Here’s a bunch of recordings by an early 90s band that I had never heard before, Leaf!

The Soundcloud account has a ton of goodies from demos and rehearsal tapes. These were all uploaded 11 years ago.

The account owner doesn’t give away his name. He calls himself the Leafy Leafster. But he does share a biography for the band. A short one:

Leaf was a band I was in from about 1990 to 1995. There were two different incarnations and the only consistent members were me and John Orion (Jorion) Shaw, who passed away in 2007. The first incarnation was actually a reforming of a band called The Natural Order of Things, which was formed by Derek Vanderhorst (who went on to be a sound designer and has worked on literally dozens of major films) and managed by Les Garland (the founder of MTV). Les’ girlfriend Paris was our lead singer and we went through a number of different bass players and drummers. Paris was commuting back and forth between Los Angeles (where the band was) and Miami (where she lived with Les). Eventually that became as ridiculous as it sounds and we replaced Paris with John Shaw and renamed the band Leaf.

That is quite interesting. We have a name, John Orion Shaw. Sadly, as mentioned, he passed away. But I’ll have a look.

It is interesting though the connection with MTV. Right?

Anyhow, we do know a little bit more. We know what recordings each incarnation of Leaf left us.

The first one did demo recordings at Gasoline Alley Records (MCA) in 1992. These include: “Pail and Rag”, “Fragile Nothing”, “Window Scarlet Grey”, “The Beautiful”, “Making of it All”, “Single White Reptile”, “Undefined Belief”, “Death of the Everyman”, “Butterfly”, “Injesting Self”, “Idolize”, “The Warmth of Melancholy”, “Rejoice to be Believed” and “Fear and Trembling”.

For the second incarnation we get a little bit more info:

After we were dropped from Gasoline Alley Records (or, more accurately, they stopped returning our calls) our drummer and bass player left and we started looking for new members. John and I knew Rani and Gil Sharone from a summer camp we were working at. They were both about 17 at the time, but obviously very talented (they have since gone on to form Stolen Babies and work on a number of composing and studio projects). Derek decided to move on to other things, but John and I wanted to keep the band together, so we started playing with Rani and Gil and then recruited John Sherwood (who I played with in an earlier band) to play guitar.

The first four songs in this set were recorded with film composer Michel Colombier in his studio – he was working on an instructional DVD series about how to form a band and used us as the sample band (not sure if he ever finished it). The last three are fairly low quality rehersal tapes – I believe recorded on a boom box stuck in a corner of the rehearsal studio.

The recordings from this time include “Twice the Length of My Will”, “Butterfly”, “Flame”, “Seeding the Clouds” and the four songs from rehearsal tapes “I Dig the Light”, “Sideways Glance” and “Injesting Self”.

I google for Gil Sharone. And says he was the drummer of Marilyn Manson. I am not sure what to say about that. I don’t rate highly that music. But I suppose for a drummer that would be a good opportunity? I don’t know. In any case it seems he left his post as his drummer in 2019.

Rani Sharone, as mentioned was on Stolen Babies. I wasn’t aware of this band. It seems it is a heavy metal band from what I’m reading.

This happens a lot in the U.S., where musicians can switch easily between genres, right? It is interesting.

I couldn’t find much more about the band. I think it would be fantastic if anyone knows who the lead person in Leaf was. They had some very good tunes, Smiths-influenced, that would be great to know more details about them.

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Leaf – Window Scarlet Grey

There were some awful news a few days ago. On October 16 we learned that Ruth Miller, Ruth from the most wonderful Leicester band Po!, passed away. I couldn’t believe it.

It is true that a few weeks, on Sept. 30th, and before this event, she had posted on her Facebook (which is public) that she had been living with metastatic breast cancer for the past few months.

But to go this fast? Hard to believe.

For me Po! is one of the best bands ever. I love them. The records Po! left are true masterpieces. And as it usually is for me I get very shy with bands that I have on a pedestal. I don’t contact them… unless of course it all is in a natural way and I meet the band member, have a beer and chat… but to contact a hero of mine myself through email and ask for an interview, I don’t normally do it. So I never ever got in touch with Ruth even though she seemed accessible on social media.

I would have definitely wanted to learn more details about Po! and other projects Ruth had been involved with. Would have been amazing. Maybe I was hoping for her to contact me when I wrote about new songs or new stuff she posted on Bandcamp. But that didn’t happen either.

