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Normal Service Is Resumed - From Toronto 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hey after a brief period of absence the Devil is back alive and kicking. I'm still in Canada but have just moved in to an apartment with a PC and an internet connection and the world is once again moving!. I've been trawling Toronto
's record shops for new and interesting sounds and will be posting more soon. But for tonight I thought that an update on a band that have featured here a couple of times and one of my favourite bands of the moment Pale Faced Princess. They have been busy while I've been in Canada. Pale Faced PrincessGenre: Indie / Experimental / RockFrom: Liverpool, United Kingdom They have a new song ready and, with a little luck and a fair wind, they'll be posting it at their Myspace site here early next week. Keep checking as I'm sure it will be awesome and may just change your life. They are promising that it will be a lot different than the other tracks they have released so far. They are also in the process of shooting a video for "Keep Her Safe" which I'm sure Read more:Normal
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Psych Videos 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Another in the irregular series of videos by my favourite bands. First up with a slice of faux psychedelia XTC's alter ego The Dukes Of Stratosphear...The Dukes Of StratosphearThe Mole From The MinistryNext up some real psychedelia from the Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett.The Pink FloydArnold Layneand finally some nu psychedelia from the Church...The ChurchAlmost with You Read more:Psych
Bits & Bobs and Other Stuff 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yes I know it's been a while but I have an excuse I have been working hard and spent last weekend in New York (how goods that?). Pictures will be included in future blogs (it's my objective to bore you all silly with my photos so take a seat it could be a long ride). So with all this going on time has been of the essence. Now that my feet have touched the ground I can start focusing on reality and return to my search for the perfect obscure, unknown indie band. I'm still in Toronto and have had a number of great emails from bands that I've featured on the blog.Markus from the wonderful Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring (who I described as a cross between Sice and Uncle Fester - sorry Markus) has been in touch. You can listen to a couple of incredible tracks at their website here and they are promising that next week you will be able to download a whole album from here (how good is that?).I've also had an email from one of my favourite new bands The Monolators (why are this band not
The Family Trait 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Family
TraitGenre: Rock / New Wave / IndieFrom: London, United KingdomThe Family Trait have been around for a couple of years now and deserve to be much much bigger than they are. Possibly dismissed as mere Smiths copyists they do bear an uncanny resemblance to Morrissey's former house band prompting one observer to comment that he thought two of their tracks were unreleased Smiths songs!! This is not surprising when you realise that singer Graeme Hughes has worked with Boz Boorer. But there is so much more to The Family Trait than a fixation with Mancunian glum rockers. One track on their myspace site (unfortunately not available for download), Sick With Desire, sounds kinda like the Beatles if Paul McCartney had been bi polar and living with a drunken father in a Liverpool hovel or Gene if Martin Rossiter had been a little happier with his lot in life. File under promising and watch them grow.The Family Trait - Myspace // Website
Al Hotchkiss 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Al HotchkissGenre: Psychedelic / Garage / Surf From: Glasgow, ScotlandA young singer songwriter who claims to be influenced by, among others, Syd Barrett, Link Wray, Bowie, Roy Orbison, Scott Walker and the B52s, is not lacking in confidence. But his confidence is well founded if the tracks on his myspace site are typical. From the Link Wray influenced Nuggets era psych garage wig out Channel X (which has more than a few echoes of the Acid Fascists )via Roadracers mix of Loaded era Primal Scream and the Electric Prunes through the surprisingly laid back, cool and soothing Flores to the, well, beatific Beatifics young Mr Hotchkiss backs his confidence up. These are songs that are the antithesis of anything covered in the NME these days and are all the better for that. They walk on the other side of the road to the Kooks, Klaxons and other bands that don't begin with the letter K, without even a doff of the cap in that direction. If you still use words like Freak Out, Far Out and Cosmic
News & Various Stuff 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Some news from the Devil's friends.First up...Jarvis Cocker is looking for interesting support acts from the locality of each concert on his next tour. If you know of any interesting local bands or performers in or around Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Copenhagen or Stockholm then please contact him via jarvspace . Oh, & you'll have to be quick about it 'cos the first concert is on the 18th!Next up...The fantastic Birth of BonOyster (soon to be mega stars) are having what they describe as a meeting of minds, bodies and emotions (sounds interesting) at the Loaded Dog in Leytonstone on Leytonstone High Street at 8pm on the 20th of January. They will be playing some of their vast repertiore of skink songs for earthlings at approximately 9pm. As a special treat they we will be giving away badges and souvenirs which will no doubt be listed as valuable artefacts in future editions of Record Collector. Even better they will sign anything you want (which could be risky!). Fan
