A few years ago I wrote about The Pastry Heros, a side-project of Catherine Cooper and Adam Cooper who were in the superb early 90s band Alison’s Halo. But there are other projects they were on, after relocating to Chicago from Tempe, AZ, in the late 90s. One of them is Kitten Factor for sure.

As I mentioned int The Pastry Heros post, Catherine and Adam were on Insta as well, and maybe that’s the project that is more known after Alison’s; Halo.

Kitten Factor added a third member other than the Coopers, it was David Rogers who had been also in Alison’s Halo and Insta, as well as in Half String.

The first thing wee know about them is that there is a 7-song demo. This demo CDR had the following songs: “Brittle (Pop Mix)”, “Brittle (Rock Mix)”, “Dissolve”, “The Pastry Hero”, “Far”, “Mexico Sometimes” and “Jetpacks for Julian”. My curiosity is picked up by the song “The Pastry Hero”. Maybe it was this song that inspired the future project of the same name? Also worth mentioning that “Far” is a live recording done in Tucson, Arizona.

The band’s first release was a 7″ on the Rainbow Quartz International label (RQTZ015) in 1998. This record that had a simple white sleeve and was pressed in pink vinyl had two songs, “Sparkle” on the A side and “Nite Lite” on the B side.

It seems this record was cancelled because of a mistake on the printing of the labels, so the “Sparkle” was labeled as “Nite Lite” and vice versa. So it is a bit harder to come by. What happened after was that the remaining copies were sold through the band’s website and also some came as a bonus disc with the band’s following release, the “Surround EP”.

The “Surround EP” came out in 1999. It was released by the always reliable Sunday Records (SUNDAY 045). This time around we got three songs, “Surround” on the A side and “Dim” and “Leave Me Be!” on the B side. The last song was a cover of The Zombies.

On this record we get details on what each member played. David Rogers played bass on the first two tracks. Nick Pasco played drums on “Leave Me Be!”. Ben Currier on drums on “Surround” and “Dim”.  All other instruments,  were played between Catherine and Adam. The songs were recorded and mixed at Jetpack Studios.

The only appearance on compilations by Kitten Factor was on the superb compilation “Popular World” that was released on CD by Sky Blue Records (001). On this record the band contributed the song “Brittle”.

And just to give a little service to the public, you can find a few copies still of the “Surround EP” on Bandcamp. There we also find a small review by The Big Takeover that confirms that the band hailed from Chicago.

Any other details we should know about Kitten Factor? Did they play live at all?

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Kitten Factor – Dim

There’s a Bandcamp with three tapes by The Intrynsics, a late 80s Boston, U.S., indiepop band.

That’s quite a trove. I wonder though if all of these tapes were all the recorded output of this four piece. Let’s see what info we can find.

The first tape dates from 1987 and was titled “Pizza and Faerie Tales”. It was recorded at Acme Studios in Mamaroneck, NY, in May of 1986 and August of 1987 with producer Peter Denenberg. The songs on it were “As If I Were You”, “Mistake”, “From You”, “Means of the Cure” and “In Sue’s Room”.

The second tape was self-titled. Recorded and released in the summer of 1989, it was produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South in Boston. This tape includes an address, Allston, Massachusetts. That is a neighborhood in Boston, south of the Charles River. In this neighborhood is the Harvard Business School.

Five songs appear on this tape, “Crusade”, “Yellow Submarine”, “Too Much for Words”, “Repetition” and “Distortion”.

The third tape dates from August 31, 1990. This tape was again produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South. Five songs again, “Foregone Conclusion”, “Cover”, “What Does it Take (Michael’s Song)”, “Inside Out” and “Nineteen”, were included in it. This tape was titled “The Story of Hair”.

I keep looking. I see that The Intrynsics played on September 5, 1989, the venue The Channel. That evening they played in the same bill as T.V. Dream, What We Like, Work Force and The Balls.

Then according to Discogs the band contributed two songs to “SAWPIT – A Compilation”. This compilation was released by Bolt Records (BOLT007) in 1993. The songs by The Intrynsics are “Behind You” and “In the Basement”.

Then I finally find a name. George Faulkner. He was a member of The Intrynsics and was also behind Bolt Records, the one that released the compilation. George was also in NYC band The Rabies as well as The Mod Squad, The Juicemen and Junkstar.