Now I just feel heart-broken. I know her records will last forever, her songs will continue making her fans happy, but she will be missed for sure. By her family first of all, but also by us, the fans.

I had dreamed of seeing her play live sometime. I know she played some gigs in the last few years, but never got to chance to be in the UK during those special moments. I have never visited Leicester yet.

Ruth is definitely more known by her work in Po!, her band, which of course is her most known project. But she was also on Ruth’s Refrigerator, which are amazing, and the not so known Jody and The Creams.

These three projects overlap in the late 80s, early 90s. Some songs are also recorded by the same bands. Like Jody and The Creams recorded a superb version of “Appleseed Alley”, a song very much associated to Po! But which one came first?

Jody and The Creams was formed by Alan Jenkins (from The Chrysanthemums, The Creams, The Deep Freeze Mice, Yeah Yeah Noh, The Melamine Division Plates, The Thurston Lava Tube, Ruth’s Refrigerator, Aaaaaaaaxb), Ariadne Metal-Cream Pie, Blodwyn P. Teabag (also from Ruth’s Refrigerator), Jonathan Staines (from Jesus Couldn’t Drum, Space Cake and The Chrysanthemums) and Ruth. They released their records on Cordelia Records, the great label run by Alan Jenkins.

Also worth noting Jody and The Creams was an early incarnation of The Creams. In The Creams we won’t find Ruth anymore. The Creams would be active in the mid 90s. Jody and The Creams was around the late 80s, early 90s, though released a 2nd album in 1998.

The first time we hear about them is through a 1988 demo tape with two untitled songs, one on each side. This self-titled tape  was released by Cordelia (Ericat 026) and both songs were penned by Alan.

The second release is perhaps the one you might have heard about. It is the album “A Big Dog.n” that came out in 1990. There is a vinyl version and a CD version of it. The A side had “The Queen #1”, “Margery is Dead”, “Moulted from a Labrador”, “Tree Rings”, “Appleseed Alley”, “Hi Felicity”, “Shropshire” and “N.”. The B side had “N. (Continued)”, “The Queen #2”, “Blue Moon” and then 2 “Untitled” songs, “A World Without Love” and then 7 more “Untitled” songs.

Their music could be pop. Could be punk. Could be experimental. Hard to classify. On this record Geraldine Minou-Sullivan (from The Chrysanthemums) played drums, Alan Jenkins played guitar. Ariadne Metal-Cream Pie played guitar and viola. Blodwyn P. Teabag played oboe, piano and synths, Jonathan Staines played the sampler and Ruth sang.  Alan was the producer. The sleeve designed is credited to Regale who had made a few records for Cordelia related bands.

This album is available to listen on Bandcamp.

In 1992 the album “Lords of the Gromet Canning Factory” was released. On CD by the German label Pink Lemon (PINK 005) and on tape by Cordelia Records. I must say I have never heard this album. The album has the songs “Lord of the Gromet Canning Factory Part One” and “Lord of the Gromet Canning Factory Part Two” and then 18 “Untitled” songs!

Ruth participated in this album just as a co-writer of the first song. Doesn’t look like she played in the album? I believe she was replaced by Sherree Lawrence.

Worth nothing though that the tape is the one that came out in 1992 in a very limited run of 25 copies. The German release would only come out much later, in 1998.

The band also appeared on a bunch of compilations.

“Nutrinos Arrive on Earth” was a song they contributed to “The Rachel Welsh Guide to Lateral Thinking”, a tape released by Snowdonia, an Italian fanzine, in 1987. This same year the song “(Untitled)” is included in “Cordelia Records Sampler, 8th Edition” tape.

In 1988 the band appears on “Obscure Independent Classics: Volume 5 (Special Hamster Edition)” released in the UK by Hamster Records and Tapes (HAM 22). On this com they have the song “Look Out!!! Here Come the Radio-Active Zombies”. The song “The Revolving Countess” also shows up in 1988. It is on the tape “Annual Jissom – 1988 Flavour” released by the magazine All Media.

