Day 318
Crabber: the German band that features ex-members of classic bands like Kristallin or Dr. König Arthus is back with a new song called “A Kind of Tragic”! The band, who in the past released a superb album called “Bluesbusters” on our friend Chris’ label Jigsaw Records, is preparing a mew album where they will include this new track. That’s a great thing! Fun, fast-paced guitar pop, packed with good hooks, not many bands sounding like this these days.
93millionmilesfromthesun: this Doncaster band have put together a collection of cover songs they’ve done through the years. No obscure bands are covered but favourite bands like Slowdive, Lush, JAMC, The Stone Roses and Primal Scream are!
The Raft: the new release from Phil Wilson’s The Raft, many times recommended in the blog, is an album called “Summerheads and Winter Beds”. Sadly it seems his limited edition CD is already sold out at the label, Shore Drive Records. The 13 songs are available to stream and listen on Bandcamp, and I’m thankful for that!
Echo Lake: the London band is making an appearance on Bandcamp, adding now two songs from 2011, “Another Day” and “Breathe Deep”. My memory is not the best and I don’t think I heard these songs back then. So I am sharing them now as they sound nice to me.
Motion Picture: another band that is now on Bandcamp is the late 90s Minneapolis band Motion Picture. There are three releases up now, “Every Last Romance”, “For a Distant Movie Star” and “A Paper Gift”. What to expect? Well beautiful chamber pop reminiscent of B&S. Would be great to do an interview at some point.
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When it comes to Irish pop music the best resource, without a doubt, is The Fanning Sessons Archive blog. I have discovered so many great bands there and The Dry Season is the latest! Their 1990 demo is uploaded in its entirety in the blog so, if you want to check it out do it now!
So why do I post something that’s already been posted. I guess just because it may give us more chances to connect with the band and learn more. Also some readers of my blog don’t know that other blog and viceversa. So it is not a bad idea, right?
This demo we are talking about included four songs, “Dominion”, “Through Your Eyes”, “Jason” and “The World Inside Your Mind”. They are terrific, especially “Through Your Eyes”. What is interesting too is that the band recorded a Dave Fanning Session in March 1990. What songs were recorded for this session? The same ones? We hope someday we’ll find out.
The other bit of information that is important is the lineup. We know the band was formed by Paul Gaffney on guitar and vocals, Paul Harper on bass, Gavan Duffy on drums and vocals and John Cantillon on hammond organ and guitar.
Do we know where in Ireland where they from? Yes, that too, from Dublin.
Other info I could gather from the web was that Paul Gaffney and Paul Harper had been in the band The Cracker Factory in the mid 80s. Haven’t heard this band, were they a pop band as well?
And that’s it. I guess that’s the only other detail that is not on the Fanning Sessions blog, It is something, but not much. I hope we find more info about them!
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