Day 581

Reverbage: Shore Dive Records from Brighton usually delivers great dreampop bands and songs. Reverbage is no exception. Their album “Tre” sounds great! This band is actually the project of Niklas Krigdal from Hemlig in Sweden. Here are 10 songs of nicely crafted low-key pop songs. You can get this release too, as there is a CD version but only limited to 15 copies (!).

Infinite Siennas: “Shiny Shiny” is the digital single that is my introduction to this Yogyakarta band! The Indonesian trio puts together an interesting mix in this song. It is catchy but angular at times. This is just their second song after February’s “Chocolate Bar”.

Japanese Heart Software: another digital single! This one is called “Soft” and it comes all the way from Melbourne. This is much mellower, sweet  and dreamy. It would be nice for this band to become bigger, maybe release an album? I’d like that!

Lunar Isles: one more digital single. Titled “Anchorage”, this is the latest song by tthe Cheongju Si, South Korea, project. There is not much information about this band but they’ve been releasing songs quite often this year. And only now I am discovering them. Better late than never, right?

Sally Shapiro: and of course, I love Sally Shapiro. And the news that there is a new album coming out early next year, in February, was superb news to me. The album is going to be called “Sad Cities” and it is going to be released by Italians Do it Better. The band is giving us a sneak peak with the song “Forget About You” which is  now on their Bandcamp. They have added 3 more remixes of the song too. And yes, let me give some kudos to the great Roger Gunnarsson for co-writing this song.

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I can’t recall how I was going to do an interview with Big Pop Trotsky!

I look at my email and it seems I was in touch with someone called John. He was to forward my questions to Jason and Matt. I of course wrote questions and send his way. I never heard back.

Jason must be Jason Dormon, the bassist. Matt? I am not sure. According to Discogs the band was formed by Mark Davyd, Stephen Cookson, Jason Dormon and M. Edward Cole. Could M. Edward Cole be Matt? I wonder…

We know the band released just one record, the “Wry Smile? EP” in 1988. On this record Stephen Cookson played drums, Mark Davyd guitar and M/ Edward Cole, vocals and guitar. The songs are credited to all four.

Four songs were included, “Cheap & Nasty’ and “Toby, It’s a Girl” on the A side and “Boredom” and “Sorry Could You Say That More Slowly Please” on the B side. They were recorded at Posthouse Studios in East Peckham, Kent. The producer was Kevin Amos and the band.

The black and white sleeve has a cool old school illustration, probably taken from a comic book. On the back of the sleeve there’s a photo of the band.

The record was released by Sonic Monster Groove Recordings (SMG 001). I would have assumed it was a self-release, but then there’s another record listed for this label: a 1995 compilation called “Disgusted! The Compilation”.  Mark Davyd from Big Pop Trotsky! was one of the people involved in compiling the songs for this CD.

According to Discogs we know that the band members were involved in other projects. Jason Dormon was on Joeyfat, Joeythin and Unhome. M. Edward Cole was also on Joeyfat and Joeythin.

Checking my interview questions it is clear I didn’t know many details about them. It seems I figured out they hailed from Tonbridge.

I look for more info on the web. I read that the band used the Fonthill building in Tunbridge Wells as a practice place. In this place there was also a legendary venue called The Forum which was founded by Jason Dormon and Mark Davyd. There is some live footage of The Forum in this video including an appearance of Big Pop Trotsky!

Sadly I don’t have any more information about the band. It was a long time since I tried to interview them. I wonder what are they up now and how come they only released just one record. Did they have any more recordings other than the 4 they released?

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Listen
Big Pop Trotsky! – Boredom