Cool!

Now, who were the other members? Where are they now? Why didn’t they release any proper records? I’d love to find more. The sound of this band is really good!

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The Intrynsics – Means of the Cure

Formed by Damien “Smeg” Channing on vocals, Jason Channing on guitar, Richard Lewis on drums and… the owner of the Soundcloud account that has The Adored songs… he left no name.

That’s great. I wonder why would anyone do that? I find the pretty song “Atom Bomb Subculture” and I think this is superb, I need to find more. But yeah, the details are incomplete.

We know though that the song was recorded in 1988.

There is another track by this band. One called “Heading for a Wall“. This one also dating from 1988. An interesting thing here is that I do find that the person behind this Soundcloud had the last name Allcock.

And two more, “Gone to Seed” and “Maybe the World Will Change Tonight” also both from 1988.

In this account there are songs since as early as 1984 and as late as 1997. Sadly there are not many mentions of the bands that made these songs.

We know this mystery Allcock was in other bands like Sulphate. The Great Family of Man, The Funk Furious Five and Delphi.

We also know that this bands hailed from the UK.

I look for the band members and I think I may be in the right path. Perhaps. I find that there were a Jason Channing and a Damion Channing in a band. Not Damien, but Damion. But MAYBE? This band was called The Blocked and were around in the mid 90s. They hailed from Newport, Wales.

I wonder if my detective instinct is right here. The dates make sense. The instruments they play also seem to be correct.

What is true though is that I can’t find anything about The Adored, nor about the mysterious Allcock who I saw went under the name Delphi on a few Youtube videos.

Anyone remember them?

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The Adored – Atom Bomb Subculture

Many years ago I interviewed Richard Ramage from The Anyways. He mentioned a band he was in called Here Comes Everybody…

The Anyways wasn’t my first band. I’d done cover versions in a school band, then had a one-gig punk incarnation in 1978 (Dick Terminal and the Deathbeds, no less). Things really got going when I joined a local Oxford band called Discontinued Lines, which morphed into Ward 10 in the early 80s. After the demise of that, Pete Lock (the drummer from those two bands) and I got together with Angus Stevenson, Peter Momtchiloff and Valerie Howell – Here Comes Everybody was the result. It was kind of a springboard for Angus joining Razorcuts, Peter M forming Talulah Gosh with Amelia Fletcher, and Pete L and me starting up The Anyways. As for recordings, I believe there might be one track by Here Comes Everybody on a MySpace site if you can still find it! There is also some footage in Jon Spira’s 2009 Oxford music film, Anyone Can Play Guitar.

Clearly they had named themselves after The Wake’s album “Here Comes Everybody”. Richard even says that that record changed everything.

I had tried to find their Myspace page with no luck. I haven’t been able to listen to any recordings by the band. But then last year Pete Lock, the drummer, got in touch with me.

He had been in The Relationships (just like Richard), The Black Cillas and was friends with The Clamheads and Borgnine. The great thing was that he shared a Youtube account that had three live songs by Here Comes Everybody!

They all date from 1985 and were recorded in autumn of that year at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. They are “Hattie’s House“, “My Grey Heaven” and “The Chiming“.

Yes, the band hailed from Oxford and was sort of a supergroup, right?

I had asked Pete if he was keen to do an interview, but he felt more of a team player in the bands. So maybe I should ask Richard. It’s been a while since we have emailed though…

The other good thing about Pete Lock was that he shared a CD with me called “Here Comes Everybody: A City Father’s Collection”. This CD was a compilation of Oxford bands that came out in 2008. There’s a catalog number JMP091058.

The first track on this compilation is “Here Comes Everybody” by Here Comes Everybody. This song was recorded on a Portastudio 244 and was written by Peter Momtchiloff in 1986.

The band didn’t release anything sadly. This is the only song that was released. And it was 20 years after the facts.

One detail that I can add thanks to the CD booklet is what each member played. So Richard Ramage was on vocals and guitar, Angus Stevenson was on lead guitar, Peter Momtchiloff was on bass, Valerie Howell on vocals and Pete Lock on drums.