Check out my Slide Show! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 THE DEVIL WISHES YOU ALL A HAPPY, PEACEFUL & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. A special posting to celebrate the end of 2006 and the start of 2007. The following slideshow is my photographic record of the last two months of 2006 which was spent in Toronto and New York. Although it was my job that took me out to Toronto I found some opportunities to have some fun as you will see from the slideshow. You'll also catch a glimpse of me on one or two of the photos if you're patient (and have nothing better to do with your precious time). This is your opportunity to discover what a handsome devil I am! There'll be more interesting, innovative and brilliant bands on the site in 2007 so keep watching. Read more:Check
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Our Tears Have Wings - The Devil's Recommendation 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The MonolatorsOur Tears
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The Monolators (according to Wikipedia someone who worships only one God if you're interested!) are a husband and wife duo who deliver a delightfully raucous garagey sound that doffs it's cap to initial vintage punk. With the main songwriting, guitar playing and singing resting on husband Eli and the drumming (glockenspiel and vibraphone !!!!) duties taken up by wife Mary it is difficult not to draw comparisons with The W**** S******, indeed their second full lengther does little to dispel these comparisons. However look a little deeper and you will find an album and a band that transcend their older more experienced (blues) brother (and sister). As a second album Our Tears Have Wings is a far stronger, more eclectic, collection of songs than the W**** S****** second album, De Stijl. If history repeats itself then, by their next album, The Monolators could break through into the mainstream a la Jack and Meg.With such a strong album it is difficult to Read more:Devil
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St Christopher 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ST CHRISTOPHERGenre: Glam / Melodramatic Popular Song / Western Swing From: YORK, United KingdomThis takes me back. In the late 80s I was a big fan of Sarah Records. There were three bands in particular that I loved, the much lamented Field Mice, the jangly garagey Orchids and St Christopher
. Two of the best singles released on Sarah records were You Deserve More Than A Maybe (great title even better song) and the amazing All Of A Tremble. Since the halcyon days of semi obscurity on Sarah Record St Christopher have continued to plug away recording for a number of the best indie labels including Bus Stop, Vinyl Japan, Elefant, Slumberland, finally ending up on Parasol which is owned by St. Etienne's Bob Stanley. After a gap of 10 years St Christopher have released a new album, Golden Blue. The album retains the literate, melodic and slightly melancholic sound of the early Sarah Records days but with a more world weary twist. There are hints of Suede (the English not the American versio
Dirty Electric 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Firstly an apology for the intermittent postings over the past few weeks. It's been a hectic couple of weeks with work, packing, travelling, recovering from jet lag and enjoying time with the family after being away for 5 weeks. If you go to my myspace site I've posted some photos of my time in Toronto and New York (I've bored the family to death with them over the past couple of days so why should you get away with it??). Anyway I'm now I'm back in the UK and the jet lag has, hopefully, gone and I have plenty of time over the christmas break to bring you more unsigned, unheralded and relatively unknown bands such as....DIRTY ELECTRICGenre: Psychedelic / Garage / Rock From: Dirty London Town, United KingdomDirty Electric
are a London trio who, if the tracks on their myspace site are anything to judge by, are searching for their own unique voice . With their swirling bass, scuzzy guitars they stagger from the gravelly Nuggets era garage of "Devil In Her" through the early Teardrop
Wanadon't 1970-01-01 00:59:59 An interim post for today to enable me to let off some steam at the sheer frustration of dealing with Orange (formerly Wanadoo) Broadband. Why is everything in the UK so difficult? Earlier this week I got a confirmation from Orange that, following what I am sure were exhaustive checks, I had been upgraded to 8mb (brilliant I thought). Today I have come to use the internet and low and behold no connection. Now, as I'm in Canada and my wife and daughter are at home in the UK, it has become a lifeline in helping us to stay in touch and my daughter is using it to help revise for her exams. My daughter contacted the "support" desk and, after a wait of over 40 minutes and a couple of perfunctory checks, she was told that it was something to do with Internet Explorer 7 and they don't support Internet Explorer 7 so contact Microsoft. All of this is costing me money (and I assume making Orange money). This is a tactic that I have seen before from Orange. We had a problem with installing a Bel
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