Day 71. Not much news today. Just that it is weekend and that’s a good thing. New releases on Cloudberry are progressing slowly, but surely. What about you all? I’ve got a few requests on bands to feature. That was cool, one after the other. I’d like that. Keep the ideas coming.
Littler: “This Boulder Won’t Push Itself” and “Natural Disaster” are two brand new songs by this Philly band whose proceeds they will be donating to Movement for Black Lives COVID19 Mutual Aid Fund. Even though the band tags themselves as a punk band, at least in these two songs I can see a lot of American 90s noisy pop!
Dig Nitty: is Reggie Bender, Erin McGraith and Bernardo Ochoa. I believe they hail from Brooklyn, so pretty close to me. And they are releasing an album on July 24 on Exploding Sounds Records. It is coming out on vinyl with 11 songs as well as digital. Only one song available to preview, “Lomita”, which sounds promising.
Las Margaritas: this cool band that features Mai from My Light Shines For You has just put together a wonderful video for their song “Las Flores”! It is a great jangly song by this Chilean band. The video are a collage of little snippets she recorded on her trip to the island of Chiloé, in her countries’ southern region.
Un Día Soleado: we cross to the other side of the Andes, to Argentina. There we find this great new project called Another Sunny Day, well, in Spanish. A tribute to Harvey Williams for sure. The band has just put together a digital two-track single on Hikikomori Discos. These two songs are lovely crafted jangle pop songs, “Patinando con los Muertos” and “La Lluvia Vuelve a Caer”.
The Spanish Amanda: the album “Pop’s Gone and Bought a Gun” is a terrific comeback of the London (now Luton) band! Remember them? They released a classic album on Firestation Records in 2000. I interviewed them also on the blog. Amazing pop. Terrific lyrics. Is great to hear Huw’s songs again. Here you’ll find 10 smartly crafted songs, with no guitar solos as he says. To play time and time again.
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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called “rayographs” in reference to himself.
Here is yet another amazing Irish band I discover through one of my favourite blogs, The Fanning Sessions Archive!
it is true I mentioned Man Ray on my post about Bam Bam and the Calling as they both shared a flexi back in 1988. But I hadn’t had the chance to listen the wonderful track Man Ray contributed until not too long ago. I could finally listen to “Apology” thanks to that blog!
It doesn’t look as if the band released any other songs which is a shame. This one song, “Apology”, appeared as an A2 on the flexi released by Helden Magazine (HL03) after Bam Bam and the Calling’s “New Surroundings”. This flexi was given away the Helden fanzine in Northern Ireland and was their way to support the local music scene.
The quality of the track doesn’t seem to be the best, but I am very thankful to the Fanning Sessions blog. You can appreciate what a good indiepop track this is. You wonder if there were more tracks recorded by the band. Perhaps this one song was part of a two or three song demo cassette. Who would know?
The little bio on the Fanning Sessions blog tells us three names that were in the band: Robert McGlone on drums, Brendan Morrison on vocals and guitar and Mary Mulrine on backing vocals. He also says that Robert McGlone now plays in Jam Pact.
The comment sections do shed some more light. We know that Anthony O’Kane on rhythm guitar and Phil Crothers on bass completed the lineup. It is actually Phil Crothers who shares this info and also lets know that the band started in 1986, with all the members but Robert at the Foundation Year Art courise in Rupert Stanley College in Belfast. The band would later play across Ireland and even recording a session for the BBC show Across the Line as well as appearing on the BBC show Channel One hosted by Jackie Hamilton of the Moondogs. I would love to watch it! And listen to the session!
Another interesting bit of info is that EMI and Polydor had interest in the band just after the band had decided to split!
Aside from this information there’s not much more on the web. Maybe Mary Mulrine played played in a band Gráscar in the early 90s. But that’s really all I could find. Oh! And it seems too that Robert McGlone collaborated with The Knievels. Then we know Brendan moved to Chile and plays there. Mary has been playing folk and traditional music. Phil would end up playing in a band called Stonefish through the 90s who have recently reformed. But no other information about Man Ray. And I’d really like to find out if there are more songs about them. And where are they now? Why didn’t they release any other records? How long did Man Ray lasted as a band?
Please let me know if you have any other details about them! They do sounds amazing on this one song, “Apology”!
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Man Ray – Apology