The one thing that I am trying to track down is the “Anyone Can Play Guitar” rockumentary about the Oxford scene that was directed bby Jon Spira. Anyone has a link to it?

That’s all I have about this really cool band. Would have been fantastic to see them live. Would be great to listen to more recordings (if they exist!). I know very little but still, I am very curious. Maybe some of my Oxford friends remember them?

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Here Comes Everybody – Here Comes Everybody

We travel  to Rio de Janeiro. It is 1994. It is the summer. Later that year Brazil would be World Cup Champions for the 4th time.

It is at this time that Zezinho, Marcelo Pires and Alexandre “Dub” decided they wanted to record some songs. When at the studio they notice they are lacking something in their sound, a second guitar. Well, no problem, Jorge who works at this particular studio (don’t know the name) can play the guitar. Now we have a four-piece. Terrible Head Cream was born.

On Soundcloud there are recordings from this period. An album called “Like a Blue Olive” dates from 1994. I don’t know if this was properly released. I don’t think it was. But 8 songs were recorded: “After and Before”, “Leticia”, “Roundabout”, “Alliviated”, “Ália”, “Light Now”, “Pumpkin Days” and “Sibyl Vane”.

The band’s shoegaze influences shine on these tracks.

In 1995 the band becomes a trio as “Dub” leaves the project and continue recording demo tapes. More tapes are recorded like “Pink Smoke / Orange Vodka” that had twelve tracks: “Anything”, “In the Cold”, “So Close to You”, “Stay in my Dream”, ” Summer Days”, “Burning Eyes”, “I’m Going to Love You”, “The Smile of a Dead”, “Blood Yawner”, “Ália”, “Losen Senteces to You” and “Untitled”. “Dub” still played bass on thesee reccordings.

From what I understand another tape was recorded in 1996 called “Do What You Want” but I don’t think the songs are on Soundcloud. On this last one the bassist was Duda, an old friend of the band that used to play soul music.

All of these demo tapes were distributed by the legendary Brazilian label Midsummer Madness.

During their time the band played few gigs, just 4 total. They were at Sacristia, Sem Destino, Bang! and a pub in the city’s Zona Oesta alongside the band Cigarettes.

In 1997 Francisco Kraus, bassist of the classic band Second Come, would join them as their bassist…

And then silence..

Well not really. We know that Marcelo Pires and Francisco Kraus would start a new band called Jess Saes, but that is another story.

Who do my carioca friends remember Terrible Head Cream? Would love to learn more about this band!

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Terrible Head Cream – The Smile of a Dead

Here’s an interesting find on Soundcloud. 14 songs by this obscure but fine sounding shoegaze band from Washington D.C.

Razor 18 was Sarah Azzarah on vocals, Ivan Pongracic on guitars, Bill Fantegrossi on bass, Rob Monn on guitars and a revolving door of drummers including Tim Soller, Ben Azzara, Greg (no last name) and someone that it seems the name has been forgotten.

It is Rob Monn who uploaded the tracks 7 years ago. He tells a little bit about the band…

He mentions that he moved to D.C. and less than a year since moving there he was already in the band. Where did he come from? Doesn’t say.

He does say that he played a few venues including the legendary The Black Cat and also the 9:30 Club. He also says that the band may have burned down a place called ArtsLab. How did that happen?

The recordings that are available here come from tapes. They are from sessions at the American University and Evil Genius Studios and most of these were recorded by Rob Christensen.

The songs available are “P Street Beach (version 2)”, “La Llarona”, “Queen Bee”, “Wake”, “Carrying Hostile (version 1)”, “Temple (version 2)”, “Chroma”, “Flowers on the Lawn”, “Carrying Hostile (version 2)”, “P Street Beach (version 3)”, “P Street Beach (version 1)”, “Temple (version 1)” and “Flowers on the Lawn (instrumental)”.

On his Soundcloud account he has tons of other recordings, solo recordings, and also with his mates.

Looking for more information I see that the band shared a gig with Chisel and The Ropers (!), a favourite band of mine, at The Black Cat on May 26, 1995. There’s a scan of the flyer here.

That was not the only time they played there. I find another flyer of them playing there on July 28 (not sure of the year) with Your Majesty.

That’s what I could find. I hope we can find more details, wondering why they didn’t get to release any records at all!

