August 27, 2025
THE MEEK WILL INHERIT A NEW WORLD
Out today, the next set of nuggets exhumed from Joe Meek’s vast set of Tea Chest Tapes is entitled A Curious Mind – Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!Recorded by the maverick producer in his studio at 304 Holloway Road, London, this 3-CD box set of explores the fascinations and experiments recorded by his stable of his artists such as John Leyton, Heinz, Mike Berry and Screaming Lord Sutch. Of particular interest is a disc of newly discovered ‘I Hear A New World’ versions and outtakes, including an early compilation/demo of the album that still sounds futuristic 65 years after it was recorded.