part of the goodie bag for the gig

come on over, y'know we've been waiting for you

Why don't you love me like you did before?

We will never die, no, no, we will never die.

Under the April sky

Hey honey what you trying to say
As I stand here don't you walk away
And the world comes tumbling down

Hand in hand in a violent life
Making love on the edge of a knife
And the world comes tumbling down

And it's hard for me to say
And it's hard for me to stay
I'm going down to be by myself
I'm going back for the good of my health
And there's one thing I couldn't do
Sacrifice myself to you
Sacrifice

who the hell are bulldozer crash?

a bulldozer crash interview and some songs by them.

the estuary is calling me

in the city think of where I'd rather be
near the trees or summer breeze
down by the lake we'll still 'til late
instead of bars we'll watch the stars



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ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

all we are still saying is . . . .

positively teenage

My compilation cassette positively teenage has recently been posted on takethepills.blogspot.com. I didn't think the sound quality was quite as bad as that, I'm sure it sounded better back in 1990. When I get chance I'm going to scan the fanzine that came with it, each of the bands wrote a page for it, well most of them did, for the ones that didn't I told a few fibs.


(A01) The Love Parade - Dave Clark 5
(A02) The Gravy Train - Devil In Your Shoe
(A03) Lavender Faction - In My Mind
(A04) The Sunflowers - Sunflower Babies
(A05) St.James Infirmary - The Sun Don't Shine
(A06) The Mayfields - Out To Sea
(A07) Penny Candles - Memory Box
(A08) Regulators - Southside Johnny
(A09) Remember Fun - P.S. Elaine
(A10) Church Grims - Plaster Saint
(A11) Marc - Clearer, Brighter, Sharper
(A12) Felicity's - Why Don't You Come Round
(A13) Crimson Mints - Makes Me Want To
(A14) Mousefolk - Wishing The Summer Away
(A15) The Fat Tulips - All That Matters
(B01) The Love Parade - Eternally
(B02) The Gravy Train - All Fall Down
(B03) The Sunflowers - Sunflowers Mum
(B04) Perfect Kiss - So Many Alike
(B05) Church Grims - Seen It All
(B06) Panda Pops - Submarine
(B07) The Williams - Still Keep Coming
(B08) St.Christopher - Charmelle
(B09) The Driscolls - It's Your Daughter
(B10) The Sohfas - Thorns
(B11) The Spinning Jenny's - Gardeners Weakly
(B12) Bulldozer Clarts - Walks Away
(B13) Librarians - Stripping In The Cemetry
(B14) Strawberry Story - For The Love Of Billy
(B15) Hellfire Sermons - Down All The Days
(B16) Patrick Skelly & The Prescriptions - Land Of Tears

i will treasure you

Mike from Slumberland Records asked if I'd be interested in putting together a podcast for his site , I said yes and it's now online, you can download it from here http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/extras/podcast/20

I hope you enjoy it. I meant to embed this photo in the mp3 file but somehow forgot.



I seem to have a big blue sky obsession going on at the moment.

that summer feeling is gonna haunt you the rest of your life

It was Popklubb's second birthday a couple of weeks ago and everyone was invited to do a mix cd and swap it for one someone else had done. Mine was an unseasonal collection of summer songs, I hope who ever picked it out the box found some songs to enjoy. I'd like to thank Stretch(?) for mine which was full of great songs by Jethro Tull, Sting and the Chieftans, nice one, cheers for that. I've uploaded the songs from my CD here . . . that summer feeling and included the artwork too. Kris from Heaven Is Above Your Head also did a mix and you can read how to get a copy of that here . . . Design to Warm.


that summer feeling

1. Summer Smash / Denim 3:38
2. Summer High / Adventures In Stereo 1:53
3. Summer in the City / The Lovin' Spoonful 2:43
4. the end of the summer on bookbinder road / Cocoanut Groove 3:07
5. Here Comes The Summer / Corduroy Utd. 3:08
6. A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill / Jens Lekman 3:28
7. That Summer Feeling / Jonathan Richman 3:57
8. Hey Sunshine / Let's Whisper 2:31
9. Indian Summer / Beat Happening 3:05
10. Summer Has Changed / Blackflower 4:19
11. Summer Babe / Pavement 3:14
12. Double Summer / The Chills 3:09
13. the summers first kiss / Celestial 3:55
14. Summershine / The Sea Urchins 4:03
15. Next Summer / Brighter 2:58
16. The Summer You Love / St. Cristopher 2:27
17. Summertime / Galaxie 500 6:00
18. Warm July / Sodastream 4:24
19. Wild Rice / Summer Cats 3:32
20. You'll Never See That Summertime again / Friends 4:47
21. Summer Is Here / Go-Kart Mozart 3:26
22. Summer Of Their Dreams / Virginia Astley 3:22

stay beneath the covers child, don't miss the dream, don't be the first to go, don't trust no one.

I know it's well out of date now,but I was going to use this review in the next fanzine, but I'm not sure when that will appear so I thought I'd best put the review up here instead. . . . . . .

