Day 490

Doble Pletina: always a fan of the Spanish band who have written many indiepop hits through the years. Their latest single is called “Esdrújulos Epítetos” and the band has made a lovely video for it. I remember still the day they came and played in NYC. Those days seem so far away. Hoping good times come back.

The Planes: “Eternity on its Edge” is the name of the album this Brooklyn band released on June 11. It came out on tape on the label Totally Real Records and I believe very few copies are still available. The album has 12 songs of classic American indiepop, good hooks and catchy tunes.

Bridge Dog: this sounds amazing! I really enjoy the song “Lemon” by the Sydney two-piece Bridge Dog. The band seems to be quite new, they have released so far three songs, all of them in the past 3 months. Definitely is a band to follow.

Five Beans Chup: I had never heard the band Five Beans Chup that released the album “The First Day of Summer” back in 2000. It turns out the band features 3 members of the legendary B-Flower. How cool. The Japanese band has made available the album on Bandcamp so of course, I am having a good time listening and discovering this little treasure.

93MillionMilesFromTheSun: and we end today’s recommendations with some fine shoegaze from the Doncaster band. They have just released an EP titled “The View from Woodhead” that includes 5 songs and a remix. Punchy. Thumbs up.

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Time for an obscure band a lot of people that are into obscure bands would be familiar with, Hulme’s That Ted.

Hulme is an inner city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England, immediately south of Manchester city centre. It has a significant industrial heritage. Historically in Lancashire, the name Hulme is derived from the Old Norse word for a small island, or land surrounded by water or marsh, indicating that it may have been first settled by Norse invaders in the period of the Danelaw.

Yeah, we have to be in Manchester today. A city that has given us so many fantastic bands and it is no exception with That Ted.

The band was formed by Terry on guitar and Andy singing according to a Soundcloud account that uploaded many songs 8 years ago. But according a paper clipping on the same account we have to add Julian and Tom. These songs as far as I know weren’t released properly so it is fantastic to be able to listen to them. They are: “Beg to Fall”, “Autopsy”, “Concrete Beats Brick 1”, “Mind to Get its Way 2”, “Refridgerator”, “Soylent Green”, “You Snitch and I’ll Blast You”, “The Stricken Hand” and “Dance with the Apple”.

On Discogs the information is lackluster. Just a split flexi that was released in 1986 with the song “Long-Expected One and Twenty”. The other band in the flexi is Vee V.V. with the song “Romance is Over”. This flexi was released to accompany issue number 12 of Debris.

The Manchester Music Archive has a few interesting artifacts related to That Ted. The first is a fanzine called “Made in Manchester”. This was a free fanzine that included a 14 song compilation. Not sure if the band was in the tape, but they were written about on the zine.

Next is a flyer from 1986. There we see that the band opened on Saturday 4th of October The Pastels and Too Much Texas. This was at the mythic venue The Boardwalk.

And lastly, again a Boardwalk gig, this time on June 28th of 1987 they opened to The Wedding Present.

One thinks and wonders why there’s so little info about them. They did have some fantastic songs. Why they didn’t get to release anything back in the day.  And were they in any other Mancunian bands before or after? It’d be great to find out. But yeah, info is hard to come by. So I hope someone may help us find out more about this terrific band!

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Listen
That Ted – Beg to Fall