A reat track from the highly-praised Paean to Wilson ... Vini Reilly's homage to the late Tony Wilson

Movement 5 - Paean to Wilson The Durutti Column

My favourite Kooky single - I clearly remember my first and exciting time listening to the cassette demo' - Mark Tranmer aka gnac and The Montgolfier Brothers

A Tangle With ... 'gnac' 7"

one of the greatest Durutti Albums - from Kooky 27 the bonus disc of unreleased material

Untitled LC Demo - The Durutti Column -  Four Factory Records

track from the 'Vini Reilly' sesions available on the second disc of the re-issue CD in Kooky

Flamenco Guitar Duet - II - Durutti Column

They sent us a great little cassette...

Moseley has always been home to an interesting collection of Brum's musicians and they did not disappoint.

Formed from the 'bones' of the notorious band Dog Food among others, they were a mix of Parisian Film Noir and Sixties Beat... Their tape for life lived at 24 frames per second – as below!!! They called us up to go over mastering during the first half of and England World Cup qualifier; they were heavy thinkers and still are very principled and particular folk.

We were so so excited to get a Maida Vale Session with Peel in 1997... I remember recording it on cassette, the new song 'Sundrenched' gave us some real excitement for single number three - if it wasn't for...

John Peel (describing and introducing the band): "L'augmentation say our songs have a pop heart not without mood swings continental sound tracks for life lived at twenty four frames per second."

John Peel to band: "Did you really say that? (chuckling) Did you hear what I was saying? He can't... He can't hear me!?"

Simon Vincent: "I can..."

John Peel: "Oh you can.. Ok... Did you really say that L'augmentation say our songs have a pop heart not without mood swings continental sound tracks for life lived at twenty four frames per second."

Simon Vincent: "One of us did..." 

John Peel: "Oh right but none of you are going to own up to it..."

Simon Vincent: "I have my suspicions." 

John Peel: "Oh alright well, we don't want you breaking up under musical differences or quote differences... Or sound bite differences."

Simon Vincent: "It's already happened."

"Ah..."

Cartoon Strip -  l'augemntation

we have shortened the title! Reminds me of the album launch... full and succesful... Rob chasing insect spankees with a giant cardboard flyswatter.... I asked Peavy for some free amps and they said no so I sent the sold out sign fomr the Picturedrome night. Great band - lots of lost time and nonsense

Mowing the blue lawn...  - The Retro Spankees

The Icypoles
The Icypoles grew out of a soundtrack to an experimental film. Here is the scene: a girl writes into a magazine with a problem about her teenage love life. She doesn’t know if she’s too young for love. The magazine is from a by-gone era, the music sounds something like Sixteen Candles with backing vocals to a ‘Dear Editor’ soliloquy.

During the recording Isobel Knowles discovered a love for 60s girl group garage bands and film music that creates a particular dark ambience. She workshopped some band names with her best friends Tara Shackell and Kim White and together with them created the idea of The Icypoles.

Suddenly there was a new reason to write music and a small repertoire emerged. The songs featured on debut release, Promise To Stay represent this first collection.
Tara and Isobel were invited to join Architecture in Helsinki soon after The Icypoles started playing to audiences and there was a long pause in the development of the band while AIH toured the globe. But the idea stayed strong and more songs showed their faces over the years.

The time came to take The Icypoles more seriously. The girls found a new drummer, Lani Sommer, and together went into the recording studio (a kitchen in a temporary house). The recordings were interspersed with shows around Melbourne and small tours (Sydney, Stockholm and New York City!).

A cassette came out in London with Sexbeat zine and eventually some more recordings were made with producer, Haima Marriott and the mixing process began. Isobel and Haima had worked together on those first soundtrack recordings and revisited their recording experiments to come up with a sound for The Icypoles.

One Day

The Parks Department swansong - an overlooked gem - BUY now :)

OK We Are Fucking Partying Now - The Parks Dept

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