The Leaking Machine: two new songs by this group that features ex-Mighty Mighty members. The Birmingham combo has been making superb indiepop songs for years and after a few years in silence they are back with “The Love Lawn” and “Chocolate & Cars”. Great stuff!
Overly: here’s a lovely song from this Portland, Oregon, project. It is called “Effortless” and we have very little info about who is behind Overly. I guess we just enjoy the music.
R.E. Seraphin: now to Vallejo, California. A 7-song EP titled “Swingshift EP” is out now on 12″ vinyl. 7 songs is more of a mini-album than an EP for me. But what do you think about this? I have never had it that clear! The album is quite nice. Seraphin says he was influenced by the Television Personalities. That’s always good.
My Raining Stars: a new single from the upcoming album “89 Memories” is now available to listen! And as always our friend Thierry delivers. “Behind Her Lovely Smile” is a sensational song that will bee included in this record that will be released on June 18 by Shelflife in the US and Discos de Kirlian in Europe.
Gabriel’s Dawn: and lastly the English band, from the Midlands, is releasing a self-titled album in October! Available on CD and vinyl, on very limited quantities, the 10 songs sound superb and jangly. There’s actually a song titled “Gentle Chimes” and I think that describes the album, it chimes and chimes. Katie’s vocals sound great too.
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Here’s another good find on Soundcloud, Dancing with the Bride from Guildford, UK.
There are three songs: “Wheels Within Wheels”, “Man of Sorrows” and “Another Time Another Place”. The three of them were part of a demo tape the band recorded in 1984. They were on the tape in the order I mentioned them.
The songs were recorded at University Studios in June of 1984.
The band was formed by Paul Carey, Jonathon Snowball, Paul Beckwith and Andy Cragg.
That’s all the info we find for them on Soundcloud. The songs had been uploaded 8 years ago and there are no images either.
I keep digging. And finally found something.
There’s a band called Hemantic. On this project we find Paul and Jonathon (Jonny), two of the members of Dancing with the Bride. Something interesting we find is that they make Christian music. Also that Jonny continues to be in Guildford while Paul has moved to Porirua in New Zealand. The Soundcloud was updated last 4 years ago.
So what happened in between these two bands? Were any of them involved with other bands? Did they record more songs? Were they for sure based in Guildford? Many questions that I hope we can solve soon!
Any details you might have, please share with me!
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