Day 562. Happy release date for us!! Stars on Fire 7″ is out today!!! Exciting times! Order your copy at www.cloudberryrecords.com. Don’t miss it. Also it is here on Bandcamp!
Fort Revere: 6 demos from Providence, Rhode Island. There’s just one person behind this nice jingle jangly band and he is Jack Downey. These songs date from the summer of last year and he says they were influenced by Seapony, The Drums, The Shop Assistants and JAMC. Nice!
Jaggy Nettles: the second album by Jaggy Nettles is out now on CD. It is called “Troof Be Told”. For those who don’t know this nice project of Andrew from The Felt Tips, here he sings about classic children stories for his two boys Rory and Archie. This is lovely!
Miseryslims: now a fast-paced dreampop/shoegaze band from Manitoba, Canada. The band formed by Brady on vocals and rhythm guitar, Randy on lead guitar and bass and Simon on drums, released last month a four song EP titled “Hello”. All for songs shine. Hard to pick a favourite. Maybe “Big on U”?
Margot: the London band has a classic sound that I really like. Their latest single is “Watercolour” and it is quite perfect. Nicely arranged, elegant. From what I understand the band is working on an album that will be called “Margotzeko” that is to come out on February 7th. So there’s still some wait, but if they treat us to songs like these now and then, we can be happy!
Beach Towels: and to end this week here is another Canadian band I just discovered. Beach Towels hail from Edmonton, Alberta, and have a bunch of recordings on their Bandcamp. Their latest seems to be “Drip Dry” but that one is not available to listen. On the other hand “Washed Away” is. This is a nice psychedelic track with pop at heart.
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Right, so I wrote about The Carrol Singers, the band Gary Lincoln was on. I mentioned on that post that I wanted to write about the following band, the band that came after, The Saving Graces. So let’s do that today!
On his Soundcloud he has also put together a set of songs by The Saving Graces. This set consists of four songs, “Acceptable”, “Garston”, “Loosen Up” and “The Things You Said”. As I mentioned in my previous post, it seems that “Loosen Up” was actually a song by The Carrol Singers.
The band was around also for just one year, between 1989 and 1990. We also get some band members names, but no last names: Paul, Ulli, Viki, Mark and Gary Lincoln of course.
There seems to have been a band of the same name in the 2000s. That annoys me because Discogs has listed both band’s releases together. We know that The Saving Graces we care about appeared on a compilation called “Breeze 4” in Germany. This was released by Alphyen Viwit (004) in 1994. The band contributed the songs “Acceptable”, “Garston”, “The Things You Said” and “Loosen Up”. Some time later, there was sort of a version of this release called “Extract of Breeze 4” had thee songs “Loosen Up” and “Acceptable”. There was a CDR version of this “Extract of Breeze 4” probably
I will mention again that previous to the bands I have mentioned so far, Gary was in The Fact, a rockier post-punk band.
Sadly that’s all the information I can provide you! The songs are great. I don’t know where in the UK the band hailed from. But would be fantastic to know any other details people might have!
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