Day 253.
The Painted Word: so Firestation Records is releasing the unreleased album by The Painted Word. It actually just came out on November 13th. There was a video made for the song “Universal” many many years ago. I am only aware of it even though it has been on Youtube since 2017. In any case, it is a good time to discover it. The album is available on vinyl directly from Firestation and mailorders.
Cinéma Lumière: the debut EP by Xavier Emas new indiepop project is out now! “Dreamcatcher” is available digitally now and I must say I am enjoying a lot the new songs by the Manila based band. There are four songs on the EP and I recommend it highly!
The Reds, Pinks & Purples: more by Glenn Donaldson’s project. There should be many records out by the band with so many songs. And indeed there are a bunch. But of course there should be more! The newest songs in his repertoire are “Let’s Pretend We’re Not in Love” and “Summer at Land’s End”. Good stuff!
Kiwis: this is am gutted to have missed. The Barcelona band released “Vida Exterior” on vinyl, a fabulous 9 song album sung in Catalan. The three songs we can preview on Bandcamp are wonderful wonderful. If anyone knows how I can get a copy of this let me know. Sounds amazing and I need it!
Say Sue Me: the Busan, South Korea, band are back with two new songs on a 7″! These songs are “Your Book” and “Good People” and they are really good (as usual). The 7″ is being released by Optimal Records of Germany and it will be limited to a 1,000 copies!
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Back to the Woking Soundscene Soundcloud for more great obscure pop songs. Today I discovered “Don’t Let Me Down” by The Perfect Circles from Farnham!
Will I find more information about them? I hope so.
This song comes from a tape called “Suburban Overtones” that was released in 1993. It included three other songs, “Unfair World”, “Breaking Away” and “Dirty Streets”. They were recorded at Raven Studios in Camberley, between the 4th and 7th of September of that year with additional help from Jon O’Neill on keyboards.
The band was a three piece. It was formed by Paul Morris on vocals and guitar, Ady Evans on bass and John Metccalfe on drums. They were around from 1993 to 1996.
It doesn’t look like they didn’t get to release any records but they did appear on a few compilations. They had their songs “Cryin’ Out for Love” and “So Much to Me” on the “Sapphire” tape compilation released by Bliss Aquamarine (BLISS 020) in 1995. That same year the song “Fallen Hero” was included in the compilation “Snakebite City Three” released by Bluefire Records (BLU06) and the song “Don’t Let me Down” was included in the “Farnborough Groove Vol. 5”. In 1996 their song “Rainchaser” appears on the “Farnorough Groove Vol. 6” tape and “Cryin’ Out For Love” on the “Snakebite City Four”.
I look at the Facebook page for Woking Soundscene, why not? I have found great stuff there in the past. Here I find some images. One of them show that The Perfect Circles played at The New Inn in Basingstoke in October 7th 1995.
On another Facebook page by Farnborough Groove, I see that the song “Rainchaser” was also recorded by a band called Modern Art Thieves. Was it the same band members in this band? Who’d know?
And yeah, that’s all really I could find about this band. But they sound quite good, especially the song “Don’t Let Me Down”!
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