Day 234

Stephen’s Shore: our Stockholm friends will be back with a wonderful 7″ on January 22nd. This new 7″ EP will be titled “Brisbane Radio” and will be released by the great Meritorio Records from Spain! There will be 4 songs, one of which we can preview right now, the opening track on the A side, “Brisbane Radio”. Other songs in the record are “Midvert”, “Skogen” and “Up to No Good”. Essential!

Boy with Apple: I don’t know anything about this Gothenburg based band only that their new song “Iceage” sounds really good to me. It is on their label’s Bandcamp, Varø. I should keep an eye on them.

Cassie: the Isle of Wight band which I interviewed not too long ago, and who re-released their classic 7″ earlier this year on Reminder Records, is going to be back with “The Light Shines On” LP! This LP that includes many of there great songs that never got to see the light of day is available now to pre-order on Reminder Records site. There are also 4 songs there to preview, “Falling”, “Boys will be Boys”, “Keep in Touch” and “She’s a Flirt”

Talking Bloom: here is a Windsor, Ontario, Canada, band that have just released a new song called “Bloom”. They make swirling shoegaze/dreampop and they do it well! The band is formed by Nate Blackton, Jill Goyeau, Jay Turnbull and Jeremy Brousseau.

Rilev: and one more. And yes, more shoegaze. This time from Mexico City where the band Rilev released their album “FADE” just today. It is a short one, 7-songs, but it is quite dreamy and moody that sounds good for this very gray Lima day.

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So I did write about the Glasgow trio Christine’s Cat and I mentioned that I had to write about The Besotted as Robert Smith had been in both bands as well as The Golden Dawn. Today I am making that promise true.

I doubt there’s much to find about The Besotted on the web but I will try of course. I know them thanks to a 7″ that Blam-A-Bit from Germany released in 1992. This was the “Kaleidoscope” 7″ (BLAM 014) that I do own but I can’t seem to remember where I bought it. I feel it was through an obscure German mailorder many years ago, but it could as well have been eBay. In any case it was a 7″ that I really enjoyed playing a lot when it got home. It has some great noisy songs.

These songs were four, two on each side. The A side has “Kaleidoscope” and “Mooncrash” while the B side has “Everyday” and “Dolls House”. Something cool about the vinyl is that it has some etchings on the runout. The A side says “Scratch it out!” while the B side “What’s Your Perversion? – Phone 06257-86248”. Who’s phone was that?

The 7″ itself has no more information.

We do know though that the band contributed songs to a few compilation starting in 1990 with “Sugarpuff” to the compilation “And they Call it Pop” released by Fragrant in the UK and on the 1990 tape compilation “Heol Daou” from France they had the song “Every Day”.

The song “Sugarpuff” would appear too on the “Around the World” (ER-016) tape comp released by Elefant in 1992 and on the “Firefly 2” cassette that came along the US fanzine “Burning the Midnight Firefly” that Keith D’Arcy made.

In 1992 the band would contribute “Kaleidoscope” to the “Around the World Again” tape released by Elefant (ER020) and  the song “Mooncrash” would appear in the “Everlasting Happiness” compilation released by our friend Andreas from Germany.

And that’s it when it comes to releases and songs it seems. We know too that Robert Smith went to be in the band Meth O.D. during the 90s.

Our Madrid friend Alex wrote about this single in his blog 7iete Pulgadas back in 2016! In this blog post he mentions that he can’t find any information and even Cloudberry Cake Proselytism hasn’t written anything about them! Oh dear! He was counting on the blog and we disappointed. Hopefully we can make up for it now.

Of course one thing we need to find out is who was the female vocalist. That is something I am curious about. I suppose it was just Robert and her. Was she in other bands perhaps? Another interesting thing would be to know if there are more songs. We know at least of 5 songs.

Who would know more about them? Any information will be appreciated!

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Listen
The Besotted – Kaleidoscope