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please don't judge me....it's for a colleague.......does anyone have anything live by 80's band Fiction Factory (they had a hit called feels like heaven)
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Nothing in my vaults I'm afraid.
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I liked that band.
I love that song.

But they have never released any live recordings and I've never seen a bootleg either.

There's one clip of them performing the song live when they reunited for the Rewind Festival in 2011.

Oh, and Manic Street Preachers have covered it several times including earlier this year on a Radio 2 live session.

I also have a live recording of a pub band called 'Impact' playing the song in a bar in Malta during one of our holidays if that helps. :lol:
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thanks but it has to be FF
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I do Feels Like Heaven on karaoke now and again, though it ain't pretty.
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The Strangler wrote:I do Feels Like Heaven on karaoke now and again, though it ain't pretty.
But the very thought has brightened my afternoon :lol:
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Your friend should write an email to the lead singer Kevin Patterson, he now works in IT at the University Of Dundee :lol: I can't remember them ever doing a tour, I seem to remember reading somewhere that they were fed up touring (with previous bands they had been in) and started Fiction Factory as a project for writing songs for other people, they did two albums but they never charted and the only success was that one single in 1984.
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Bag Lady wrote:
The Strangler wrote:I do Feels Like Heaven on karaoke now and again, though it ain't pretty.
But the very thought has brightened my afternoon :lol:
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Feels like heaven is a classic up there withs blacks wonderful Life
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Always found this quite cool since stumbling upon it a couple of years back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HL60gWvxY
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