Lunarways: Paska Records from Surabaya, Indonesia, has released “Sun/Daze” a two-song single by Lunarways. The two songs are “Be the One” and “Flowering Hearts”. There is no information about the band or the release, just that it came out last May. But it’s ok, the songs are really lovely and that’s what matters in the end, right?
The Guild: now a jingle jangly band formed in Claire, Australia. Yes, you guessed right, if it is from Claire it will feature Caleb Carr from the superb English Summer. It also includes Susan Anne Messner of The House of Silence and Kris McAleese from Hi, Kate. Their latest single is “Murder at Dawn”, which is ace.
The Summer Triangle: last May our friends Dale and Connie put out two new songs on their Bandcamp. Somehow I missed them. This is their first release after the fine Melotron Recordings self-titled record they put out a year ago. These two new songs are “Cassiopeia” and “Nimbus Clouds”.
Smile: Torino, Italy. Michele, Hamilton, Mariano and Francesco are Smile, a four-piece from Italy’s motor town. Their latest single is quite a nice surprise. “What a Heart Is” sounds really good! It is not common to find some great sounding Italian indiepop bands and this is definitely one!
Snow Coats: Doetinchem, Netherlands. We will end this week’s reviews with this four-piece that know how to make some upbeat top tunes. “Chevy” is the latest track by this group fronted by Anouk van der Kamp. It is a fun song indeed. And I just noticed our UK friends will be lucky that they are touring their country with upcoming gigs in Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff.
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After my post about the band Double Vision, where I could find very little info, I have to write about another band that I found on the same Soundcloud account. It was called Those Guilty Minutes and it also featured John Henrywood.
Hailing from Coventry in the UK, we find 6 tracks for this band. They are all demos.
They all date from 1988 and they are credited to Gavin Yates. The songs are: “Games You Play”, “Hurrying Man”, “Dark Yesterdays”, “Those Guilty Minutes”, “So Hip it Hurts” and “Social Worker”
I find their name listed on the A2Z of 1990s Coventry Music Scene. But that’s it. There is no info whatsoever about them.
But then I hit something. Something interesting! Nicola from The Applicants has a great Instagram account. There she has posted a photo of Those Guilty Minutes playing live at The Dog.
The interesting detail here is that it mentions that Robert Dillam from Adorable was the band’s drummer. Wow!
On the photo we see the band being a four-piece. We have the names of three of them. Maybe I am missing the tambourine man’s name? The setup is an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, tambourine and drums. No bass?
I mentioned too on the post about Double Vision a few details about John. He works as a test analyst and he was in a band called Spill in the late 80s, early 90s.
And that’s what I could find. More than I expected to be honest. Hopefully we can find out more about this cool sounding band!
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