Day 446
Kevin Robertson: Aberdeen’s The Vapur Trails are a band that have been featured here in the past. Well, one of their members, Kevin Robertson, has gone solo this time around to release “Sundowns End”! It is out now on the fine Subjangle Records on limited edition CD. It includes 11 jangle popsongs, all of which are available to preview. It is definitely a good way to start this week, such a bright and shiny record.
Foreign Correspondent: another band that we like a lot here are the Australians Foreign Correspondent. On even better news they are now working with a label we love, Kocliko Records, from Spain. One of our favourite labels! So it is quite obvious what the result was going to be, right? A wonderful album titled “A Quizzical Look”! it is very limited, to 100 copies and it is expected to start shipping on June 23. You can preview two songs, “The First One” and “Crying In your Sports Car” and understand why I praise the.
Hanemoon: Jigsaw Records is now releasing the second album by the German band! Great news! The first album was really nice, and Hans’ last band, The Seaside Stars, was pretty good as well. If you like jangle pop this is for you. “Last Thing I Heard” is the name of this 12 song album that jangles like any Scottish pop bands that come to mind!
Neilson Family: Jigsaw Records have more new releases. “Be Normal” is the 2nd album by the Neilson family. I don’t know much about them, first time i am listening to them. Jigsaw compares them to Kincaid or the Mendoza Line. The record has 12 songs like my fave, the straight up poppy track “Golden Handcuffs”, and other quieter or midtempo jangle songs. Enjoyable!
The Rightovers: and last band for today is yet another on on Jigsaw Records. This one is a mini-album titled “Kruise Kontrol” and has 7 tracks. The songs are punchy, they have loud guitars and synths, they are poppy and exciting. So definitely a recommended listen. All of these Jigsaw releases are available now.
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Time for obscure pop… okay that’s a bad opening for a post in this blog. Every single band is obscure here. So ok, one more obscure band to keep in mind. One more that I hope to find more information about them!
In the 80s there was a UK label called Wag Records who released three bands, Roxette (not the Swedish band), The River Boys and Chapter One. I am not familiar with any of them, but today I want to check Chapter One as I’ve heard their song “When the Summer Comes” and I really enjoyed it.
The person behind this label was Paul Waghorn. He was also the person behind Chapter One.
There are two releases by the band. The first dates from 1984 and was a sleeveless 7″ single with “I Know That She Knows” on the A side and “Take My Advice” on the B side. On the labels we see that “I Know that She Knows” is credited to Waghorn but also to Creasey. The B side only to Waghorn. Both songs were produced by Mr. Angry. Okay, who is Mr. Angry and who is Creasey? Can we find that out? This was the fourth release on the Wag catalog (WAG4)
Two years later, in June of 1986, the band released the “When the Summer Comes…” 7″. This record came out on Wag Records (WAG5) and had three songs. “When Summer Comes” is on the A side and “Stephanie Powers” and “Girl on the Phone” appear on the B side. Again all songs written by Paul Waghorn. It is good to see that this time the band was able to have a sleeve for the record.
The sleeve has a pencil illustration of a strangely dressed person. We don’t see his face, he is not facing us. We see his back. It looks like he carries an umbrella. He has a hat. Not sure what he is looking at on the floor. Looks like a pail and a bucket in the sand? I can’t tell. The good thing is that the sleeve does give us some more information.
For example that the art was created by Stringell and Casbourne. But there’s more.
The three songs were produced by Ashley Norton at the I.C.C. Studios in Eastbourne (was the band based here or nearby?). And even better we get the band members names:
Paul Waghorn on vocals, guitar and synths, Titch Stringell on drums and backing vocals, John Hall on lead guitar and Darren Rodoham on bass,
The question about Eastbourne may be answered by the compilation “Dodgy Demos for Arty Parties! – An Eastbourne Area Compilation” released by Wag Records (BIG1) in 1985. Here the band appears on the B side with the song “Miss You Miss You” which was recorded at ICC Studios in 1984. So it all looks like the band was from Eastbourne then!
Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton. Eastbourne is immediately to the east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger Eastbourne Downland Estate.
I’d like to visit, especially because Penvensey Castley is close and I like visiting castles.
So back to the other bands on Wag Records. We know that Paul Waghorn was also in Roxette. But couldn’t find any info of any bands he was in after Chapter One. And about the other band members there was no info either.
Also searching for Chapter One doesn’t really help. It is quite difficult.
So yes, looking for help now, anyone remembers this Eastbourne band!?
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3 Responses to “:: Chapter One”
Hi. Yes, Chapter One were an Eastbourne band. I was at school in Eastbourne and I remember coming across then when they appeared on the Radio One Roadshow (!) in Eastbourne. “I Know That She Knows” got played, so I assume this is 1984. On the back of that, I bought a copy of the single – I’m pretty sure it came in a yellow paper sleeve – from the town’s brilliant but now sadly long closed Max’s Records. Hope that helps.
Chapter one was started by the very talented Jon beckett who played lead guitar.
On keyboard was Adrian Smith, Jon creasey on rhythm guitar, Darren on bass. Ian played drums.
They also recorded a album on cassette which included a great song called who’s fooling who. The backing vocals where sung by ‘the ra ra girls’.
Hi. I have all of the original 7 inch singles produced by Paul (‘Waggy’) Waghorn including numerous copies of When The Summer Comes.
I assisted the band as their videographer when they gigged around Sussex and also with lugging and setting up equipment.
FYI the bassist was Darren Rodohan (with an n) – we were best mates at school.
Titch Stringell (an outstanding drummer) was ‘borrowed’ from another band for gigs as they could never quite find someone good enough to play instead of him.
There was once a near riot when in a ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition at Diplocks Pub in Eastbourne – the audience reaction to Chapter One was incredible and against all belief the judges declared a 2 piece synth pop band called Graphix the winners. It turned out one of the Graphix members was the son of the head judge!
Michael Bonner above is correct…IKTSN was in a yellow paper sleeve. I can photo and email to you if you like?