Remember that this will be the last week with our 3CDs for the price of two offer. After that I’m going to be out for the rest of the year. So take advantage of this opportunity if you want!

As expected, at the end of the year it is usually quiet, but I’ve done my best to look for new finds over the weekend.

Marthas & Arthurs: never heard this band but it does sound really lovely. The albums are not from today. They date from 2012 and 2016. Maybe it is time to catch up with them! The albums are available on CD. But that’s not all, there are singles, EPs, and more. I urge everyone to check them out and discover their discography as I am doing now.

Say Sue Me: our favourite South Korean band have released a Christmas EP on 12″ vinyl! There are four songs on it that deserve our attention, “Christmas, It’s Not a Biggie”, “Too Expensive Christmas Tree”, “Out of Bed” and “After this Winter”. As usual it is brilliant stuff!

Spesh: this Seattle band released their first album last September on Killroom Records. Titled “Famous World” the album comes with 10 fine slices of guitar pop. The album is available on CD and also on vinyl.

Swimming Tapes: this is kind of an oldie, dating from September. But I don’t think it has been mentioned on the blog. I am talking about the digital single “Easy Strand” which has some very pretty jangly moments.

Lia Pamina & Dario Persi: their 7″ came out back in June too. I know, I’m a bit behind with some recommendations. But I’m catching up now at the end of the year. There are four superb songs here, “So Far Tonight”, “Midnight Walk”, “Time’s Passing By” and “Il Mio Mondo”. I believe there are copies still available. I should try to get myself one.

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Checking out another band that was on Flying Nun Records that not many talk about these days. Of course, their discography is limited to a 12″ and a few compilation appearances, it is hard to compare to any of the “bigger” bands on the label. But I’m of course curious why they didn’t get to that spot, why they didn’t become a bigger band.

Andrew Brough on guitar and vocals, Jonathan Moore on bass and Peter Bragan on drums formed The Orange. As I mentioned before, their sole release was a 12″ EP titled “Fruit Salad Lives” that was released on Flying Nun Records (FN047) in 1986. It included 5 songs, three on the A side and 2 on the B side. So, “Fruit Salad Lives”, “Walk Out On Your Own” were on the A, and on its flipside we find “What’s in a Name” and “Fly”.

The photography on the record is credited to Jeremy Freeman. And the engineer was Mike Pearce. The songs were recorded at Strawberry Fields in Dunedin, in September 1985.

The same year they released their EP, 1986, they appeared on a compilation called “Whistle Up a Wind”. Released on tape by Every Secret Thing (EST 25) and Art Raith Productions (RAITH 117), the band contributes the song “Number One”. I see a few familiar names among the comp, but most of them are bands I’ve never heard before.

Later on, much later on, in 2006, on the “Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set” (FNCD500), the band contributes the song “What’s in a Name”.

I check out if the members had been involved in any other bands. I see that Andrew Brough had been in Bike, Blue Meanies and the Straitjacket Fits too, and even released some songs solo. Jonathan Moore had been in Newbergs, Bored Games who released early on, in 1982, on Flying Nun, and has also contributed solo songs to compilations.

The AudioCulture website, which is always very helpful when it comes to New Zealand bands, tells us a bunch of interesting details. It tells us that the band formed in 1984 and debuted live at the Captain Cook’s Battle of the band in March of that year. In mid-October of 85 they were headlining the Oriental Tavern. It also talks a bit about the sound of the previous band Brough had been, The Blue Meanies. I should try to find some recordings, I’m curious about it.

Then we get to know that “Number One”, the song that had been on the compilation tape, was actually taped live at the Oriental Tavern on June 18, 1985. The title of the EP, “Fruit Salad Lives” seems to have no meaning. There was an unreleased single called “Bye Bye Mr. Flower” which actually even had a Flying Nun catalog number but it was never released. I wonder if it was recorded. I would love to hear it.

The band’s final gig was in early October 1986 at the Oriental Tavern.

I keep looking for more information. I find a tweet with some cool press clipping, but I mostly find stories and information about the Straitjacket Fits with a small mention of The Orange. It figures.

There is very little about the band online. But I’m hoping once again for my New Zealand friends to help me fill in the blanks, to get to know a bit better their story, perhaps get in touch and interview them. I would definitely love to hear that unreleased second single if it was ever released!

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The Orange – Fruit Salad Lives

Not much news today, but some great finds!

Pelopincho: this Argentinean band has already been part of our reviews with their exciting jangly pop songs. Now they are releasing their album “Zona Surf” that sounds AMAZING. I really hope it gets released physically. I would love to have this on CD and play it all the time. There are just 8 songs, all kind of short, but as I said before, they are all great! It leaves you wanting more!

Dim Vanilla: my friend Cris shared this track called “Shady Shady” with me the other day. I loved it instantly. I thought it has the Cloudberry sound and I don’t think of that too often. This song will be the first single of the band’s new EP that will be released on Breakfast Records from the UK. It will be reelased on cassette and it will include four songs, “Shady Shady”, “Fun Machine”, “Mayo” and “Unfold”. I hope to hear the rest of the songs soon!

Ease: the 2nd single by this Jakarta, Indonesia, dreampop band is called “MK7” and it is pretty pretty good. The vocals are dreamy. The guitars are dreamy. The melody and the atmosphere is dreamy. I don’t know much about them, but I do know that this is good!

La Otra Cara de la Nada: this band from Misiones, Argentina, released their latest song “Nada Que Ver” last August. Only now I’m finding about it. It does remind me a bit of El Último Vecino from Barcelona, and that is a good thing of course. The band is formed by Germán Vázquez, Ariel Duce, Bruno Gross and Nicolas Peña. I look forward to any release they might put out in the near future.

RAYS: lastly I must say I’m really enjoying this album by this Oakland, California, band. It is called “You Can Get There From Here” and it comes with 12 guitar driven pop songs! The record is available on 12″ vinyl through Trouble In My Mind records.

