photos by Amanda Hatfield ; words by Bill Pearis "comet gain & pooh sticks were great last night @ public assembly in brooklyn. only took approx 15-20 years to see them live." - @dfarecords The Pooh Sticks It was the kind of night that could really only happen at Public Assembly. The back room rumbled from the crush of Ulcerate (who had their gear stolen later that night) [...]
by Bill Pearis Comet Gain Here's the second part of the NYC Popfest 2012 preview. For info on tonight's show at Knitting Factory can read part one here . SATURDAY, MAY 19 Outerhope There's a free show at Spike Hill with Sweden's rough-and-tumble Lisa Bouvier , the gentle sounds of Philippine band Outerhope [...]
01 - Go Go Girl 02 - Simon E Cheree CHEREE-3F, 1989. 01 - Hard On Love Woosh WOOSH-007, 1989. OK, let's see if The Pooh Sticks get a better response than the Mondo Billie Davies record did? These two flexis were released a few months after the Swansea band's 'Dying For It' 45 and both include exclusive recordings. 'Go Go Girl' was written by Marc Bolan and originally recorded by John's
The heart of the song: I'm a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend I'm a friend of a friend but you don't know me I'm a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend And if I come on the night Can I get in free? So really, these characters aren't real friendships at all, are they? They're names being dropped at a door in a bid to wangle a free guestlist slot. In effect, then, Friends is the spiritual father of this, from Kicks Like A Mule: [...]
by Bill Pearis The Pooh Sticks in the early '90s The sixth-annual NYC Pop Fest is happening May 17 - 20 and the organizers have just announced the 27 band line-up, which includes UK acts Allo Darlin' and The Wave Pictures who will wrap up their US tour together with their Popfest show, plus Comet Gain , Seattle's [...]
[ mix cover image by Patrick Tsai ] June 2011 Mix 01 Intro 02 Low - Starfire 03 Manganese Madness - Dame 04 Otis Harris - You'll Like My Loving 05 Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 06 Versus - Blade Of Grass 07 Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 08 Eternal Summers - Prisoner [...]
German Measles come off like a ramshackle party band live, and on record they...come off like a ramshackle party band. Singer Nik Curtin has a flat dry delivery that kind of reminds of Mark E Smith, though he's nowhere near as tone deaf. Formerly known as the Japanese Beetles, the band changed their name to German Measles after a heckler at a show came up with it. The band have put out an EP on Captured Tracks and a single on Wild World and are set to release their first long player on brand new label Krazy Punx [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Video: Indietracks 2009 in 7 Minutes by LastNightFromGlasgow The Indietracks lineup seems to be pretty much complete now (though a few more bands are still to come) with Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now and Slow Club both being added to the bill. Perhaps more excitingly though, the day by day breakdowns have now been announced, giving us a festival that looks something like this: Friday [...]
I'm just throwing these up quickly, to keep things going. I've selected a couple of rockers. The Wee Turtles are a four-piece from Athens, Georgia, playing tight Sixties-style pop. The name is a Simpsons reference (involving Groundskeeper Willie). They released the album This Land Is Your Land in 2000; I don't see signs of any other releases. International Language has a Sixties vibe as well, a bit like Redd Kross . You got the soaring vocals and the power pop guitar, which [...]
Rhino's cool "alternative" box set of 2007 is The Brit Box which I wrote about back in August. It's in stores this week. As I said then, it does a pretty admirable job of documenting the cool music coming out...
This is laziness. My excuses for writing nothing and going back to a series that hasn't made an appearance since early January:- (1) I'm working long hours just now (2) When I came home I was hungry (3) There was football and cricket on the telly when I came home (4) It was the last episode of the excellent 'Life On Mars' series on telly at 9pm (5) There's still lots of good songs on CD86 that
this has been the big album of the spring for me. it's a sweet compilation of stuff from the uk's c86 movement (rough trade put out a similar comp a couple years back i understand might be even better), and it makes a pretty persuasive case that "jangle" is the best adjective in the english language. there's a ton of amazing songs, but i think my favorite is this delightful bit of snobbery that's so good it could mention itself: the pooh sticks--on tape
The NME's C86 cassette, capturing Britain's mid-eighties low fi pop scene, is possibly the most famous, non-hip hop mixtape of all time. But, more people these days are likely to have heard of it, than actually have heard it, and piecing together some of the tracks that have fallen into obscurity using a file sharing service is likely to be a tricky and time consuming process. Sanctuary records has done there part to further the fey pop legacy with a new compilation called, fittingly, CD86 . It doesn't replicate the [...]
Growing up on offerings from the D.C. indie & punk scene, I was a big fan of the Nation of Ulysses . Apparently, so was Teenage Gang Debs , apparently a zine that I knew nothing about except that they did a track for Teenbeat 50 . I always thought the track, "On Tape," was cute and witty, and was a nice companion to the compilation's pornographic cover art. I didn't realize until later that it was actually a cover, well, an interpreted cover, of The Pooh Sticks first recorded track. [...]
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