Day 450.

Kelly Slusher: I remember long long time ago when Kelly Slusher released a beautiful album on Elefant Records. Since then I’ve checked her music on and off. Today I am glad to have stumbled upon “Someday”, her latest song on Bandcamp. It is a pretty pop song. A classic pop song. Perfect for any mix tape you are doing. Bright and happy-go-lucky melodies with smart lyrics.

Pop Crimes: the Paris-based label Howlin’ Banana Records always have some nice music. One of their latest is a two-song 7″ by Pop Crimes. This record is available now for pre-orders and will be out on June 4. The songs included are “Up to the Moon” and “There Were Smiles”. You can preview the first one.

Moon Museum: now we head to San Francisco and we check this project that makes some terrific dreampop. Formed by Ryan Joseph, Olivia Barchard, Ian Zazueta and Aaron Hazen, they have just released a new digital single, “Contraptions”, which I totally recommend.

The Servants: now I want to share a different version of “She’s Always Hiding”. This is cool. The original way the song sounded is this one, recorded in 1985 in Wapping, produced by Adrian Borland. This is amazing really. And it will be included as a B-side on the “She’s Always Hiding” reissue on Optic Nerve Recordings.

Remember Fun: and another oldie but goodie. As you know Firestation released a new retrospective by the Scottish band Remember Fun. What is cool is that just recently the band found old super 8 footage and made a video with it for their classic song “Train Journeys”!

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I stumbled upon the 1983 video for “Wasted on Me” on Youtube and got terribly curious about the band behind it, Stormboy’s.

The video has not many views and no comments. I am not familiar also with the imagery, what town is that? There is an iconic bridge I am sure, but need my UK friends to help with that. Is it Newcastle?

The video does show two guys and the details added to the video confirms that the band was formed by Brereton Preen and David Athey. Now, on Discogs we see a different name, Ian Lightfoot for Brereton. I guess that was the name he used to use for the band?

They appear on Discogs because this song was released as a 7″. It was on the A side and on the B side. The B side was a remix though. There is an address for the band, they were based in Whitley Bay. I believe these days David lives in Orlando, Florida.

The record was released in 1984 by the label Guardian Records N’ Tapes (GRC 360). This label was headquartered in Durham, England. It doesn’t exist anymore.

Other details that are important is that the record was produced by Terry Gavaghan, who was thee owner of Guardian Studios. I guess he also owned the label?

Other musicians were involved in the song. Deborah Home did backing vocals, Gary Tawse played bass and Ian Telford the drums.

There are no compilation appearances listed.

Not much more info on the web…. so yes, any help will be appreciated!

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Listen
Stormboy’s – Wasted on Me