ANDY PAWLAK Wish You'd Believe

Thank you Andy, for giving me the chance and the honour to post your songs.

I know there are lots of people who really appreciate this!

Folks, if you have anything to say to ANDY PAWLAK, do it NOW!

ANDY PAWLAK - Wish You'd Believe (mp3)

GUS GUS Poly-Mixes

This is a collection of b-sides belonging to the various singles from GUS GUS' "POLYDISTORTION".

Long time forgotten on my HD but somehow returned onto my new mobile that I had to feed with music and more or less by some strange mood I chose this amongst an awful lot of other stuff.

And you know what? It's marvellous!

Enjoy the

GUS GUS - Poly-Mixes

01 Cold Breath'79 (husmix)

02 Believe (16B remix)

03 Believe (LFO remix)

04 Polydistortion

05 Believe

06 Oh

07 Cold Breath'79 (Craze)

08 Ghetto Belief

09 Polyesterday (Radio Edit)

10 Polyesterday (Carl Craig Shot In The Leg Vox)

11 Polyesterday (Bix & Óttar Mix)

12 Purple (Sasha V The Light) (Edit)

Cool as Iceland's summer.

THE PEARLFISHERS Demos And Outtakes

This post was made possible by Mike who runs SKINNER's and THE PEARLFISHERS' website plus the website of a record company that I am friend with: MARINA.

Back in 2004 I took some pictures during a PEARLFISHERS concert over here for MARINA.

And recently I posted some HIPSWAY / SKINNER stuff on my blog.

You can guess the rest, right?

Cool... Thanks so much, Mike!
And thank you, Davie, for these lovely tunes!!!

Enjoy this, dear PEARLFISHERS fans:

THE PEARLFISHERS - Demos And Outtakes (Demos, Outtakes, Alternative Mixes & Versions and a Cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Never Goin' Back Again")

01 The Cathkin Braes

02 The Vampires Of Camelon

03 The Vampires 2

04 Stella Painted Joy Interlude

05 We'll Get By (Edit)

06 We'll Get By (Edit II)

07 Pantohorse

08 Wa Wa

09 We'll Be The Summer (Instrumental Mix)

10 The Time Is Right

11 Everyday I Read Your Stars (Demo)

12 Over And Over

13 (blank - not added)

14 Never Goin' Back Again

15 Blue December (Writing Session)

16 Paula: Jimmy (Pearlfishers Remix)

17 Swan Dreams (live)

There might be some more to be posted in the near future...

JAMES GRANT My Father's Coat (Video)

This email reached me on 29th july:

From JAMES GRANT...:

Check out this film my friend Pete Martin made for "My Father's Coat"...

Starring Scottish literary icon William McIlvanney, tartan noir superstar Tony Black and Viva Miss Adventure...

http://www.vimeo.com/26937420

My–Fathers–Coat from Pete Martin on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

ANDY PAWLAK Walking

I guess you already figured out that you can expect some unreleased ANDY PAWLAK stuff here, right?

Today it is another wonderful DEMO called "Walking". Again from the Playstation sessions. But in my opinion it sounds perfect.

By the way, you are more than welcome to leave comments here...

ANDY PAWLAK - Walking (mp3)

ELECTRIC 80s Compilation Pt.1 (2005)

This is a pretty good compilation of the most successful tracks from back in the 80s.
Hardly any disappointments.
Some of the 12"-mixes back then were rubbish but it was the 80s so what... It was when 12" singles were just invented.

This is part 1 of 3:

ELECTRIC 80s (CD1):
01 Torch (12' Version) - Soft Cell
02 Fade To Grey (12' Version) - Visage
03 Today - Talk Talk
04 Brilliant Mind - Furniture
05 Planet Earth (12' Night Version) - Duran Duran
06 I Ran (Full Album Version) - A Flock Of Seagulls
07 Life In Tokyo (Original 12' Version) - Japan
08 Mad World - Tears For Fears
09 Enola Gay - OMD
10 Absolute - Scritti Politti
11 Obsession - Animotion
12 The First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters
13 Drowning In Berlin - Mobiles
14 I'm In Love With A German Filmstar (Long Version) - Passions
15 Moments In Love (12' 'Beaten' Version) - The Art Of Noise

NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS The Death Of You And Me (2011)

I don't like BEADY EYE...!

I was always a fan of NOEL GALLAGHER and I'm very happy to have stumbled over this here - from his forthcoming album to be released on 25th october.

Enjoy

NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - The Death Of You And Me

THE BRIGHTS A Trivial Pursuit - Album Reviews

Hey, I think the boys do not sound like THE SMITHS by accident, right?

From Record Collector:

Promising debut produced by Fraser Smith (Ian Brown)

“You’ve never been so shook up since you saw The Smiths in 1984,” David Burgess sings on A Trivial Pursuit’s ebullient opener and first single Footsteps. This Essex four-piece – line-up completed by guitarist James Prudence, bassist Mark Newton and drummer Matt Humphries – have obviously studied Johnny Marr’s guitar work and songcraft well; and the band aren’t afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves.
Theirs is a magical sound that meshes a little bit of Aztec Camera’s jingle-jangle with some of Orange Juice’s wit and wisdom, and a lot of The Housemartins’ soulful pop. Indeed, second single A Cameo Can’t Last Forever wouldn’t sound out of place on the latter’s 1987 album, The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death, it’s so wonderfully infectious and bubblegum-poppy.
The Brights sing honestly and poignantly on Barricade Of Love and Pride Step Aside and, while they aren’t the only ones drawing on the 80s indie pool (see the Edwyn Collins-produced Frankie And The Heartstrings for one), The Brights have a rare knack for melody and are truly something special indeed."

From Music News:
"Five minutes after slamming the door after another bloody day at work The Brights had me bouncing around the room like a mad thing on happy tabs.
They are simply gorgeous to listen to and their jangly and upbeat bonhomie is guaranteed to drag you up out of the worst of moods (I think unhappiness is a four letter word in Brights world).
They have touches of so many of those eighties pop bands – echoes of The Housemartins, Style Council and Haircut 100 not to mention Squeeze but those bands were making music at a time when people thought powder blue had depth, Princess Di was the epitome of cool and a beret was a rakish accessory – and everyone was doing it.
The Brights are playing their brand of feel good pop in a world where the world currencies are collapsed , where the government is ripping huge swathes of money out of the state and where the world is in imminent danger of a natural catastrophe not to mention war and famine – in fact in a world that desperately needs bright and breezy and maybe the Brights can turn the world back to the light and away from the darkness – all I know is that they bring a huge smile to my face and lift in my heart and that can’t be any bad thing.
Standouts on the album are probably ‘A Cameo Can’t Last Forever’ with a rhythm like the Style Council and a superb bassline courtesy of Mark Newton, the achingly lovely ‘Barricade Of Love’ – slow and bittersweet, really showing off David Burgess’ vocal skills – and ‘Pride Step Aside’, a superb broken love affair gem.
They aren’t just about jangly bounce and poppy lightness, they actually have written a number of excellent three minute pop songs and if it wasn’t for the preponderance of so-called ‘R&B’ they would be a massive draw for Radio 1 as well as 6.
Make sure you get a listen – they should be THE band of the summer."