Day 204.
Salt Lake Alley: really wow! What a beautiful song our friends Gustav and Mikael have made! It is called “Going Down” and it does indeed sound very Sarah-esque. This song will be part of their upcoming album “The Way it Feels” that will be released on October 30. This is already shaping up as one of my favourite albums this year. Can’t wait to hear it whole!
The Blanche Hudson Weekend: now available on CD is a retrospective album, a best of, by The Blanche Hudson Weekend! It has 25 songs!! And it comes in cool DVD packaging. It is called “Standing on the Lift to the Scaffold: 2009-2013”, and I think I really need this. Now.
Nuevos Dolores: “Octubre” is the latest song by this Madrid project. It is a feel-good jangly track. I don’t know much about this classic sounding band, but this is quite nice.
Grape: this is a great find! I like Grape, the band from Mark Barber, ex-Chesterfields, that released on Vinyl Japan. Just a few days ago the video for “Baby in a Plastic Bag” appeared on Youtube! How great! This song is also known because it featured PJ Harvey on vocals.
The Migraine Aura: just discovered this interesting project from Tacoma, Washington. They have 5 songs out now on their “Debut EP” cassette and they are fine jangly ones! The band is formed by AJ Dudick, Lucas Norton, James Knoeri and Cody Ouimet.
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This was quite a discovery. The other day I saw someone post the song “Was Never” by the Gleesome Threesome on the Twee Lovers Club Facebook page. And I was terribly curious!
Turns out this song was released in 1987 as the A side of a 7″ on Rodmersham Records. The B side was “Chantelle”. I had never heard of this band or this label.
Surely the label was their own, so a self-release, definitely. But the other details about this release on the Youtube description do shed some light on why this band is so rare. 300 copies were pressed and the band hand-made the sleeves. Now, most of the copies were lost on their way to the distributor. That is bad. Even worst, only 5 copies are known to exist. Out of tbose 5 copies, one is in Japan, in the hands of a collector, and the other 4 are with the band members.
On Discogs the hand-made sleeved do not appear. We do know that the catalog number was RODMER 001. We also know that Record Mirror said about the single “Probably the finest song ever recorded”, while Melody Maker said “Imagine the Beach Boys Party Album meets Jonathan Richman and you’ll get the idea” . So the magazines must have gotten a copy of the 7″, right? So at least 2 more copies were in circulation at some point?
We also see three names, Lawrence, Anthony and Adrian. No last names though. The person who posted this track on Facebook is called Adrian Gibson. Okay, that may or may not be a coincidence.
And that’s it really. As obscure as it gets. Where in the UK where they from? Did they appear on compilations? Any other recordings? Would be great to find out!
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