, and as of 2021, in its initial form.
4	** Jamie has also admitted in post-Space interviews that he didn't like ''Tin Planet'', while Tommy admitted he 'disappeared up his own arse' while making that album.
5	** After Space's first break-up, Tommy went through a period of denying the band's existence entirely, and whilst in his DarkerAndEdgier group The Drellas would tell audience members where to stick it if they requested any Space songs. He got better about it when the Drellas were retooled as Tommy Scott & The Red Scare and started adding early songs like "Neighbourhood" to the setlist.
6	** After Gut Records screwed them over on the release of ''Love You More Than Football'', the band developed a dislike towards it for many years, and pretty much gave up on trying to get it released for the best part of 20 years. Fortunately its official release as part of the ''Anthology'' boxset in 2019 implies that they've warmed to it somewhat.
7	* CreatorBreakdown: the band suffered a communal one in 1997. Jamie went into rehab after having a nervous breakdown, and missed the first American tour, while Tommy lost his voice for two months due to stress. Franny Griffiths has also stated in interviews that the atmosphere among the band members was particularly strained during the tour of Asia in autumn of that year, and that Andy Parle in particular was miserable and desperate to go home.
8	* CreatorsFavorite: Tommy, Yorkie and Jamie all consider ''[[Music/SuburbanRockNRoll Suburban Rock 'n' Roll]]'' to be their favourite Space album, whilst Franny's favourite is ''Give Me Your Future''.
9	* CrossDressingVoices: Tommy on 'Avenging Angels'. He stated in interviews that he was singing it in the voice of Creator/MarleneDietrich, particularly in the middle section.
10	* DevelopmentHell / KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Love You More Than Football'', oh boy. Originally scheduled for release in spring 1999, the release date was pushed back to autumn 1999, then to 2000. In early 2000, a single, 'Diary Of A Wimp', was released, and a tracklisting appeared on the band's website. 'Gravity', which had been premiered on the Bad Days tour in 1998, was a potential next single (and is featured on one of the ''Greatest Hits'' albums). However, the album itself ended up being shelved due to clashes between the band and the record company (see below). Fortunately, some fans managed to get bootlegs of the songs, and the tracks are all now available on Youtube as well. In 2019, the album was miraculously given its first official release as part of the band's ''Anthology'' box set.
11	** ''Give Me Your Future''. The album was originally announced (and due for release) in 2016, but it has since been delayed for over a year (apparently due to difficulties with releasing the vinyl) with no confirmed release date in sight, which has quite rightly angered a lot of pledgers who had purchased it. Space announced the release of a single in 2017, which changed from 'Boy Like Me' to 'Hold No Fear' and then to 'Dangerous Day' (a non-album track). Both 'Boy Like Me' and 'Dangerous Day' received airplay, and the latter was released as a digital download. The band eventually announced that the records had been dispatched from Poland and would be sent to pledgers in time for Christmas. A bunch of copies of the CD and vinyl were sold at the band's Christmas gig in 2017. The album has since been made available on Spotify, but physical copies are harder to lay hands on. Sadly this has also happened to ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll'' in recent years, with hardly any of the tracks available online and the album itself becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to acquire.
12	** For one of the extra perks of the Pledgemusic package for ''Give Me Your Future'', fans could pay extra to feature in a Space video. Although some fans have paid for this and submitted footage of themselves, the video has never been released, and it was never clarified which song the video would be for. Pledgemusic has since folded, so the fans were unable to ask for a refund.
13	* ExecutiveMeddling: one of the many reasons why ''Love You More Than Football'' was never released and why the band eventually left Gut Records. Amongst other things, the record company disapproved of Edwyn Collins producing the album and tried to get other producers in, to the band's annoyance, as well as trying to pressure the band into making poppier music. In Tommy's words, Gut were trying to make Space 'more like the Beautiful South'.
14	** A positive example is 'Female Of The Species'. It came about when the band were messing around during a drinking session - Tommy admits to being pissed while recording the vocals, hence why he sings 'more deadli''er'' than the male' - but the record company liked it so much, it became a single.
15	* MissingEpisode: ''Love You More Than Football'' (see DevelopmentHell above). It's also the last album before the split with Jamie on it, and also the last album with lead vocals by other band members besides Tommy (or instrumentals), until ''Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab''.
16	** ''Flies'', the fifth album that never was, which would have been released after ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll''. Though some songs off it, such as 'Rat Song' and 'Sex In The Street', were played at gigs in 2004, and a full track list was published on the band's website, no-one has been able to get their hands on a copy of it.
17	*** Unfortunately, while ''Love You More Than Football'' finally got an official release in 2019 as part of the ''Anthology'' boxset, ''Flies'' seems to have been forgotten sadly.
18	* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: the videos for 'Drop Dead', 'Blow Up Doll' and 'Mister Psycho' were all made by Andy Wilton, a Newcastle filmmaker and huge Space fan, and the band liked them so much they used them to accompany the songs at their gigs. Alan Hagar, the guy whose face appears in the 'Mister Psycho' video, has even played guitar with them a couple of times.
19	* OneHitWonder: 'Female of the Species' was their only charting hit in the United States and Canada, though both 'Neighbourhood' and 'Avenging Angels' had success on college radio stations.
20	* ThePeteBest: Jamie Island was the band's original drummer (only one song he has played on, 'Gone to Pieces', has been officially released on a Liverpool band rarities compilation), before Andy Parle stepped in.
21	* RefittedForSequel: "The Executioner", a track off the unreleased ''Flies'' album, would go on to be repurposed for The Drellas. Likewise, ''Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab'' consists of songs that were originally written and performed as The Drellas, before Franny joined the line-up to become the current incarnation of Space.
22	* ThrowItIn: 'Bad Ass Hungry Pterodactyl' was the result of a Pledgemusic collaboration between [[AWildRapperAppears Jordan Owoo]] and Tommy. One of the perks offered with ''Give Me Your Future'', which Jordan applied for, was the chance to write and record with Tommy for a day. The result was so good that the whole band ended up recording it. Since 2019, Jordan has joined the band's live crew.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 'Female Of The Species', the song that made Space famous, almost ended up as a B-side. Besides ''Love You More Than Football'', Space also had a set of unreleased tracks, some of which they premiered at gigs in 2004-2005, which were going to be released under the title of ''Flies'' after ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll''. Sadly, the band split before this could happen.
24	** 'Avenging Angels' was originally going to be sung by Robbie Williams. Fortunately, Space decided to keep it to themselves.
25	** Prior to the making of ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll'', the band recorded '''another''' unreleased album called ''Bullet'', which would have included "Play the Songs" (later released as a B-side), "Spooky Bitch" (which became a ''Music for Aliens'' track), and "Grounded" (which Yorkie gave away as a free download on his webpage in 2009).
26	** Most of the songs performed at the special Unity Theatre gig in 2002 either made it onto ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll'', ''Music for Aliens'' or B-sides. Only two didn't make the cut: 'Psychotic Girl' and 'Take a Walk'.

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