Day 527

Lunarette: a new song by the New York band that formed from the ashes from the fantastic Gingerlys! “Tangerine Spritz” sounds great. Makes me want to see them live. When will that be? I don’t know. But would be great to hang out with Jackie and Colin after many years!

Letters to Annika: the project of Asuza Suga from For Tracy Hyde and AprilBlue is lovely. I’ve been enjoying it since I discovered it. His latest song is called “Tether” and is its a fine slice of dreamy pop. On top of it all there’s a video for it!

Bleach Lab: there are more and more bands these days that seem to be influenced by the mighty The Sundays. That’s not a bad thing. It is actually a good thing. I love jangly pop with female vocals. And vocals that are different of course. That have a special quality. “Real Thing” is the latest digital single by this London band. It is good!

Librarians with Hickeys: out on Big Stir Records is a digital double A single with the songs “I Can’t Stop Thinking About You” and “Stumbling Down Memory Lane”. The band is formed by Mike Crooker, Ray Carmen, Andrew Wilco and Rob Crossley and it is clear that they like their pop. These are two fine songs!

Blondeking: and we finish this week’s recommendations with this Utah project. It is not common to hear bands from Utah that I like. Blondeking’s latest single won me over immediately. Titled “Higher than the Rain”  it has that lovely feeling of early 90s bands… for some reason makes me think of The Lightning Seeds? What about you?

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Another discovery from Soundcloud, thanks to the many raids I am doing through that platform.

Picture the Scene is obscure as it gets. 10 years ago two songs were uploaded to Soundcloud by Gregg Corbett. These were “Decisions” and “It’s Over Now”. 2 months ago he added a third song, “Question of Love”.

There are some details available for us. We know Gregg was part of the band. He played guitar and drums. He also was vocals. Kenny played guitar and vocals and Paul Bass. We don’t know the last names for them. The three songs we are able to listen are from a 3 track demo tape that was recorded on a Fostex 4-track. When? Sometime between 1987 or 1988. Those were the years when the band was active in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Now there are other bands in his Soundcloud. Other projects he was involved with. The one that catches my attention is Pastis 51. I wrote about this Falkirk band years ago, but I don’t remember reading that Gregg was part of the band.

Other projects that I do know he was part of include The Dream, Bed in the Sea, Fear of Sex  and New Germany (these last three hailed from Falkirk, maybe this was Gregg’s hometown?).

Sadly this is all I found about the band. It is something of course. No releases. Just this demo of 3 songs it seems. Maybe they played live? Maybe my Scottish friends remember them?

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Listen
Picture the Scene – Decisions