I want to start this blog post sharing a track from the next retrospective on the Cloudberry Cake Kitchen! Yesterday on social media I announced a Baby Lemonade compilation to be released this spring and as you can expect I am very very excited! And yeah, I said this spring, so it should be very soon! So follow this link on Soundcloud to check out “All Down to You”! The album will come in the usual lovely custom digipak of the series and will include 16 songs by the Glasgow band! Pre-order and more info coming to the website soon! I’ll let you know when that’s available!
Now the turn for letter C! But before that some good finds from the world wide web!
The Pesos: Lolipop Records hails from Los Angeles. This label has just released a digital album on Bandcamp by the band called The Pesos. The album is titled “Laissez Faire” and has 10 songs in total. There is not much more information about it so let the music speak.
Gentle Ivanhoe Death Skulls: the Swedish band is back with a 10 song tape album for the Toulouse based label Hidden Bay Records! The album is titled “Beaches” and it is straight up wonderful indiepop. Some of these songs had been previously released online but a bunch of them are just exclusive to this release.
Doble Pletina: the wonderful Barcelona quintet is back with a 7″ EP titled “Algo Estacional EP” on Jabalina! Great news! There are 3 new songs, “Volver a Caer”, “Pesca Salada” and “El Silencio en la Música”, that all pop lovers will enjoy.
The Catenary Wires: it seems the band led by Amelia Fletcher will be now on the German Tapete Records. The label has announced the release of their album “‘Til the Morning” for June 14th. It even includes quite a big tour! To promote the album the band has just unveiled a video for the song “Dream Town”!
The Hit Parade: and one of my favourite bands will be releasing a 7″ for Record Store Day this Saturday. You can hear one of the songs that will be in it that is called “Joey’s Girl”. I wonder, if I’ll be able to get myself a copy…. you know I’m no fan of this Record Store Day thing!
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Candlestick Park was an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco, in the Bayview Heights area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until moving into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed Oracle Park) in 2000. It was also the home field of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League from 1971 through 2013. The 49ers moved to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the 2014 season. The last event held at Candlestick was a concert by Paul McCartney in August 2014, and the demolition of the stadium was completed in September 2015. The Beatles gave their final full concert at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966. Songs performed at the show were “Rock and Roll Music”, “She’s a Woman”, “If I Needed Someone”, “Day Tripper”, “Baby’s in Black”, “I Feel Fine”, “Yesterday”, “I Wanna Be Your Man”, “Nowhere Man”, “Paperback Writer”, and “Long Tall Sally”. A rough recording of most of the concert was left unreleased, although the audio has leaked on to the internet. The recording cuts off during the last minute of the concert, interrupting “Long Tall Sally”. The Beatles had not announced that this was to be their last concert, and if the foursome themselves knew, it was a closely guarded secret.
That’s quite a long way to introduce what Candlestick Park was. That’s where the band, formed by ex-Waltones, got their inspiration to name themselves. Guy Lovelady, from the magnificent Ugly Man label, actually wrote a small bio about the band for Twee.net. I won’t copy/paste that, but I will try to pick the important details from it to paint a picture who were Candlestick Park, the Manchester early 90s band.
Three of the Candlestick Park members had been in The Waltones, the great Medium Cool band (that I think deserve an interview in the blog too, right?): Manny Lee, Mark Collins and James Knox. Alex Fyans, the drummer from The Waltones was replaced for a drummer called Adrian Donahue in Candlestick Park. According to Guy the band recorded an LP for Midnight Music, for some reason this LP remains unreleased. The only thing the band actually put out was a single which I will talk about of course. After the band broke up Manny became a teacher, James went to work in the UK industrial relations field and Mark joined The Charlatans.
The single was released in both 7″ and 12″ versions. The 7″ had just a regular and simple Midnight Music sleeve while the 12″ did get a proper sleeve and artwork. As expected the 12″ included more songs. The “All the Time in the World” (DONG 67) 12″ included the title song on the A side while it had “Promised Land” and “Safe (Instrumental)” on the B side. The A side was going to be included in the LP that the label and the band were working on before the label went bankrupt. The album was to be called “Re-Invent the Wheel”.
The 7″ on the other hand only had an A side and it was “All the Time in the World”.
The Manchester Music Archive website mentions the story of the album in a different way. Here it says that the album “Re-Invent the Wheel” was actually recorded by The Waltones and that it was co-produced by Kevin Harris. It is when the album was finished that Fyans leaves the group and Adrian joins. They rebrand themselvess as Candlestick Park. Which version of the story is right? And why hasn’t this album being released as of today? I would release it if no one wants it!
Sadly not much more information is available on the web about them. It is a true mystery. Did they even play live? I actually remember writing about the band and their long-lost album on my previous blog. It has been years since I’ve wanted to know more about them. Hopefully this time I’ll get some answers. Who remembers them?
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