A bit quiet today Have been busy with work. Got a promotion and that’s always great. But I’ve been busier than usual the last few days. It takes time to adapt to a new role, but I’m confident that with time things will fall into their place.

Hater: Malmö’s Hater is back with a new album!  “Sincere” is the title of the new record that will start shipping on May 6th. The 9 song album will be available on vinyl and CD, which is always great. You can preview three tracks on Bandcamp and also check out the video for “Something“.

BMX Bandits feat. Honey (Hifi Sean Revision): “Razorblades & Honey” was included in the album “BMX Bandits Forever”. This track was written by Duglas and Anton Newcombe from The Brina Jonestown Massaxre. Years later we find three remixes that are fun. One is techno-pop, one an extended remix and lastly a dub version.

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: three songs recorded live for BBC Ulster Radio plus an outtake, a song that was written for the session but didn’t make it are now up on the San Francisco band’s Bandcamp. On these recordings Glenn gets the help of Kati Mashikian on bass, Lew Gallardo on guitar and synth and Andrew Hine on drums.

Squiggles: “Look What We Have Done” EP is the new releasee by the Glasgow band formed by Niall who used to be in the superb The Spook School! This EP is out now and is available on CD. Four songs are included here and they are much fun!

Crystal Eyes: available to buy now is “The Sweetness Restored”. This is thee new album of this fine Canadian dreampop band! It is out now on Madrid’s label Bobo Integral. The record is being released on vinyl and include 10 songs. You can preview all of them. They are really good.

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Here’s a very obscure band that I stumbled upon on Soundcloud. The information is almost none!

There is as you see a 3 track demo plus a live recording from a gig at The Anchor in Wednesbury on April 15, 1987.

First question then. Did the band hail from Wednesbury?

Wednesbury is a market town in Sandwell in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located near the source of the River Tame. Historically part of Staffordshire in the Hundred of Offlow, at the 2011 Census the town had a population of 37,817.

I look at the map and it seems like a very small place. Close by is Walsall, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Birmingham. Perhaps they were from one of this places?

I also look for any info about The Anchor in Wednesbury. I see there is or was one called The Anchor Inn. Maybe it is that one. Who would know?

So the band was from England. There’s a photo were we see that it seems like a 5 piece band. Could it be that they keyboardist was a girl? The reest look like boys to me. Very young.

We know that the demo had three songs, “Pass the Pork Pie”, “I Once had a Sunday like an Icicle Monday” and “Bundle of Joy”. The songs are great!

The live recording has six songs, none of them on the demo tape, “Stanley Was a Bank Clerk”, “Jimmy Saville Sunday”, “Reg Varney on the Buses”, “Nasty Dog & The Carpet Cat”, “I Can See You Sleeping” and “Ian Brady’s Ice Cream Van”.

Lots of namedropping. As I am not that familiar with British personalities, I check them out.

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile ( 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It. He raised an estimated £40 million for charities; during his lifetime, Savile was widely praised for his personal qualities and as a fund-raiser. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against him, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain’s most prolific. There had been allegations during his lifetime, but they were dismissed and accusers ignored or disbelieved. Savile took legal action against some accusers.

Reginald Alfred Varney (11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008) was an English actor, entertainer and comedian best remembered for playing the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses (1969–73) and its three spin-off feature films. Having performed as a music hall entertainer, Varney first came to national recognition as factory foreman Reg Turner in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade (1961–63). He appeared in further sitcoms including Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968) and On the Buses stardom facililated overseas cabaret tours. Reginald Alfred Varney (11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008)[1] was an English actor, entertainer and comedian best remembered for playing the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses (1969–73) and its three spin-off feature films. Having performed as a music hall entertainer, Varney first came to national recognition as factory foreman Reg Turner in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade (1961–63). He appeared in further sitcoms including Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968) and On the Buses stardom facililated overseas cabaret tours.

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley’s trial. Bennett’s body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.

Interesting! But what about the band members? I can’t find any information. About the band? Nothing. It does seem there was a side project called 127 Fascination. Two of their songs are on the same Soundcloud page.

Anyone has more details about them?

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