Another weekend is over! It went so fast. At least I got some new music finds to share!
Langue Pendue: there is a very cool new fanzine called Côte Ouest that is written by Frenchman Renaud Sachet. His latest edition is about French indiepop 1990-1995 and features Les Sales Gosses, 1000 Spirales, Les Autres, San July, Caramel, Les Poissons Solubles, Meek and Daisy Age. Looks like he has been luckier and better at tracking these bands than me! It also comes with a tape!
Earache: this Canberra/Melbourne band sounds great. It is no surprise that I’m writing about them again on the blog. That time I wrote about a song called “Voices”, now I know it has a lovely video. But that’s not all, last January the band released the album “Last” on vinyl with the two labels, Black Wire Records and Lacklustre Records. All 8 songs are available to preview on the label’s Bandcamp and it is indeed a treat. I should get a copy of this myself soon!
Dreams of Empire: “Northern Lights” is the last track of this Brighton duo and it is gorgeous! The band formed by Andrew and Jane (who met in the 90s indie band Luminous) is actually working on their debut album. I do hope they include this song! Looking forward to it.
Fanclub: another band that have been showcased in my little reviews of new music is this Austin based trio. They have a new song called “Imprint” that sounds lovely, I don’t have a clue if it will be released in any other format than digital, but I do hope it does. Sweet.
The Jasmine Minks: remember that not too long ago the wonderful and legendary Scottish band released a new 7″ with “Step by Step”? Now it is worth checking out the B side “Gravity” which actually has a video with lots of footage of the band! Check it out!
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Turn for the letter K.
Some weeks ago I interviewed The Moss Poles. On that interview the band mentioned that Paul Breuer played bass on the yet unreleased album by the band. The interesting fact was that Paul Breuer had been part of a band I am very curious about, the Kill Devil Hills. So today that I want to feature a band whose name starts with K I didn’t doubt to find out more information about them.
The band only released one record, a 12″ single on the Roustabout label in 1987. This label was also the house of the fantastic The Caretaker Race. This 12″, with its jacket with the band’s name in orange and a black and white photograph taken by Martyn Strickland of two boots over long grass, had three songs in it. The A side had the superb “What Comes After” while the B side had “Rolling” and “Poison”. All songs were produced by the band and Mark Frith who was also the engineer.
Something interesting about the record is that it had runout etchings on each side. The A side says “Money talks bullshit walks” while the B side says “The Exchange”.
Discogs also lists a white label 7″ which I assume was a promo release that came on plain sleeve and hand written white label. This 7″ included all the songs but “Poison”.
The band members are listed on the promo sheet. We know that Alex Breuer was on vocals and guitar, Paul Breuer on guitar and vocals, Jon Carricker on bass and Phil Savidge on drums and vocals. The press sheet also mentions that all members have been in at least one previous band and that they took their name from an area of North Carolina where the Wright Brothers took off on their epic flight.
Kill Devil Hills is a town in Dare County, North Carolina. The population was 6,683 at the 2010 census, up from 5,897 in 2000. It is the most populous settlement in both Dare County and on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Kill Devil Hills Micropolitan Statistical Area is part of the larger Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area.The town is home to the site of the Wright brothers’ first controlled, powered airplane flights on December 17, 1903, chosen for its good winds. The town was commemorated by the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which was dedicated in 1932. At the time of the flight, the town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist, and it did not receive its municipal charter until 1953. Kitty Hawk, popularly noted as the site of the famous flights, is approximately four miles (6 km) to the north, and was the nearest settlement at the time of the famous flight.
According to a Youtube post the band hailed from Lancaster. Is that so?
On Discogs I find that Jon Carricker and Paul Breuer were in a band called (ju.nior cottonmouth) (also known as Cottonmouth) who released records on Fire Records and also on Atlantic Records in the 90s.
Sadly that’s when I lose their track. what did the two other band members do after Kill Devil Hills? Are there other bands that they were involved with? And how come they only released on record? They must have recorded more than three songs, right? There must be some unreleased ones, right?
I am thankful for any information available about the great Kill Devil Hills. Who remembers them?
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