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If you see this video, which I’m sharing it with a time start of 1:39:15, you’ll listen a cool sounding song. What is it? Who are they? This video called The Height of Goth: 1984 – A Night at the Xclusiv Nightclub in Batley, West Yorkshire, was even covered in the Guardian by Alexis Petridis some time ago. This video was originally commissioned by the couple who ran the club, Annie and Pete Swallow, and was given away to friends and regulars for 2 pounds. I could find the tracklist for all the songs the people are singing along and dancing too, and you see The Smiths, New Order, The Monkees, Buzzcocks, The Undertones and more. And The Freedom Suite’s “Dry Spell”, which is the song that sounded so mysterious, that I have pinpointed you all.

The band only put out a single that year, 1984. A 7″ that included the song “Log Cabin” on the A side and “Dry Spell” on the B side. It was released by the Nain Recording Company with the catalog number NAIN 22. Discogs doesn’t list any other records for this label. I wonder if this was the sole release by the label. Maybe it was even a self-release?

The information about the band is scarce. We do know that the songs were produced by Neil Ferguson of The Donkeys and later of Chumbawamba. It is safe to assume that they were English. Someone on a forum seems to be convinced they hailed from Leeds. But I couldn’t confirm this.

But I continue looking for information of course. And I was to stumble upon a gold mine. A soundcloud with a bunch of songs by the band. Here I find “Melanie Day”, “Take Me To Glory”, “Playing the White Man”, “Log Cabin”, “Dry Spell” and “Back in the Fields”. Somethin interesting is that all of these songs share the same artwork, what looks like an album art. It even has a title, “Back in the Fields”. Was this released in any way as an album? I couldn’t confirm that either.

45cat gives me some interesting details. It lists three last names as composers. Forrest, Boyce and Howes. Someone has done some detective work and comments that it may be that they might be Andrew Howes and Mark Boyce who would later be in the band The Parachute Men. If that was the case, then the Leeds connection, as The Parachute Men hailed from there, would be confirmed. Could it be?!

There’s as you’d expect not more information about the band. I think we just need confirmations. Also would be great to get in touch with Andrew Howes and Mark Boyce, even if it not for The Freedom Suite but for The Parachute Men, an interview would be fantastic. I wonder who remembers them? They must have had some following if the people on the Height of Goth were singing along! And no, it is not Goth music! It is lovely jangly guitar pop!

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Freedom Suite – Dry Spell

Not much news on my side today, and it feels December might be a quiet month as our new compilations in all likelihood will be released early next year. Also remember that the offer for 3 CDs for the price of 2 is only going to be around for a little more of a week if you want to take advantage of it.

New finds though? I have some of those of course!

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: one more brilliant track by the San Francisco band. Yet another demo but sounding great, “Bad Habits” is the latest from Glenn Donaldson. The question, after hearing so many lovely jangly songs is, when will there be a proper release?!

Lazy Eye: now a new track by the Pelambang, Indonesia, band! It is called “Sunlover” and it is a winner. Jangly, with sweet male/female vocals, and a bouncy melody, it is a song you don’t want to end. We need more songs by R. Cahyo and Isabella!

Stolen Badges: the latest songs by our friend Ryan Marquez from Apple Orchard, Sodajerk, Golden Teardrops, etc, are being released under this name. There are 3 superb songs, recorded at home during the last months that are part of the “Places I’ve Been EP”. These songs are “Places I’ve Been”, “James Bay” and “San Francisco”. They are a bit different compared to previous projects, these are more shoegazy, with more effects on the guitar, but Ryan’s pop sensibilities are there, making these songs as dreamy and evocative as they can be.

Ivory Past / Snowflakes feat. Miléna: one of the best Japanese bands these days is Ivory Days.  There is a split tape with the band Snowflakes where each band contributes one song. Ivory Past’s song is “December” while Snowflakes, featuring Miléna, has the song “Emballance Dans Tes Bras”. The tape is called “Illuminated Songs EP” and should be available now!

Les Autres: some months ago I interviewed the band as they were adding a lot of back catalogue and rare songs to their Bandcamp. This month they’ve added a new release from back in the day, “Hélène K – The Attic Recordings “, that dates from 1992, just before the band’s first single. There are 5 songs by the noisy pop Rennes, France, band.

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I was going through some of my 7″s the other day and picked this one up to play at home. The lovely artwork was one of the reasons but also remembering that I used to like a lot the opening track called “Sol” and the cover version they did of Le Mans’ “Perezosa y Tonta”. And I thought I haven’t written about them on the blog, maybe it is good time to do that!

I believe their “Sol” EP 7″ released by Elefant Records (ER 235) was their only proper release. Released on white vinyl, it included 5 songs. 2 on the A side, “Sol” and “Mil Cosas (demo)” and three on the B side, “El interruptor maldito”, “John Cale” and “Peresoza y Tonta”. First question arises, why did they include a demo on the A side?

Now if you are curious and want to listen to all 5 songs, the good news are that they are all available to stream on Bandcamp.So you can head there. But I want to find out more about this band? Who were they? Where were they from? Did they record more songs?

There was at least one more song recorded and it was called “Desde Ayer”. We know of this son because it was included in the CD comp “Momentos Perdidos [Lost Moments]” released by Elefant Records in 2004. This CD was a collection of rare, unreleased and B-sides of various Elefant bands.

There was a 2007 compilation where the band appears too called “Modular para el Corazón”. This was released by Molecula Records (Molecd 011) which as many of you might or might not know is based in Mexico. The song that the band contributed for this CD was “John Cale” that appeared on the 7″.

I find a biography on the Elefant page. It turns out the band hailed from Murcia, a city that has given us a lot of great indiepop bands. And they were a two piece, Germán and Marcial. What were their last names?

On the website Murcia Rock I find a 2001 article where it talks about the split of Guillermine. So now we know that by November 2001 there was no more Guillermine. It does give us a couple of details about the band though. For example that they won a prize called Mola Joven in 1999. That they were from the town of Molina in Murcia and the only gig they played outside Molina was at the I Fiesta Lo+Pop alongside La Monja Enana and L-Kan.

The next mention I stumble upon is on El Planeta Amarillo webzine which is run by Rafa Skam and is based in Murcia. In 2007 he was reviewing a bunch demos by a band called Stefunny 6. This was at the time the band both Germán and Marcial were involved with. But here it also tells us that they had been in another band called The Muppets.

But even better, on this webzine, I find a mention of a 2000 demo called “Wash”. It doesn’t tell us what the tracklist was, but it does give a name of one of the tracks, “Play-back”. It also confirms that the band took their name from a La Buena Vida song.

