1995 sees the band appear on “Cosmic Shop”. This time as Les Molies, just one L. On this tape released in France by Paperplane (SC-02) the band has the song “Car Boot Sales”. Then that same year on the compilation “Bedroom Palace” on Lo-Fi Recordings (High2), another Frenc...
The Daily Data Logger character appears on the monitor in the centre of the installation, systematically pointing to and explaining which elements of the data each of the objects represent. Created specially for the group exhibition Day-to-Day Data, which I also curated. Installed at the first ...
Sure….one Monday night I drove to his house to pick him up to drive over to Birmingham to rehearse but his dad came to the door and said he had moved to live in a different part of the country to become a private detective and seemed genuinely shocked that we weren’t aware. He s...
The NYC (? I thought they were from Jersey) band will be opening Popfest. At 8:00pm at the Cake Shop they will show everyone their 60s tinged indiepop that has remained a bit of a secret. I haven’t been able to catch them live, even though in the past few months they’ve play...
To behold our wonderful city in its splendour you probably need to be in The Pie Shop overlooking Westgate at 11.30 on a Saturday night. It will tell you all you need to know. ++ Anything else you’d like to add? It’s amazing what you can find out about your past on the internet...
The photo was taken by our guitarist, Damien, in Belfast city centre. It shows a street drinker being confronted by a placard carrying preacher and we instantly thought it was pretty symbolic of the Belfast we knew, where religion and drink tended to loom large in people’s lives. As quite...
. The cool thing was that the flexi came with an insert and thanks to that we know that the band was formed by Dean Morbey, Matthew Smith, Hilary Jeffery, Edward Dickens, Simon Glenister and Dan Preece. Dean Morbey wrote the song. The song was recorded at the Music Shop in ...
were really terrible, and afterwards emma told me off for playing badly, we were pretty drunk though so I don’t think it mattered. we also played a great gig with kaken in a bar in madrid. and we played at a slaughterhouse that had been turned into a cultural centre, that was odd....
A few weeks ago we talked about his first indiepop project, Pop City Arizona, and now it is time to talk about the band he is more known for, Mary Queen of Scots. The Birmingham band who released a split 7″ with the band Peru and participated in many compilations, is back now ...
During ’85 –‘90 very exciting city for a 16 year old like me! Loads of pubs acting as venues putting on bands etc. you could go out pretty much any night of the week and see someone new. For me, I hung out at Synatras, a wee pub in centre of Birmingham. Saw tons of great...