Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this edition of the Hospital Podcast, which is a celebration

of hospitals best ever selling album. Hospital Mix One. So a little bit of a documentary,

a little bit of a kind of history session. Myself Tony Coleman, aka London Electricity here

with Mr Chris Goss, and we're going to go back in time and reminisce about Hospital Mix One.

Hey, don't Chris, you all right? I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. I'm delighted that I just found a

shrink wrapped copy. I know. Hospital Mix. Shrinked that. In the CD archive. Fantastic. The archive

was a good idea. Yeah, after all. Now, I should just warn you all that there are going to be long

intros because when people made drama based tunes back in the late 1990s and 2000s, 64 bar, 80 bar,

96 bar intros were a thing. Yeah, I was looking at the I was looking at the tracklisting this morning.

And I mean, the average length of tune on here is around seven minutes. Yeah. There's a couple

of eight minute tunes. There are. There are. That that was how it was in those days. But Hospital Mix

One was it wasn't supposed to be released. Was it Chris? It was it was an idea just because we'd

started off first of a hospitality at Herbal in October, 2000. And we thought we didn't know if

anyone was going to come. So we thought maybe if we gave away 50 CDRs of a mix that people might

be more inclined to actually buy tickets because people people actually did that kind of thing in

those days, didn't they? There was like, you know, we think about, you know, three before 11,

that kind of thing. And there was also like the first 100 people get a CD or something like that.

And so we thought we better do something. This is the first ever hospitality. And it was like,

you know, I just dug out of the archive. The original flyer. So it's Friday, the 19th of October

was the very first hospitality. So 90th of October in 2001. And it was only 9 to 2 herbal and

shortage. And yeah, so the first, I think you said like the first 50 people. Yeah, got a CDR

of this mix. Yeah, yeah. So I went down into the studio and just rattled off this mix thoughtlessly.

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