The Spanish Amanda: Huw Darling is back with more songs! “Le Petit Magritte” is actual a prequel EP to the band’s forthcoming album “Magritte”. This EP has three songs, “A Starling’s Egg”, “Steve McQueen” and “In a Matchbox”. Thee songs are ace as usual and we can have them on repeat while we await the full-length “Maagritte” in about 3 weeks, and on CD too!
Boyracer: you know I haven’t loved the change from 7″ to 10″ by Precious Recordings for their sessions series. Now I can’t have the collection look nice and ordered all looking similar and alike. But that doesn’t matter I won’t keep getting their releases. Their latest is a must have, Boyracer’s sole Pell Session. This session, dating from 1994, comes with four songs, including a cover of Even as We Speak.
The Laughing Chimes: 6 new songs by the brothers Evan and Quinn Seurkamp from Ohio. These 6, influenced by the Dunedin-sound and American and UK jangle, will be out on November 18 in the “Zoo Avenue EP”. This EP will be released as a cassette.
The Deddingtons: this is something really cool! The Deddingtons just got together to re-record their wonderful “Sheila”. The original song was on the retrospective we released by them in 2012, and this new version is quite cool, it features Jack the Sticks, drummer for Johnny Marr playing drums! Enjoy it!
Freddyboy: and we end this review with this lovely sounding project by Freddy Kwon from Toronto. His latest single “On and On” is a lovely slice of dreamy pop. I believe it is part now of the Spirit Goth label. Oh and the song has a video too!
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Now onto another Soundcloud find. Thanks to stoneeyedkiller’s Youtube channel, I follow the thread and end up finding new bands and new songs that I had never heard before.
An account called “Sellin’ Cotton” uploaded two tracks by the band Fly on the Wall that hailed from Tamworth. This is an interesting town, as I have written about many bands that hailed from there, and even released Some Other Day that was from there too.
There is a website called Tamworth Bands but there is no mention there of Fly on the Wall. This must be terribly obscure!
The two songs uploaded, 4 years ago mind you, are “(There’s No) Electricity in Heaven” and “Different Flavours of Jam”. They are great jangly tunes, but my favourite one is the first one. Top tune!
We know some little details about these songs.
They were recorded at Expresso Bongo Studio which was located behind The Boot in Tamworth. I get curious, why do they mention The Boot? It turns out The Boot Inn, which is now called The Coven, is a classic place in town.
Tamworth Bands does have a bio for this studio, Expresso Bongo, which if you have time, I suggest reading.
Anyhow, back to the tape by Fly on the Wall. The songs had been recorded in 1990 or around that time. They were produced by the band and Paul Speare. Paul was the owner of the studio.
We know the band was formed by Domonic Service on vocals, David Ewing and Paul Donovan on guitars, Richard Edkins on bass and James “Chuddy” Mitchell on drums.
I keep looking for more info. I want to think Richard Edkins is the one that appears on IMDB as a film maker who shot and directed the documentaries Team Tibet and Black Swan Story.
And that’s what I could find about this band. As usual, I am hoping you can help me with more information about them!
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