On an article on the website Tímpanos y Luciérnagas I find that Germáns last name is Beteta. Progressing in this investigation. And thanks to knowing this I could find that he has played solo gigs in the Murcia area. An interview, one of his songs (“Desde Ayer” which was his favourite), and one by Guillermine, can be listened in this same website.

And that’s about it. What about Marcial? Was he involved in any other projects? What happened to him? What songs were included in the “Wash” demo? Did they record any other songs? Why did they split? Why were there no more releases by the band, just one 7″? Would be great to find out more about Guillermine!

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Guillermine – Sol

Time to start another week, and little by little we are about to end this year! As you know I’m terrible with year end lists so would love to know what are your favourite releases of 2018! Comment below please. Maybe Ive missed something?

This past weekend I found some cool sounds, so I will share those with you:

Tullycraft: my dear… one of my favourite bands is back! Their newest song is called “Passing Observations” and it even has a video. This track will be included in their forthcoming album “The Railway Prince Hotel” that should be released next year. I’m very happy, even more so because in the song they mention the song “Lotsi Go Go Go” by Throw that Beat in the Garbagecan!, another favourite band!!

The New Fools: remember the band Plume that had a song on one of the Leamington Spa compilations? Nowadays their members are playing music under the guise of The New Fools. They have set up a Soundcloud page with a bunch of their recordings. Most of the songs are from acoustic sessions but there are also some superb songs that I’m enjoying lots like “The Big Wheel” or “The Boy You Met on Holiday”. This has made me think that a Plume interview could be cool for the blog, right?

Nah…: the latest from this German-Dutch duo is terrific! They are among the best two indiepop songs I’ve heard this year! “Road Trip” and “Everything” are now available to stream on Bandcamp and you can also order a limited CD single there. Really lovely songs, I have them on repeat!

La Casa de Emma: the Chilean band has released a tape on Junko Records from Temuco, Chile. This tape EP is called “Refugio Invernal” and it sounds ace. There are 5 twee songs in the vein of Funday Mornings, “Olvidar”, “Favorita”, “Viaje en Bicicleta”, “Plástica Felicidad” and “Skolniks”. Great stuff!

Tears Run Rings: their “Somewhere EP” was released back in October on Deep Space Recordings from North Carolina. I am only catching up now. There are 4 songs by this band formed by the people behind Shelflife Records, “Helios Heliadae”, “Someone Somewhere”, “Be Still” and “Daylight”, and all of them sound brilliant and dreamy. It is available on 10″ through the label.

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The band came together via the long, circuitous road of teen dream garage mayhem, street entertaining on the pathways of Europe, dangerous and unhealthy rehearsals in a church crypt to gigs in hard, unwholesome and unwelcoming Northern Industrial towns in front of audiences: one part disinterested, one part lynch mob. But, the band won them over and knew they had something special and good. In 1984 the Lilac Trumpets arrived in Liverpool with a suitcase full of songs, heads full of bohemia and balladeer visions of conquest, ready for business. Within weeks the band’s first recording session was noticed by the studio manager, Hambi Haralambous who immediately tracked down the band (as they had left without paying) and offered a recording deal with the newly formed independet label, “Pink Pop.” Created solely for the release of the Lilac Trumpets first single: “Someone Else’s World.” Released in March 1984 to much critical appreciation. – “At last: a band writing epic, melodious songs to rival anything by David Bowie.” Record Mirror. “Guitar pop/rock breathes again in the form of a Lilac Trumpet.” NME.

There followed tour dates with the Icicle Works, Ruby Turner and recording sessions with Mike Score (Flock of Seagulls) and Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds) among others. The Lilac Trumpets looked in a good position; two great songwriters, a solid band, good management, an ideal location and a sound, long term plan. However, there was trouble at the record label and pressure from the London side of the management company for the band to change the adopted manifesto of real musicians, real instruments, a “one take” policy in the studio and a new direction in song writing. Amid the secret agenda’s, tacit agreements and manipulations of those outside the band the “Trumpets” were unaware of the unfolding fiasco. Eventually, the band went their separate ways amicably and the burgeoning “Pink Pop” scene quietly folded. Steve Coghlan moved to Europe and eventually settled in London as an academic, Ian Copesteak worked in music TV. Neill Senior stayed with the management and worked on a solo career as session musician, songwriter and live performer until 1989. John Patterson worked with all three of the remaining “Trumpets” on various projects and later founded “Loop Transperience” with Neill Senior. There followed more recordings and occasional gigs and busking trips around Europe. John currently based with Liverpool band “Munky Puzzel”. Steve Coghlan, guitar vocals, Neill Senior, guitar vocals, John Patterson, drums, Phil Gladman, bass.

What an introduction! That’s how the booklet of The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 6 (Firestation Records FST 075) presents us the band Lilac Trumpets. Now that there is a new volume around the corner I thought revisiting some of the great songs by obscure bands that haven’t been featured on the blog. And thought about this band who I really know very little about. Well, now, re-reading the booklet, I feel I know much more. It is always good to have a refresher.

I don’t own any records by them. So I’m quite clueless about their output. Discogs seems to list 2 tapes and a 12″ record. Was that it? Probably yes for vinyl. Perhaps there was even more stuff for tapes. More demo tapes.

There is a 5-track demo tape that was released in 1984 that had the songs “Opposite Sides”, “When the Rains Came”, “Something’s Happening”, “Things We Say” and “Temporary Thing”. John Patterson on drums, Steve Coughlan on guitar and vocals and Neil Senior on vocals, bass and keyboards. There are no other details for it. I wonder how did these songs sound like.

That same year, 1984, another tape was available from the band. Was it sold at gigs? Through the mail? Would love to know. The songs on it were “Waiting for the Tide” and “A day in Gaza”.

Their 12″ came out in 1986, year 0 for indiepop (?). Three songs produced by Ian Broudie which were “Someone Else’s World”, “I Should Have Known” and “One of these Days”. The first one was the sole song on the A side and was written by Senior. The other two songs were written by Coughlan. So, in total we know 10 songs by the band. Why weren’t there more releases by them?

