SCARED TO DANCE winter 2010/11 fanzine

The Vaselines

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 1 1/4/11 12:59:29 AM introduction

Welcome to the Winter fanzine! I hope you’re full of all the festive cheer that this time of year brings. We’ve got lots of presents for you in this edition, from interviews with the legendary Vaselines and Edwyn Collins to a bumper review of Cake Weekender. On top of that we catch up with Ballboy and Northern Portrait, and Ben Clancy tells us what makes those sleigh bells ring- ting-ting-a-ling. So enjoy Christmastime, Approximately lovingly put together by John Jervis at Where It’s At Is Where You Are. It’s a stunning compilation from many of our friends here in .

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Happy holidays! Paul Richards contents

1 17 Big Pink Cake Weekender

4 Edwyn Collins 21 How Does It Feel To Be Loved? 7 Ballboy 23 WeePOP! 9 Northern Portrait 24 dirtyconverse 11 MJ Hibbett & the Validators

25 It’s Grim up North... Content: Paul Richards ~ Design: Bree Wright 13 Onward Chariots 15 Where It’s At Is Where 26 Testing the Bells in Loughborough www.scaredtodance.co.uk You Are 16 Christmastime, Approximately 27 Sleigh Bells Ring-Ting- Facebook: facebook.com/scaredtoddance Ting-A-Ling Twitter: twitter.com/scaredtodance

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 2-3 1/4/11 12:59:30 AM I was in the Famous Monsters and rankle with your inner punk? Frances was in the Pretty Flowers. We The Vaselines realised we weren’t getting to do what The Scala show was amazing, one of we wanted to do so we got together and our favourite of that tour. It’s the kind started writing some songs. of reaction you want from an audi- ence and it make us excited and helps There’s a lot of teasing banter on us raise our game to deliver the best gig stage. Is it hard to do it with an possible. ex? What were you doing when you It’s easier to banter on stage with heard was covering Frances. We’ve known each other for your stuff? over twenty years and we’re very re- laxed around one another and that I was working in a bar on Duke Street in comes across on stage and we use it to . I’d finished college, Frances get back at one another for any griev- and I had split, the band had broken up ances we have with each other. There’s and I was feeling pretty down so to hear a lot of history that we’re still working our music was being taken up be a band through. in America was pretty amazing news. Graeme Swanson talks to Eugene Over the last twenty years Glasgow has Kelly. developed as a city for musicians to When I saw you at the Scala in Lon- work in that others in haven’t. don I was struck by the affection Are all the best songs written You’ve just completed a thorough There are a lot of rehearsal spaces and in the crowd for you. Does that with only three chords? tour of North America including venues. It has had a few bars that have Mexico. How did it go? I see at one been constants that give musicians a point you had en suite Jacuzzis. place to hang out and it helps create a buzz that is lacking elsewhere. The tour went well. It was the longest tour we’ve done as The Vaselines so it With your double and single was great to travel all around America, entendres and sometimes rocka- Canada and Mexico. Yes, Frances and I billy rhythms, The Cramps spring had a Jacuzzi in our rooms in Mexico. I to mind. Were they one of the few don’t know how that happened and it’s good things for you about the never likely to happen again. 1980s?

You were playing with Teenage I loved The Cramps music. It’s all about Fanclub and . making rock ‘n’ roll fun and sexy like it What is it about Glasgow? How was when it first started. different would you sound if you grew up thousands of miles west What bands were you playing with of the M8? in the beginning? 1 2

Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 4-5 1/4/11 12:59:34 AM Three chords work for us on most songs. We like to keep it simple and repetitive, catchy and fun. Not every song has to have three chords only but if you want to write short, snappy, punk, garage edwyn collins songs then it helps. I sent Frances some tunes I’d written, she sent me some and we decided what ones would work. We got together to write the lyrics and we would send new versions with new ideas back and forward to each other as MP3s and we would add our ideas and send it back. The lyric writing was the most fun part.

How were your 1990s?

The 1990s were fun for a while. I had an exciting time in Captain America/ Eugenius releasing records on Fire Records then Atlantic Records. I got We grew up in the era of comedy on TV to travel the world and play music. It were entendre was King (and Queen). was all going great but after Kurt killed Carry On movies, Dick Emery, Are You himself the music industry changed and Being Served? and Frankie Howard. It On your new Losing Sleep, you collaborated with ’ bands signed on the back of the grunge must’ve rubbed off on us. We also love Ryan Jarman and , Franz Ferdinand’s and scene were swiftly dropped. We were Viz and Finbar Saunders. Nick McCarthy, and ’s . How about to sign to Nirvana’s management did that come about? You’ve recently played with the company but that was cancelled by them , how aware are Ryan is in my studio all the time, he’s like family. He did the very first col- the week after Kurt died. The second you of your influence on younger laboration. The Franz Ferdinand lads, I know them and bumped into them half of the 90s were pretty miserable bands? at a festival and we arranged to get together. Roddy is my oldest friend, from for Eugenius and we struggled on for a Postcard days. Romeo and I know each other. We’re on Heavenly together and few years until we split. I started writing We weren’t aware that there were any The Drums became friends with my son, Will first. They like early Orange my solo album and then I found a new bands out there that were fans of ours Juice and we decided to do a song together. And Johnny was the last thing. direction and inspiration. until we started playing gigs again. It’s He had a song idea up his sleeve and also the title, “Come Tomorrow, Come a great feeling to think that anybody is Today”. Can we start the rumours about a listening to your album, but knowing third album yet? that musicians are listening and want- You won an Ivor Novello award last year for your song writing. ing to write songs because of your tunes How did it feel to be recognised in that way? No talk of album three as yet. We’ve no is a very good feeling. tunes. I loved it. What a day, what an honour. It’s special because it’s for songwriting www.thevaselines.co.uk and comes from other songwriters. I’m proud of my songs. Where does all the filthy talk come from? 3 4

Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 6-7 1/4/11 12:59:44 AM The Byrds, Chic, Motown and The Velvet Underground were all mentioned as influences on Orange Juice. Who are the influences your song writing these days?

It’s all from my head, from my experience, no particular influences are needed. There is so much music in my brain.

Tell us about the seven-disc Orange Juice box-set Coals to Newcastle. Was it something that you helped put together with the rest of the band?