On 1990’s “Home-Made Music for Home-Made People Vol. 7: “Sexy but Chic” / Ode to Samantha Fox (Soft Blend)” tape the band has two songs, “Moulted Fur From a Labrador Part 2” and “Moulted Fur From a Labrador Part 24”. Worth mentioning that this tape came with a fold-out lyric sheet and a naughty Samantha Fox postcard.

In 1991 the band contributed the songs “Torrid Zone” to “New Hippies Vol.5” tape released by Red Neon Tapes (RN12), the song “Riding Around on a Pink Cloud With You and Coffee Cup” to “Total Recess Grade – 6 Compilation” a tape by the US label Mystery Hearsay (MH012) and “Hi Felicity” to the classic compilation “Shiver Me Timbers” that Ruth released on her own Rutland Records.

In 1992 on the German compilation “He Didn’t Even Draw a Fish on My Shower Curtain” released by Mermaid Records (MIRABELL 001) the band had the song “Be My Baby”. That same year the same label would release “Mermaid Employee of the Month: Gustav Sackmüller”, a CD, LP and cassette comp where the same song, “Be My Baby” would be included.

Pico Records, also from Germany, released in 1992 the vinyl compilation “Eating a Fish-Shaped Particle”. On it Jody and the Creams appears with “Spotted Linsang Day”.

This same song appears on the compilation tape “The Cordelia Records Presents” that was released in Greece by Project Press & Tapes (PRT 14).

Also an “Untitled” song appears on “Cordelia Records Sampler” cassette with what looks like a huge bat hanging on a tree on the main art. There is no date for this release.

Later on, in 2004, the CD “The Miraculous Healing of the Daughter of Henry the Glass Cat”, would have the band’s song “Margery is Dead”.

That’s what I can share about this short-lived band that would later continue being more successful under the name The Creams.

I am now going back to my Po! records. To Ruth’s Refrigerator. I wish I would get to know a little more about these bands too. Even if it is not from a first-hand account. Would love to hear what their band mates remember. I don’t know… I just feel that something is missing now.

I just can say again that Ruth’s music will live on, her legacy will live on, and I very much love all her songs. What a classy song-writer she was.

Edit: I want to add something about Ruth’s latest project, Unglamorous Music. There’s a Facebook page and stuff on Twitter/X. As Angela Collins, a member of Glitch Magnet, that is part of this project, told me, “she decided to launch a music project to get women to learn how to play and encourage them to form bands. On 1st January 2022 she launched ’66 days to your debut’ which I joined. It was a simple plan, form bands with the other women who joined the project and learn how to play an instrument well enough to perform an original song for the first time 66 days later which was International Women’s Day. We did! 6 bands launched as a result of Ruth’s insane plan. We’re now on the 3rd intake and Leicester has 16 all women bands.”

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Jody and the Creams – Appleseed Alley

Orlando, Florida. The mid 80s. Not the place or time where I would expect to hear some fine guitar pop music. One that reminds me a lot of the Canadian band The Pleasures Pale.

There’s a Soundcloud page by The Field Trips. one of its members, Jack Beals. Has uploaded a trove of demos dating from that decade.

We can see them grouped. The first group of songs I find is called “Now It’s 1985!”. These are demos recorded in that year. They include “Afraid of Lightning”, “Back to the Pleasures”, “Jimmy”, “Kaleidoscope”, “Love Cliche” and “Place Without a Puzzle”.

The second group is a bit older, 1984. This group of songs were part of a tape called “Gem of the Hills”. I wonder if the 1985 were also released as a demo tape…

On “Gem of the Hills” we find “Communication”, “Love Cliche”, “Back in Town”, “New Face”, “Beware”, “Father’s Footsteps”, “Gem of the Hills”, “Found a Love”, “Safari Fun” and “Things Will Change”.

The good thing is that I find a scan of this tape. Thanks to that I learn the band members names. So Jack Beals was on guitar and bass, Tommie Minor was the vocalist, Gerry Wilson was on drums and Shannon Zimmerman on bass and guitar. These 10 songs were recorded at Storm Studios in March of 1984 in Orlando. They were produced and engineered by Scott Roberts.

There is an address too, in Clermont, Florida. That’s a suburb on the west side of Orlando, next to Lake Minneola and Lake Minnehaha.

I can’t find any other info about the band or the members, only that Jack continues to live in the Orlando area and was in other bands in the Orlando area like DayGlo Zombie, Thud, The Subterraneans and Transistor.

