A new week of World Cup, and I just hope tomorrow Peru beats Australia. We are out that is true but would love to say goodbye to this World Cup experience by winning a game and also scoring a goal, or more. It has been quite disappointing not getting the results but it did feel good to see the team in the big stage and playing good football.
I hope your team is doing well and that it goes far. I have friends from many countries that are competing in the World Cup, so it is hard to say I prefer a team over another, but because of very important reasons I’m going to be supporting Mexico from now. 🙂
Also just letting everyone that placed pre-orders of the Salt Lake Alley 7″ just know that they have been shipped. Also Jigsaw Records will have copies shortly and also Rough Trade in the UK. I’ll let you know when other mailorders carry our latest release.
Now a bunch of great finds for this Monday!
Red Sleeping Beauty: “Always on Your Side” EP. Look for it on June 22nd. A 4 song CD EP that Sunday Records (yes! the classic US label is back) are releasing by the legendary Swedish band. Classic, legendary. Both label and band are household names for any indiepop fan. And so this release makes us all happy and we can only look forward to it! The four songs on the record are “Always On Your Side”, “Falling Out of Love”, “Just For Fun” and “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”. You can preorder it for $6 plus shipping and do keep an eye on the new releases Sunday will be announcing shortly!
Ring Snuten: a few posts ago I was sharing a song by Patrik Lindgren’s alter ego, Ring Snuten, and I didn’t have to wait long to find a new song worth recommending, “Solkatter Eldvatten”. I wonder what intentions Patrik has with these songs? Maybe working on an album? Or just releasing them digitally? It is great to see two new songs within a month after a silence of at least a year!
Dylan Mondegreen: the Norwegian has just revealed a video for the first single for his upcoming fifth album. The video directed by Katalina Bakradze features the song “A Place in the Sun” which sounds very much like Dylan Mondegreen. No surprises there. I haven’t followed him for many years I have to admit, it must be since Shelflife released one of their albums. Maybe I should start doing so again?
Helen Love: “Double Denim” is the latest by one of the best bands ever. And it is going to be on a 7″ that will be released on Alcopop Records. And here I’m sharing the video which of course has the Helen Love aesthetics we all love. It is just perfect. What I don’t know is if this is the A side or if there are any other songs included in the record. I went to the label’s website where one can order the record but couldn’t find any information really.
Sharesprings: two new songs by one of our favourite Indonesian bands! “Something Soon” and “So Comely (Live)” make up the new digital single. There are more good news though, they are announcing a full length very soon. This is out for now on Dismantled Records.
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“Aiken Drum” is a popular Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, which probably has its origins in a Jacobite song about the Battle of Sheriffmuir (1715). It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2571.
This Aiken Drum wasn’t Scottish. It was Irish. And I must admit I discovered their music recently thanks to the Fanning Sessions Blog. And now I’m only going through the few recordings that are available on the band’s SoundCloud page. All the recordings, and the blog post, everything dates from 7 years ago or so. So I am coming late to the party once again. But still, for me this is all new music and I’m enjoying it. That’s what matters in the end, and I hope the same will happen for you.
The band was formed by Martin McCann, Pat Morrissey and Dave Morrissey around 1985. Pat and Dave were brothers.
They didn’t last long, according to Irisrock.org, they split a year later, in 1986. They hailed from Finglas. I must admit it is the first time I hear that name. I have a trip pending to Ireland. I would really love to go soon.
Finglas is a northwestern outer suburb of the city of Dublin, Ireland. The suburb mainly lies in the postal district of Dublin 11. A couple of kilometres from Dublin Airport, it is situated at Junction 5 of the M50 and the N2 national primary road leading to Ashbourne and beyond. Nearby suburbs include Glasnevin and Ballymun, while the rural village of St. Margaret’s is around 2 km to the north. The name Finglas (Irish: Fionnghlas), meaning a clear streamlet, is derived from the Finglas River, a stream which flows through the village and joins the Tolka at Finglas Bridge.
The band only had one song properly released and that happened in 1986 when they appeared on the “Street Carnival Rock” 7″ compilation with the song “The Hearing”. On this compilation they appear first, on the A side. Joining them in that side were Flex and the Fastweather and on the flipside the great A House and The Golden Horde. These recordings were actually all taken from various session recordings for the Dave Fanning Show on Radio 2. All of them were produced by Ian Wilson.
The deal with this 7″, that had no label nor catalog number, was that it was released as part of the 1986 Dublin Street Carnival that was going to be held on June 21st and 22nd of that year and was organized by Radio 2 and Hot Press. The four bands on the 7″ were the ones that were scheduled to play on that bill. All royalties were also going to be donated to the festival.
Irishrock mentions other songs by the band like “The Real Me” or a cover of Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly”. Also other important details about them was that after the demise of the band, Martin McCann later was in Lord John White and Sack, Pat Morrissey became an audio engineer at a studio located in Christchurch Cathedral and Dave Morrissey later played keyboards in A House.
Thanks to the Soundcloud we know that there were three songs recorded for the Fanning Session: “A Day in the Country” (which is become quickly a favourite), “Penny by Penny” and “The Hearing”. And that there was a two song demo titled “Great Strand Street”. This demo tape had two songs, “Force Fed” and “The Real Me”.
Reading the comments on the Fanning Sessions blog I also learn a bit about the band. For example that they played at “The South Band Show” in Finglas and in Dun Laoghaire. Another person comments that he has a copy of the song “Laura” that was included in a Fanning demo/session. Was this song part of that 3-song session I mentioned early? Or was there a 2nd session by the band?
These days I believe Martin McCann continues making music with the band Elevens.
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