Mostly it was done by Kris Gillespie of Domino in the US. A labour of love, he had to track down all the masters, piece it all together. We own the recordings, so that makes it easier.

Domino are also re-releasing the Orange Juice back catalogue in 2011. Will the be put out in an expanded version?

Not sure, but Domino always do things in a gorgeous way, extra things that people want, all of that.

Do you look back at the bands time on Postcard Records fondly? What was it like alongside Josef K, Aztec Camera and The Go-Betweens?

I do, but it was a long time ago. I love all the records, I have my memories, but I’m not much of a nostalgist. The future is what matters to me, getting on with it. illustrating seemed to help you in many ways. You had your first book of illustrations released last year. Tell us more about that. Is it With such big hits as “Rip It Up” something you do on a daily basis alongside music? and “A Girl Like You”, which of your records are you most Yes, daily, when I am at home or my life is less busy than it is now. I love to draw, proud of? it’s therapy for me. I’m developing and changing all the time. I had to relearn, to teach my left hand. Usually the last one, the one I’m promoting. Especially Losing Sleep Looking back on your career, do you have one defiining standout though, as I thought I couldn’t write moment? or perform again. It’s a miracle re- cord to me. I hear it and I think, “I Yes. The night I stepped back onstage at Dingwalls in London, during the BBC did it. I’m back.” Electric Proms, for the first time since my illness. I was scared as hell at first, but the audience was willing me on and by the third song, I could feel it. I can do After watching the Home Again this, it will be fine. documentary [which detailed Edwyn’s recovery from illness] www.edwyncollins.com

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 8-9 1/4/11 12:59:51 AM using a photo image of the interior of a train, but I wanted to explore home-recording and electronic she wanted over £1,000 for its use and we couldn’t music, but wanted to stay close to what I knew which afford that so I wrote to David to ask about the was songwriting and spoken word and so I started BALLBOY possibility of putting a wee booklet of his draw- to learn how to use Pro-tools and Reason at home. ings inside the album. I’d had no reply and had The Money Can’t Buy Music Project was an exten- just about given up when I got an email to say that sion of that really. It was a case of testing myself to we could do it. Elizabeth pressed me to cheekily write, record and mix a project from start to finish ask whether we could use an image on the cover and I roped in Maja and a couple of other people to too and he very kindly agreed. He was incredibly help along the way. I would like to do another one, generous. but between Midsummer, Ballboy and everyday life I don’t know when that may be! In 2008 you composed the soundtrack for the Traverse Theatre Company produc- You were recently involved in the running tion of Midsummer (A Play with Songs) of Popfest 2010. How did you by David Greig. Was this something you’d come to be involved? always wanted to do? We just decided, after being lucky enough to play at It’s not something I had planned. The oppor- the London, New and San Francisco Popfests tunity came up to collaborate with David and we that we would put on our own version and get peo- just took it from there. We developed it in small ple to come enjoy our city and put on some great chunks over time alongside the two actors and bands. It went really well and we had a great time the stage designer and then it had its premiere and both the bands and the crowds seemed to enjoy in November of 2008. It was a totally different themselves. Standout moments for me were seeing Paul Richards catches up with Gordon The Christmas special was our third or fourth Peel way of working from being in a band and I’m as the Suburban Kids With Biblical Names again and McIntyre. session. We had played in Berlin a couple of days proud of it as I am of any of my albums. It has Bobby Baby’s acoustic set on the Sunday. My one before and had bumpy flights both ways. We flew gone onto do great things and is about to return regret is seeing less of the bands than I could have In the early days of the band Viv Strachan back into Stansted late at night and drove through to London for two months through December because I had to go help out at three Midsummer sang whilst you were on guitar. As the the snow to a hotel near Peel Acres. The next day and January at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn. performances as our lead actor had lost his voice band’s main songwriter, how did the tran- we drove through snowy countryside to the house and couldn’t sing the songs. sition to lead singer come about? where we met up with John and Sheila, their family You put out an album under the name Money and friends, Laura Cantrell and her husband and Can’t Buy Music with Maja Mångård last You play live sporadically. Do you have any It came about because Viv quit the band quite guitarist. We basically convened in John’s study/ year. How did you come to collaborate with upcoming gigs planned? suddenly. She had never been very comfortable studio at one end of the house to the record the her? What were the ideas behind forming singing live and decided that she didn’t want to sessions, and moved along the hall to the front the band? We are playing a Christmas show in December with do it anymore. When it happened we had two gigs room to record the Christmas carols. It was an the fabulous Kid Canaveral and then we’ll start to in quick succession so I stepped in. I hadn’t ever incredibly happy night, warm, friendly and filled plan next year. We are busy writing the new Ballboy sung in public before so I pretty much thought with good food and drink. It is hard to describe album at the moment so that takes priority. that we’d do these two gigs, everyone would hate it beyond that, but it was one of the best nights of it and that would be that for me and the band. As my life. When can we expect a new Ballboy LP? it turned out it went better than we expected, I decided to write a whole new bunch of songs that How did David Shrigley come to design Next year, but I can’t say when. For the first time suited me and my voice as opposed to Viv’s and it the artwork for A Guide for the Daylight since the first Ballboy album I’m not setting a really went from there. Hours? deadline. I am just enjoying writing the songs and thinking through the broad scope of how the John Peel was an early supporter of the Elizabeth McLean has designed all of the Ballboy album will sound. I know that sounds a bit like group. What was it like playing his sessions? albums and we were putting the artwork together, I’m saying wait and see, but, well, wait and see I I’m particularly interested in the Christmas but didn’t have a central image. I’d spoken to a guess! special you played. student from the Edinburgh College of Art about www.ballboymusic.com 7 8

Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 10-11 1/4/11 12:59:52 AM parts and then build it from there. This is somewhat different from when I used to write northern portrait songs earlier where I would write complete songs before doing anything. Recording Criminal Art Lovers, or rather finishing the record was a slightly long and heavy process because it was done on some rather primitive equipment in a bedroom.

