It’s Friday and I really need this weekend. Been tired lately.

Things still moving slowly on my side. Trying to find out the DAT tapes from an 80s band that I love. Emailing here and there. Another band trying to figure out publishing deals. Waiting and waiting now for things to be more clear.

Cinema Engines: Our friend Sebastian Voss from Nah… and The Grindcore Poppies has a new project with Nero Bates from The No Colour Twins and it is called Cinema Engines. The two Münster guys have just put out a limited CD single out titled “Hello Springtime, Hello Sunshine” that has two wonderful poppy songs, “Springtime Remains” and “Netty’s House”. Both tracks are excellent. Don’t miss this one out.

The Crooner: here’s a new digital single by Zissimos from Athens! The classic project of his is teaming with Make Me Haappy aand this one is a song I don’t think I’ve heard before! Is it an old one? or a new one? I don’t know! But “I Wish I Were a Jet” is really lovely.

Amor Propio: this new project that features ex-members of Cola Jet Set sounds great. The band just released a self-titled 7″ EP! It has 3 songs of sweet pop Barcelona-style, with influences that go from bands like the aforementioned Cola Jet Set, Brighton 64 or Kamenbert.

Broke Chanter: David McGregor, formerely of Kid Canaveral, is behind this cool project that has released an album titled “Catastrophe Hits”. The album which is available on vinyl and CD has 10 songs of great pop songs! It came out a bit ago, back in October but I just find out about it. So maybe you also missed it or maybe not. The thing is this Glasgow band seems to be on the right track, this is a fine album!

Ferri-Chrome: and we end this week with yet another fantastic album! The new one by Japan’s Ferri-Chrome! Titled “Dazzling Azure” it is indeed dazzling. The dreamy band has released this record on CD with Testcard Records and I would say to everyone to get it. I will try to do so myself too. 10 songs of pop brilliance!

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I thought I had written about Mr Peculiar before. I guess not. I was looking at my 7″ collection and thought, this looks obscure enough for the blog, but I wrote about them before, right? A quick look on my list of bands on the right-hand column of the blog shows me that no, I didn’t yet. So let’s see what can we find about this British band!

The band, as far as I know, only released one 7″ on the label Lust Recordings. Lust was Stephen from Woosh second label. Mr Peculiar’s release was the third on the label (LUST 3) and came out in 1990. Three songs were included, “Loonyverse” on the A side and “How Many Times” and “Isle of View” on the B side.

The producers of the songs were Richard Fromby and Mike Stout. The songs had been recorded at Woodhouse Studios in Leeds in June 1990. There is an address. We know then that the band hailed from Leeds.

I see a photo of the band playing at Daggi’s Bar in June 1990. It says that Simon Spaceman is on vocals. The guitarist has left a comment. He links to a page of his photography. I can’t find his name though…

I find a gigography for the Pale Saints. I see that on March 15 (my birthday!), 1989, Mr Peculiar supported the Pale Saints in Lancaster.

Sadly this is all I could find about them. I hope someone remembers them and can give us some insights, some details, about the band!

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Listen
Mr Peculiar – Isle of View