Time for weekend! This was a busy week with posts every single day! Hope you enjoyed them. Here is some cool music to enjoy over the weekend!

Draag: what a sound from this Los Angeles shoegaze band! Their latest track is called “Alternative Privilege” and seems to be a digital single. They have posted the lyrics and we know the band is presenting themselves at The Echo, that great club, on February 24th.

Future Echoes: this one-man band is back with a three song EP titled “Cyan”.  The songs included are “Kaleidoscope”, “Silhoutte” and “Coalescence” and they are packed with great melodies and jangly guitars. This is the sort of band I used to release back in the day in 3″ CDs, pretty pretty!

The Sundries: this South East London band just released their first ever EP of catchy indiepop! The EP is called, believe it or not, “Magic Johnson”, and has 4 terrific tracks that remind me so much of the wonderful Pocketbooks!! I can see them playing Indietracks this year. They must.

Lisasinson: the Spanish band who surprised me last year with the superb “Barakaldo” are back with a new single with the songs “Atasco” and “Casamiento”. They have made a video for the opening track, “Atasco”, which I tell you not to miss! Sadly this is a digital single, no proper records by them as of yet.

Reamer: the last recommendation is this three-piece from Halifax, Canada, formed by Daniel Trainor-McKinnon, Danger McBarley and Connor Macleod. They put out a digital self-titled EP last October with three shoegazy fuzzy tracks!

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This is quite a discovery on the WokingSoundscene Soundcloud, a band that was clearly influenced by The Primitives and The Darling Buds! Poppy, punky, with female vocals, and catchy melodies, it does look like I need to know more about the Bubble-Eyed Dog Boys!

First question. Where does their name come from? Strange name isn’t it?

I do know the band hailed from the Epsom/Sutton in England and were managed by Mark Allison. They were around between 1990 and 1991 and were formed by:
Bev Abbot – vocals
Tony Ware – guitar
Anne Turner – bass
Ian Abbott – drums

Second question. Were Bev and Ian siblings? Yes they were. They actually had been together in a band previously, The Gotham City Wreckers. Before that Bev had been involved in Lost Cherrees, an anarcho-punk band. How did The Gotham City Wreckers sound like? Were they pop?

The band released a cassette EP called “Understand Nothing” which included three songs, “Understand Nothing”, “99 (Is Not Enough)” and “Turnaround”. These three songs were recorded at Greenhouse Studios in London, in May 1990, and were produced by Mike Jones and engineered by Paul Gadd.

They, as it is usual with all these bands that I have discovered through this great resource, the band appeared on the first volume of the Farnborough Groove tape series, “The Farnborough Groove Vol. 1” compilation with the track “Turnaround”.

Aside from that the band appeared on the tape that came accompanying the 3rd volume of the fanzine Big Muff. They contributed the song “99 (Is Not Enough.” They were interviewed on this fanzine, would be nice to see a scan of that!

They supported Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine along with the band Frantic at the West End Centre in Aldershot on June 9th 1990. They also supported Voice of the Beehive at the Marquee Club. Later on in 1991 we’d see the band supporting Thrilled Skinny with The Keatons at the Rumble Club in Tunbridge Wells. Another gig was the one they played on March 11th 1991 at the legendary Bull & Gate. They may also have played at the Farnborough Labour Club along The Senseless Things sometime in 1989. And they also supported The Popguns at the West End Centre on Friday August 2nd of 1991 alongside Phobia and Blue Velvet.

But that’s not all, I stumble upon a flyer of the band, of what seems a tour they did. I can’t tell which year it was, but maybe I can get some help here from you all. I am pretty sure it was 1991 though. It shows that the band played in all these places: Kent University in Canterbury, Pop Club in Kentish Town, After Dark in Reading, Technical College in Farnborough, Rumble Club in Tunbridge Wells, The Square in Harlow, Joiners Arms in Southampton, A Field and Anotehr Field in Shetlands, Drummonds in Aberdeen, University in Dundee, College in Galashiels, King Tuts in Glasgow and The Reaction in Wendover.

Then I end up learning some sad news, Mark Allison, their manager, passed away from pancreatic cancer back in 2016. The Daily Record dedicates an article to him.

What happened to the rest of the band members? Where are they now? Did they continue making music? I lost their track quite easily. And was it really just one tape? That’s all they released? Only 3 songs recorded? There must be more? Or not?

Any information will be appreciated!

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Listen
Bubble-Eyed Dog Boys – Turn Around