What is the rest of the Danish musical landscape like currently? Are there any other standout bands? Returns to Normal”. So I suppose we do try to make them look nice, yes. The musical landscape in Denmark in general is rubbish. There’s not a single band in the When you DJed for us at the club in Paul Richards in conversation actually. We’d recorded three tracks and charts that I can even bear listening to. There September your set was a mixture of 80s with Stefan Larsen. put them on a MySpace page. When Mati- are however some very nice indiepop bands indiepop and mid-90s British bands. Is née Recordings contacted us, there had al- around; Ampel, Sockpuppets, and the Road- that where your influences lay? You recently released “Life Returns to ready been some interest from a couple of side Poppies. If you’re interested in Danish Normal” as a limited edition 7” single. German labels, but since we hadn’t reached music, I’d definitely go for something a bit The musical highlight of my life was probably Tell us more about the track. any agreement we went along with Matinée, older. My recommendations would be: Kli- the nineties when it was business as usual to which we’re of course very pleased with. It’s a ché, Lars Hug, Gangway, Love Shop, Trains go and see Pulp or some of those other bril- The track is originally from our debut album remarkable label. and Boats and Planes, and The Poets. liant groups or buying Sleeper’s new album. Criminal Art Lovers which we released earlier The whole thing was probably a bit this year. It’s a lush guitar track with quite a How pleased were you with the critical The designs of your record sleeves are of an over statement but if I were to take 10 nice guitar theme, which Michael who plays reaction to The Fallen Aristocracy and extremely aesthetically pleasing. Is records to a desert island, I guess more than drums in the band has written. The lyrics are Napoleon Sweetheart EPs? it something that you take great care half would be from that era. So basically the pretty straightforward. I don’t know exactly over? mid-90s British bands are probably my main which song it was but the inspiration for the We were really pleased because we hadn’t influence, both musically and aesthetically. guitar intro came from The Clientele. On expected anything. Both EPs got some Thank you. Well, the sleeve for the first single And I still regard my first time seeing Pulp as the B-side there’s a of the 80s enormously kind words thrown after seemed obligatory: The man covering his face the best I’ve ever been to. Indiepop Cliff Richard hit “Some People” which was them. And when I occasionally get exposed is an infamous Danish killer who shot four is of course another major influence on me. recorded for a project called Rewind some to some of the songs I actually think they police officers in the 60s. Apart from that These days that’s my main musical interest. time back. The track has been remixed for the sound quite charming. So hopefully the he’s known for being the person in recent 7”. The idea of the Rewind project was that people who liked them when they bought Danish history that’s spent the longest time in Speaking of that occasion, you had just a number of bands including us were asked them haven’t grown too tired of them. prison. One day just before forming North- got off the train after playing a solo to record a cover version of our own choice ern Portrait I was standing just in front of him set at Nottingham Popfest. Had you only condition was that it had to be from the How is the song writing divided within in a supermarket line, and I went home and played in Nottingham before? 80s. We did consider quite a few different the band? Was it an easy process writing found this photo, which I find quite intrigu- songs, including Blondie’s “Picture This” - and recording Criminal Art Lovers? ing. It’s of course no celebration, just a nice It went very well indeed. I’d played a solo set but then we found out it was released in ’79 photo. For the Napoleon Sweetheart EP we the night before in London too. Unfortu- so we settled with Sir Cliff. I write most of the songs and Michael who used a face too, this time a local beauty. For nately I didn’t have very much time in Not- plays drums has contributed some nice songs the album we thought it would be nice to have tingham but we have been there before with You were signed by Matinée just two too, amongst others our latest single. Most a modernistic building because we’re all quite Northern Portrait. It’s a really lovely town, months after the band formed. That’s songs are written during the recording pro- into architecture (actually, two band mem- and since I’ve now been there four or five pretty impressive, how did it come cess, I mean, we don’t normally have a com- bers are architects and one has two architect times and stayed some days I think I’m begin- about? plete song with guitar themes, lyrics, even parents). For the latest single Jimmy Tassos ning to find my way round town. melody when we start recording. The normal from Matinée Recordings designed this very Well, it happened quite straight forward, thing is just to have some guideline melody nice sleeve based on the Volvo line from “Life northernportrait.blogspot.com 9 10

Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 12-13 1/4/11 12:59:54 AM What plans do you have for the forthcoming MJ Hibbett shows across November and early 2011? We’ve got all the travel and accommodation already booked for most of the remaining tour dates and so we’re basically planning to have efficiently, reasonably & the Validators price travel to a range of venues where we hope to give a well rehearsed performance (with admittedly a bit The last MJ Hibbett & the Validators release was the B-side compilation Forest Moon of of me dicking around) of a show we’ve come to thor- Enderby. How did you come to choose these 13 songs from your vast catalogue? oughly enjoy, before having a few more drinks and re- tiring. Don’t worry though – next year the Validators We asked the following questions of all candidates: Is it currently available on a CD album? Does it will be touring Dinosaur Planet and so we’ll be back to only feature me? Is it a cover version? Does it concern itself with Christmas? If the answer to all four exploding venues, getting arrested on Autobahns and was “NO” then it got on – and if the only “YES” was to question two we stuck in on Hibbett’s Super- lock-in gigs 100 miles away from the nearest city! store, the additional album that comes on the CD extras which features, in the words of the Validators You’ve been doing Totally Acoustic for a little while now. What was the idea behind “all that rubbish you did without us.” putting on only acoustic gigs? Do you have plans to put your cover of A few years ago I happened to do a few gigs in a row where the PA was so rubbish it was better not to use Allo Darlin’s “Dreaming” on any future it and found myself suddenly liberated from soundchecks, dodgy PAs, shit sound and soundmen. It’s releases? We think it’s awesome. so much more fun to play without the artificial encumbrances of normal venues, the fact that there’s nothing between you and the audiences reminds everyone that you’re all in the same room, and it’s Thanks very much – I absolutely bloody love the surprisingly easy to do – acoustic guitars are designed to be the right volume to go with the human Allo Darlin’ album, so recording that was an voice, and the size of rooms you can do this sort of thing in are more than adequate to contain my absolute joy! We do plan to do a whole album audiences! Our last one of the year is Tuesday 21st December when we’ve got Andy Pocketbooks and collecting up our covers some time (I am noth- Chris T-T playing. Next year I’m planning to do another run around March time. ing if not tidy minded about my back catalogue) and “Dreaming” will definitely be on it. It’ll be You also run the Artists Against Success label. How did that come about and do you have a while yet before we do it though, there’s a big any upcoming releases? queue of things to get out of the way first! AAS was originally a way for me to get a couple of other people – Mr M Whitaker and Mr R Fleay – to

