Jim Fry and Luke Haines - Test Driving The New Prius - 1LP - Berry Red Vinyl [Record Store Day 2025]

This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. • Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). • Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.

"A man can only see clearly when he has been blind drunk for 30 years." – Lord Reith

This is the story of a man at the end of his game

Let's call him Endgame Man

Endgame Man is aged somewhere in his 50s

Success has dabbled with him and has long been dabbling elsewhere

The last chance saloon closed on Sunday night and it's now a nothing Tuesday afternoon

The action begins on a bench in a scrubby enclosure in front of an estate in North London

Endgame Man's' daily trip to the Costcutter makes Captain Willard's journey down the Nung River look like a gentle punt down The Cam

'Test Driving The New Prius' is a 35 minute radio play (with sound effects) written and performed by Jim Fry (Earl Brutus, Pre New) and Luke Haines

(The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof) Just as that other modernist masterpiece Ulysses depicted a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, Test Driving The New Prius follows the life in a daze of Endgame Man

In this tale of derring-do our hero acts out a perilous adventure in the 400 yards between his home, his local pub and the off-licence

With nervous system reduced to a series of involuntary twitches and reality reduced to a background hum of decades of half absorbed mindless daytime TV wittering

Can Endgame Man get home and make it through to Wednesday with only his spirit familiars – an endless trail of 75cl bottles of Glen's vodka to guide him? With cameos from* Jayne MacDonald, Brian Eno, Martin Degville and the cast of Blankety Blank (1980)

*Sort of

Written and executed by Jim Fry and Luke Haines Originally Broadcast as a Radio Play in 2022 Now a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl LP Exclusively released for Record Store Day by Glass Modern Records

SIDE ONE
An Introduction Act One:
Scene 1. Radio Play
Scene 2. Solitary Afternoon Binge Drinking
Scene 3. Costcutter Camelot
Scene 4. Endgame 1
Scene 5. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno: DDS DMD MClinDent MSc (Brian Eno Private Dental Practice. No NHS.)

SIDE TWO
Interlude & Potato Act Two:
Scene 1. Test Driving the New Prius
Scene 2. Wank
Scene 3. Martin Degville Conference Call
Scene 4. Endgame 2
Scene 5. Sleeping Under the Floor
Scene 6. High Kick for Bargain Hunt