Day 316.

The Jasmine Minks: their John Peel Session from February 17, 1986 as well as their Janice Long session from November 24, 1986, are being released on vinyl by Precious Recordings from London. One thing that is very cool is that there is a combo for 25 pounds where you can get both releases and will also include all the postcards. On the label’s Bandcamp there is two songs to preview, “The Ballad of Johnny Eye” (from the Peel Session) and “Follow Me Away” (from the Janice Long Session), and as expected they are great. Pre-orders are available now (I am a bit skint now! but hopefully will order next week).

BMX Bandits: again on the same label, Precious Recordings, two more vinyl releases, two sessions as well! This time they are two Janice Long sessions. One dates from June 23, 1986, while the other from April 9, 1987. Again there is a 25 pound package for both records. So yeah, we need to save 50 pounds. Plus postage! Ah, and yes, these all are double 7″ vinyl releases.

The Earthmen: the album “Periscope” has just been released on CD by the Australian label Sound as Ever. This “lost” album comes with 12 songs, recorded in 1995 with Wayne Connolly as an intended release on Summershine Records. Then of course Warner came and took the band under their wing. Some of these songs would end up on some B sides, but most of it remained unreleased until now! This is another reason why I am skint and saving. The CD is 20 Aussie dollars, but then the postage is another 22 Aussie dollars. And the other releases from the label I already have, so no chance to combine postage here. Tough luck. I want to wait until the label releases something new, but who knows when that will be… and if this release will sell out. I am having a difficult time with buying records these days.

The Autumn Leaves: always loved the Autumn Leaves from Minneapolis! So it is amazing to see this 90s band appear on Bandcamp. Their album “Treats and Treasures” is a US jangle pop classic. But I am most curious about this other 9 song album that they have on there called “The Twilight Hours of the Autumn Leaves”. There is no information about this release, other that it came out in early 2002. Would be great if we get in touch and do an interview, right? That’d be cool!

The Boy Who Paints Rainbows (A Colourful Tribute to Television Personalities): a cool tribute to the TVPs is out now on tape thanks to the label Jour de Pluie Records from Villefranche de Rouergue, France. There are 26 songs in total. Yeah, a lot! It has bands from many many different countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Belgium, the UK… and has some bands that are favourites of mine like Red Go-Cart or The Catherines.

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With discoveries like this one can only want a compilation of obscure jangle Australian pop bands from the late 80s, early 90s. There are some great songs by God Nose from Australia.

On a Bandcamp page by House of Garthwater there are three releases from this band dating from the early 90s. I don’t see the band on Discogs, so we’ll have to base our research here first. Let’s see what we find out.

The first release was a cassette demo tape from 1991 titled “Antiquitapes c. 1991“. The songs on it were “Cryptic Song”, “Can’t Take it Anymore”, “Everything I Do”, “Sweet Sour Wine” and “Amnesty”. The only info on the page mentions that the band hailed from Sydney, that the songwriter was only 18 at the time, and that it got a review by Stuart Coupe on “On the Street” on February of 1992.

The year after this release, same year as the review, 1992, the band released another tape called “Antiquitapes c. 1992“. This 2nd cassette demo included 6 songs, “Mirrorman”, “Lacquer my Love”, “Lost My Pride”, “Dead Cat in Villawood”, “Don’t Think” and “Anyone But Me”. Here it mentions that the band was a 3-piece. What are their names? We don’t know yet. Maybe we’ll find. We do know that this year some of the songs were featured on radio shows.

The last release is the “Antiquitapest” recordings. These are two songs, “Cryptic Songs” and “Mirrorman”, dating from 1993. These were recorded at Tim Farriss’ (INXS) project studio with programmed drums. Thanks to these recordings the band would get airplay on 2JJJ radio.

And that’s really it. I couldn’t find any other details about the band. There are some great jangly songs in their repertoire, so I hope we find more details about them soon. One thing that might be interesting is that the band’s name may be inspired on the American comic book “God Nose” that was produced in 1964 by Jack “Jaxon” Jackson that is considered one of the first underground comics.

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Listen
God Nose – Lost My Pride