help me put out a single. We had so much fun doing that (mostly due to our regular Board Meetings Are you currently writing new material in the pub) that we decided to carry on and help other people put records out too. That was fantastic for your next studio album? for several years, but then various life changes (not least my move to London, out of range of Board Meetings) made it less practical so we decided to jack it in while we were ahead. Now AAS is mostly At the moment I’m working on the sequel to back to its original function – putting out my records! Thus the next thing we release will be the next Dinosaur Planet, but there are a couple of pos- Validators album, the soundtrack for Dinosaur Planet. sible Vlads songs seeping out. I don’t really have a “writing process” as such, I usually get an idea at the most inconvenient moment possible and then desperately rush to scribble it down, get it to demo Lastly, how’s your annual Christmas song coming along? We hear you’re making a stop stage within the next couple of days, and then spend several years tinkering with the lyrics. I put huge motion animation video! amounts of effort into getting the words exactly right... and then tend to record it in one or two takes! Yes, I spent all day yesterday moving tiny cardboard figures in very, very small increments, it did my head in! It looks lovely though, so hopefully it’ll be worth it. The song’s called “The 29th Day of You embarked on a tour promoting your “rock opera” Dinosaur Planet in August. How December” and it’s a bit more traditional, less poppy, than previous years’ songs. It’s all about the did you come up with the storyline? day when you can finally relax and enjoy the time off work, once all the Christmas business is con- cluded, and I’m getting people to record their own voices for a mass choir. It should be out a couple I saw someone doing a terrible one-man version “War of the Worlds” once, thought “I could do better of weeks before Christmas, along with a re-release for ALL of our Christmas songs on the bandcamp than that!” and decided to dig out this very vague idea I had for a science fiction blockbuster. All I had site called either Tipples and Nibbles or A Christmas Buffet from MJ Hibbett & the Validators. I for a story was an astronomer whose Grandad was a disgraced archaeologist, and the rest of it gradually told you there was a big queue of stuff to get released! emerged through a combination of the “writing process” above and me thinking “What would be the coolest thing that could happen next?” www.mjhibbett.co.uk

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 14-15 1/4/11 1:00:01 AM It’s funny – that’s something we’ve barely Miles Away” was inspired by an obsession with thought about. Certainly Elefant has been ab- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. And listen- solutely excellent so far, and of course we’d ing to groups like Peter, Bjorn and John helped Onward Chariots love to do more with them! But right now we inspire the creation of the band. just want to focus on recording new material that builds and improves on what we’ve done You lodged a fundraising appeal to help Paul Richards speaks to Ben Morss. Tell us about your new single “Save Me before; it honestly seems that when we put our pay for your flights to play at Indietracks Maryann”. We hear it’s going to be re- hearts into our music, people find it. Our oth- this year. Did you enjoy the festival? How did Chariots of Tuna become leased on limited-edition white vinyl! er next goal is to get back to the UK, and also Onward Chariots? this time to visit our new friends in Spain! Even after our fundraiser, the trip to the UK I started writing “Save Me Maryann” after still cost us gobs and gobs of money, but it was Onward Chariots was born at the end of 2008. meeting a wonderful Norwegian girl named Does each band member bring something worth it. We felt incredibly fortunate to take We had a band called the Infinite Orchestra Marianne while visiting Bayreuth, Germany. I different musically to the group? part in an amazing, DIY festival where we met that played these elaborate, theatrical compo- was travelling around Europe on my own, and so many pleasant and talented people. For a sitions. But I wondered what would happen if after I had to leave Bayreuth and continue the Rus, our bassist, is an expert on modern new band like us to get to play at Indietracks, I pulled out a couple of shamelessly melodic journey I really missed her, and I kept call- and says he rarely listens to . When to drive around and Scotland and play songs I’d written a while ago, wrote some new ing her from various places in Germany... the playing with Onward Chariots, he simply tries for appreciative audiences in places like Glas- songs with an indiepop focus, learned to sing whole experience was quite lonely and intense to imagine what would fit with what’s happen- gow, Nottingham, and London, was a complete with a sweet, gentle voice, and asked these great and I began to write this impossibly compli- ing around him. He happens to also have a dream come true – completely unreal – and we players from the Infinite Orchestra to record cated song. It uses all sorts of musical and fantastic melodic sense, an amazingly dry sense can’t wait to come back to the UK! with me. I did, and they bravely agreed! Dan, lyrical tricks to try to be as exciting as possible of humour, and a collection of hip-hop from our drummer, was starting to get interested in all the time – it took months to work it out. the Dirty South. Shawn, our guitarist, knows You also played at the Athens Popfest home recording, and so we got together in his Unfortunately I couldn’t really sing and play hip hop and classic backwards and this year. Do you prefer playing festivals tiny studio and recorded two songs the song without making a mess out of it, and forwards – he is a contributor to rapgenius. to your own shows in Brooklyn? in a couple of hours, using the old-fashioned it took the talents of Dan, Shawn, and Rus to com – and, as he plays bass in much of the rest way where everyone plays their parts at the make the song make such sense in Onward of his life, he brings a tasteful restraint to his We’ve been lucky to start this group in an era same time. Those two songs were to become Chariots! guitar parts. Dan, our drummer and sometime when it’s so easy to share music across the world. “War Hero” and “Save Me Maryann”. We never guitarist, records and produces all the group’s We love playing shows and we have indeed been guessed that these home recordings would go so Do you have plans to release an album music, and as such is heavily involved in creating known to play here in , but it’s hon- far! on Elefant next year? the band’s aesthetic. Keith, our touring drum- estly a lot more exciting to know our music has mer, is a recent transplant from Austin, Texas, made it to places like the UK, Brazil, Spain, where he played with more country bands than and the Phillippines than to find out some- you could shake a stick it, even if you were in- one’s listening to it down the street. clined to shaking sticks at country bands. We love playing Popfests because they give us I started out as a classical pianist and composer, an excuse to visit new places, because they fea- transitioned to the world of punk, and then ture bands we’re eager to see, and because we gradually discovered the joys of making gen- meet lots of nice people. We will be playing tler music. I’m a music nerd and when I hear at the much closer Popfest! New England this music I like, whether it’s , Sonic weekend. After that, we’re going to focus on re- or Puccini, I take it apart and try to fig- cording new songs and continuing to see what ure out how it works, and then I wish I’d started friends we can make internationally thanks to a band like that. Right now I’m listening a lot to the Elefant single and our video. My goal right The Drums and wondering how it would be to now is to find someone to help with European write songs that played singing off of repeated booking! melodic keyboard or guitar lines. 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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 18-19 1/4/11 1:00:04 AM thrashy pop that makes dancing an inevitability. There’s something satisfying about the big pink cake watching a room full of people dancing and swaying with huge grins on their faces. Christin makes an engaging front woman, hips always swaying, eyes never off the ceiling and a voice that could melt the tin mans heart, she and her band were a brilliant send weekender off that had us dreaming of Bristol and the weekend there within.