Anyone remembers them?

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The Field Trips – Piece Without a Puzzle

A few years ago I wrote about The Pastry Heros, a side-project of Catherine Cooper and Adam Cooper who were in the superb early 90s band Alison’s Halo. But there are other projects they were on, after relocating to Chicago from Tempe, AZ, in the late 90s. One of them is Kitten Factor for sure.

As I mentioned int The Pastry Heros post, Catherine and Adam were on Insta as well, and maybe that’s the project that is more known after Alison’s; Halo.

Kitten Factor added a third member other than the Coopers, it was David Rogers who had been also in Alison’s Halo and Insta, as well as in Half String.

The first thing wee know about them is that there is a 7-song demo. This demo CDR had the following songs: “Brittle (Pop Mix)”, “Brittle (Rock Mix)”, “Dissolve”, “The Pastry Hero”, “Far”, “Mexico Sometimes” and “Jetpacks for Julian”. My curiosity is picked up by the song “The Pastry Hero”. Maybe it was this song that inspired the future project of the same name? Also worth mentioning that “Far” is a live recording done in Tucson, Arizona.

The band’s first release was a 7″ on the Rainbow Quartz International label (RQTZ015) in 1998. This record that had a simple white sleeve and was pressed in pink vinyl had two songs, “Sparkle” on the A side and “Nite Lite” on the B side.

It seems this record was cancelled because of a mistake on the printing of the labels, so the “Sparkle” was labeled as “Nite Lite” and vice versa. So it is a bit harder to come by. What happened after was that the remaining copies were sold through the band’s website and also some came as a bonus disc with the band’s following release, the “Surround EP”.

The “Surround EP” came out in 1999. It was released by the always reliable Sunday Records (SUNDAY 045). This time around we got three songs, “Surround” on the A side and “Dim” and “Leave Me Be!” on the B side. The last song was a cover of The Zombies.

On this record we get details on what each member played. David Rogers played bass on the first two tracks. Nick Pasco played drums on “Leave Me Be!”. Ben Currier on drums on “Surround” and “Dim”.  All other instruments,  were played between Catherine and Adam. The songs were recorded and mixed at Jetpack Studios.

The only appearance on compilations by Kitten Factor was on the superb compilation “Popular World” that was released on CD by Sky Blue Records (001). On this record the band contributed the song “Brittle”.

And just to give a little service to the public, you can find a few copies still of the “Surround EP” on Bandcamp. There we also find a small review by The Big Takeover that confirms that the band hailed from Chicago.

Any other details we should know about Kitten Factor? Did they play live at all?

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Kitten Factor – Dim

There’s a Bandcamp with three tapes by The Intrynsics, a late 80s Boston, U.S., indiepop band.

That’s quite a trove. I wonder though if all of these tapes were all the recorded output of this four piece. Let’s see what info we can find.

The first tape dates from 1987 and was titled “Pizza and Faerie Tales”. It was recorded at Acme Studios in Mamaroneck, NY, in May of 1986 and August of 1987 with producer Peter Denenberg. The songs on it were “As If I Were You”, “Mistake”, “From You”, “Means of the Cure” and “In Sue’s Room”.

The second tape was self-titled. Recorded and released in the summer of 1989, it was produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South in Boston. This tape includes an address, Allston, Massachusetts. That is a neighborhood in Boston, south of the Charles River. In this neighborhood is the Harvard Business School.

Five songs appear on this tape, “Crusade”, “Yellow Submarine”, “Too Much for Words”, “Repetition” and “Distortion”.

The third tape dates from August 31, 1990. This tape was again produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South. Five songs again, “Foregone Conclusion”, “Cover”, “What Does it Take (Michael’s Song)”, “Inside Out” and “Nineteen”, were included in it. This tape was titled “The Story of Hair”.

I keep looking. I see that The Intrynsics played on September 5, 1989, the venue The Channel. That evening they played in the same bill as T.V. Dream, What We Like, Work Force and The Balls.

Then according to Discogs the band contributed two songs to “SAWPIT – A Compilation”. This compilation was released by Bolt Records (BOLT007) in 1993. The songs by The Intrynsics are “Behind You” and “In the Basement”.