These three songs were recorded at The Pink Studio and was released by Pink Pop (POP 001). There are two other releases by this label listed, The Balcony and Amir. I’m not familiar with any of them, but a good guess would be that the studio was running a small record label.

Discogs also has both Neil Senior and Steve Coughlan as part of a band called The Precautions who released a demo tape in 1982 with the songs “Modesty Blaise”, “Safe Inside” and “Leeks on Mount Fuji”. I wonder how The Precautions sounded like. And why wasn’t this band mentioned on the booklet of Leamington Spa. Something else about The Precautions is the small bio that Link2Wales has. On it it mentions that this band also featured Ian Lewis who was later in Lilac Trumpets. He was a keyboardist. At what point was he in the Lilac Trumpets? Not during the time they recorded the 7″, right? Ian had also been part of Dream Legion and Alternative Radio.

Another related band to Lilac Trumpets seems to be Wandering Quatrains. It seems to have been a Chester band from the late 80s that featured Neil Senior and also Andie Rathbone, later in Mansun.

On Youtube I find some interesting anecdotes. For example someone Anthony Donovan mentions that he auditioned for the band in 1981 or 1982 at a rehearsal at The Ministry studios. He mentions that the band had a connection with Strawberry Studios. Then himself and another user mentions that Steve Coughlan lived on Catherine Street in Toxteth. But another user then says that Steve lived in St. Bride street in Liverpool. Maybe he moved?

Another interesting thing I found was that there was actually a 7″ promo version of the 12″ that included just two of the songs, “Someone Else’s World” and “I Should Have Known”. I suppose this is rare. And it doesn’t look as if it came with a picture sleeve.

I also wonder about their name. Of course lilac can be a colour (lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac flowers. It might also be described as dark mauve or light purple) and a flower (lilac a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills. This species is widely cultivated as an ornamental and has been naturalized in other parts of Europe). So probably trumpets that were lilac coloured.

As usual, when doing these sort of investigations I hit a wall. Not much more I was to find about them. I wonder if the Ian Copesteak named in the booklet is the same Ian Lewis. I feel it is. But why the change of name. Was it Coughlan or Coghlan as it appears on the booklet. What about that promo 7″? Who did they send it too? How many copies were there? Why weren’t there more releases? How did their other bands sound like? Many questions. And no answers.

Who remembers them?

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Lilac Trumpets – My Heart Bleeds

I think one of the most exciting news this week is the announcement of “The Sound of Leamington Spa Volume 10 – German Edition”. Now we know the tracklist and that is really exciting. It will be released on CD and vinyl (though once again with that gimmick of adding an extra track on the vinyl just to make sure fans buy both versions, something I don’t agree with and I think is a bit of a capitalist trick). But what can you do? The album is announced for February 2019 and will the tracklist is as follows:

The Pariahs – Going Down Niagara Falls
The Mirror Images – Paint
Die Tanzenden Herzen – Sag Mir Was Du Siehst
I Burnettes – Buildings
Goldstein Circus – Far (Alternative Mix)
Second View – Machinery
The Artpress – Anyway
Candlestick – Be My Baby
The Hyde Parkas – I Confess
Die Blinzelbeeren – Keine Hoffnung Mehr
Angry Flowers – When She Dreams
Starfish – Shortsightedness
She Splinters Mortar – Brown Sugar
The Butterfly Collectors – Hope You’ll Never Go
Die Wurzelsepps – Sweet Aggression
Paperback Writers – A tale of love + honour
Ein Warmer Sommermorgen – Fahrradfahren
The Dead Adair – Jacqueline B
Viola Crayfish – Besser Scheitern
The Groovy Cellar – My America (Demo)

Some of these bands have been featured on the blog, which makes me quite happy. Now I’m sure we’ll learn a detail or two more about them thanks to the always lovely booklet that comes with these compilations. I do find it strange that the label is calling the compilation The Sound of Leamington Spa as when they started these comps they were very focused and had the rule of only including English and Irish bands of the period. I guess with time things and idea changes. But maybe a different name would have worked? Just thinking out loud. In any case I’m very much looking forward to this compilation as there are many bands and songs I’m not familiar with!

Fanclub:  I think it wasn’t that long ago that I discovered this Austin band. Well today I’m listening to a new track called “Stranger” that is really lovely! The sweet vocals and melodies are just what I needed today. I hope to see a proper release by this band in the near future!

The Catherines: another band that is heavily featured in the blog is this German band. Today I want to share with you the news that the band has a full-length tape, their second, available on their Bandcamp. It is titled “Cheers!”, and it includes 9 super tracks, many of which have already been recommended here!

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize: 12 tracks for this digital album “The 12 Days of Christmas”. Now you have no excuse to get into the holiday season mood. This is the first release by the London band fronted by Charlie Darling since 2017’s “Christmas Revisited EP”! He surely loves Christmastime!

The Autumn Stones: Checking out what this Toronto band has now to offer I stumble upon a 4 track EP called “Into the Light”. This lovely record includes the title song, “Hardwired”, “Higher” and “The Bigger they Fall (Acoustic Mix)”. I remember some months ago I was recommending the last track when it was released as a digital single!

Parsnip: “Feeling Small” is the 2nd 7″ by this Melbourne quartet after their lovely self-titled 7″ from 2017. This time around there are two new songs, “Feeling Small” and “Winter” that are influenced by indiepop and girl-group pop too!  It does feel like there is a great scene these days in Australia! Every single time we discover a fantastic band!

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It seems I’ve made my own challenge with that list posted by Janglepophub of obscure jangle pop. There is not much info on that list, just a bunch of names, mostly bands I’ve never heard before, and Youtube links to check out these band’s music. But as you know, I need to know more. So I’ve been digging for more information of course.

Today it is the turn for Blue TV from the US. “Back in Time” from 1985 is the song that is shared. I quickly find out that this was actually a B side for “Train Wrecks” and it came out on a 7″. It was released by a label called Twilight Records (TR001) which looks like an Atlanta based label. Needless to say I have never heard about the label before or any of the bands on the catalog. Those who know about it, would you recommend me something on it?

And was the band based in Atlanta?

