At last, the week is over! Here are a few recommendations for you to enjoy this Friday!

Alpaca Sports: “I’ll Do Anything You Want” is the chosen song to be released as a digital single from their brilliant “From Paris With Love”. Because of that we have a lovely video for the song that no one should miss! Filmed in Halmstad, Sweden , on the beach where our two heroes seem to have gotten a nice suntan! The digital single has a B side called “In the Sand” which is worth checking it out!

Chorusgirl: another favourite band of mine has a new video. “In Dreams” is taken from their new album “Shimmer and Spin” which will be out on November 16th on Reckless Yes Records. It is one of the albums I’m looking forward the most right now as I loved their previous effort!

The Color Waves: our friends have a new song up on their Soundcloud called “People End Up Everywhere” and what can I say other than it is a beauty? I believe the band is now working on their debut album which if we take the cue from the 7″ they put out with Cloudberry some time ago and the songs that now and then appear on Soundcloud, we know it will be precious!

Wave and So: a new song appeared on Youtube a couple of days ago by the Thai band that we’ve featured more than a couple of times in the blog. The song is called “Davy Jones” and is going to be included in the band’s new album to be released in 2019.

Tennis Club: first time I hear this Joplin, Missouri, band and I’m enjoying quite a bit this lo-fi twee-ish track called “Vodkas”. It seems the band is formed by the duo of Wilson Hernandez and Sean O’Dell. This is their first song since 2017

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As I continue checking out what I call proto-indiepop, meaning guitarpop/indiepop from the early 80s, I decide to check out another single that is missing on my collection, Mad About Sunday’s “The Drunk”.

As it is usual on the blog, I feature bands that I know very little about. About Mad About Sunday, I confess, I hadn’t even heard their single before writing this post. Just now I have heard “The Drunk” for the first time and really enjoyed. Sadly I couldn’t find where to listen to the B side, “Intermission”. Maybe someone can help me with that?

Those two songs were part of the only proper release the band put out. It happened in 1983 on the Backs Recording Company (NCH 006). This label, which was also a record shop and distributor, used to be based in Swan Lane in Norwich. The shop closed in 1990. The label’s last release was in 2003. Many of you may be familiar with the Farmer’s Boys who released many records on this label.

As mentioned, there were two songs on the record, “The Drunk” and “Intermission”. Both were recorded at Vicarage Studio in Chiswick on April 9th 1983 by Tony Cook. It is quite interesting to mention that Cook worked with Björk in the 90s. The art is credited to “accident”.

We also get to learn the band members names on the back sleeve, Hannah Solloway, Katy Solloway, Nick Eldridge and David Cuff.

Discogs also lists a compilation appearance. It was also on Backs Records, on a tape compilation called “Reel Number 3”. There, on the B side, the band appears with “The Drunk (Edit)”. It looks like a very cool compilation including the Vital Disorders, Kamikaze Sex Pilots, The Farmer’s Boys and the Fire Hydrant Men among others.

The only other important information I could find online was about David Cuff, one of the members. He had been a bassist and vocalist. He had played in another Norwich band, The Crabs, who did a Peel Session in 1982 and also played with The Higsons and The Farmer’s Boys at the John Peel evening gala at the Ballroom in the summer of 1982. That was before Mad About Sunday. And before being in The Crabs he had been in The Happy Few who also released records on Backs. It seems then that Backs supported Cuff’s different projects. That is a good thing of course.

Then I lose track of David. What happened to him? And what about the rest of the band members? It is hard to believe they just stopped making music just like that. Does anyone remember them? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Listen
Mad About Sunday – The Drunk