5CD / 1 DVD CLAMSHELL BOX SET ANTHOLOGY COLLECTING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY THE SCAFFOLD.

FEATURING THE ALBUMS ‘LIVE AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL’, ‘L THE P’, ‘FRESH LIVER’ AND ‘SOLD OUT’ AND THE HIT SINGLES ‘THANK U VERY MUCH’, ‘DO YOU REMEMBER’, ‘LILY THE PINK’ & ‘LIVERPOOL LOU’.

WITH 13 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM BBC RADIO SESSIONS & STUDIO SESSIONS.

INCLUDES A DVD VIDEO FEATURING ‘SCAFFOLD LIVE AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN’ AND TWO PROMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES

PLUS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH A NEW ESSAY WITH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AND MANY PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS AND CUTTINGS.

Originally part of a performing revue known as The Liverpool One Fat Lady All Electric Show, Mike “McGear” McCartney, Roger McGough and John Gorman began working as a trio known as The Scaffold in the early 1960s. Performing a mixture of satirical comedy sketches, songs and poetry, they signed with Parlophone Records in 1966 and released a series of successful singles including the Top Ten hit ‘Thank U Very Much’, the number one million selling ‘Lily the Pink’ and the 1974 Top Ten hit ‘Liverpool Lou’ (produced by Paul McCartney). The trio also released a series of albums between 1968 and 1975, ‘The Scaffold: Live at The Queen Elizabeth Hall’, ‘L the P’, ‘Fresh Liver’ and ‘Sold Out’.

Like their fellow satirists The Bonzo Dog Band, The Scaffold had many facets to their work which was reflected both on their albums and in their stage work. Their musical work featured contributions from such luminaries as Jack Bruce, Elton John, Graham Nash, Keith Moon and Paul McCartney and guitarist Andy Roberts was a frequent collaborator.

This new clamshell box set is a long overdue celebration of the originality and inventiveness of The Scaffold and gathers together all of the band’s albums and singles on CD for the first time, along with 13 previously unreleased tracks drawn from BBC radio and studio recording sessions. ‘A Box of Scaffold’ also features a DVD video which includes the recently rediscovered ‘Scaffold at The Talk of the Town’ live concert recorded by BBC TV and broadcast in 1969 and the promo film of ‘Thank U Very Much’ and a performance of ‘Lily the Pink’ from BBC TV in 1969.

‘A Box of Scaffold’ also includes an illustrated book with many unseen photographs, cuttings and a new essay with exclusive interviews with Mike McCartney, Roger McGough and Andy Roberts.

DISC ONE
1  2 Day’s Monday (A-side of single)
2  3 Blind Jellyfish (B-side of single)
3  Goodbat Nightman (A-side of single)
4  Long Strong Black Pudding (B-side of single)
5  Thank U Very Much (A-side of single)
6  Ide B the First (B-side of single)
7  Do You Remember? (A-side of single)
8  Carry On Krow (B-side of single)

Live at The QEH
9  Ten Whisky Bottles
10  Virginity
11  Son of Lent
12  Love Story
13  Old Folks
14  2 Day’s Monday
15  Father John
16  This Must Be Love
17  Poetry
18  Dear Diary
19  Thank U Very Much

BBC session December 1967
20  2 Day’s Monday
21  Thank U Very Much

BBC session March 1968
22  Yellow Book
23  Carry On Krow
24  Do You Remember?

DISC TWO
L The P
1 1-2-3
2  Oh, To Be a Child
3  Stop Blowing Those Charity Bubbles
4  I Can’t Make You Mine
5  Today
6  Jelly Covered Cloud
7  Lily the Pink
8  Fancy Goods
9  The Little Plastic Mac
10  Bucks
11  10.15 Thursday Morning
12  Father John
13  Tim
14  Birds
15  Poems:
a. The Russian Bear
b.  Discretion
c.  My Busseductress
d.  Naughty Girl
16  Boxes

BBC Radio 1 Top Gear 1968
17  Lily the Pink

BBC session 1969
18  Jelly Covered Cloud
19  Gagster
20  Stop Blowing Those Charity Bubbles
21  The Buttons of Your Mind (B-side of single)
22  Goose (B-side of single)
23  Charity Bubbles (A-side of single)

DISC THREE
1  Gin Gan Goolie (A-side of single)
2  Liver Birds (B-side of single)
3  All the Way Up (A-side of single)
4  Please Sorry (B-side of single)
4  Bus Dreams (A-side of single)
5  If I Could Start All Over Again (B-side of single)
6  Do the Albert (A-side of single)
7  Commercial Break (B-side of single)
8  Knees Down Mother Brown
9  You Can’t Hide Away from Me (previously unreleased)
10  Thanks a Million Maximillian (previously unreleased)
11  Hilary Clarissa Sniffleton (previously unreleased)
12  Promiscuity
13  In My Liverpool Home
14  Bored as Butterscotch
15  Happy Song
16  Little Song and Dance Man
17  One Man Went To Mow (previously unreleased)
18  Uptown Downtown
19  Kyria
20  (Take Off Your Little) Wooley Vest
21  Take it While You Can
22  Burke and Hare (previously unreleased)

DISC FOUR - Fresh Liver
1  Knickers
2  Devon’s Dead
3  Plenty of Time
4  Fagorf
5  Fax n’ Figgers
6  Nuclear Band
7  W.P.C. Hodges
8  Knickers
9 Aren’t We All?
10  Twist
11  Psychiatrist
12  Deep North
13  Fish
14  Fish Friars
15  S.S
16  I Remember
17  B Side Yourself with Plod (A Message for Plod Specials) (B- side of single)

DISC FIVE
Sold Out
1  Liverpool Lou
2  Potato Clock
3  Mingulay Boating Song
4  Ramsbottom
5  Beilins Boneyard
6  Liverpool Girls
7  The Cokey Cokey
8  Pack of Cards
9  Mummy Won’t Be Home This Christmas
10  Leaving of Liverpool
11  Julery Shop Leslie
12  Lord of the Dance
13  Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam (B-side of single)
14  The Wind is Blowing (B- side of single)
15  Wouldn’t it Be Funny if You Didn’t Have a Nose (A- side of single)
16  Mr. Noselighter (B-side of single)
17  How D’You Do (A-side of single)
18  Paper Underpants (B-side of single)
19  3 Shirts on a Line (From – Liverpool – The Number One’s Album)

DVD
“The Scaffold – Live at the Talk of the Town”
BBC TV - 24th January 1969
1  Introduction
2  Thank U Very Much
3  Birds
4  Yellow Book
5  Poems
6  Discretion
7  Early Morning Poems
8  10.15 Thursday Morning
9  Do You Remember?
10  Chocolate Eclairs
11  Tim
12  Pack of Cards
13  Dear Diary
14  Lily the Pink

Bonus video material
15 Thank U Very Much (promotional film)
16 Lily the Pink (BBC TV “Music, Music, Music” March 1969)