Day 504
Thee Objects: The Magic Roundabout is a band we discovered this year and loved. The Manchester band will be releasing an album worth of songs very soon, but we know these are songs from the old days. But what are their band members doing now? Well, Nick and Linda have been recording some songs under the name Thee Objects. Their latest songs are “The Little Black Egg” and “What is Wrong With You?”. The first one being a very nice cover of the Nightcrawlers! Give it a listen!
Milk Film: the Tokyo 3-piece is releasing an EP titled “No Perspective” that is dedicated to the great Toshiko Matsumoto from Apple Crumble. The songs are previously released. “No Perspective!” and “Music for Bouganville” appeared on the band’s debut album “Honey, Sugar and Spice” while “Magic Room” was included in the compilation “Noon Records Compilation Vol. 1”.
Fandor: “En Quatrième Vitesse” is the latest by classic Bordeaux band. This is top quality French indiepop. 12 songs are included here that are just perfect. Great arrangements, superb performance, you get hooked immediately. The album is released on CD and is now available. Very few copies have been made.
Freezing Cold: now to this fine place called New York. Jeff, Leanne and Angie are Freezing Cold and they released this July a 7″ lathe cut with Salinas Records. The record had two songs, “Stuck on Hold” and “Drawn to Scale”. They are nice upbeat pop songs, especially the first track. The band will play in October at Saint Vitus. If only I could go… I feel gigs are something to look forward but in two years time or so?
Pierre: Who is Pierre? He hails from Landskrona in Sweden and his latest digital single “As One” is rather good. Previously Pierre Andersson Ek had released some more songs in 2019 and 2020. But I do think this latest one is his best. Check it out.
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Let’s continue discovering Hull bands thanks to Chris Warkup’s Soundcloud page!
So far I’ve written about Full Cry and The Cheapskates (Chris was on this band I found out), today I thought why not try to find more information about a band called The Sandcastles!
I first heard the song “Turquoise Mini” from the 1991 compilation tape “Tales from the Riverbank” and I immediately got hooked! This was perfect pop for me. The vocals are just delicious. Who were they? Was it a girl band?
I think of the Twa Toots. That sort of indiepop. Sweet guitar-driven pop with female vocals. Will I be able to find any more details about them? Let’s try.
I do find on the web that the band released a few tapes and was on a few compilations.
The first one dates from 1991, a cassette single by the band. This self-titled tape had just three songs, “Turquoise Mini” and “Fitzbilly Street” on the A side and “Up Here” on the B side. I think Fitzbilly Street could be Fitzwilliam Street in Huddersfield? Or what else could it be? Maybe my UK friends would know.
Then that same year the band appeared on the aforementioned “Tales from the Riverbank”. This is a superb tape that you can listen in its entirety in the Soundcloud link I shared.
In 1992 the band appears on another compilation tape, “Now That’s What We Call Hull”. The song that the band contributed was called “Sad Love Songs” and appeared on the B side. This song sadly is not on Soundcloud.
Lastly the band released another tape in 1994. This one has a label, Sensual, but no catalog number listed on the website 45worlds. The tape was titled “Dance at Every Wedding… Mixes ’93-4” and included four songs, “Catherine Wheeling”, “Song”, “Dance at Every Wedding” and “These Moods”.
So in total I’ve counted 8 songs recorded by the band. Were there any more?
What else can we find? The band had some merch. The Hull Music Archive has a photo of a long-sleeved shirt.
I find a thread on the Hull Music Archive Facebook. There I see that the band actually released a CD for “Dance at Every Wedding”. I should try to track that down. Someone says that the songs were recorded at Badge Studios in Doncaster and were produced by Keith Angel. Another good detail to add is that the vocalist name was Jane.
And so I find the “Dance at Every Wedding” CD. It is actually different to the cassette. This one is a proper album! It includes 10 songs, “Black Dog”, “These Moods”, “What About the Time”, “You”, “Swimming”, “Heartache”, “Apples and Pears”, “Song”, “Catherine Wheeling” and “Dance at Every Weeding”. Now we know of 14 songs by the band!
And even better, I find a scan of the back of the CD case. The names of the band members are printed there. This is great detective work I tell to myself. The band was formed by Jayne Cooper, Zoe Oxaal, Shane Rhodes and Graham Denton. The label seems to be Nono Records, catalog number NNcd8. This is not on Discogs sadly. If anyone know where to get a copy let me know. I am curious about listening the album.
And that’s all I could find. Much more than I expected. So I feel good about it. Now I want to listen to the rest of their songs, “Turquoise Mini” is truly great!
Who remembers them?
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