The truth is that Discogs doesn’t have much information. But happily the sleeve has been scanned. The songs are copyrighted to the Swell Guy Songs. That doesn’t say much. Then the songs were produced by the band and Joe Wolff. Joe Wolff also engineered the record. It was recorded in May 1985 at Lotus Studios.

The art for the record, which is quite cool, was designed by Galen Smith.

Then the band members. That’s a breakthrough.
Doug Hamilton on vocals
Dennis Klein on drums
Jeff Cohen on guitar
Jan Dykes on bass

I keep looking. I find a post about the band on the great blog Wilfully Obscure.  Even though there is not much information on the post, there is a comment by Doug Hamilton, the vocalist, mentioning that the band was influenced by R.E.M. but that the bass player, Jan Dykes, was into the British bands like New Order and Gang of Four.

I keep googling. It doesn’t seem to take anywhere. I hit walls. I guess this is a proper obscure band. I read a bunch of comments saying that the Atlanta scene in the 80s was unfairly in the shadows of the Athens one, in the shadows of R.E.M. but that there was quality and many good bands in Atlanta. Would be great to discover them.

Anyone remember Blue TV? Whatever happened to the members? Did they continue making music? Why just one 7″?

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Blue TV – Back in Time

For those who haven’t noticed I’ve added a little sale offer for Christmas, only available until December 23rd. You can get 3 Cloudberry Cake Kitchen CDs for the price of 2. All available titles are part of this promotion. So if you are missing any of them, this is a good opportunity. Bear in mind that there are few copies of Strange Idols, so if by any reason they sell out, well, bad luck! Check this promotion on the Cloudberry website.

The Beths: the amazing New Zealand band has two new songs on their Bandcamp and they are about Christmas! So if you are feeling in the mood of holiday season, do check out “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Happy Unhappy”!!

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: yet another demo song by this superb project by the San Francisco band. I can’t wait for the properly recorded versions of all the songs the band keeps publishing in their Bandcamp. Their latest is called “What’s in your DNA?” and it is a lovely slice of janglepop!

True Sleeper: Italian shoegaze! The song “Blurred Hears” is now available to stream from the label Lady Sometimes, the same label that a week ago was giving us their Italian Sarah tribute. This sounds pretty good. Looking forward to more songs.

Control Room: this Hattlesburg, Mississippi, band sounds pretty cool. Definitely influenced by post-punk and synthpop, they do have a very nice pop sensibility when making their songs. That is what I like! There are four songs in their “Retreat” cassette EP, “Shield”, “Ground Rules”, “War” and “No Zeros”.

Rilev: the last year we’ve find out so many good Mexican bands. Rilev being the latest one I discover. Their dreamy songs are part of a digital EP that includes 5 songs, “Intro”, “Control”, “Vampira”, “Antes” and “Amar”. I wonder though, when I’ve visited Mexico City, never seen any of these bands performing. Will I do one day?

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It has been a while since a New Zealand band was featured on the blog. I think since the Exploding Budgies? I did try to interview them and sent questions, but sadly I haven’t heard back yet. Hopefully one day I’ll get those answers. That’d be great. Still I think it is good time to check out an obscure guitar pop band from New Zealand.

I would love to know why they named themselves Mainly Spaniards. Was there any connection with Spain? Has there been a Spanish immigration to New Zealand? Would be interesting to find out. What we do know about them is that their legacy is a 7″ and a couple of compilation appearances, nothing more.

The good thing is that their 7″ came out on Flying Nun (FN014), that means, I hope, we’ll be able to find some interesting information about them. An important label gives us that possibility.Though I must say I don’t remember this band being mentioned on the book Roger Shepherd published a few years ago.

The “That’s What Friends are For” 7″ included three songs. On the A side we find “That’s What Friends are For” credited to Richard James. The B side has “Secretaries’ Lunch Break” and “Questions”. We know that the band was formed by Nick Strong on bass, Dave Swift on bass, Mike Jeffries on guitar and Richard James on vocals and guitar. All songs on the record were produced by Chris Knox from the Tall Dwarfs and many more and Doug Hood who was one of The Clean’s original members.

500 copies were pressed for this record and we know there were 3 colour sleeve variations, pink, lemon and red. They were designed by Rudolph Boelee who had Groucho on the cover.

The compilation appearances that are listed for them are way more recent. Just from a decade ago. Their A side “That’s What Friends Are For” appears on the “Christchurchthemusic” double CD that EMI put out and also on the “Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set” 4-CD compilation that Flying Nun put together for their 500th item in their catalogue.

There is a Wikipedia entry about the band. On it we learn that a 2nd single was recorded but never released after Richard James moved to Auckland from Christchurch (where the band were based) to work as a schoolteacher in late 1983. What songs were going to be on this single? have they been available anywhere else? Would love to hear them! Why weren’t they released?

From it we also learn that Richard James played in The Pterodactyls and The Letter 5. Later on, in 2008 he was in a band called The South Tonight with John Kelcher from Sneaky Feelings. And there was also some lineup changes in 1982, David Swift would leave the drums for Tony Green to take over.

AudioCulture has a couple more details about the band. Here it gets confirmed that the band was active between 1981 and 1983 and played gigs at The Gladstone, Star and Garter, Canterbury University, Punakaiki Festival (April 1983) and the Empire Tavern in Dunedin (1982 & 1983). That Richard James was even in more bands like the Stanley Wrench and The Monkey Brothers and was a guest horn blower in The Vauxhalls. David Swift moved to the UK and became a journalist, writing even for the NME.

There is a video on Youtube for “That’s What Friends are For” that includes many bits of information about the band. I like these sort of videos. Why aren’t there more like it? It tells us that the band recorded the songs at a local studio but weren’t happy with it. A friend of theirs, Roy Montgomery, would play it to Roger Shepherd from Flying Nun who liked it and wanted to put it out on his label. The band wanted to re-record them and that’s when Hood and Knox came in.

Then there is an article written by David Swift for TheBigCity, a website that covers Christchurch culture. Here he mentions that Mike Jeffries was a screen printer, that Ross Humphries from the Pin Group almost became a member but was too busy with other projects, and that the name of the band was his idea. An idea of reading newspapers and circling any two words that taken out of context might work. A report on the press foreign news pages about a bus crash in Spain that killed 35, ‘mainly spaniards’. The mystery of the name is solved.