Saturday 6th November, The Croft, Bristol Review by Brilldream There’s something of Glastonbury on the streets of Stokes Croft in Bristol. It has the Friday 5th November, The Betsey Trotwood, distinct sniff of weed and thrums with sleepy, dreadlocked young people who seem to London have not got over the Levellers. Deep within it heart, amongst the Banksy street art and art centres is The Croft, a suitably pink building that would be indiepop’s home So, we’re tearing along the motorway, heads and for the weekend. By the time I arrive, buy a disappointing pint of Bath Spa bitter hearts still fluffy and weak from the frivolity of visit- ing friends in Wales the night before and despite the pints of Purple Moose still sloshing around our bel- lies and five hours on the road I manage to convince and remove my duffel coat, I’m just in time to catch the last the driver (my friend John, ex-goth and all round two songs by The Sunny Street, which is a shame, as their good egg) that the little gig I’ve arranged to go see is gentle, egg yolk yellow brand of swaying pop seemed a pleas- still a good idea. He’s compliant if unconvinced and ing one. I was, however, lucky enough to catch their version The Garlands of Haddaway’s “What Is Love”, which Remi, Christos and Ian seemed to lay a classic pop base for Delphine to some after a slow crawl through the drizzle and dusk of a Friday night Lon- how turn the lyrics into a beguiling chanson to the myster- don it obvious he would rather have a good curry and a quiet few than ies of love. seek pop thrills. But I’m having none of it. So, bags duly dumped and after quick shower and change, we head off into the Clerkenwell “Go Bristol City!” shouts the guitarist of The Electric night. Pop Group in his lilting Scandinavian brogue. It turns out the band had been to see the Robins in a no doubt thrilling After a quick cigarette and unconvincingly trying to explain to John 1-1 draw with Preston North End. After quickly scanning why it was a good idea to pay good money to see the same bands The Sunny Street in a matter of days, it was time to descend that lethal little staircase to catch Pocketbooks. Somewhat staggeringly, it was the first time I the room for Bristol Rovers “top boys”, I’m relieved to find there are none, and settle down had seen them perform live, and luckily they were every bit as dreamy to enjoy a set that seems complimented by the excellent sound of The Croft, which breaths and wonderful as I hoped they would be. We were even treated to life into more subtle songs such as “I Know I Will’ and ‘Believers”.

some new songs amongst the old favourites. A breathless “Footsteps” was worth the price of The Fauns are as Bristol as the suspension bridge and pasties and they seem to relish being admission alone, and started the first dancing of the weekend, despite the sardine tin nature on home turf. They’re like a collision of the girl out of Portishead (a cowardly comparison of the venue. admittedly, but one that stands up) and the blokes out of Spiritualized. The mix of spell binding and the on screen film of crafts and planets drifting slowly in space quickly Next up was Sweden’s The Electric Pop Group a band it’s almost impossible not fall in absorb us, and for a while we are in space with them. love with. They look like a cross between and the kids out of Scooby Doo, and produce chimey pop that can only be described as dreamy. Our hearts were stolen by the Headlining the evening are The Blanche Hudson Weekend, and for all their quality and brilliantly bashful “Popgirly” and by the time “Not By Another” had graced our ears and presence, they could have been headlining Glastonbury. Quite frankly, Caroline is a star. hearts, they had us eating out of their hands. John, who up to now was manfully hiding his Blonde, head strong and brassy in a spangly dress, she’s like a heroine come to reluctance to be here was frothing at the mouth, and immediately dashed to the kiosk to buy life. Luckily, the band is more than up for the challenge, and the set is rapid mix of fire and CDs. They are that kind of band. skill.

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On then, for a swift cigarette before the dancing, where I witness Rocker buying the bouncer a kebab because “she was cold”. What a man.

And what a DJ set to end the night with. It was somewhere around “Pristine Christine” being played, dancing between the prettiest girl and the most handsome boy where I got the feeling. You know the one, where work seems a million, billion miles away and the pop dream rushes from your feet to your head, and you can’t stop smiling. And this is what its all for, all this playing records and daydreaming, you can dance how you like here because you know no-one will laugh and you don’t have to explain because you know they get it too. And you want every day of your life to be like this and you want this feeling to

last forever. But it doesn’t, and now you’re singing along to The Damned, yelling along, and you know this is the last song but somehow is doesn’t matter, and you look around you, and you know, you just know everyone feels it too, and maybe they wish you lived in their town as much as you wish they lived in yours. And despite the cold world that waits for you outside, you know you’re going to be smiling all the way home.

