A Soundcloud account by someone called David Ian. About 12 years ago he started uploading tracks, and the ones I am interested in are a set titled “PretendFriends“. I am guessing that was the name of the band?
This set has 8 tracks, the wonderful “Juliet Smiles” opens it and many great tracks follow, “Under the Union Jack”, “Bob”, “Six of One”, “Alice and Me (horribly hissy mix)”, “Forget to Breathe”, “Not a Girl” and “AGAOG Guide Track V5”. Clearly the last song’s name is not its name, right? I believe the name of this track is actually “As Good as Ordinary Gets”. There is another version of that song here.
There is not much info about the tracks. We know they were recorded between 1994 and 1995. There is also a little note saying that David apologises for the guitar solos in the tracks “Why is it Always Me?” and “Under the Union Jack”. He says that those solos are due to him listening to a lot of Dire Straits while at school.
I do notice that “Why is it Always Me?” is not one of the tracks in this set. Maybe it was at some point? In any case would be good to find this track.
There is also a demo version of “Forget to Breathe” that is not part of the set. There is another track that may be from the same band but I can’t be sure, but the sound is very similar. This track is “King of Saturday Night“. Let me know what you think.
Not much more info about this band. Safe to think they hailed from the UK as they had a song about the Union Jack.
Wonder whereabouts they were from. Doesn’t say. Did they play live at all? No releases I suppose.
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