By the way, I’m going to Mexico City for a few days, from May 25th to the 27, so do let me know if you are interested in any records so I can bring with me, so to save postage. I believe Okama Flannel Boy is playing on the 25th, that’d be a great place to meet. I don’t have the details yet but I’ll keep you updated in future posts.

The Muldoons: this superb Scottish band from Paisley, who I have featured in the past, is back with two brand new songs as a digital single. The songs names are “Don’t Be Like That, Girl” and “The Killing Moon” and if you like all things jangly, this is something for you.

Kalm Dog: from California this is a three-piece formed by Kris Nguyen, Daniel Yelsits and Getra Soos. It is the first time I’m checking out their music and I’m starting with their latest song, “Morning Cartoons”, that they added to their Bandcamp last March. It sounds good. Their previous effort, “You Inspire”, is as good by the way!

Ivica: a band from Belgrade, Serbia? I must thank my friend David for finding this band, I would probably never stumble upon it if it wasn’t for him. The band has a 7 song mini-album now called “Kakvi Ste to Ljudi” which is also available on CD. Their latest is a track called “Izvan Okeana” from last December. They are formed by Ivan Kačavenda and Aleksandra Andonovska. Jangly and exotic, especially the great track “Radim šta mi je volja”

According to What: another of David’s finds is this Madiscon, Wisconsin, band. Even though most of the tracks on their “Punk Songs to Hold Hands To” EP are punky and fast (and good too of course), the last track, “Backseat Dodge”, is a superb slice of indiepop! I have it on repeat!

Seablite: they are back with a new album on Emotional Response! 11 tracks of lovely 80s influenced indiepop that reminds me of Lush. The Bay Area band’s new record is called “Grass Stains and Novocaine” and we can preview on the label’s Bandcamp two of the songs to be included, “Heart Mountain” and “House of Papercuts”. Really good stuff!

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Turn for the letter R.

Remember a few months ago I wrote about the band Ha Ha Ha? On this post I mentioned that some of the Ha Ha Ha members went to form Rosemary’s Children. Also I mentioned that Rosemary’s Children recorded a cover of Ha Ha Ha, the song “Visiting a House”. Which members were in both bands? According to Discogs  Robert Dimery (vocals and 12 string guitar) was part of both bands as well as Toby Chislett (drums). The other members of Rosemary’s Children were Jake on bass and Karel on lead guitar.

The band released one 7″ and an album at the tail-end of the 80s. The first was a 7″ in 1986 with two songs, “Southern Fields” on the A side and “(Whatever Happened to) Alice” on the B side. The first written by Robert while the second by Robert and Toby. It was released by the legendary Él Records (GPO 12) and was produced by Richard Preston. I do own this 7″.

I do not own the album though. “Kings and Princes” was released in vinyl LP by Cherry Red (MRED77) in 1987. It hasn’t been reissued in CD or any other format. It had 4 songs on each side, so it was a short album. The A side had “At the Palace Gate”, “Kings and Princes”, “Visiting a House” and “W.W.1”. The B side had “Round and Around”, “Boat Trip”, “Lighthouse Song” and “Merrydown Skank”. Robert wrote most of the tracks, only “W.W.1” was written by David.

The band at least recorded one more song, “(At The) End of the Corridor” that was included in the superb compilation “London Pavilion Volume I” that Él and Cherry Red put out in 1987. There are many versions of this compilation and in different formats. Most of them were issued in 1987 and it is interesting to see that it was licensed to Spain, Japan and even to Brazil.

In 1993 the band contributed “Southern Fields” to the Richmond Records (MONDE 11) compilation “Bellisimo! Él Singles Part One”. This same song would be later included in the 2016 compilation “C87”, a 3CD boxset that Cherry Red put out and which I’ve talked in the past too.

Their song “(Whatever Happened to) Alice?” appeared in the 1995 Richmond Records comp “Él Records – The Legendary B Sides” (MONDE 20CD) and later on another Cherry Red box set, the 2013 “Scared to Get Happy (A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989)”.

Sadly I can’t find anything written about them on the web and the booklets that came with the Cherry Red boxsets don’t really have any interesting details that may add to their story. So I will ask you all for your help as I really like this band a lot if there’s any way you can fill in the blanks. What happened to them? What are they doing these days? Were they involved with other bands? Do they have any other recordings that remain unreleased? Did they play live much? Any information will be appreciated!

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Listen
Rosemary’s Children – Southern Fields