Sunday 7th November, The Croft, Bristol

The Give It Ups are a perfect tonic for that Sunday afternoon hangover feeling. Coming on like incessantly cheerful children’s TV presenters via Butlins, they sooth away the fatigue, and The Give It Ups despite the rather racy film on the screen, the set is a diverting one, where we are treated to a new song about “How Battlestar Gallactica is Better Than a Relationship”. Standard Fare are always at home at an indiepop weekender and this was

no exception. Self-assured with their shiny new instruments, the played a 30 Doggy are almost impossibly French. Sophisticat- minute set that seemed a third of that length. Their constant touring has seen ed and restrained, I wish I knew more French so I the once bright new stars of the circuit turn into seasoned professionals, and knew what their lyrics where about. One song, as the with a set list that run like a greatest hits package, its surely only a matter of singer helpfully pointed out was about how beautiful time before they “do a Pains” and find themselves on the bigger stages the are there home city is. It must be pretty special as the so obviously destined for. song stopped twice with the singer shaking his head. “This song” he said “must be done more beautiful”. And it was. The Standard Fare set had reduced people to sitting in chairs, as by now everyone was feeling knackered. Luckily, The School were on hand. With so many people on stage, they looked The flaws in The Mai 68’s Tony-Hancock-plays- like a soundman’s nightmare and not unlike a frieze. The School love what they do though. a-terrorist set were shown up like sunlight through It was fun just watching them set up. There’s something right about them being the last band a crochet blanket by the excellent set by The Kick of a weekend with their infectious joy and aura of a Christmas party. Stood in front of a 70’s Inside. They played like their girlfriends were in the episode of Dr. Who, and with little tins pouring out bubbles from both sides of the stage (the audience, who indeed were. Confident, controlled bubbles being refilled probably got the biggest cheer of the weekend) the band performed a and sounding excellent despite the guitarist’s week- greatest hits set, with a closing pair of “I Want You Back” and “Let It Slip” sending everyone end of worrying, they played like a band who had home with a full heart and knackered legs. Now, where’s that kebab shop Rocker went too? been together forever. Highlight was the version of their current Odd Box 7” “Oh Vanity”. Shaun Brilldream The Blanche Hudson Weekend brilldream.blogspot.com

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 22-23 1/4/11 1:00:08 AM Jukebox first, using the official Northern Soul 500 as a kind of crutch, but that didn’t really work, probably because it wasn’t true to my heart. There were songs I loved How Does It Feel To Be Loved? that weren’t on the 500, which was really frustrating as a DJ. Then I did a set at Offline in Brixton, of and rock’n’roll stuff, and that worked really, really well, and I was excited by the possibility of doing it again.

So how did How Does It Feel To I DJed at the ICA for Crystal Stilts and and egged by on Jon Slade I did my Be Loved start? girl group and rock’n’roll set again and had everyone in the bar dancing. Crystal Stilts and Comet Gain even did a conga up the stairs! So I knew I had to give this new idea a serious try. I did a DJ set at a friend’s leaving do I did the first one at Indietracks 2009, under the name HDIF Soul And Sixties Special (a at the Barfly years ago and I thought name coined by Stuart Indietracks!), and now we’re every month as Great Big Kiss. it would be fun to mix up indiepop and soul stuff, and I was excited by What’s happening with the HDIF label at the moment? how well it all worked together. I re- member playing “Velocity Girl” next Butcher Boy have just finished their new album, which sounds incredible. One of the songs, to “Move On Up”, the shortest song “Bluebells”, is head and shoulders the best thing they’ve ever done. Over six minutes long, I had next to the longest song, and some beautiful guitar playing from Basil, and some of John’s most tender lyrics. And there’s something in my head just clicked. this bit where the Hammond kicks in at the six minute mark that totally floors me. I’ve sug- Then I was sitting in the back seat of gested that they see if a bigger label would be interested in putting it out, as I think I’ve done a car driving from Glasgow to Edinburgh and “Beginning to See the Light” came on the mix- as much as a tiny bedroom label can, but if they don’t click with anyone else then it’ll come tape that was being played and the phrase How Does It Feel To Be Loved? just leapt out at me. out on HDIF next year. Pocketbooks are recording their new album at the moment as well, So after that it was just a matter of time really. so lots to look forward to!

Historically there’s a strong link between girl group stuff and northern soul and indiepop HDIF Presents often gives new bands their first gigging opportunity. Do you from The Shop Assistants covering The Shangri-Las up to B&S channelling the spirit of The find it difficult to keep the quality of bands high every month? Golden Torch and The Twisted Wheel but back then clubs usually only threw in the odd soul song here and there. I thought it would be interesting to do a more equal mix and see if the Not at all, in fact it’s the opposite. There are so many great bands that I struggle to find slots indiepop and soul would feed off each other. for everyone. And the list of bands I haven’t been able to put on yet is huge: The Just Joans, The Second Hand Marching Band, My Two Toms, The Middle Ones, etc, etc. And there’s It’s been going from strength to strength for eight years now. What makes you new bands forming all the time. I can’t wait to put on Philip from King And The Olive keep doing it? Fields’ new band, for example. With Allo Darlin’, Elizabeth had been a regular at HDIF for some while and asked if her band, then called The Darlings, could play. I said yes without Because it’s so much fun! And because I can’t think of another club night that mixes indiepop hearing a note of their music. Not much of the current set existed then, but the highlight and soul together in the way that we do, and that’s always been the point of HDIF. I’d miss it was an amazing a capella version of “Ladies and Gentlemen We’re Floating In Space” by terribly if I wasn’t able to do HDIF any more. That’s why we went from being monthly to twice Spiritualized. a month I just couldn’t wait a whole month to do it all over again! I hope I’m still doing HDIF for many years to come yet. It’s too late to stop now! Finally, what do you have in store for 2011?

You’ve recently started Great Big Kiss once a month alongside HDIF. Did 2011 will be more of the same! I’d like to do more shows at Speedies furniture shop, and you want a night solely for playing Northern Soul and Motown rather than I’m looking forward to doing Great Big Kiss every month. But I’m afraid I have to go now. indiepop? My eldest son has just announced he’s formed a band, and I have to help with their first rehearsal! I started HDIF as an indiepop fan who liked soul and the last eight years of the club has been a huge education for me. And the more I learnt about soul, the more I wanted to see if I could do a set of just soul, without the indiepop to help me through. I tried doing a night called www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk

