Day 499

Den Baron: fantastic! there’s a video now for “My Sound” the first single out of Den Baron’s new album “From Now On”! The album is a must have and it is out now on the great Blue-Very label. I hope I can get a copy of it soon! Here Swen shows us his favourite records and songs! And he even plays some Bonving (for those who got the Cloudberry 7″, might get the reference!).

Crash: the second demo from thee French band Crash is up now on Bandcamp. This four-song EP was recorded in Nantes in 1993 and sounds terrific. Noisy and punchy the band would later release the album “On A Marché Sur La Lune” on the French label Sensitive.

The Yellow Melodies: the Spanish band fronted by Rafa Skam has just released “Pleasant Dreams”. This is actually a tribute to The Ramones album of the same name. The Yellow Melodies wanted to celebrate the 40 years of the original release with a vinyl and CD release for this record.

The Blue Herons: wow! a new a song by the wonderful project Andi Jossi and Gretchen DeVault. The song is “Electric” and it is an upbeat and uplifting dreamy song. A bit like The Popinjays? Maybe! It makes you wonder when will the band will put a record out. That would be nice!

Torrey: “Something Happy” is the name of the debut album by San Francisco’s four-piece indiepop band that I have recommended more than a few times in the past. The album has 10 songs and all of them are great. They deserve a release if you ask me!

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As you can imagine most of the next posts will be about the trove of Hull bands I have discovered. The next one that I want to know more about is The Cheapskates!

So far I have heard two songs, “Shades” and “No Answer” and they are quite good! It is quite clear that they were influenced by The Wedding Present. They play guitars fast! If you like This Poison! you will like them for sure. Now what can we know about them?

From what I know they didn’t release any records. Just tapes. The first one being a cassingle with three songs, “No Answer”, “Love Only Changes People” and “So Drunk Tonight”. This one came out in 1990 and was self-titled.

That same year they contributed thee song “No Answer” to the tape compilation “Hull – North of Manchester”. On this fine tape they appear along a band I interviewed in the past, The Penny Candles.

Now it is 1991. The band releases a demo tape called “Travel”. This tape had four songs, “Just Talking” and “Travel” on the A side and “Love Only Changes People” and “No Answer” on the B side. That same year they contribute “Shades” to the compilation tape “Tales from the Riverbank”.

Their final release was another tape, also in 1991. Titled “Shades”, this tape had 12 songs. A proper album. Would be great to hear it. The A side had “You Know, They Know, I Don’t”, “Shades”, “I’m Not Me”, “Happy?”, “Trace” and “Another Love Song”. The B side had “No Answer”, “Love Only Changes People”, “New Era”, “Making Things”, “King of the…” and “Fergie”. Wow. So many songs. Anyone has this tape?!

On the Hull Music Archive I find that the band used to sell t-shirts. There is a yellow one with three band members drawn and “The Noise Killed Laura Palmer” written on it.

Another thing I found about them is that the band played at the legendary Adelphi Club at the Football Supporters Association benefit gig that happened just before the 1990 World Cup. This time the band played alongside Blammo and The Von Trapps. On the article I found it mentions that the band had Chris Warkup as one of their members. Oh! it is the owner of this Soundcloud account! It also mentions that Chris used to contributed in many fanzines.

How cool! Maybe we’ll get to learn more about the band soon. At least now I think we are on the right direction! Anyone remembers them?

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Listen
The Cheapskates – Shades