Well, today I’m heading off to Dublin. I’ve been recommended to visit Spin Dizzy Records, The Record Spot, Freebird Records and Tower Dublin. Any other recommendations?
So no more posts until next Wednesday. Of course I will leave you some music too…
The Relationships: I wasn’t aware until a few days ago that this classic pop bands, that features Angus ex-Razorcuts, was on Bandcamp. On this platform they have shared four songs (“Fairgrounding”, “Strange Archaeology”, “Mike Oldfield”, “Guitar Heroes at the BBC”) of lovely janglepop. The Oxford band who have already released four albums seem to be in pretty good form!
Foliage/Andrew Younker: two pretty good bands that I have featured on the blog are joining forces to release a split tape with the Slovakian label Z Tapes. Each of them contribute three tracks and right now you can preview one by each, Foliage’s “Be Transparent” and Andrew Younker’s “Thankful”.
Cheesemind: the fine Chinese label Qiii Snacks from Guangzhou has a new song on their Bandcamp byt this band. Everything is in Chinese so I understand nothing really, but this one song sounds pretty good. Hoping to hear more by them in the future!
The Golden Rail: the superb Melbourne band is back with a new song! “Don’t Let Go Of the Light” is now available to stream and also as a limited edition CD single that you can get from their Bandcamp! This song will be part of the upcoming second album that will be released sometime next year.
The Moss Poles: Nicky from The Moss Poles got in touch a few days ago and told me that he has put together a Souncloud page with lots of goodies! This is terrific news. I wrote about them on the blog in the past if you’d like some background information but of course now i’m hoping to interview him! Hope it happens!
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The other day my friend David shared the song “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt” and I was reminded that many years ago I was looking to get in touch with the band (and of a copy of their one and only 7″). That in the hopes of having Addo 602 as part of the Sound of Starke Adolf series that sadly only got to see one volume released.
I think the lack of support of many bands I contacted and me having some trouble with my partner in Plastilina at the time made me kind of leave that project on the side. I would love to retake it. Perhaps repress the first volume? Or just start as volume 2. Wonder what would work best if I was to undertake this project again.
Addo 602 only released a 7″ in 2001 on the Strings of Nashville Records. I was always familiar with this label because it had released records by one of my favourites, Nixon. But the truth is that Addo 602’s release was actually the first one in the label’s catalog, STRINGS001. Probably the label was started to release this band.
The self-titled 7″ EP included four songs, two on each side. The A side had “Spelombudet” and “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt”, while the B side had “Det Kommer Regna Manna Från Himlen” and “KK-Låten”. The art for the cover caught my eye immediately, with that sort of bambi drawing and a light blue smudge.
They did appear on two compilations though. The first also dates from 2001 and it was a Swedish one released by Absurd Records (Absurd 10) on CD. It was called “Blåser Mellan Öronen 01” and the band contributes the song “Insikten Om Folkciderns Aloholhalt”. I believe many of the bands on this compilation participated on the Emmaboda festival of 2001. Did Addo 602 played that famous festival? Yes they did according to Emmaboda’s website.
Then in 2004, on a CDr comp called “Every Djur and Every Mir” that was put out by Djur and Mir Recordings (DJURMIR008) the band participated with “Illvilligt Överspänd Röst”.
Discogs gives us a little bit more information. I believe the band was formed by Björn Anders Nilsson, Hannes Stenström, Anja Dahlstedt, Per Hillerström and Paula Cederberg. There is a photo of two of them two. I’m using that one for this post. Which of them were this boy and girl?
We do know that Björn Anders Nilsson was in a few bands like City, Hundhimlen, Jospressen and Slagsmålsklubben. Hannes Stenström had been in Shxcxchcxsh, Slagsmålsklubben, Terror of History, The X Dump among others.
I find out, going to tradera.se of all places, that the Addo 602 was actually a typewriter.
Then on an article I find out that the band played a festival alongside the likes of Fosca called Bomben 3 år in October 13th 2001. Another gig I found about was one in Kristianstad on May 25th 2002 alongside Idiot Savants, Slagsmålsklubben, Log, Kristoffer Åström & Hidden Truck.
I keep googling and find that these days Anja Dahlstedt is a librarian at Botkyrka, not too far from Stockholm. Were the band based in the capital then?
I then find a blog comment where someone says he has a tape with a lot of songs. Dear. I would love to hear that! What songs are they? What were their names? Why didn’t they get released? Was it perhaps the demo tape that is listed on Popfakta?
That demotape doesn’t seem to have a year but it included 5 songs, “KK-Låten”, “Spelombudet”, “Dagismamman som Ville Bli Greta Garbo”, “Det Kommer at Regna Manna från Himlen” and “Cart, Have a Farm!”. Interesting enough thanks to this tape I find what each member played. Anja Dahlstedt played bass, Björn Nilsson guitar, organ and synthetizer, Hannes Stenström guitar, Per Hillerström guitar and percussion and vocals and Paula Cederberg klangspiel, synths and vocals.
And that’s about it. I found the names of other songs by them not included in the 7″. That’s great. Now If I could listen to them? And of course two of their members got some more recognition with their other bands. Addo 602 only got to put out that one 7″ and play Emmaboda. Maybe those two were their highlights. But I would love to find out more about them. Does anyone remember them?
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