Indietracks Festival Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July, 2008

saturday
I couldn't believe it, getting stuck on the bloody steam train for nearly three quarters of an hour and just making it to the church to hear the final strains of Still Corners last song of their set, not a great start to the festival, I was gutted that I'd missed them playing one my favourite songs of the year History Of Love live. Silverdrop were the first band of the weekend that I was to fall for. They certainly have a star in their main man Bjorn, a cross between the dance moves of Ian Curtis and the mannerisms of Wayne Coyne. The music really caught my ear, so I had to buy a CD_R from them that came wrapped in some lovely wallpaper for only £2.














I only caught the last two tracks by the Paralellograms one of which was a cover of Steamin Train and I swear if you closed your eyes you may well have thought you were listening to Tallulah Gosh. The Kabeedies were angular but very bouncy too and did well despite only having three strings on the bass guitar.

The Lodger were wonderful, I nearly managed to miss them while i was sweating every bit of water out of my body in the church watching Darren Hayman, I'd heard him do my favourite - Caravan Song so when Neave phoned to say "Night, Night" and I walked outside into the still shining bright sun and the pure pop sound of My Finest Hour I was never going back in the church. The Lodger were brilliant with those disco guitars pretending they were Chic just like Orange Juice they can't help themselves. Highlight was The Good Old Days especially those falsetto "Alright, alright" , I hope no one is ever subjected to my version as I sing along to them .

The ageless Harvey Williams played about 5 songs on his keyboard before he put a smile on everyone's face and picked up his guitar and treated the audience to some classic Another Sunny Day. He almost lifted the roof off the church when he did Anorak City changing the words to fit , I'm nearly sure he rhymed Swanwick Junction with serving luncheon .


(Harvey Williams - Anorak City)

sunday
After a nice lie in until 10 in my comfy Travelodge bed, I headed towards Swanwick Junction once more, on arrival I picked up a couple of presents for Neave from the gift shop including a train whistle that I'm sure she will annoy her mother with.

Brontosaurus Chorus (best or worst named band of the weekend? The jury is still out on that one.) were the first band for me on the morning , there was about 7 or 8 people on stage making true summery pop sounds. The Middle Ones were laughing, smiling , giggling and totally excited to be playing their songs in the church, and what lovely indie folk pop songs they were, those harmonies were a delight to listen to.

A band that for me stood head and shoulders above almost every one else today were A Classic Education. Songs that at times were anthemic in a similar way that Hurrah!'s were. If Esurient Communications were still alive I feel almost certain that this would be the label for them. Best song was a new one inspired in part by the Grandad of the singer with Elliot Gould's eyes. I would have bought a copy of the bands 12" but I was afraid that it would warp in the tremendous heat, so I will have to try and order it online when I get back home. Just like the festival compilation which sold out before I could nab myself a copy.


(a classic education - wartimes )[the grandad song I mention]

All the band's start times were somehow messed up today so I didn't catch the start of the Rosie Taylor Project's set, so I'm not sure if I missed them doing Maps for Lovers, it was made up for a little bit when they did Black and White Films.

Strawberry Story said that this was to be their last ever gig as they were too old and were retiring, which is a great shame as Hayley had the biggest and nicest smile of any of the bands playing. One of the bands I was really looking forward to seeing was The Wave Pictures and they didn't disappoint. Playing my favourites, the singles from the last album, which had a great punky edge to them.

I thought I had missed the Dierdres but because of line up changes I managed to catch them, they were jumping around like crazy people, I'm not sure if it was the heat of the day that had got to them, but they were certainly excitable and lots of fun. Until today I had ignored the Manhattan Love Suicides, they looked the part and all their songs were fuzzed up bubblegum overdosed guitar pop, I must buy something by them now!

Another great weekend with only one regret, I forgot all about Gregory Webster playing on the train at 3.15, maybe I'll catch him another time.


(gregory webster - the world keeps on turning )

welcome, welcome we've been waiting for you, come on over you know we all adore you

Click on the words above and listen to "It's time" my favourite song this week.

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i tried to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies, I tried to laugh about it, hiding the tears in my eyes

flower and chocolate

Neave's guinea pigs.

she carved his name into a tree , etched a heart t.l.f.e.

could this be the start of something? could it be the end of a phase? could it be the start of the future? could it be the good old days?

I know you really shouldn't take months to write a fanzine, but it's been 18 years and I was a little rusty around the edges. Finally it's here though, this almighty pop! number five, I hope someone enjoys it and my spelling mistakes and bad grammar don't spoil it too much. It comes with what I think is an excellent compilation CD, and is on my this almighty pop record label, which I am about to start this month. The first band on the label is Play People and you should be able to buy their CD single by the end of next week. I will also be selling the last bunch I have of the first four issues of this almighty pop as a package deal, as much as I have liked them hanging around in my garage for the last 18 years it's time for them to find new homes, thats if anyone will have them. For details on the new fanzine, the record label and the old fanzines head on over to www.thisalmightypop.com

this almighty pop! number five .... about bloody time!

I found this amongst the this almighty pop original photocopies, I can't remember but maybe it was meant to go in number one. I just wish I could find the tape Kevin Pearce sent me with those songs on.