Tomorrow is the official release data for the fantastic debut 7″ by Leicester band Dayflower! I am beyond excited to release this record. So please, if you like what you hear, support the band and the label!

And if you want to keep supporting other indiepop releases, check out some, or all, of these new finds!

Space Cubs: the new Indonesian pop sensation on Shiny Happy Records are this new project I know nothing about! What I do know is that their song “The Boy with the Golden Arrow” sounds ace and it will be included in their upcoming EP “Space Playboy”. Let’s keep an eye on that!

Remi Parson: our French friend has a new video out. It is for the song “Tenebrio Molitor” and we can see a kitty on it. We can also see the lyrics if you want to sing along. Why not. This song was made by Remi himself and it is worth mentioning that this song comes from the latest album he put out, “Arrière-pay”, that came out a year ago on 12″ vinyl!

Olivia’s World: I am a fan of the music Lica makes. That’s a fact. I have loved  Go Violets and Tempura Nights. I’ve recommended them on my blog. Her latest project hasn’t been an exception. I’ve written about it many times. Now that she has released the video for the song “Blotter” I do it again because it is great! This track will be included in the self-titled EP that is coming out on October 25th on the cassette label Lost Sound Tapes. Terrific!

Dead Little Penny: all the way from Auckland, New Zealand, comes this band formed by Hayley Smith, Simon Buxton and Sean Martin-Buss who have just released a new digital single called “Dead Together”. It is fuzzy and poppy at the same time. Good for playing it on repeat.

Breakup Haircut: lo-fi pop done the right way. It has been a while since I heard something like this, sounding so 90, early 2000s. So cool. There are 5 new songs on an EP called “What Did You Expect? I Got it Off the Internet!” by this London band. Punky and fun. Hopefully they’ll be releasing their songs in physical format soon!

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Today let’s head to Belgium. Sounds good? There is this band called Just One Shot who are totally new to me though they were around in the early 90s. Back then they released one 7″ and after it disappeared from the face of the Earth it seems.

At least the 7″ had 4 songs and not just two. That’s a good thing, as I always want to hear more and more tracks by bands. The 7″ EP was released by the label Red Alert (RAR 912) that released another fantastic band I like from Belgium, The Danish Butter Cookies (I owe them a blog post). I don’t know the exact year of the release but I am 99% sure that it was 1991.

The A side had two songs, “The Adonowat” and “Obsession”. The first written by Daniel Vincke while the second by Ronny Gille. The B side had “The Never Fucking Story” and “Flowers”. In this case the first song was written by Philippe De Brabanter while the second by Gille.

So we have some names.  The sleeve doesn’t have any details though. Just a phone number. Not that I own the record, I wish I did, but I have found scans of the sleeve and labels on Discogs. That helps a lot my research.

The band did appear on two compilations. The first was during their time in 1991. It was an LP compilation called “The Belgian Garagemania 6” that was released by Boom! Records (BOOM! 10). The band would contribute the song “Judy Said”. This song was written by Philippe De Brabanter. But the best thing of this record is that it tells the full lineup of the band:
Mohammed Zian on bass
Daniel Van Nieuwenhoven on drums
Philippe de Brabanter on guitar and vocals
Daniel Vincke on harp
Ronny Gille on vocals

The second compilation was called “Best of Belgian Garage Mania! Volume One” that was released by Starman Records (SMR006) in 2013. The band would contribute the same song, “Judy Said”.

Then I look for the band members, see if they had been involved in any other projects. I know that Vincke was in Tam “Echo” Tam and also played bass for Ivan Tirtiaux. De Brabanter was in Busty Duck in the 2000s.

Then I stumble upon a small bio for the band Tam “Echo” Tam. Here it gives some details about Daniel Vincke. It says he had studied classical guitar lessons in an academy for about 5 years. After that he switched to electrical guitar and joined Just One Shot. Here it mentions that Just One Shot had been around from 1985 to 1990. Then I find that Vincke had also been in a band called Dany Sand as well as L’Effet Doppler, Milmilada, Bonobo and Sibel.

Not much more info for the rest of members or the band. Maybe they just stopped making music? Who would know? And are there only 5 songs by the band ever released? I would love to know that. So yeah, lots of questions I have, I hope I can find out in the near future! Belgian friends, do you remember them?

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Just One Shot – The Never Fucking Story