Happy Friday. Wishing all a good weekend!

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: “They Only Wanted Your Soul” is a new release coming out on September 25 on vinyl. This 10 song album is more of a compilation. It includes the very rare 4-song 7″ “I Should Have Helped You” plus 6 more tracks about record shopping, religion, worker’s rights aand more.

Soft Pastels: “California Circus” is the latest single by this San Francisco project. The dreampop project from thee Bay Area has show us before some lovely songs and this is no exception. I am not a big fan of little lyrics (and ones that are hard to grasp), but on this song I think it works well!

Adults: Fika Recordings from London is releasing the album “For Everything, Always” by this pop punk band also from London. The four piece formed by Carl, Joe, Joely and Tom have crafted a poppy and catchy album of 13 songs. Two of them we can preview now, “All We’ve Got // All We Need” and “Things We Achieve”. Thee album is releasing on October 14 on vinyl.

Linda Smith: the legendary Linda Smith just uploaded to Bandcamp a collection of songs from 1987 called “The Space Between Buildings”. It looks like this was released then as a tape and you wonder how rare it is. But happy to be able to listen to it now! On it she covers “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” too.

Boyish: our Japanese friends released many years ago a wonderful album titled “Sketch for 8000 Days of Moratorium”. Now we can listen to the songs on the album but as demo versions. That’s quite cool!

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Another great find on Soundcloud.

We head to Bristol, to 1987. What a great time that must have been. Sarah Records was being born. There were great venues like the Tropic Club. There was the Subway Organisation. There were superb bands too like The Groove Farm or The Five Year Plan. And now I found there was a band called The Jade.

An account called Bristolsound by someone called Matt Barrett has uploaded 6 songs. These 6 songs seem to have come from a 1987 demo tape by this band. I can’t say for certain if Matt was part of the band or not. The only certainty I have are these six wonderful songs.

The songs are “The Man”, “A Cloud of Sound”, “How Many”, “Perpetual Motion”, “Stay Awake” and “Vague in Vogue”. There are no details about any of these songs, but listening to them is quite enough. They are fantastic!

But then I do a little more digging. I find that Alex Lee was in The Jade and played guitar and keyboards for the band. Alex Lee was also in The Coltraines, The Blue Aeroplanes, Strangelove, Suede, Placebo and Goldfrapp among others. Two other names may appear on tags, Joe and Allen. Allen could it be Rodney Allen? I don’t know. It is just a guess. I’ve read too that The Jade is considered by many Bristol fans that they were the best Bristol band that never made it.

I haven’t been able to find much more about the band, but this is some good info.

Edit: just a little piece of extra info from our friend Paul from The Haywains. He told me he once saw them live at a venue called The Bristol Bridge.

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Listen
The Jade – Perpetual Motion