So Much Fun: here is a wonderful compilation on Shiny Happy Records. It has many many bands covering Indonesian pop bands! For example The Very Most covers Funny Little Dream or Den Baron covers Mocca. Or Cinema Lumiere covering Annemarie! This is such a great idea. And it is packed with quality. Happily the label will make a physical version of this release later on.

Excerpts From: My Secret Garden: the essential Gothenburg label My Secret Garden will be releasing on November 30 a cassette compilation with this title. The interesting thing about this release is that it includes bands from the mid 2000s that weren’t released on the label. So I am curious. Were these bands going to be part of the label at some point? It includes songs by favourite bands like The Busy Band, Hormones in Abundance or The Snow Fairies.

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: a new EP called “Everything You Ever Loved” is on the San Francisco band’s Bandcamp. This EP is made up by remixed tracks from the bonus CD that was included with the Monorail Records edition of Uncommon Weather in 2020. You can check one of the songs now, “Brave & Cruel”.

The Shop Window: great news that the indiepop band from Maidstone is back! And back with an album on Spinout Nuggets! The album that will be released on CD and vinyl on November 25 is called “The 4 Letter Word” and will have 10 songs. Right now you can listen to two of them, and they are ace, “Eyes Wide Shut” and “Low”.

Dot Dash: I haven’t heard from Terry Banks in a while. The ex-Tree Fort Angst, has been making wonderful music with DC based Dot Dash for more than a decade now. And happily the band is back with a new CD album titled “Madman in the Rain”. It is being released by the Canadian label The Beautiful Music and it is available now to listen on Bandcamp and also to order a copy. 12 songs of punchy pop!

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Lutterworth is a market town and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The town is located in southern Leicestershire, close to the borders with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. It is located 6.4 miles (10.3 kilometres) north of Rugby, Warwickshire and 12 miles (19 kilometres) south of Leicester.
At the 2011 UK census, the civil parish of Lutterworth had a population of 9,353. The built up area of Lutterworth, which also includes the adjacent village of Bitteswell had a population of 9,907.
Lutterworth was originally an Anglo Saxon settlement, its name is probably derived from the Old English Hlutre Worth: Lutterworth was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Never heard of the town of Lutterworth. But that’s from where the band Summerhouse was from.

A Soundcloud account with 8 songs, uploaded 11 years ago, exists. The uploader is called Mark Whiteman and from what I understand he wasn’t part of the band.

The band was formed by Jon Durnin on guitar and vocals, Charlie Holton on guitar and vocals, Tony Mead on drums and vocals and John Cummins on bass.

All of the songs uploaded date from early 1991 and they were part of a tape release titled “Remember Kids… Life’s Too Short to Dance with Fat Chicks”. These songs were written and arranged by the band. Recorded and mixed at Exite 1 Studios and engineered by the band and Austen Kilburn who was in the band Nowhere Men.

The art for the sleeve is credited to Hilary Clinton and Charlie Holton.

We also know the name of the songs of course. These were “Middle Name is Honest”, “Aqua Pura”, “Swirl” and “Thinner” on the A side and “4 Miles Long”, “Big Thing”, “No Damn Words” and “Thinner (Remix)” on the B side.

They appeared on a compilation called “LE 1” in 1993. This was a CD on Trashcan Records (CT 01) that featured unsigned bands from the Eeast Midlands. The CD came along the CLAG magazine, which was a free monthly listings and reviews magazine. The song the band contributed was “Hard to Make Noise”. I look at the tracklist and I only recognize another band, Antiseptic Beauty (who I haven’t wrote about yet)!.

I couldn’t find much more about the band. I wonder if anyone remembers them? Maybe you saw them supporting some cool indiepop band? Did they record more songs? Were the band members involved in other projects? Any detail would be appreciated!

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Listen
Summerhouse – Swirl