Day 160. I started posting Macguffins CDs last Monday and today I am posting a new batch of pre-orders. Little by little all will be mailed. Takes some time as I can’t spend much time in the post office, but I feel that by next week all pre-orders will be mailed. I want to thank everyone that has supported the label by buying this new CD. And yes we are working on a new 7″ at the moment. Mastering of the tracks and artwork are being taken care right now. Should be able to announce very soon (unless you saw the news on the band’s Instagram a few weeks ago!).

Another thing, I would love to get more suggestions or requests for bands to cover on the blog. There are lots of bands that haven’t been covered here, but would love to know of some you are interested in. Please do comment or email me, or send a message through Facebook, or Twitter. Just let me know of obscure bands we want more info!

Tricorollars: there are just 3 copies of the 7″ the band released in 2014. It is a great twee EP of three songs called “Fairy Daily EP” and I suggest getting it. It is available on Galaxy Train’s Bandcamp. I can’t order it sadly because it says shipping to the US is 188.04 dollars. Crazy!

Corolla: two new songs from this Chicago project, “Forget this Song” and “Fading”. There is very little information about them, we know the band is formed by John Dugan, Ben Taylor, Erik Cameron and Carlos Lowenstein, and they seem to like Orange Juice. Previously in 2019 they released a 3 song EP.

Cinéma Lumière: two songs by the filipino band are now part of the Indonesian label Shiny Happy Records’ Digital Club. This new single comprises “Dream Catcher” and “Love”, two fine dreamy tracks!

Poolshop: Jaime Fryer, Vlada Edirippulige, Luke Pallier, Peter Bernoth and Dougal Morrison, form this great sounding band from Brisbane. They have released an album called “A Shadow”. It is a great dreampop effort, hopefully gets released in physical formats.

The Lodger: the great UK band is going to be back with an album sometime this year (I hope). They have been very active lately on Facebook and it is there where they have posted a new song called “I’m Over this (Get Over it)”. Sounds like classic the Lodger!

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Going back to the “Mop Up Before You Leave” compilation of bands from Champaign-Urbana that Matt Allison produced and put together (check the previous post about Little Engine for more info), I jump to the third track on Side 1 for a another great pop song, Earwigs’ “One Afternoon”!

This song has a timestamp, as all the songs on this compilation. This one was recorded on May 1989. This song, this compilation, is on Youtube, uploaded by Rob McColley who was part of the band Little Engine. Happily he has added a photo and a scan of a tape that the band put out giving some extra information which is terribly helpful!

One thing that caught my attention is that officially the band was called The Silver Earwigs according to the tape they put out. On the compilation they appear as Earwigs. I guess I’ll call them The Silver Earwigs then as this tape was their own release.

The tape which includes 10 songs was produced by Matt Allison, with art by Archer. We also see that the band was actually a duo, with Pete Eggleson on vocals, balalaika and treschalka and Keith Morris on vocals, guitars, percussion and keyboards.

The songs that appear on this tape (was it their only tape they put out?) were: “Safe Before the Sky”, “You Will be Killed”, “One Afternoon”, “Deadlines” and “The Wasteland” on the A side; “Mulberry St.”, “A Season in a Day”, “Where Were You”, “The City of God” and “Circular Ruins Revisited” on the B side.

I have tried googling for them but I can’t find any hits. So this is all the information I have available at the moment. It is something of course. But would love to hear the music, all the songs, from that tape for example. Any help will be appreciated!

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Listen
The Silver Earwigs – One Afternoon