Day 607. Remember that this is the last week this year that I will be accepting orders on the label. You can surely find the releases in some fine mailorders like Jigsaw Records later on. I’ll be back on February to release a new record. Just need a little vacation and getting re-energized! This Friday will be the last time I’ll be going to the post office. Just heads up!
Makeout Point: so good to hear that the Swedish band is back! And back in style! That’s because their new song “Summerfall” is really good! It does feel a bit like The Funday Mornings or The Tidy Ups in here… and those are bands I love! I really look forward to more songs by them as they were one of my favourite discoveries some years ago. Top song!
The Umbrella Puzzles: very very limited, 50 copies of the CD EP “False Starts & Mishaps” by this superb project of Ryan Marquez. The CDEP is out now on Melotron Recordings, the fine Greek label that makes beautiful releases. Four songs are included in this record, all of them terrific solid pop songs.
David Christian: David from Comet Gain shares with us 5 new songs in “Sports Anthems for Wimps + Losers EP”. As we know David has been putting out many songs recorded at home or from the vault, timeless treasures that we are lucky to hear. These songs are no exception.
World of Fox: I don’t know who is behind this project, but here is a 7″ that is so limited, 25 copies, with two covers of The Sea Urchins… “Pristine Christine” and “Sullen Eyes”, both from Sarah 001! The limited lathe cut in handprinted sleeve will be out on January 22 on WIAIWYA but pre-orders are up now.
The Reds, Pinks & Purples: it is no surprise that a new album will be released by Glenn Donaldson on January 28. The record is titled “Summer at Land’s End” and so far we can preview one out of 11 songs on Bandcamp. The track available is great, it is called “Don’t Come Home to Soon”. You can pre-order now the vinyl version and the CD version and also some more limited edition versions.
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I should reorder my CD collection. It took me ages to find the compilation “A Chance to Shine” (DORIAN 02) that Dorian Records, the label of Roger Gunnarsson, released back in 1996.
Well, finally found it. It was on the shelves next to the computer I am writing these lines from. So silly.
This compilation has been mentioned in the blog many times before. I have written about some of the bands that have appeared in it like Aquadays, aBLe, Violett and Saliva.
Well, today is the time for The Immediates! Who were they? Let’s try to find out.
The song the band contributed to this compilation was called “Pop Girl” and it is a very nice song. Looking at the Scandinavian Indie mailing list from the 90s I find a nice review of the compilation. When talking about The Immediates track they say: The Immediates‘ “Pop Girl” has apparently been played on the national radio a lot lately. Distorted vocals, trumpets and (always present) electric guitars. They win the lyrics award with: “She’s in love with a Britpop star who doesn’t know she exists, giant posters on the wall makes her father pissed, no matter what they say, she’s my pop girl.” The person behind this June 1996 was Erik Söderström.
On the booklet the song is credited to The Immediates. Now… on Discogs there is another release by the band listed. A 7″ actually. I wasn’t aware of it!
This 7″ that was released by Hit It Productions (HIT 005) came out 4 years before, in 1992. It was a Swedish release, so it may as well be the same band. Let’s say it is. The songs on it are “Trying 2 Burn the Sun” on the A side and “New York City Girl” on the B side. I have never heard these tracks. Quite curious about it. Are these songs good?
On the back cover of the sleeve there’s a photo of the band. Four guys, three of them with glasses. The front cover is just white, with the name of the band on the right side. There seems to be some insert with more information.
According to it the band was formed by Anders, Claes, Peffe and Egon. No last names. Though on the labels we find two, Eriksson and Lundberg. Whose last names were these from?
A little detective work and I find that it is Egon Ehom Lundberg (bass). The other band members last names are Anders Eriksson (guitars and vocals), Claes Isacson (drums). Peffe was on keyboards but don’t know his last name. This info is thanks to a video I found on Youtube of the band playing “New York City Girl” maybe from a rehearsal studio?
This same account has more videos. There is a promo video for “Trying to Burn the Sun“! Wow, in the end I know that these songs are good. Especially this one! This is a great single. Great find indeed!
And lastly there’s another video, of the band playing on an onstage contest in Piteå in 1993. There they play the song “It’s Gonna Be Alright“. I think I am pretty confident to say the band hailed from Piteå!
Looking at the videos I can say that Egon was later in many bands like The Shanes, Steel, Blues Moose, Rumble Fish, 7th Sign and Tower of Stone. Not sure about the rest of the members… but we know that Claes drummed on Tower of Stones though I don’t think he was a full-time member.
And that’s it! Good information. Found more than what I expected! Anyone remember them? I think they must be the first Piteå band I write about, maybe some locals have good anecdotes about those early 90s and them?
EDIT: Turns out that the Dorian compilation The Immediates was a project of Roger Gunnarsson. So yeah, two different bands here. I wrote about two different The Immediates, both from Sweden, both from around the same time. I leave the post as is, but notice this important fact!
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Listen
The Immediates – Pop Girl
