Day 248.
Trashcan Sinatras: the Scottish band is back with a 7″ that will include the new single “Ways” and the previous one, “The Closer You Move Away from Me”. This 7″ is very limited and is being released by Last Night From Glasgow. The record should be coming out in early 2021 but pre-orders are available if you follow the link.
Chavales: the Elefant Records band have a new video for their song “Dame Veneno” where we follow the band members around Madrid. It brings lots of memories of course, seeing the metro, the buses, times when I could visit that great town.
Grubs: “It Must Be Grubs” was the terrific album the band released on Tuff Enuff Records back in 2016. It seems a few copies are available again. Very few copies. I sadly can’t afford 15 dollars shipping and will have to skip this record. But those of you in Europe that can get more decent prices, well, you shouldn’t miss it!! Because it is good (even though the jacket artwork leaves me wondering…)
Dead Famous People: a long time ago I recommended the new album “Harry” by the legendary Auckland band fronted by Donna Savage. Well, nowadays you should already have the record, I do, but if you want to preview all 10 songs, they are up now on Bandcamp. It is a terrific album. One of the best this year.
The Yellow Melodies: Rafa Skam’s project has been going for years, decades, now. He is one of indiepop’s most fervent enthusiasts, you can see him at every pop festival, playing in bands, writing fanzines and blogging reviews. His latest release is going to be the “Sunshine Pop EP2”. It will have 5 songs and will be released on CD on December 4. Right now the first song is available to preview, “Follow the Sun”.
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Another great find in the Fanning Sessions blog! What a great place to find great pop songs from Ireland!
There is not much info about this band but it is worth checking them out and their song “Million Miles” that was shared in that post.
We know that the band hailed from Derry and was a 4 piece formed by Colum McKeever on guitar and vocals, Tony Morrison on guitar and vocals, Paul Edwards on bass and vocals and Tommy Alford on drums.
I don’t think they released any records, but they’d must have recorded some demo tapes. Would be good to find out about them.
The band formed sometime in the mid 80s. And in 1986 they moved to Belfast. In 1985 they had already won the Smithwicks Rock & Pop Award and played the Sense of Ireland Festival in London in March/April 1986. They were going places it seemed. So what happened?
In 1986 the band also recorded a session for Radio Foyle. Which songs were recorded for it? That would also be great to find out. Then they appeared on TV, on Channel One on the program Visual Eyes. There they performed the song “Million Miles” on August 20, 1986. From comments in the Youtube link we know that Colum McKeever is a teacher.
The band also used to have a Myspace back in the day. We can’t play the songs there but we know at least some song titles: “A Million Miles Away” (was this the right name of the song? or just “Million Miles”?), “It’s So Hard”, “No Place to Hide”, “Pride Unseen” and “Bite the Hand”. According to Irishrock.org other songs of theirs included “Perfect”, “Tell Me Now” and “So Hard”.
Now through Google I find that actually Noel Burke from St. Vitus Dance, when I interviewed him he recommended me the band! How funny. I should have explored all his recommendations then.
The only other detail about the band is that they played The Savoy Theatre in Limerick on May 30th, 1986.
And that’s it. Very little information on the web. Maybe we’ll get to know more about them soon.
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