Ricicles were a breakfast cereal made by Kellogg’s that was similar to Rice Krispies but with a sugar coating. Kellogg’s discontinued Ricicles in 2018 as part of a sugar reduction initiative.
This is one of my favourite discoveries this year! The Ricicles!!!
Formed by Thelma T-Bar on bass, Rosemary on drums, Lucelle on vocals, Roddy Pudding on guitar and James Ricicle on guitar, the band recorded a 4-song EP in 1988.
This EP, titled “My Friends”, is now available on Soundcloud. It has four fun indiepop songs: “I Want to Marry John Peel”, “Walking the Sun”, “The Shouting Lady” and “Big Dogs Cock”.
It seems there was a cassette tape of this EP. Maybe it was a demo. Would be great to find a copy. On the sleeve it says the EP was recorded in a whole day at KED Studios in Wouldham on just four cans of lager.
Where is Wouldham? Should I know? It is a village on the bank of the River Medway in Kent. Somewhere in between Rochester and Maidstone.
Other bits of info from the sleeve mention that that James wrote “I Want to Marry John Peel” and “The Shouting Lady”, Roddy Pudding the song “Walking the Sun” and the whole band did “Big Dogs Cock”. The tape is said to have been organized by Candyskin (Terry Lane).
So Terry Lane organized the tape. He is the one who uploaded the tracks to Soundcloud. Now the question is, was he part of the band?
Not much more info. You wonder then how come this wasn’t properly released? Someone should do it, as a nice 7″ vinyl. It is top stuff. It is for sure something that needs the attention of the indiepop world.
Also, did they record more songs? Did they play live? Anyone remembers them?
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