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Razor 18 – P Street Beach (American University version)

Was the band called Exact Setting? I am not sure.

I think it may have been called that. There are four recordings on Soundcloud and they are part of a demo dating from 1991. The title is “Exact Setting”. Take your guesses.

The songs on this demo tape were “This Feeling”, “Cutting Edge”, “Standing” and “Overwhelmed”. They were recorded at Richard Allan Studio on June 1st of 1991.

The account owner goes under the name “bowenjaybee”. The location of the account says Dundee, Scotland. There are tons of songs.

There is barely any information about these recordings though.

Most are demos dating from the decade of the 90s. There are different styles. My favourite by far are the Exact Setting ones.

I think there might have been a band called Radius between 1997 and 1998, though there are recordings too dating from 2017. Highwired seems like another band the owner of the account might have been involved in the nineties.

It is all a mystery here. But these tracks are worth checking out. Who would know anything else about these Dundee band?

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Exact Setting – This Feeling

I first heard of Photo Jenny thanks to their 2000 7″ EP on Elefant Records titled “A Japanese Present For You” (ER-222). I thought it was the band’s only release for years. I never looked into it. Now I look at Discogs and I notice I’ve missed many records, many songs, by this Japanese band that took their name from a Belle & Sebastian song.

The 7″ I mentioned had four songs, “Rainbow Dolly” and “Clover Chain” on the A side and “Beautiful Girl” and “Painted Knees” on the B side. This band was actually a duo that formed 3 years before, in 1997, by Satomi Takeuchi who sang and played the melodeon and metallophone and Tetsuya Kobayashi who played  guitar and bass.

Previously, in 1998, the band had self-released a tape titled “Ladybird Go Home” that I’d love to listen one day as it includes a cover of one of my favourite bands, The Would- Be-Goods. This tape had these songs: “Do Me a Favor”, “Trip Pop”, “Watermelon Crush”, and the aforementioned cover of “Perfect Dear” on the A side. The B side had “Blow Up Your Funny Face”, “Skinny Guinea Pig”, “Umbrellas Go Round” and “Ladybird”.

The band also started to contribute songs to compilations in 1998. “Blow Up Your Funny Face” ended up on “Sunshine Pop Show!! Vol. 2” released by Sunshine Pop (SP-008) aand “Watermelon Crush” was on “Pop Japanese Style!” released by Flavour of Sound (TFCC-87589). Both were Japanese releases.

The following year, 1999, the band would release a mini-album titled “Tier Quartett” on the Left Bank label (LBCD-03). This mini album included 8 songs, “Do Me a Favor”, “No One Brings a Flower”, “Clover Chain”, “Watermelon Crush”, “Blow Up Your Funny Face”, “Window Painting”, “Ladybird” and “Y’Aura T’il de la Neige a Noel?”. Many songs from the tape. I wonder if that tape demo served the purpose of getting the attention of the label?

In the year 2000 the band started working with Minty Fresh Japan. With them early that year released thee mini-album “Painted Kites” (MFJ-1001). Five tracks appear on this CD, “Painted Kites”, “Waiting for the Dawn”, “Rainbow Dolly”, “Umbrellas Go Round” and “Beautiful Girl”.

“Beautiful Girl” also gets included in Minty Fresh Japan’s compilation LP “Get Yer La-La’s Out 2000 Vinyl!!” (MFJ-2000). On the same label, this same 2000, we find the song “Teenage Phase”. It was on the compilation CD “Minty Fresh Japan Compilation Vol. 1 A Small, Good Thing” (MFJ-1002).

That same year on the CD comp “Trolley Bus Music Tour” released by Trolley Bus (TB-001) they contributed the song “Winchester Monday”. Trolley Bus was the label ran by Yoshi from Aikagi!

2001 sees the band release a split CD with the wonderful Birdie (that band fronted by Debsey from Dolly Mixture that I dream of seeing live one day). The split CD was released by Minty Fresh (MFJ-1006) and It Records. Photo Jenny contributed 2 songs, “Bizarre Dream” and “Marshak”. Both were mastered by Tetsuya Kase at Bazooka Studio. Birdie also contributed two songs.

