Angie Pepper & The Passengers
Title: It's Just That I Miss You  -  Company: Citadel (Australia)
Cat No: citcd549  -  Format: cd album  -  Released: 2001  -  Status: In print

In the late 70's, Angie Pepper was awarded the vote for "Best New Female Vocalist" (Independent music category), based on her groundbreaking work with the Passengers. The style was a unique blend of 60's girl group vocals, engaging hooks and melodies, hard edged sound, and edgy, often heart rending lyrics. Their only recorded work was an eight-song demo session at the Palms studios in Sydney. From this session came a 7" vinyl release on Phantom Records and later, a sample of the entire session with a release by Revenge Records, cut from a roughly mixed cassette dub. These songs were audible but the sound quality less desirable.
Angie also recorded tracks in 1981 with the subsequent Angie Pepper Band, but unforeseen circumstances caused the album to be cancelled about a third of the way to completion. Until the release of It's Just That I Miss You, only the single Frozen World / Why Tell Me had been released from these sessions.
Notwithstanding the lack of available material, Angie was the only female artist to be featured on either of the acclaimed recent Shock compile Do The Pop or the Raven collection Born Out Of Time, attesting to her importance in the history of independent Australian rock music.
The possibility of making Angie's recordings available came during the transition of ownership of the old Trafalgar Studios, in the late 90's. Phil Punch had recently bought the place, renamed as Electric Avenue, and was working on some tracks there with Deniz. The old tape archives were being cleared and Deniz asked to have a look, finding the original 8 track Passengers master tapes and the unfinished Angie Pepper Band 24 track masters. It was from this source material that the new compilation It's Just That I Miss You is derived.
There were great technical difficulties with the Passengers master, since the tape had deteriorated badly. There were also glitches and dropouts in the original recording. With the effort and expertise of Ron Sanchez at GLEA studios in Bozeman Montana, needed repair work was done. The resulting mixes succeeded in transmitting the energy and spirit of the band, in a way available for the first time ever. To these eight tracks were added five songs from the unfinished APB sessions, mixed by Deniz and Dave Weyer at DWS in Laurel, Montana. A great looking booklet of never before seen photos completes the package.

Track Listing: (46:54 m:s)
    1.    Frozen World ( D Tek ) (3:32 m:s)
    2.    Miss You Too Much ( D Tek ) (3:22 m:s)
    3.    Last Chance ( D Tek ) (3:48 m:s)
    4.    Why Tell Me? ( D Tek ) (4:09 m:s)
    5.    It's Not Easy ( M Jagger / K Richards ) (3:18 m:s)
    6.    It's Just That I Miss You ( J Sullivan ) (3:58 m:s)
    7.    Blind Night Out ( A Pepper / S Harris ) (2:32 m:s)
    8.    Only One Way Out ( A Pepper / J Sullivan ) (3:02 m:s)
    9.    Face With No Name ( J Sullivan ) (2:54 m:s)
    10.    Love Execution ( J Sullivan ) (5:49 m:s)
    11.    Back To The Dance ( A Pepper / J Sullivan ) (3:13 m:s)
    12.    Girlfriend's Boyfriend ( J Sullivan ) (2:51 m:s)
    13.    Sad Day ( A Pepper / J Dickson / J Sullivan) (4:26 m:s)

The Musicians:
Angie Pepper Band:
Angie Pepper - Vocals

Deniz Tek - Guitar

Clyde Bramley - Bass

Steve Harris - Keyboards

Michael Charles - Drums 
Pip Hoyle - Piano on track 2

Dave Weyer - Hammond on tracks 2, 3, 4

Jason Morphett - Saxophone

The Passengers: Angie Pepper - Vocals  /  Jeff Sullivan - Guitar  /  Jim Dickson - Bass  /  Steve Harris - Keyboards  /  Gerry Jones - Drums

Technical Details:
Angie Pepper Band (Tracks 1 - 5):
Recorded at Trafalgar Studios March 1981  /  Engineered by Charles Fisher  /  Mixed by Deniz Tek and Dave Weyer March 2000  /  At D.W.S. Laurel, Montana
The Passengers (Tracks 6 - 13): Demo sessions recorded at Palms Studios November 1979  /  Engineered by Alistair McFarlane  /  Remix by Deniz Tek and Ron Sanchez at Gods Little Ear Acre  /  Bozeman Montana December 1999