The bit of news this week is that the anniversary sale for records released in 2009 is not available anymore. Replacing it we have a similar sale for records released in 2010. Here you can pick 3 of the 7″s that were released that year (Horowitz, Zipper, Sad Day for Puppets, Oh! Custer, A Smile and  Ribbon, Bonne Idée) for a very fair price including shipping. So take advantage of it if you are missing any of these records in your collection as they are, I think, fantastic!

The Go-Betweens: I don’t remember sharing this Youtube link with a conversation between Robert Forster and Peter Paphides talking about the new “G Stands for Go-Betweens Vol. 2” boxset. I post it a bit late here, but I really want to make sure no one misses this. It is not to be missed.

Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters: Optic Nerve has just announce a new LP retrospective compilation for this amazing band that released just a few records back in the 80s, notably on Dan Treacy’s label Dreamworld Records! The new compilation is called “Smashed Full of Wonder” and will have 14 tracks including 2 demos that have never been released in the past!

Teenagers from Outer Space Comeback (A Tribute to Bee Keeper): the Portuguese label Bee Keeper was for sure the most important independent label in that country. Maybe it is still. I wouldn’t know if there has been a better one afterwards. Most probably not. It is no surprise then that there is a tribute to the label being released now by the label Skud & Smarty Records from Castelo Branco on vinyl LP. This tribute includes 19 tracks!! An amazing feat and it includes even The Pastels or Tullycraft. But that’s not all, there are familiar faces here, like Safety Matches who released a 3″ CD with Cloudberry many years ago. Very very cool!

Anuncio en Blanco: now a bedroom project coming from Cuernavaca in Mexico. The man behind this project is Marco Mendoza. He has put together 7 tracks as a mini album called “Este Año”, this year. It is a lovely effort packed with jangle and drum machines!

Mint Julep: “So You Say” is the newest track by Keith and Hollie Kenniff. And as their previous releases it is a superb song. Guitars chime, Hollie’s vocals swoon and the melodies are dreamy. What else can one ask for? Maybe I need this in a physical record? That’d be nice.

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High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is 47 km west north west of Charing Cross in London; this information is also engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town. The name Wycombe appears to come from the river Wye and the old English word for a wooded valley, combe, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary of Place-Names the name, which was first recorded in 799-802 as ‘Wichama’, is more likely to be Old English ‘wic’ and the plural of Old English ‘ham’, and probably means ‘dwellings’; the name of the river was a late back-formation.

That’s where I am transporting the blog today. Because I have just discovered a band that sounds great from there. A band that was around during the early 90s. One that seems left to us a few recorded tracks and nothing else.

It seems that the Record Collector Magazine rediscovered them for new fans back in 2016, when they included their song “Stoke” on a compilation LP called “Small Town Scenery”. It also looks like that the first 100 copies of the magazine then (Jan. 26 2016), came with a bonus 10″ (featuring the band Blindmans Rainbow). I didn’t know of this release. I wish I did. I hope I can find a copy as I am not familiar with any of the bands on it! Maybe I can explore them later on. the blog? One by one?

Anyhow, Triple Blind. Happily on Discogs there are scans of the LP and thanks to that I found out more about the band.

Triple Blind formed in the late 80s and played lots of gigs including an episode of Eastenders. “The Levellers were supposed to do it but refused to sign a deal regarding insurance,” recalls drummer Neil Peters. So Triple Blind performed threesongs in the background before 17 million people and got paid £1,000 for the pleasure. This money funded the recording of “Stoke” in a proper studio and is probably the most exciting thing to come out of the show after Ian Beale’s love life.

I think the band actually recorded 3 songs that time. Not just “Stoke”. The other two songs being “Bus Shelter Boy” and “Take Me Back”. I know that because I found the tracks on Soundcloud! There I find the band’s lineup:

Phil Bird – guitar
Iain Wooster – bass
Neil Peters – drums
Rev A Floyd – guitar and vocals

I believe later on some of the band members were in a band called SubRosa5.

And that’s it really. No more information about them. I hope I can find out more about the band members, if they were in other bands, and if there were more Triple Blind recordings. In any case I need to get this record and I will definitely start checking on the other bands in it. I think this might prove a trove of great indiepop bands!

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Listen
Triple Blind – Stoke