“Marshak” was an EP that came out in 2001 on Minty Fresh Japan (MFJ-1007). Again five songs, “Bizarre Dream”, “How Much Do I Love”, “Teenage Phase (Album version)”, “Marshak” and “Empty Church”. I see ‘album version’ so I wonder why they never released a proper album?

Lastly in 2016 the band had the song “Beautiful Girl (2000)” on “Everybody Knows? Radio Sessions 1997-2014″ a 3CD boxset that came with a DVD that was released by Travelin’Word (QFCT-1001). For those unaware Everybody Knows was a radio program on Shibuya FM.

But wait, there’s another release that came out on Lil’ Red Wagon. It was a split 7” titled “Slumber Party EP” (LRW 08). This came out in Canada but I don’t know what year it was. The interesting thing here is that they shared the split 7″ with the great All Girl Summer Fun Band. And it is on the A side that Photo Jenny appears with two tracks, “Winchester Monday” and “Umbrellas Go Round”.

There is a Tetsuya Kobayashi that is a producer/composer/lyricist. Could it be him? He has worked in a lot of Japanese shows and animes. Would it be the same one as in Photo Jenny?

What about Satomi Takeuchi? I couldn’t find anything else about her, at least related to music.

As with Japanese bands it is a bit difficult to track the musicians down. I don’t know what happened to the duo of Photo Jenny. Why did they call it a day? Did they play many gigs? There’s barely any info on the web, so any help will be great.

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Photo Jenny – Watermelon Crush

Kingston upon Hull or just Hull. Many bands from this town have been featured on the blog. Today I want to share details about Closer than Comfort who I didn’t know anything about until a few hours ago!

Indiepop fan Joel Dantas has a Soundcloud with lots of great treasures. There he had uploaded a song called “Closer then Comfort” by a band with the same name. Mentions that it comes from a tape. But that’s all the info he has shared.

But there is another Soundcloud account, one by Richard Hood from Hull. He has uploaded 2 other songs by Closer than Comfort, “I Think She Knows It” and “Turn to Me”.

Again there is little info, but at least we know that Richard was part of the band. The photo of the band shows 4 guys and a girl. A five-piece.

We also know that “Turn to Me” was recorded at Fairview Studio in 1988. That “I Think She Knows It” was written by Andy Blair. One thing I suspect is that Richard Hood was the vocalist. He was the vocalist on many of the other projects on his Soundcloud. These projects include Radio, General Wolf and The Sons of Freedom.

Then I found something interesting. I don’t know if it is complete, but it is a gig list by the band. We know that they played at least 4 gigs. On July 31 of 1986 they played quite a gig at The New Adelphi. The lineup included The Gargoyles, Pink Noise, Vicious Circle, The Velvetones and Johnny and the Carbon Chain. Then on January 28 of 1987 at The Wellington in Hull they played with The Last Supper Dance Band.

On February 11, 1987, they played at The Wellington alongside The Last Supper Dance Band. A month after, March 11, at the same venue they played again with The Last Supper Dance Band and The Kicks.

Then I find more stuff from Richard Hood and figure out where the song Joel had found. Richard has a Youtube account. There he has uploaded the song “Closer than Comfort”. The best part of it is that the band lineup is shared!

Andy Blair was on guitar and vocals, Martin Hyde on drums and Darren Gordon on bass. The track was recorded at Angel Studios in 1985. And Richard Hood? Why is he not listed?!

But that’s not all. The songs “Turn to Me” and “I Think She Knows It” were actually released! Wow, didn’t know! They were released on Label Records (LAB001) in 1989 as a 7″ vinyl single. Produced by Steven Larkman and remixed by Fran Ashcroft.

Discogs also lists two demo tapes. Wow. The first one dates from 1985 and had 5 songs “17 Tomorrow”, “Shallow”, “Closer than Comfort”, “If Dreams Come True”, “20 to 5”. These 5 songs are repeated on the B side.

The other demo tape is from 1987 and is titled “8”. It had 4 songs, “Passion is Poison”, “Let You Runaway”, “I Think She Knows It” and “Poor You”. Again the songs are repeated on the B side. This demo was produced by Steve Larkman who had worked with The Bloody Marys and Red Guitars.

How cool! Lots of interesting stuff I ended up finding out.