The band supported The Clean at the Star and Garter in 1982 to a crowd of 500. They supported and played with The Chills, The Pin Group, The Newtones, Sneaky Feelings. The songs on the 7″ were recorded at Paul Kean’s (The Bats) house in Sydenham in March 1982.

I find something interesting dating from July 2018. The label Failsafe Records mentions that they are putting together a “Collected Works and Live” by Mainly Spaniards. We should keep an eye on that, if it happens.

And that’s where I hit a wall. I can’t fin any more information about them. It is not bad of course, I’ve found more information than I expected and hopefully in the near future there will be that retrospective compilation. What about you all? Do you remember them?

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Mainly Spaniards – That’s What Friends are For

If you see on our website, we have a few copies of two 7″s released by the German label Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. We have 7″s of the split single by Lake Ruth and Pale Lights and also the latest 7″ by Botschaft. We only got 4 copies of each, so if you are in the US and you want to save some postage this is a good opportunity.

Finds from over the weekend? Of course!

Remington Super 60: the classic Norwegian band is back with a new Christmas song. It is called “A Winter Song” and it does sound gorgeous! As it says on their Soundcloud, Remington Super 60 never disappoints around Christmastime. I do hope though to hear new songs by them at other times of the year!

Seeing Hands: there’s a new 10″ on Discos de Kirlian by this Newcastle based band formed by Kev Curran, Nick Hodgson, Jon Varty and Liam Guillan. There are 7 songs and they sound superb. Dreamy jangly pop! The record is limited to just 150 copies.

Young Agings: not sure who this band is. I know they are Japanese and that the main driving force is Shota Kaneko. I’m listening to the last song on their tape “Before I Go” that is called “Stars” and I think it is brilliant. This tape is out now on Sauna Cool Records from Kobe. This tape is also very limited, just 100 copies.

Figure: so as I’m curious I went to check the other release available on this Japanese label, Sauna Cool Records. It is another tape, this time the sound is more shoegazy. The band is called Figure and this 6 song tape is titled “Parakalein”. And even though I’m not loving this as much as Young Agings, there are some terrific tracks like “True Bosom” or “Daylight”.

Perfect Body/Zac White: some nice songs on this digital split EP by two Cardiff bands. There are 3 songs by Perfect Body and 4 by Zac White and I must say I’m more partial to the first band.  This is out now on Bubblewrap Collective, from Cardiff also.

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I continue checking out the list on Janglepophub. There is a Canadian band that is unknown to me. Well, there are a few of them to be honest. But I decided to start with the one called The 21 Hundredz. Why? Not sure. I guess the name caught my attention. Also that there were no sound bites shared. I wanted to listen to them. And also the year they released their single, 1988, it had to sound good if it was released that year, right?

According to Discogs the band released one 7″ on Accent Records (which I suppose it was their own). It had no catalog number and included just two songs. The A side had “Modern Romance”, while the B side was “A New Rhythm, A New Name”. But according to 45cat this first single was released in 1987 and there was actually a second single, also on their own Accent Records.

That comes as a surprise. I didn’t expect them to have a 2nd single. This second 7″ had also two songs, one on each side: “Life is Eternal” and “Today”.

Thanks to 45cat I get to know that “Modern Romance” was composed by Lori Kennedy and Jed Dyals, “A New Rhythm, A New Name” by Jed Dyals and “Life is Eternal” and “Today” by Jed Dyals and David Saturne.

The website Calgary Cassette Preservation Society has a 2012 post about the first 7″. There is not much information about the band but there is a scan of the back sleeve of the “Modern Romance” 7″. Thanks to this I find out the proper lineup of the band.
Bruce Callow – vocals, rhythm guitar, emax
Jed Dyals – guitar, vocals, piano
Karl Harter – bass, guitar
Lori Kennedy – drums

Dough Callow is credited for the photo and design of the record. The songs were remixed by Doug Faires.

Then I dig on this website and find a post about their 2nd 7″. There is not much information but it tells us an interesting detail, that both records were manufactured through Doug Wong Music (that’s why they carry a DWM catalog) despite being on Accent Records. Who was Doug Wong?

Thanks to these names I find that Bruce Callow and Karl Harter had been in a band called New Internationalists. I should check them out. But there is even a more interesting post here, a 21 Hundredz demo!

Make sure to check out these links as they have dropbox links for downloading the music. So what about these demos? It says that two of the 3 songs on the demo tape were included in some compilation LPs called Tones and Calgary. I’m not sure if these are the real names of these comps, but that’s how this website mentions them.

It also gives some little details like that the band produced 4 videos, one of which was in Much Music’s rotation in 1984. They performed at the Montreal New Music Festival in 1987, and won Calgary radio station KIK FM’s band contest in 1989.

Other information I could gather from this website is that Lori Kennedy was also involved in bands like Maud, Same Difference and Anne Loree. More bands to check out. Maybe there’s some good jangle there?

So, if this website covering this band is named Calgary Cassettes, then it is safe to assume the band was based in Calgary, right? I feel confident about that.

As it is common with these obscure bands there’s really not much more on the web about them. So I’m hoping some of you will help me fill in the blanks. Anyone remembers them?

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The 21 Hundredz – Modern Romance

Back on the blogging train. There are a bunch of new interviews coming up too. I’ve been sending questions the past few days. Hopefully the bands answer them too! There’s been so many that have gone unanswered sadly.

Also I’m back working on new releases on the label, putting together the final touches to two retrospective compilations that will be released early next year it seems. I hoped for one to be released late this year but it looks a bit tight now as I’m waiting for the mastered songs.

What’s new? There are a few good finds for you to listen over the weekend of course.

Lightfoils: 5 songs on a 12″ by this Chicago band with a strange cover artwork. This EP titled “Chambers” is a superb shoegaze/dreampop record. I have never heard the band before but I’m quite surprised. They are formed by Jane Zabeth Nicholson, John Rungger, Neil Yodnane, Zeeshan Abbasi and Cory Osborne. It seems they’ve been around since at least 2012!

Blot: Josh T. Pearson and Gaspard Royant’s band has put together this digital single for the French label Le Pop Club Records. I don’t know much about them, but I saw the art for this single, with Trump riding a rocket with his North Korean friend and I kind of understood what the song was about. Previously the had released an album on the same label called “Tambourine”.