Then I finally find a name. George Faulkner. He was a member of The Intrynsics and was also behind Bolt Records, the one that released the compilation. George was also in NYC band The Rabies as well as The Mod Squad, The Juicemen and Junkstar.

Cool!

Now, who were the other members? Where are they now? Why didn’t they release any proper records? I’d love to find more. The sound of this band is really good!

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The Intrynsics – Means of the Cure

Formed by Damien “Smeg” Channing on vocals, Jason Channing on guitar, Richard Lewis on drums and… the owner of the Soundcloud account that has The Adored songs… he left no name.

That’s great. I wonder why would anyone do that? I find the pretty song “Atom Bomb Subculture” and I think this is superb, I need to find more. But yeah, the details are incomplete.

We know though that the song was recorded in 1988.

There is another track by this band. One called “Heading for a Wall“. This one also dating from 1988. An interesting thing here is that I do find that the person behind this Soundcloud had the last name Allcock.

And two more, “Gone to Seed” and “Maybe the World Will Change Tonight” also both from 1988.

In this account there are songs since as early as 1984 and as late as 1997. Sadly there are not many mentions of the bands that made these songs.

We know this mystery Allcock was in other bands like Sulphate. The Great Family of Man, The Funk Furious Five and Delphi.

We also know that this bands hailed from the UK.

I look for the band members and I think I may be in the right path. Perhaps. I find that there were a Jason Channing and a Damion Channing in a band. Not Damien, but Damion. But MAYBE? This band was called The Blocked and were around in the mid 90s. They hailed from Newport, Wales.

I wonder if my detective instinct is right here. The dates make sense. The instruments they play also seem to be correct.

What is true though is that I can’t find anything about The Adored, nor about the mysterious Allcock who I saw went under the name Delphi on a few Youtube videos.

Anyone remember them?

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The Adored – Atom Bomb Subculture

Many years ago I interviewed Richard Ramage from The Anyways. He mentioned a band he was in called Here Comes Everybody…

The Anyways wasn’t my first band. I’d done cover versions in a school band, then had a one-gig punk incarnation in 1978 (Dick Terminal and the Deathbeds, no less). Things really got going when I joined a local Oxford band called Discontinued Lines, which morphed into Ward 10 in the early 80s. After the demise of that, Pete Lock (the drummer from those two bands) and I got together with Angus Stevenson, Peter Momtchiloff and Valerie Howell – Here Comes Everybody was the result. It was kind of a springboard for Angus joining Razorcuts, Peter M forming Talulah Gosh with Amelia Fletcher, and Pete L and me starting up The Anyways. As for recordings, I believe there might be one track by Here Comes Everybody on a MySpace site if you can still find it! There is also some footage in Jon Spira’s 2009 Oxford music film, Anyone Can Play Guitar.

Clearly they had named themselves after The Wake’s album “Here Comes Everybody”. Richard even says that that record changed everything.

I had tried to find their Myspace page with no luck. I haven’t been able to listen to any recordings by the band. But then last year Pete Lock, the drummer, got in touch with me.

He had been in The Relationships (just like Richard), The Black Cillas and was friends with The Clamheads and Borgnine. The great thing was that he shared a Youtube account that had three live songs by Here Comes Everybody!

They all date from 1985 and were recorded in autumn of that year at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. They are “Hattie’s House“, “My Grey Heaven” and “The Chiming“.

Yes, the band hailed from Oxford and was sort of a supergroup, right?

I had asked Pete if he was keen to do an interview, but he felt more of a team player in the bands. So maybe I should ask Richard. It’s been a while since we have emailed though…

The other good thing about Pete Lock was that he shared a CD with me called “Here Comes Everybody: A City Father’s Collection”. This CD was a compilation of Oxford bands that came out in 2008. There’s a catalog number JMP091058.

The first track on this compilation is “Here Comes Everybody” by Here Comes Everybody. This song was recorded on a Portastudio 244 and was written by Peter Momtchiloff in 1986.

The band didn’t release anything sadly. This is the only song that was released. And it was 20 years after the facts.

One detail that I can add thanks to the CD booklet is what each member played. So Richard Ramage was on vocals and guitar, Angus Stevenson was on lead guitar, Peter Momtchiloff was on bass, Valerie Howell on vocals and Pete Lock on drums.

