Happy Monday! Very jealous of all who attended Glas-goes Pop! It seems like everyone had a wonderful time at that festival. I was looking at photos on Facebook, of many friends, and made me wonder when I’ll be back in a pop festival! Hopefully I won’t have to wait too long!
The Photocopies: Sean Turner’s project is back with 5 new songs on the “Departure” EP. It seems he is becoming quite a prolific indiepop songster. Originally from London, Sean, has been releasing a bunch of songs in the last couple of years, all of them packed with jangle power!
Rachel Love: Rachel is back with a new EP titled “Stories from Another Time EP”. I definitely need to order this one as it is available on CD and at a very affordable price of 5 pounds sterling. There’s no excuse to get the latest four songs from the ex-Dolly Mixture. On top of it all I’ve heard her gig at Glas-Goes Pop was one of the biggest highlights! How I wish I had been there!
Hazel: Jakarta band Hazel sounds really good. They are on the label Tarsius Records and they recently released a new single titled “Over My Head”. It is really ace! They also mention that they are working on an EP for later this year. Definitely let’s keep an eye open, they sound ace!
Jim Nothing: this coming September Jim Nothing from Christchurch, New Zealand, will be releasing the album “In the Marigolds”. It will bee available on vinyl and will have 12 songs. Two of the songs are available to preview, “Yellow House” and “In the Marigolds”. They are great! They are lo-fi pop catchy songs with boy/girl vocals. It is a really great surprise this band, as I wasn’t aware of them before. Can’t wait to hear the full album.
Poster Paints: and lastly this is also great news. I’ve recommended many times the Glasgow du formed by Simon Lidell and Carla Easton due to their EPs and singles. Well, this October the band is releasing their first album! It will be self-titled and will include 10 songs. Three of them are up on Bandcamp for our/my listening pleasure. Essential I would say!
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Fremantle, Australia. I have interviewed a few Perth bands like The Honeys or The Mars Bastards. The Palisades too. There are quite a few fantastic bands that hailed from there. I am now surprised to discover a band I had never heard about before, The Childlike Primitives.
They have a Soundcloud account that is quite new, 3 months!
The songs here are “Vanity”, “The Coming of Winter”, “I the Assassin”, “Homesick Gypsies”, “Old Trees Black”, “Spring (instrumental)”, “Lucy”, “Heart of Darkness”, “Ice Rink Dancer”, “Girl in Chains”, “Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha”, “Boredom”, “Crazy Black Days”, “Show me to my Bed”, “Orchard of 100 Trees”, “The Human Voice”, “Empty the Chalice”, “Criminal Voice” and “Mystery Man”.
There is not much info about each of the songs but some do have a little info. “Spring (instrumental)” was recorded on a 2 track reel to reel by Ivan. “Ice Rink Dancer”‘s bass line is from the old Courageous Cat cartoon. “Orchard of 100 Trees”, “Empty the Chalice”, “Criminal Voice”, “Mystery Man” and “The Human Voice” were the last recordings the band did with singer/songwriter Ivan Bray.
The next place to look is the band’s Facebook page.
This actually takes me to yet another Soundcloud page!! With even more songs!!
The first collection of tracks date from the mid 80s. These include home recordings, jam sessions and practices. These songs are: “Fish Trumpet!”, “Another Man’s Dream”, “Casio and Ivan”, “I’m a Contortionist”, “Desolate Gestures”, “Did You Say Something?”, “Fly By Night”, “Charred and Blackened”, “Take Off Your Crown”, “Art is…”, “Summer Interlude”, “The Isolated Parade of a Chanting Funnel”, “Lucy Said, (She’s Coming on Strong)”, “The Heavenly Blue” and “Sleeping Sons”.
The second collection of songs are better recordings and taken from cassettes during practice sessions. These date from 1987 to 1989. The songs on this second collection are: “Melancholy Intro”, “The First Glorious Rush Around the Garden”, “I Once Saw Her Face”, “Everything but the Girl”, “Ice Ring Dancer”, “In the Room”, “Famous Last Words”, “The Secret Inside”, “My Babies So Nonchalant About Love”, “The Red Trees”, “Old”, “Ulysses”, “Love and Life” and “Nature’s Sweet Decay”.
The last collection has the studio recordings the band did at Initiation Studios with Mark One as engineer. Here also are mixed in as intros sound bits of Ivan Bray and the band riffing that were recorded on a tape deck. The songs are “When Reason Has Lied”, “The Plea”, “The Human Voice”, “The Chant of Empty Seas”, “The Criminal Voice”, “Sunflower”, “She Lay Outside my Door”, “Sad Lost Monkeys”, “Mystery Man”, “Laughs the Splendid Light”, “Hail Our Love”, “Empty the Chalice”, “Future’s Bed” and “The Orchard of One Hundred Trees”.
What else do we find about them? That they played at the Stoned Crow along The Caretakers every Thursday night. The band also plaayeed at The Cave Bar, at least on one occasion where Pink Fluffy Bunnies, Sad Music Billy’s, Elf & the Goon Gut Babies and Accelerated Man were on the bill.
From what I see the person behind the Facebook and Soundcloud pages is Martin Phillips. He mentions too that there was a 1988 album called “The Homesick Gypsies” that the band recorded with Rob Grant at Poon’s Head Studios. The songs from this album are on the first Soundcloud link I shared. The tracklist order for this album is: “Vanity”, “The Coming of Winter”, “Heart of Darkness”, “Homesick Gypsies”, “Old Trees Black”, “Spring”, “Lucy”, “I the Assassin”, “Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha” and “Girl in Chains”.
What else can I add? On the photos it looks like the band was a five-piece.
I then stumble upon a Party Fears from October-November 1991. There it mentions Martin and Ivan Bray were starting a band called ARC. There is also a mention of The Childlike Primitives who were to play their first show in about a year at the Carnivale Day inn Forrest Place on October 15. It mentions Mark One had replaced Dorian Day in the band.
And that’s what I could find. Any more info about the band will be appreciated. For example… did they release anything? Tapes?
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