Happy New Year!
Hope this year is a good one for everyone. With lots of great music to discover!
When I saw a flyer of The Cube Club at the Bull & Gate club showing the gigs for the month of November in 1990 I started looking for some of the bands that I had never heard before.
Dan Dares Dog was the first band I was able to find some music of theirs. But they were too punkish for my taste. The next band I found music was The Waiting Sound, and it was a very good shoegaze track!
On this flyer it shows The Waiting Sound supported Life With Patrick and The Cherry Blades on November 13 of 1990. But did you know they actually released a record?
I didn’t!
It came out in 1990 on a label called Energy-Vent (EV001). Was this their own label? It probably was. It is the only release listed for this label on Discogs.
The record included just two songs, “Give Her Tomorrow” on the A side and “Astounding” on the B side.
We know that the band was formed by Wayne Kennedy on vocals, Chris Conklin on guitar and backing vocals, Dean Lewis on guitar, Karl Mault on bass and Pete Martin on drums, backing vocals and sitar.
The engineer for the record was Gavin Bearsby-Lewis while the songs were produced by the band and Adrian Borland of The Sound. Wow, really cool!
Looking at what the band members had done after or before I find out that Chris Conklin was on 8 Storey Window, Axiom and Radiation. There is a Pete Martin that is a well known house/trance music producer, but I am not sure if it is the same Pete Martin.
Other than that release I know there was a demo which I believe was called “Where’s Sharon Tate”.
On Youtube I find that Wayne Kennedy had uploaded some songs, a year ago. He is going solo these days and has recorded 5 songs.
The last thing I find is an issue of January 26, 1991 of Music Week. On it there is a mention of the band where it confirms that the label was their own. They compare Wayne’s vocals to Julian Cope and the sound of the band to Ride and My Bloody Valentine.
And that’s all my friends. Now, who can let me listen to their demo tape? Very curious!
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One Response to “:: The Waiting Sound”
Hi!
The internet is currently on the search for a lost song (Lostwave).
The song is called “everyone knows that/Ulterior Motives”.
We only have one short snippet of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHB0k8-wKg
The sound quality isn’t the greatest, because it was rerecorded by an user.
I looked at your article about Ulterior Motives (http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=1151) and the music “Heart Won’t Let You Go” sounds almost like the same singer. And the song also predates around the same time.
Maybe you know something more to this topic and maybe help the internet finally find the missing song.
Help would be much appreciated. I wish you a happy new year.