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Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 24-25 1/4/11 1:00:11 AM WeePOP! records started in the summer of 2007 with a couple of 3”CD releases and heaps of energy and enthusiasm. Unlike many labels out there, it wasn’t founded and ran by Ballad of a dirtyconverse DISCO musicians, but by music lovers who wanted to give something back to the music and bands It was towards the end of 2008 when the snow was knee- they were fans of. The decision of turning the deep in north London and we were hiding in a pub daydreams of starting an indiepop label into killing hangovers with shandies, contemplating where to find the next dancing opportunity. We were dream- something real took place at a Apples in Stereo ing of a place with no frosty looks, no fearsome entry show at the Bush Hall in London. Everything fees and the finest sort of disco music. We were bored happened really fast after that and less than of trying to fit in with fashion and trying to dance to two months later, “Cycling and Crying” by the songs that moved too fast and lacked heart and soul. We Roadside Poppies was out into the world. felt a bit lost. Perhaps the lunchtime lemonade was a bit special because someone suggested making up a new disco Originally specialising solely in 3” CD releases limited to home-made and hand-packaged party. One where people could dance like no one was looking to glittering indie-disco-influenced 120 copies, the label’s motto was to produce something physical and tactile, something you’d pieces of , wearing whatever made them look and feel SPECIAL and being whatever want to hold while listening to the music, something a little bit special. Over the years, the they wanted to be at the disco. So, we actually did it... number of copies for each release has increased (just a tiny bit), we started doing 7” singles and are now preparing for our first full-length album, but the DIY ethos that powers the label Because we’re old-fashioned we hired our local village hall. Because we lived in Tufnell Park this remains. meant the Boston Music Rooms, which instantly made us... different, to most London . Some- how we filled this caverous, 1970s student union style wood-panelled vintage temple with people who WeePOP!’s latest release, out in the beginning of this month, was a Christmas single by sang to Smiths songs, danced to the “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave” and spilt beer all over the badly varnished floor boards. possibly the label’s most regular band: The Just Joans. With 4 EPs and a split single on WeePOP! and an early album on Ivan Lendil Records, they have won a lot of people’s Saturday 9th May 2009 was the most amazing night, even though the toilets got blocked and the bar hearts with their colloquial Scottish accents, conspicuously clever compositions and tales was far too busy and the barstaff gave everyone plastic cups. We played “China in Your Hand” by T’Pau of nostalgic disappointment. Entitled “Seasonal Greet”, the new single features three of at the end of the night. It was dramatic. the band’s original compositions and a brilliant rendition of Wham!’s “Last Christmas”. Apart from the Joans, the WeePOP! catalogue counts with releases by Stars of Aviation, And it was so good that we did it again. With lots more Smiths and some Girls Aloud. And again. With Transmittens, Allo Darlin’, The Smittens, Little My, Moustache Of Insanity, The Felt songs from the movie Mermaids and that famous one by Paul Simon and some tingling Fleetwood Tips, Mexican Kids at Home, Megamoog, One Happy Island, Bunnygrunt, The Motifs Mac. And then we found a cool pub called the King’s Cross Social Club, who kindly welcomed us in and many more. from the wilds of zone 2 and gave us a more central home.

At the moment, things are busy (are they ever not?) at the WeePOP! HQs with the prepara- We’ve had synchronised dance moves to the Fine Young Cannibals and congas to “Jump in the Line tion of a full-length album by Let’s Whisper, to be released early in 2011. A “first” for both (Shake Senora)”. We’ve had beautiful guest DJs joining us, including from Creep Club/Ghost School, Unskinny Bop and Scared To Dance (thanks Paul), bringing their own disco magic to dirtyconverse. the band and the label, the idea of an album had been cooking for quite some time and we’re Recently we also made some badges and mixtapes. all very excited to see it taking shape now. Let’s Whisper are Dana Kaplan and Colin Clary, a pop due from Burlington, Vermont. Even though they are all the way on the other side of the So, as we write this on the day of the 13th dirtyconverse disco, full of nerves and as excited as ever pond, they have been to the UK a few times over the past three years and played several shows about what music to play and worrying whether anyone will turn up (amazingly people always do)... around the country, both as Let’s Whisper and with their other band, The Smittens. Let’s can we just say “thank you” to everyone who has danced, DJ’d or smiled at one of the dozen amazing Whisper and The Smittens are not the only bands on the WeePop! that hail from far-away nights we’ve had so far. lands. In fact, a big part of them do, and we’ve just recently had our first release not sang in English: an EP by the Brazilian lo-fi-pop-noise genius Lê Almeida, sang entirely in If this is the first you’ve heard of dirtyconverse then hello. We’d love to see you at a disco in the Portuguese. future. I’m sure there will be many more. It’s more than just the music. But the music makes the www.weepop.net disco smile. www.dirtyconverse.com 23 24