Static Animal: another digital single, this time all the way from Melbourne, Australia. It is called “See You Around” and it is a lovely jangly track, a great introduction to the rest of songs on the band’s Bandcamp. They are formed by Micahel gibbon, Dan Oke and Reuben Maskell.

A Very Cherry Christmas – Volume 13: Cherryade Records continues putting together wonderful Christmas compilations on CD. This is not the exception. There are two songs now to stream, Goddammit Jeremiah’s “Office Christmas Party” and Gang Clouds’ “Let’s Spend Christmas in Our Bed”.  Both are fine songs but I really love Goddammit Jeremiah’s track, it reminds me a lot to TCR one of my favourite bands ever!

Deep Cut: Mat from the 90s band Revolver has been behind this band since 2006. Here he is joined by Emma Bailey, Simon Flint and Ian Button. I wasn’t aware of this until today. They have a new album called “Different Planet” which is available on CD through their Bandcamp and all three songs that are available to listen sound great! Definitely check out “Still Counting”, “Washed Up” and “Hanging Around”!

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While I was doing some research about the Ice Babies I stumbled upon a post on the blog Janglepophub that listed a few obscure jangle pop bands. Some which I had never heard. And having liked what I heard it made sense for me to find out more about them.

As Clear as Day was the first band that appears on this list. It sounded great. It was the A side of their one and only 7″, a song called “Some Excited Feeling”. Very 80s, influenced by post-punk, a song with that sort of romanticism that resonates to every guitar pop fan.

Then I find the B side on Youtube too. That song was “Without Compromise”. Good stuff. But how come just one single and nothing else?

We do know that the single came out on Rampant Releases from Australia in 1984 with the catalog RR 018. The single was distributed by Musicland Independent Distributors and both songs were recorded at Richmond Recorders.

As I don’t have a copy of the single I relay on Discogs to find any credits. We know the producer for the record was Chris Corr. He was based in Melbourne. As the label. And also the band. Okay, we have that clear. Then we find out about who were part of the band:
Bill Tolson – guitar and vocals
Brian Beecham – keyboards and vocals
Les Woodward – drums
Matthew Keene – bass

Something that caught my attention while listening to the songs on Youtube was that someone called Owen says he drummed for the band in the 80s too. Were there many lineup changes?

I notice something interesting. Bill Tolson was the person behind Rampant Releases. Now I’m more intrigued in why he didn’t release more records by his own band! Maybe because they split right away? I do know that he has put out on his label at least 4 studio albums of his solo work. And also he has been involved in other bands like The Metronomes, Not Drowning, Waving, Glided Youth and more.

What I find next is really great. Bill has a Youtube channel. On it there is As Clear as Day performing on TV, on the show Star Search, their song “Here We Go Again” which sounds superb! Is there a studio version of it? There is also a video Bill has put together for “Some Excited Feeling” which some footage of the band members.

And that’s not all. Then I find a live performance at Armadale Hotel in Melbourne sometime in 1984. They are playing of course their hit “Some Excited Feeling“.

There’s not much more on the web written about them. No more details, no more information. I understand why Janglepophub calls them an obscure band even though they had TV appearance and their vocalist ran Rampant Releases. Would love to know more. If there were more recordings? Why no more releases? Were the band members involved in any other bands? Melbourne friends, anyone remember them?

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As Clear as Day – Some Excited Feeling

Back from Dublin, spent 4 days and a bit there and it was really nice. It wasn’t as rainy as I thought it would be. It was kind of cold, but it was good for walking and exploring the city. I notice it is very green there. I guess because of the weather. I didn’t find any indiepop though. Visited three or four record stores and aside from a 12″ by The Holsteins (which I already own) I didn’t find anything else worth buying. Shame.

I did find posters of The Frank and Walters at a pub called Whelan’s and at this same place I got to hear in the background “Rip it Up”. I guess that’s as indiepop as it got. Visited a bunch of museums, cathedrals, shops, restaurants and so on. The usual. Didn’t get to do any side trips as I would have wanted, I think if I had stayed one or two more days I could have. I just wanted to explore all of Dublin first. We missed a few things of course like the Dublin City Gallery, but I’m sure at some point I will return.

Now, let’s get back to blogging as we need to catch up!

Useless Youth: it would have been nice to catch this Mexican band on one of my many visits to their capital. I hope next year that happens. The band who has been featured on the blog in the past has just put up a new album called “Cities” up on their Bandcamp and it sounds gorgeous. Definitely a band to follow!

Ping Pong Club: the Bandung, Indonesia, band is back with a digital single called “Ecstatic” that sounds superb!! For some reason the melody reminds me of St. Christopher, right? This is a great track so it makes me look forward to their next efforts.

Chain Wallet: the Bergen, Norway, band is back with a new song called “Ride” after a two year silence. I believe this song will be included in an album called “No Ritual” which I’m not sure when it will be released. “Ride” sounds brilliant, jangly and dreamy, just how I like it!

The Hannah Barberas: I feel every month there are news by this English band and that is a good thing of course. Now they are releasing on Bandcamp four Christmas songs as part of their “Christmas Bandwagon” EP. The songs are “Oh Santa Claus!”, “Christmas Time is Here”, “A Dream for Christmas” and “Winter/Christmas”. Get in the holiday mood!

Whistler Post: two songs by this Indonesian band, “About” and “This is For Somethin Cool” are included in this digital single put together by the Jakarta label Don’t Fade Away. Don’t know much about the band, but it is a nice introduction to them!

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I don’t know much about this UK band but always loved their “Genius of Lies” song. So here I am digging on Google, trying to find any bits and pieces I can find about them.

That song I mention was the A side of “The Ice Babies Cometh” 7″ that was released in 1981 by the Groove Digger label (GOD 1). This might have been a self-release as there are no other releases listed on this label and this is the first release on the catalogue. Just an educated guess here. The B side of the single is “Reason Not Rhyme”.

I would of course love a copy of it. Listen to it at home on my turntable. Wouldn’t that be nice? The two songs were recorded at Cave Studios in Bristol on April 20th, 1981. Also there are some names on the sleeve.