The one thing that I am trying to track down is the “Anyone Can Play Guitar” rockumentary about the Oxford scene that was directed bby Jon Spira. Anyone has a link to it?

That’s all I have about this really cool band. Would have been fantastic to see them live. Would be great to listen to more recordings (if they exist!). I know very little but still, I am very curious. Maybe some of my Oxford friends remember them?

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Here Comes Everybody – Here Comes Everybody

We travel  to Rio de Janeiro. It is 1994. It is the summer. Later that year Brazil would be World Cup Champions for the 4th time.

It is at this time that Zezinho, Marcelo Pires and Alexandre “Dub” decided they wanted to record some songs. When at the studio they notice they are lacking something in their sound, a second guitar. Well, no problem, Jorge who works at this particular studio (don’t know the name) can play the guitar. Now we have a four-piece. Terrible Head Cream was born.

On Soundcloud there are recordings from this period. An album called “Like a Blue Olive” dates from 1994. I don’t know if this was properly released. I don’t think it was. But 8 songs were recorded: “After and Before”, “Leticia”, “Roundabout”, “Alliviated”, “Ália”, “Light Now”, “Pumpkin Days” and “Sibyl Vane”.

The band’s shoegaze influences shine on these tracks.

In 1995 the band becomes a trio as “Dub” leaves the project and continue recording demo tapes. More tapes are recorded like “Pink Smoke / Orange Vodka” that had twelve tracks: “Anything”, “In the Cold”, “So Close to You”, “Stay in my Dream”, ” Summer Days”, “Burning Eyes”, “I’m Going to Love You”, “The Smile of a Dead”, “Blood Yawner”, “Ália”, “Losen Senteces to You” and “Untitled”. “Dub” still played bass on thesee reccordings.

From what I understand another tape was recorded in 1996 called “Do What You Want” but I don’t think the songs are on Soundcloud. On this last one the bassist was Duda, an old friend of the band that used to play soul music.

All of these demo tapes were distributed by the legendary Brazilian label Midsummer Madness.

During their time the band played few gigs, just 4 total. They were at Sacristia, Sem Destino, Bang! and a pub in the city’s Zona Oesta alongside the band Cigarettes.

In 1997 Francisco Kraus, bassist of the classic band Second Come, would join them as their bassist…

And then silence..

Well not really. We know that Marcelo Pires and Francisco Kraus would start a new band called Jess Saes, but that is another story.

Who do my carioca friends remember Terrible Head Cream? Would love to learn more about this band!

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Terrible Head Cream – The Smile of a Dead

Here’s an interesting find on Soundcloud. 14 songs by this obscure but fine sounding shoegaze band from Washington D.C.

Razor 18 was Sarah Azzarah on vocals, Ivan Pongracic on guitars, Bill Fantegrossi on bass, Rob Monn on guitars and a revolving door of drummers including Tim Soller, Ben Azzara, Greg (no last name) and someone that it seems the name has been forgotten.

It is Rob Monn who uploaded the tracks 7 years ago. He tells a little bit about the band…

He mentions that he moved to D.C. and less than a year since moving there he was already in the band. Where did he come from? Doesn’t say.

He does say that he played a few venues including the legendary The Black Cat and also the 9:30 Club. He also says that the band may have burned down a place called ArtsLab. How did that happen?

The recordings that are available here come from tapes. They are from sessions at the American University and Evil Genius Studios and most of these were recorded by Rob Christensen.

The songs available are “P Street Beach (version 2)”, “La Llarona”, “Queen Bee”, “Wake”, “Carrying Hostile (version 1)”, “Temple (version 2)”, “Chroma”, “Flowers on the Lawn”, “Carrying Hostile (version 2)”, “P Street Beach (version 3)”, “P Street Beach (version 1)”, “Temple (version 1)” and “Flowers on the Lawn (instrumental)”.

On his Soundcloud account he has tons of other recordings, solo recordings, and also with his mates.

Looking for more information I see that the band shared a gig with Chisel and The Ropers (!), a favourite band of mine, at The Black Cat on May 26, 1995. There’s a scan of the flyer here.

That was not the only time they played there. I find another flyer of them playing there on July 28 (not sure of the year) with Your Majesty.

That’s what I could find. I hope we can find more details, wondering why they didn’t get to release any records at all!

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Razor 18 – P Street Beach (American University version)