Here we are again. With little news. Things are not moving as fast as I’d like with the releases I have planned. I guess I have to be patient? Any tips to be patient?

In the meantime I’ve selected new 5 finds from around the net. It’s always nice to hear new music, isn’t it?

Tullycraft: “Your Boyfriend Lost His Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?” is a long title for a song name but it is a great song of course. This is the latest video the Seattle band has put out to promote their new album “The Railway Prince Hotel” which is now available!

Tradewinds Sailing Club: I’ve only stumbled upon these recordings made by Dale Marquez from Apple Orchard and Connie Francis Marquez. Three fragile songs recorded in 2013 as an EP titled “Offshore” which I highly recommend.

Perfect Strangers: this band from Gainesville, Florida, is formed by Hector Laguna, Mario Lopez, Myles Matheny and Jason Shusterman. They have just put out on Bandcamp 7 songs, a mini-album titled “Unlikely Partners” that sound pretty interesting. To my surprise these songs were recorded in Miami where I used to live and there was barely an indiepop fan…

The Jasmine Minks: the legendary Scottish band is back with a new 7″ on the A Turntable Records!! The 7″ will include two songs, “Step by Step” and “Gravity”. The first is now streaming on Bandcamp and sounds great, and it is no surprise if you mix in the band and Pat Collier to produce these tracks!

Tom Boyle: the last find today is the new EP by the Getxo, Spain, band titled “Mar de Fondo”. Three songs that are dreamy, melancholic and introspective at the same time. Gloria, Miguel, Oskar and Xabier, have made a very lovely record here which I hope gets a physical release. My favourite song out of the three? I think “Supernova II”.

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The “C89” three CD box set included The Magnificent Lkage. This song too, “Passion”. It is a great sounding band and it is no surprise that Cherry Red was able to track them down (or they just used their song with no permission?). I will do my post too, see if I can get in touch and also try to find more about them. See if I can tell the story of the band one day through an interview. For sure I’ll be able to tell some facts now, thanks to the info available on the web. And hopefully not make really stupid mistakes like saying that Rorschach named themselves after a Marvel comic. Come on. How lazy is that?

We know they hailed from Birmingham and were formed by:
Dean O’Loughlin – vocals and guitar
Andrew Powell – guitar and vocals
Hendricks – drums and vocals
John Morrison – bass

And they had a few releases. The first dates from 1989 and it is on this 12″ maxi single that “Passion” was the A side. Also on the A side was the superb “A Kind of Love Song” and on the B side there was “One Day the Butterfly”. It was released by Gi Records (GI 12-2). Don’t know much about this label but they released a band called Reform Club as well. The label was based in Oxon.

On this record Roberto Cimarosti played keyboards. Cimarosti had been in bands like Electribe 101, Groove Corporation or Overproof Sound System.

“Passion” was recorded at Rich Bitch Studios in January 1989 and was produced by Mark Bruce and the band. Bruce also engineered the song. “A Kind of Love Song” and “One Day the Butterfly” were recorded at The Old Smithy in Worcester in march 1988. These songs were produced by Brian Nordhoff and Joe Steven. They were engineered by Les Fleming and Lord Lucan.

After this release the band signed to a much bigger label, One Little Indian. It seems too that they dropped “The Magnificent” and just kept the Lkage as their name. On this label, in 1991, they released the single “Passion 91” (51 TP) on vinyl and CD. The songs were once again recorded at Rich Bitch Studios in Birmingham and they made four this time around, “Passion 91”, “My Head’s On Fire”, “Sway” and “Another Story from Raintown”. The engineer was Mark Bruce. Both CD and vinyl has the same running order of the songs, they don’t seem to have much difference. Two songs were on the A side and two on the B side.

“My Head’s On Fire” was their second single on One Little Indian (75 TP). Released in 1993 also on both CD and vinyl. Four songs, “My Head’s On Fire”, “Patsy”, “Fear of Falling” and “Another Story from Raintown”. Mark Bruce produced “Another Story from Raintown”, while the renowned Mitch Easter produced “My Head’s On Fire” and “Fear of Falling”. Same running order here too for both versions. The first two songs on the A side, the other two on the B side.

Lastly in 1993 they released an album. It was called “Brazilliant” (what was their connection with Brazil?) and it included 12 songs. It was released by One Little Indian (TPLP 26) and had 12 songs. The vinyl version had “Showtime”, “Dumb Dumb”, “Freed by your Love Cascade”, “Half of Everything”, “My Head’s On Fire” and “Candlesoap”. The B side had “One Day the Butterfly”, “The Loudest Silence”, “No Lullaby”, “She Is”, “Space Dog” and “The Story so Far”. The album was also licensed to the US. The A&M label released the album as a CD that same year.

In 1991 they appeared with the song “Another Story from Raintown” on a CD compilation called “Volume One” that was released by Volume (V1CD). it looks like a mixed bag of bands on it. We find New Order, The Popguns, Kitchens of Distinction, The Shamen and more.

The American label Hits would have them with the song “My Head’s on Fire” on their “It’s a Sunshine Day/Aprils Fools 1993” (HT 013) CD comp in 1993. That same year on a tape released by One Little Indian called “Outlook & Carlsberg Present: The One Little Indian Mix” (OUTMIX 2) they contributed the song “Space Dog”. This tape came alongside the Outlook magazine.

And as mentioned before they appeared on the “C89” boxset this year.

Were the band members involved in any other bands? I could find out that John Morrison, the bassist, played in Hefner and also in Rhatigan, The French and The Machines.

On the Tamworth Bands website I find a mention of the band. They played a gig in Tamworth on March 4th 1990 alongside Honeyjump, Bob Baroque and Lincolns at the Tamworth Arts Centre.

What else? Actually not much more. Even though the band had been in One Little Indian there is not much about them on the web. Would be great to find out the whole story of the band. I’m sure some of you remember them. Where are they now? Are there more releases or recordings? Let’s get the ball rolling.

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The Magnificent Lkage – Passion