But of course this is not the full picture. We dont know much about the band still. So here I am hoping for Hull indiepop fans to share anything you remember about them. Would be good what happened to them, and especially I am terribly curious if Richard Hood was or wasn’t part of the band!

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Closer Than Comfort – Turn to Me

Matinée Recordings has an amazing catalog. I’m not saying anything new.

In the early days there was a French band that released with them, a 7″ single and an album, and then it seems they disappeared. They were called Ego and they were great.

The 7″ was titled “The Question Mark” and it was Matinée’s 2nd ever release (Matinée 002). It came out in 1998 and included three songs, “Do You Want to Be My Love ‘Till 1998?” on the A side and “What Am I Supposed to Do?” and “Can’t You See I Love You?” on the B side. All songs had a question mark, hence the EP name.

On the back of the sleeve we find the names of David, Emmanuel, Marc and Yvan. We see that on the record other friends of them played, Caroline, Marie, Pierre, Ludovic, Philippe, Romain C. and Stéphane.

Then an address in Clapiers, France. Where is Clapiers? It seems it is close to Montepellier I read this about this small town: “Located to the north of Montpellier, this little village was the home of wine makers for centuries.
Now, Clapiers has developed considerably. One of the jewels of this village is its forest. It covers 170 hectares. A paradise for all walkers, hikers and bikers. The Tomato Festival in September is an opportunity to discover and taste 250 varieties of this colourful fruit.”

Then I find the band members’ last names, David Frayssinet, Emmanuel Vigne, Marc Collombet and Yvan Ros. This is thanks to Discogs, and thanks to Discogs I find thata the band recorded a demo cassette in 1995 called “Superego”.

This tape was recorded between the 18th and 19th of February in 1995 and it was mixed on the 20th by Joel Cébé at TYMIX. This tape had four songs, 2 on each side: “Place on Earth”, “3’55”, “A Liquid Song” and “Do You Want to Be My Love ‘Till 1998?”. I notice on this tape that the first and third song were written by David while the other two by Marc.

The band would release a full-length album in 2001 on Matinée (MATCD006). It was titled “La Main Devant La Bouche” and included 13 tracks: “Oriane”, “What Am I Supposed to Do?”, “Sunny Day”, “To Sleep Like You”, “Alone in Rome”, “(Die For) Drew Barrymore”, “Charlie”, “Under my Tree”, “The Speed of Sound”, “Patricia’s KItchen”, “What is Fame?”, “Une Petite Fantaisie Sentimentale” and “Faire L’Affaire”.

The band also contributed many songs to compilations.

In 1996 the band contributed “3’55” and “A Liquid Song” to “Les Belles Promesses – Collection “Acoustique”” that was released by XIII Bis Records and Ora Pro Nobis. That same year on “Imbroglio”, another tape comp, they had “Kaori” and “Under My Tree”. This compilation was released by Pâte A Modeler (PAM 008). Continuing in 1996 the band released the songs “Do You Want to Be My Love ‘Till 1998?” and “Place on Earth” to the tape comp “Press Play” released by Candy Chérie. All of these compilations were released in France.

On the French tape “Galée Royale” released by Maya Label (BZZZ 2) from 1997 the band contributed the songs “What Am I Supposed to Do?” and “Under My Tree”.

Another tape comp wroth mentioning is the Italian “The Colours of an Enchanted Dawn”. This was on the label Shiny Sunset (SUNSET 9) and there Ego contributed the song “Do You Want to Be…”.

Then in 1999 there was a Matinée Festival in Paris, where four bands participated, The Windmills, Ego, Sportique and The Lucksmiths. So a tape was made for the occasion and was called “La Soirée Matinée”. This tape included unreleased tracks and also a set of six badges. Ego would contribute 3 songs (same number as the other bands), “Do You Want to Be My Love…”, “Nothing Succeeds to Success” and “Under my Tree”.

On a double 7″ compilation released by Matinée called “A Smile Took Over” (Matinée 005), where four different bands were featured, Ego appears as the last song, on the D side, with “Stephanie”.

I look if any of the band members is also listed on other bands. I notice Yvan Ros also played in a band called Astrïd as the drummer.

Not much more info on the web about Ego. Also the name is not Google friendly to search for them. So I hope some of my French friends can help me learn more details about the band!

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Ego – What Am I Supposed to Do?