Day 169. Wrapping up August. So many months of confinement. We need music to keep us healthy, don’t we?

Neil Avery: this South West London singer/songrwiter seems to be a big fan of The Smiths, Edwyn Collins and even The Chesterfields according to his bio. And that’s cool of course. He has just released a mini-album called “Mummy… Look What I Just Trod In!”that has 7 fine indiepop songs!

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: the band from San Francisco that releases and releases great jangly songs is putting out a a 12″ album on Tough Love Records on October 2nd. It seems it will do well, the band’s copies seem to be almost sold out, 5 copies left at the time of writing this post. The mini-album has 8 songs and we can preview the opening track, “Last Summer in a Rented Room”.

Even As We Speak: the classic Australian band released the wonderful album “Adelphi” this year. A terrific album. Well, now the band continues promoting it releasing a promo video for the song “Leaves”.

The Bats: another band that has made a video is The Bats! They have put together a cool video directed and starred by Conor Bowden for the song “Warwick” which will be included in their upcoming album “Foothills”.

Daisy-Chain: lastly a band from Orlando that make fun lo-fi bedroom, ramshackle, crash pop. Their latest release is called “Tragic Magic”, 6 songs of riotous pop. Good stuff.

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A comment on the Hugebigmassive post made me curious about this band. I had never heard before so I went to Soundcloud to check them out.

I didn’t find any studio recordings by there are four songs recorded live at the Abbey Park Festival Archive. I believe the year they played them was in 1990. But aside from that there’s no other info.

The songs on Soundcloud are “Harry Graff”, “My Beautiful Sunday”, “Keep on Smiling” and “Dreams of Love”, and indeed they sound terrific. I really want to hear more and I definitely have to explore this Soundcloud account, what other treasures may I discover here!

Luckily I found a Facebook page of the Abbey Park Festival. Now comes the hard part, scroll and scroll until you find something about The Yabis

And I did, so they hailed from New Parks in Leicester. And then there are a bunch of good photos. I find that the vocalist was Danny Rawlings, the drummer was Chris Dolman, Jeff Chandler guitars, and Blair Borton bass. Sadly it seems Blair has passed away.

One cool thing about these photos is that the band featured cool The Yabis t-shirts. Would be cool to get one these days no?

While I listen to these wonderful songs I really want to hear their recordings. They are great really. How come they’ve been totally unknown to me. I have to thank the enigmatic Mark who commented on the blog. Thank you. This is a GREAT discovery for me. Terrific indiepop songs!

I find that the band at least recorded one demo tape. This tape had 5 songs: “Skegness”, “Beautiful Sunday”, “Dave Beech”, “Muriel Blues” and “You’ll be the Death”. Only one of them was played in the liveset. So that means that in total we know 8 original songs by them!

Aside from this tape they contributed the one song to a 10″ compilation called “The Huge Corporation Presents” in 1986,. The song they had was called “Warm is My Farm” and was released by Huge Corporation (HCP1). On the back of the sleeve it has a photo of the other three bands that appear in it, Sister Crow, Ten Days that Shock the World and Land of the Giants. But This Yabis has a photo of a cat.

And that’s it. So yeah, what does Yabis mean? And where they in any other bands? Are there more recordings? I am very interested right now. This is totally up my street and very excited about this discovery. Any help will be appreciated.

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Listen
The Yabis – My Beautiful Sunday (live at Abbey Park Festival 1990)