Day 373
BOB: there’s a new album coming out by the legendary band. It is called “Berlin Independence Days 21/10/91” and will be released on Optic Nerve on June 25. This record is actually a live radio broadcast of their 1991 concert at the Quartier Latin Club in Berlin. There are 10 songs in the LP and pre-orders are already up!
Quivers: now to Melbourne. A new album is coming out also in June. “Golden Doubt” is being released on the 11th of said month on vinyl LP. There are 10 songs and pre-orders are up. We can only preview the opening track so far, it sounds good though, it is called “Gutters of Love”. Also keep in mind that the pink vinyl version of the LP is already sold out. Only black vinyl remains.
Lightning Bug: another album where we can preview just one song. “A Color of the Sky” LP is coming out on June 24 on green and black vinyl. It is also coming out on tape and CD. The song we can preview is called “The Right Thing is Hard to Do” and it does sound very good, promising. Hoping then that the other 9 songs in the record sound as good! The band hails from New York, so when gigs are a thing again I should try to check them out.
No Suits in Miami: a favourite band of mine as of late are Lund’s No Suits in Miami. I still don’t get how their songs are not on physical format. I hope that changes soon in the near future. Their latest song is called “Make You See” which is dreamy, a bit Sundays-like. Definitely a band to keep an eye.
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It’s been a while since I listened to the “You Can’t Be Loved Forever” cassette compilations. I don’t own the tapes but of course as many of you do, have MP3s of the songs that were on these cassettes that my friend Phil Ball put together in the late 80s, early 90s.
Today I was listening to the third volume of this series. The third volume that had a yellow sleeve and included 23 songs. Made with love and with great taste in his home in Reading, the tape introduced me to many obscure and fantastic bands like Nervous Curve or Blue Summer, which I’ve written about on the blog. There are other bands of course, much more known like Home and Abroad or Hapydeadmen, but in general I feel I’ve done a good job documenting many of them. Which is good, right?
Today I wanted to focus on a band that I am ignorant about. A band I know absolutely nothing. They were called Jesus Trip and they appeared on the compilation with the song “Future”.
The song appears second to last on the B side, sandwiched between “Clear Skies” by She’s Gone and “Cold as Ice” by Dreamscape. Two bands that definitely deserve a little investigation. On Discogs, “Future”, is the only song listed for Jesus Trip. This was their only compilation appearance it seems.
Now, of course searching for Jesus Trip is impossible. There is a movie called “The Jesus Trip” from 1971, I am assuming the band named themselves after it.
I feel I immediately hit a wall. Google seems broken. How could I search for Jesus Trip. It is impossible. I don’t even know from where in the UK they were from. Don’t know the band members’ names. What could I search without getting anything religious? What combination of keywords?
My detective work ends here for now. I am going to need help. I am counting on you. Who remembers the Jesus Trip?
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Listen
Jesus Trip – Future
