I’m feeling much better. Only sometimes my throat itches. The problem now is that I couldn’t fly last Friday. We tested positive on Thursday.

We talked with Delta and we had many difficulties in changing our ticket. They wouldn’t change it for Saturday the 19th which was the day we’d have wanted. Supposedly you get to change the ticket once with no charge of money, they have a one-time exemption. But the representative we got on the phone wouldn’t allow us to do it, mostly because it wasn’t convenient for the airline that day. So he booked us on the 23rd which is a Wednesday, in the middle of a work week.

So yes, the label continues to get delayed. I want to announce our new record, but it will have to wait when I return so I can take photos of the CDs of course.

Also fulfilling orders and updating the website will take some time, probably no later than the weekend of the 26.

By March I hope things will be normal…

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I had previously written about The Pop Guns, one of the bands Graham Fellows had been. He is mostly known for being in Jilted John and later as a solo artist releasing the classic album “Love at the Hacienda”. Today I want to write about another of his bands that is not that well known, Going Red.

There’s lots to write about Graham Fellows (I am linking to his Wikipedia page just in case) and the music he has made. Would be amazing to do an interview with him. I wonder. Maybe he is too famous for this blog. But some of his projects like Going Red, for some reason not that famous! But the music is nice, so why not share with all of you. Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t!

I need a copy of the band’s only 7″. I hope I make a copy mine soon. I have been slow about it even though I have had this record on my wantlist for like forever.

Released in 1980 by MCA Records (MCA 673) and Razz Records, the single had “Some Boys” on the A side and “Tune Kevin’s Strings” on the B side. One thing that is worth mentioning is that the band’s name appears as Going Red? on the sleeve. With the interrogation mark. I think the band is just called Going Red, so I will continue calling it that way.

The cover has Graham Fellows in the shower. Clothed. But it looks like he has shampooed? On the back of the sleeve we see Graham again continuing to shampoo in different vignettes. Very cool. The back of the sleeve also has some credits of the other musicians. We know Graham played vocals and guitars, Russel Giant on percussion, Mervin Cloud on guitar and vocals and Francis Charlton on bass guitar. The producer was Fraiser Henry. According to Wikipedia Chris Sievey (The Freshies and Frank Sidebottom) was involved in this record, possibly as one of the names from the credits.

On the labels we see that Graham Fellows name is written as G. Fellove. There seems to be two different versions of this 7″. One released first by Razz Records (Clean 1). Both are from 1980 and the only difference that I see is that of the label design. The Razz Records release is just a red sleeve while the MCA and Razz Records release has a sleeve depicting a sky and part of a rainbow.

Aside from this the band appeared on the 2018 compilation “Harmony in my Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81”, a 3CD release by Cherry Red (CRCDBOX62). The song as you’d guess that they contributed was “Some Boys”. This song was also included in an unofficial LP called “Powerpearls Vol. 8” that I don’t have a clue when it was released. It appears on Discogs though and includes well known bands like Direct Hits or The Times.

I couldn’t find much more info about this project. Would be nice to know if they had more recordings or if they played live much. Maybe some of my UK friends remember this project. Would be cool to know more details!

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Listen
Going Red – Some Boys