Regional Creeps: lo-fi indiepop from Barnsley, UK. The band’s latest release was a digital single back in March. It was titled “Streak Must Go On” and it is really nice. For some reason I thought of London Popfest, of Indietracks, how a band like this would fit perfectly. Will we ever get those festivals back? I will keep an eye on the Regional Creeps.
TV Sets: now to Toronto to discover this project formed by Joshua Parrett, Angela Hughes, Josh Chamberland and Rob Butcher. The band’s latest is a digital album titled “An Embarrassment of Riches” that was released just a few days. 10 songs of melodic folk-tinted indiepop. Pretty.
Say Sue Me: “The Last Thing Left”, the new album by Busan, South Korea, band Say Sue Me will finally hit the shelves on July 1st. Available on CD and vinyl LP, the 10 song album continues with the trend of the band. Everyone loves them, everyone raves about them, and that’s totally ok. Their songs are great. Now I hope to see them live later this year in NYC.
Slut: here’s a nice EP by this München band. Not sure about the band’s name. Not the best. But the 4 songs on the “Are We Bored My Dear EP” sounds good to me. The record is available now on vinyl directly from the band.
Sunshine Boys: two new songs by this Chicago combo formed by Jackie Schimmel on bass and vocals, Freda Love Smith on drums and Dag Juhlin on guitar, keyboards and vocals. “Underwater” and “The Beginning” are two fine pop songs, with great melodies and quite a surprise to me as I had never heard them before!
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I keep checking out the discoveries by the Youtube account stoneeyedkiller. The songs are great and so I need to find out more information about these bands. I have to thank that lately he has been tagging the videos with the country of origin. That is nice.
Dream is perhaps not a great band name in this day and age. How could you google it? And probably there must be thousands of bands with that name. I wonder what Peter Duggal thought of it when he named his band like that.
He continues being involved with music with his project Moonraider for which he has presence in Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook and more. But he also put together a Soundcloud with older projects of his. They are different styles of music and so the one I was interested in was the indiepop band he had in the late 80s called Dream.
He has uploaded two songs for this project, “New Kind of Love” and “My Favourite Place”. Both from 1989, probably from the same demo tape? There is no more info about these two tracks, or who was involved in this band other than himself.
On Soundcloud it says he is based now in Hebden Bridge. Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) west of Halifax and 14 miles (21 km) north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and the Hebden Water. The town is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Hebden Royd. The town itself has a population of approximately 4,500. It is known for being an LGBT-friendly town, and has been called “the lesbian capital of the UK”.
But I think he originally hailed from Handsworth in Birmingham. I wonder then if Dream was based there.
On his different bios he never mentions Dream. His music career starts in 1990 with an acid house project called Doggy.
During his career he has made music for Nintendo, recorded under the name Demonik, The Hollow, and lately he is a music partner with Wolfgang Flür from Kraftwerk.
Again nothing about Dream. I wonder of course, most importantly for my interests, if there are more songs. I really like the two I’ve heard. Where were they based? Who were the other band members? Had they been in other indiepop bands? Would be great to know. Anyone remembers them?
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Listen
Dream – My Favourite Place
