Day 474

Reminiscent: we start this Wednesday with this Spanish band with an English name. Their latest release is a four-song EP called “Primavera”. The band seems to be a duo, boy/girl, formed by Guardian and Dafne, who make some lovely lo-fi bedroompop.

Capitol: now we head to Hamilton, Ontario. That’s Canada. A cool EP titled “All the Rest of my Heads” will be released on September 15 by this postpunk/janglepop band. Four songs that will be released by Meritorio Records in Spain. Yeah, it is not just digital but we’ll get a 12″. That’s always good news. Preview one of the tracks, “Always Saying Nothing”, and get hooked.

Flight Mode: now to Oslo, Norway. Very international post. A punky pop EP that actually dates from the summer of 2017. But it is online now on Bandcamp, a few years after. The EP is titled “TX, ’98” and it is very catchy and fun. Two songs out of the four are available to preview, “Sixteen” and “Fossil Fuel”.

Pip Blom: next up is Amsterdam. Here we discover this superb sounding pop band who will be releasing their album “Welcome Break” on October 8. But they don’t want us to wait with no news. They are sharing “Keep it Together” a great slice of indiepop. The band will be releasing their record on Heavenly Recordings, the label of Saint Etienne.

Tapeworms: I wanted to end this review with the latest video by Tapeworms. The Lille, France, band released the album “Magic Pierrot” and they have put together this fun video for the eponymous song. Enjoy!

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Another day, another obscure band.

Another band that I know barely anything. I hope the web will help me find details about them, any information that would paint for me some of the big picture of who they were.

Loveskip were British as far as I know and released just one record. That happened in 1988 and was a 12″ single with “Carry On at Large” on the A side and “I Will Not Wash this Hand” on the B side. The B side makes me giggle, that song title, in these times of pandemic, seems so wrong! But it is a great slice of pop music I have to say.

The black and white sleeve of the record, that was self-released by the way, catalog Loveskip 001, shows a guy sitting on a beach chair. The back of the chair and of this individual face us. The guy is wearing a hat that says “Kiss me quick, squeeze me slow”. He is not wearing beach clothes, looks like he has shoes and jeans, event though he is clearly on a beach.

On the back we find the band members, Dominic Bell on vocals, Daniel Sutton on guitars, Andy Goldie on bass and Tim Bryant on drums. There’s a photo of the four of them, on a beach. Looks cold, and windy.  All photos were taken by Stevan Zivanovic. Oh, and the cover was created by Graham Watts while the sleeve was designed by Naomi Davies. The band logo was created by Sid Sutton.

Both songs on the record were penned by Daniel Sutton and the lyrics are printed on the back of the sleeve. Other credits on the record include that of Sharon Harvey who did backing vocals on the B side and Martin Cantwell who played keyboards on both songs.

Both songs were recorded at F2 Studios and were engineered by Serge. They were produced by Loveskip and Serge.

On Discogs they don’t have any compilations listed. So that’s a dead end.

There’s a Tim Bryant on many releases on Discogs. But I think that’s not the same Tim Bryant. Would be nice to confirm in which other bands they were involved with. Dominic appears on two releases by Gymnastics in the Seventies but this band hails from Australia. So maybe he migrated there? Or maybe not. Can’t tell.

Daniel Sutton on the other hand appears on a band called Munroe Effect that released a 7″ and a CDEP in the 2000s. I can’t be a 100% sure it is the same Daniel, but chances are higher compared to Tim and Dominic’s.

One random thing I found was a sale listing for a Yamaha BB3000 bass. Here the seller mentions this was the choice of bass of Andy Rourke from The Smiths and Andy Goldie of Loveskip!

No more info on the web. Would be nice to know where in the UK they were from. And of course if they recorded more songs! Anyone remembers them?

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Listen
Loveskip – I Will Not Wash this Hand