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ALBUM REVIEW: McCarthy – ‘The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth’
IF YOU’RE an old-skool, proper indie kid (and full disclosure, I count myself among that number), with campaign medals from the C86 wars – you saw action on the Creation, Midnight Music, 53rd & 3rd and Subway front lines, clutched fanzines with the finest, sipped snakebite during a set by Mighty Mighty – then Optic …
Track: Wee Cherubs – Dreaming
Originally out in 1984 on the short-lived Glasgow based label Bogatan, Dreaming was Glasgows the Wee Cherubs only commercial release, written by Martin Cotter who found (relative in comparison) fame in The Bachelor Pad. Backed by a version of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting for my Man’, it’s original run didn’t sell well, due in part …
Track: The James Dean Driving Experience – Sean Connery
Optic Nerve Recordings have been carefully curating a reissue series of 7″ records from late last year, and come May 15th are set to release the next in this pantheon of late ’80s alternative music. “Sean Connery” was originally released in 1990 by The James Dean Driving Experience and would be the 4th and final …
Meet: We interview Pete Astor on The Loft reissue and more
Pete Astor is very good company. I think. I never met him. Never really even heard him speak to be perfectly honest. But I had bought, as a teenager, bought a 7” single by The Weather Prophets (or which Astor led), Almost Prayed from a long forgotten record shop in Loughborough. Located near McDonalds, where …
Track: The Loft – Up the hill and down the slope
Originally known as The Living Room, The Loft – Pete Astor, Dave Morgan, Bill Prince and Andy Strickland released just a handful of singles and a couple of compilations. Yet their influence, or at least peoples memory of the band, remains strong. Listening to Up the Hill and Down the Slope again, as it’s re-release …
Track: The Revolving Paint Dream – Flowers in the Sky
Out on. 13th March is the latest release in the Optic NerveSevens 2.0 reissue series, and it sees the second ever release of Alan McGee’s seminal Creation Records label – The Revolving Paint Dreams ‘Flowers in the Sky’ get the once over. Formed in 1983 by sometime McGee associate Andrew Innes (he had played guitar …
Track: The Primitives – Thru The Flowers
The Primitives were/are much more than just Crash, the song that defines them and remains an essential part of any (well, the ones I went to, anyway) indie disco from its 1988 release onward. Optic Nerve records, as part of its Optic Sevens 2.0 reissue series, are reissuing the bands debut release Thru The Flowers, …
Album Review: One Eyed Wayne – Saucy Postcard Super Creeps
OPTIC NERVE RECORDINGS OPT4034CD Two years on from the acclaimed debut album Attack Of The Luxury Flats One Eyed Wayne are back with a new album titled Saucy Postcards Super Creeps. Moving from their own label and securing a place with Optic Nerve Recordings One Eyed Wayne bring us 11 new tracks blistering with humour …
Album Review: Folk Devils – Beautiful Monsters; Singles and Demo Recordings 1984-86
Filed firmly under the criminally ignored banner during their lifetime, a brief flame that was snuffed out almost as soon as it has caught fire in the middle of the 80’s. It’s a light that didn’t look likely reignite either, despite this (and previous) retrospectives, due to the death of frontman Ian Lowery back in …