Mastered for vinyl from the original BBC mastertapes by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DIS HAR MONY in November 2017. For a long time fans have been asking for Cloven Hoof’s BBC sessions to be made officially available. Finally, the wait is over. But why has it taken such a long time to get the tapes released? “Because the BBC offered the session, the BBC have the rights to the recording,” explains Lee Payne. “Permission had to be obtained from the BBC of course, but it is no secret that I have bought back most of the publishing rights from Universal. This has taken some time to do and Cloven Hoof are now free from contractual difficulties, so the time was right to release those much sought-after BBC sessions that we did. High Roller Records are a fantastic label and it is a pleasure to release these sessions for the first time on vinyl and CD.” The first of the two BBC sessions was recorded for the “Friday Rock Show” and broadcast on the 10th of June 1983. And this is how it happened in the first place: “We were contacted by Producer Tony Wilson who was the main man behind the Tommy Vance ‘Friday Rock Show’. Tony was an amazing producer, as good as they come. He liked our session so much that he helped get us a support slot at the famous old Marquee Club in Wardour Street. It was a big honour to play there because all the greats had performed at the club. It was quite funny really because Rob Halford from Judas Priest and Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin had both taken in our demo to the BBC to get us on the show. Tony Wilson said: ‘After being recommended by giants like that, I just had to give you a session for the show.’"