Leisa Gurney on voice and organ
Tim Isherwood on guitar
Phil Goodland on drums
Fil Broek on drums

And then an address. We know now that they were based, in the area of Curdleigh Farm, Blagdon Hill, in Taunton, Somerset.

Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England. The town’s population in 2011 was 69,570. Taunton has over 1,000 years of religious and military history, including a 10th century monastery and Taunton Castle, which has origins in the Anglo Saxon period and was later the site of a priory. The Normans then built a stone structured castle, which belonged to the Bishops of Winchester. The current heavily reconstructed buildings are the inner ward, which now houses the Museum of Somerset and the Somerset Military Museum.

Sadly there is not much more written about them on the web. I could find a Tim Isherwood, musician and all, but from Toronto and based in Berlin. And probably much younger. So no. That’s not the one. It looks as if they were only involved in The Ice Babies and no other bands. But I would love to confirm this suspicion.

So I need your help so we can maybe get in touch, interview them, or at least learn if there were more songs. Anyone remember them?

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Ice Babies – Genius of Lies

Well, today I’m heading off to Dublin. I’ve been recommended to visit Spin Dizzy Records, The Record Spot, Freebird Records and Tower Dublin. Any other recommendations?

So no more posts until next Wednesday. Of course I will  leave you some music too…

The Relationships: I wasn’t aware until a few days ago that this classic pop bands, that features Angus ex-Razorcuts, was on Bandcamp.  On this platform they have shared four songs (“Fairgrounding”, “Strange Archaeology”, “Mike Oldfield”, “Guitar Heroes at the BBC”) of lovely janglepop. The Oxford band who have already released four albums seem to be in pretty good form!

Foliage/Andrew Younker: two pretty good bands that I have featured on the blog are joining forces to release a split tape with the Slovakian label Z Tapes. Each of them contribute three tracks and right now you can preview one by each, Foliage’s “Be Transparent” and Andrew Younker’s “Thankful”.

Cheesemind: the fine Chinese label Qiii Snacks from Guangzhou has a new song on their Bandcamp byt this band. Everything is in Chinese so I understand nothing really, but this one song sounds pretty good. Hoping to hear more by them in the future!

The Golden Rail: the superb Melbourne band is back with a new song! “Don’t Let Go Of the Light” is now available to stream and also as a limited edition CD single that you can get from their Bandcamp! This song will be part of the upcoming second album that will be released sometime next year.

The Moss Poles: Nicky from The Moss Poles got in touch a few days ago and told me that he has put together a Souncloud page with lots of goodies! This is terrific news. I wrote about them on the blog in the past if you’d like some background information but of course now i’m hoping to interview him! Hope it happens!

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The other day my friend David shared the song “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt” and I was reminded that many years ago I was looking to get in touch with the band (and of a copy of their one and only 7″). That in the hopes of having Addo 602 as part of the Sound of Starke Adolf series that sadly only got to see one volume released.

I think the lack of support of many bands I contacted and me having some trouble with my partner in Plastilina at the time made me kind of leave that project on the side. I would love to retake it. Perhaps repress the first volume? Or just start as volume 2. Wonder what would work best if I was to undertake this project again.

Addo 602 only released a 7″ in 2001 on the Strings of Nashville Records. I was always familiar with this label because it had released records by one of my favourites, Nixon. But the truth is that Addo 602’s release was actually the first one in the label’s catalog, STRINGS001. Probably the label was started to release this band.

The self-titled 7″ EP included four songs, two on each side. The A side had “Spelombudet” and “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt”, while the B side had “Det Kommer Regna Manna Från Himlen” and “KK-Låten”. The art for the cover caught my eye immediately, with that sort of bambi drawing and a light blue smudge.

They did appear on two compilations though. The first also dates from 2001 and it was a Swedish one released by Absurd Records (Absurd 10) on CD. It was called “Blåser Mellan Öronen 01” and the band contributes the song “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt”. I believe many of the bands on this compilation participated on the Emmaboda festival of 2001. Did Addo 602 played that famous festival? Yes they did according to Emmaboda’s website.

Then in 2004, on a CDr comp called “Every Djur and Every Mir” that was put out by Djur and Mir Recordings (DJURMIR008) the band participated with “Illvilligt Överspänd Röst”.

Discogs gives us a little bit more information. I believe the band was formed by Björn Anders Nilsson, Hannes Stenström, Anja Dahlstedt, Per Hillerström and Paula Cederberg. There is a photo of two of them two. I’m using that one for this post. Which of them were this boy and girl?

We do know that Björn Anders Nilsson was in a few bands like City, Hundhimlen, Jospressen and Slagsmålsklubben. Hannes Stenström had been in Shxcxchcxsh, Slagsmålsklubben, Terror of History, The X Dump among others.

I find out, going to tradera.se of all places, that the Addo 602 was actually a typewriter.

Then on an article I find out that the band played a festival alongside the likes of Fosca called Bomben 3 år in October 13th 2001. Another gig I found about was one in Kristianstad on May 25th 2002 alongside Idiot Savants, Slagsmålsklubben, Log, Kristoffer Åström & Hidden Truck.

I keep googling and find that these days Anja Dahlstedt is a librarian at Botkyrka, not too far from Stockholm. Were the band based in the capital then?

I then find a blog comment where someone says he has a tape with a lot of songs. Dear. I would love to hear that! What songs are they? What were their names? Why didn’t they get released? Was it perhaps the demo tape that is listed on Popfakta?

That demotape doesn’t seem to have a year but it included 5 songs, “KK-Låten”, “Spelombudet”, “Dagismamman som Ville Bli Greta Garbo”, “Det Kommer at Regna Manna från Himlen” and “Cart, Have a Farm!”. Interesting enough thanks to this tape I find what each member played. Anja Dahlstedt played bass, Björn Nilsson guitar, organ and synthetizer, Hannes Stenström guitar, Per Hillerström guitar and percussion and vocals and Paula Cederberg klangspiel, synths and vocals.

And that’s about it. I found the names of other songs by them not included in the 7″. That’s great. Now If I could listen to them? And of course two of their members got some more recognition with their other bands. Addo 602 only got to put out that one 7″ and play Emmaboda. Maybe those two were their highlights. But I would love to find out more about them. Does anyone remember them?

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Addo 602 – Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt