Flaming Tunes was recorded by Gareth Williams (ex of This Heat) and his childhood friend Mary Currie and released on cassette in 1985. A hodgepodge of lo-fi pop songs, experiments and location recordings that sound like they were never intended for public consumption, its by chance or design one of the most moving, personal, memorable DIY/experimental pop albums of the 20th century, you better believe it.

As Mary Currie describes it: “Flaming Tunes was a collaboration that came out of a friendship. Gareth and I would meet at ‘Danger de Mort’ Gareth’s house in Balham usually during the daytime when my son was at nursery. Sometimes we’d be joined by others. A room full of instruments and things that could make noise. We made some of our own too and used available objects for percussion. Later on we had more sophisticated equip