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… Apparently, but at least it sounds good! A discordant peal can occasionally be heard ringing out over Loughborough. The town is the Being educational adoptives to the provincial Yorkshire snug of Leeds, and being comprised of four site of one of the last remaining bell foundries in parts strong Northern mettle (, Newcastle, Wakefield and Stockton) Blood Oranges have the UK, where there has been an unbroken bell had the pleasure of experiencing many of the musical delights the upper half of our isle has to offer founding line that stretches back to the 14th cen- along our travels. tury, and where they once cast “Great Paul” the country’s largest bell, now residing in St Paul’s Leeds is a wash with a constant musical stream of buzz bands and next big things. This mantle is cur- Cathedral. rently being filled by bands with enough distortion through their foot pedals to make even the most In the middle of Queens Park stands a tall avid of Mayhem fans quake in their leather trenchcoats and bucklebound boots. However away from bell tower, whose copper green roof can be seen the screams and shreds beats a lively scene of bands producing some of the best alt pop the country from miles around, and within whose walls these bells are chimed. Inside the park, the tower is has to offer. described as a monument to those lost in World War I; a generation we are implored never to forget while the same copper roof stains A prime example of the city’s pop sensibilities are Just Handshakes (We’re British). Indebted to the paving below green, echoing our neglect, and chastising our forgetfulness. the scandopop sensibilities of the likes of Shout Out Louds and Love Is All, they carve beautifully And it is here, sat in the band stand with the scent of skived cigarettes from school crafted pop songs, topped with tender, naïve vocals. Having previewed new tracks online, and with boys posturing for manhood, and looked upon by the scornful bus pass holders that new releases a foot we will have more of the same, yes please, thank you! we settle to hear this unique concert. The bells start without fanfare, announcement, or advertisement. They do not A short trip up the A1 and welcome to Newcastle, home to such musical luminaries as Jimmy Nail, always start at the same time. Sometimes they do not start at all. Yet when they do it is PJ and Duncan and Gazza… pet. However, the North East is having something of a pop resurgence. impossible to walk away unmoved. Albeit an electronic tinged, complex, music schooled sounding pop. Amongst all this Brilliant At first, a single bell rings out. Its chime is left to fade until silence fights the tiny Mind have stood true to their 80s enthused pop, ignoring complex polyrhythms, awkward vibrations and we question whether it is still ringing or whether it is our imagination. The second and third follow quickly each chime clashing with the first, the tones out time signatures and samplers (that’s not to say they couldn’t do them). Sounding like Jarvis Cocker, of place, and all harmony lost. Soon a full peal sings out to the town. Initially, each borrowing Stuart Murdoch’s notebook to sing over Johnny Marr’s guitar lines, Brilliant Mind are chime shudders as if cold, its resonance awkward and aware of its place. As more join one of the foremost exponents classic indiepop this country has to offer. Sprinkle on some lovely in the pattern reflects the start of a rain storm - a pitter-patter, randomly hitting the harmonies, hilarious stage banter and a slightly unnerving obsession with the industrial estates of ground before the crash and thunder – and as the bells become increasingly confi- the North East and you have a winning formula. dent, and we become accustomed to the strange harmonies, the sounds become rich and warm: a heavenly cacophony. Ooh, I forgot something, better pop back down to West Yorkshire sharpish for a quick spot of teen- At its peak the air under the bandstand vibrates and moves with the dissonance age angst served on a bed of Pavement nabbed guitar lines and a rhythm section so frantic it’s impos- and the consonance, the pressure and the release, the loss and reunion of sounds sible not to tremble a knee too (in a musical, non-back alley sexy way). Wakefield’s feral youthstrike and forms. It is like sitting in the organ while someone plays Messiaen: physically again, this time local teen favourites Runaround Kids are riding the wave. Creating beautiful little challenged by the sound and forced to seek a melody while lost among the ambience. pop songs disguised as a noisy, distortion layered rumpus. A debut album this year gents? Why not! Then, while on meandering excursions like the labyrinths and forking paths in the gardens of Borges, we lose all sense of melody and rhythm, time and space. It finishes abruptly. Without warning, without applause, the air is swallowed up It’s grim up North, but not as grim as you might think. Listen a bit closer! by an expectant silence, like the moment after the orchestra stops and before the con- ductor lowers her baton, like the silence before we jump off a cliff as we steel ourselves Ben Blood Oranges for the weightless fall and the violent landing. We never hit the ground. Gradually reality returns, we hear the chatter of birds, we feel the bite of an autumn breeze, and we walk off through the park. Blood Oranges debut single “The French Word for Love” is available online and in Rough Trade stores now. Matthew Seddon myspace.com/wearebloodoranges 25 26

Winter Fanzine cover 2.indd 28-29 1/4/11 1:00:21 AM Sleigh Bells Ring-Ting- “My absolute favourite is the album – that gets played at home loads during December (never before the 1st!). I also love the albums Sinatra, Elvis, Doris Day, and Motown artists made. Ting-A-Ling The only frustrating thing is they all sing the same 20 songs; there aren’t enough real classics. “We always knew Spearmint would make a Christmas album. “Oklahoma!” partially scratched the itch, as its set at Christmas. We released it in summer because we couldn’t wait until winter! I suspect If you thought the indiepop seasons ran from “Spring Rain” to “Please Rain Fall” with only we’ll do more Christmas songs at some point...” a brief stop at White Town’s “Why I Hate Christmas”, then think again. Before you can say “Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)” we asked four top indiepop stars how they made those sleigh bells ring-ting-ting-a-ling. The Hit Parade “Thank God for the rain, what a metaphor” trilled the young Julian Henry of sen- sations The Hit Parade. The miserable sod then Allo Darlin’ turned his attentions to “Christmas Tears” and There wasn’t snow in Australia at Christmas time for corralled Amelia Fletcher to sing about being the young Elizabeth Morris, but she didn’t let that stop lonely this and every bloody Christmas to a disco her from dreaming of the northern winter’s romance. beat. The sunshine never lasts, does it, Jules? “Everybody loves Christmas songs, and I’d written one “Christmas Tears” is our manly attempt to follow once before that I liked, called “Silver Swans” in NYC that Wizzard and Mud into the pop history books by I’d only ever played live once or twice at Christmas time. writing a timeless yuletide hit. There’s so much At my parent’s house by the beach in Queensland one rubbish to deal with at Xmas; stupid Santa, people September, I was starting to think about Christmas songs - I can’t really remember why. I ended up writing a bunch of Christmas songs and self-releasing them on CDR as the you hate coming round for supper and first Allo Darlin’ recordings. I think my favourite on that nothing to do but get drunk... but the collection is “Will You Please Spend New Years Eve With idea of “hoping for a Christmas card Me”, although I much prefer the version that’s the b-side from someone who once broke your to the “Polaroid Song 7”.” Elizabeth Morris. Er..., I mean heart” appeals to me, probably ‘cos it’s Santa! just the simple old notion of wishing you could be with someone that you love at a The Clientele time of year when the temperatures are For London’s poet laureate of precipitation, Alasdair Maclean, it always seems to be raining. dropping to sub-zero levels. Once though, long ago, he let it snow: “In 1997 I wrote a song called “Saturday” which was consciously aimed at the Xmas no. 1 spot. We “Our band specialise in failure so this even had the video worked out – the band strolling down Embankment Walk under festive lights, song made absolutely no impression the Thames flowing enigmatically in the background. Ben with Mr Holder. on the chart despite having the amazing Amelia Fletcher sing lead vocal. Shocking “The British public were unmoved, though to be fair, it was never released as a single in the UK really. Interestingly though the love affair that “Christmas Tears” was written to mark still seems to (only in the US, in August). Since then, sadly, I’ve become indifferent to the festivities and rites of flicker to life each time I hear the record, and I’m glad to have named checked the road Orchehill passage I once hoped to soundtrack for my generation.” Avenue in the song, as that’s the street where I was born.”

Spearmint Ben Clancy In 1999, Spearmint made a brilliant album of soul-infused pop [citation not needed] and then went ding dong merrily on high with a yuletide . Do you dream of Christmas songs, hangoverlounge.blogspot.com Shirley Lee?

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