Hello folks!
Where's our Easter eggs then???
Before we head off for the long weekend we just wanted to remind you of our upcoming releases. New 7" from Cyanide Pills (currently getting plays on 6Music), the new LP and single from Cowbell (plus more live dates added), and the #RSD2017 exclusive 7" from Butcher Boy! Check them out!
Cyanide Pills - Big Mistake (7"/DIGI)
'Big Mistake' is taken from the Sliced and Diced album and features an exclusive B-side 'My Baby's Become A Right Wing Extremist', it's set for release on April 28th. Pre-order your copy by clicking on the sleeve art. Orange vinyl if you're sharp enough!
Cowbell - Haunted Heart (LP/CD/DIGI)
London Garage Soul duo return with 3rd album HAUNTED HEART released on Damaged Goods Records
More Memphis, more Fuzz, more greasy foot-beating, party-greeting, soul-treating maximum RnB. And yes, more Cowbell.
Cowbell are back! We have a new LP Haunted Heart due out on May 26th! The title track will be released as a digital only single on April 28th featuring an exclusive B-side. Both up for pre-order now. They also have some gigs coming up.
Jack Sandham (Guitar/Keys/Vox) and Wednesday Lyle (Drums/Vox) have straddled the Atlantic with the beat stampede of their songbook so far, but Haunted Heart sees them walk down the dark end of the street, drawing on Atlantic-era Ray Charles and Dusty, while still keeping on creeping on with the sweaty-hand shaky-knee Garage rock ear-worms.
From the Sun Studio, Cramps-like swagger of the title track, to the paranoid Coasters swing and Doors-keys of None Of Your Business, Jack’s urgent vocals yelp out from the first needle drop, stepping aside for Wednesday’s wink of the eye on the Holly Golighty/Black Lips femme-fatale fury of Downlow, which sounds like it’s been ripped straight from the beating heart of the Fillmore during the Summer Of Love.
Produced by the band themselves at Soup studios in Limehouse, London, their early raw bare-bones sound has now been fully expanded with Jack’s sandpaper grit guitars and Wednesday’s freight train rhythms chased down with some glitchy synths and vintage organs (Doom train/Neon Blue) as well as a drop of Delta gospel Blues on Nothing But Trouble (also incidentally the first Cowbell song ever to actually feature a Cowbell).
Otis and Pickett-era horns breathe seductively into the swampy-stomp of What Am I Supposed To Do, while New Kind Of Love tiptoes onstage with its alluring smoky jazz piano as Wednesday brings a beautifully casual Peggy Lee type Fever to the microphone.
But it’s with the curtain-closers on both sides of wax that Cowbell have really rung in the new, Something’s Gotta Give swaps in gently plucked Laurel Canyon vibes, teardrop-stained and tie-dyed into a soul-stirring torch song. And just as we’re ready to step off this train, the last stop of No Wrong drops us off in the sherbet-sweet swell of a Cowbell classic. A toast to Percy Sledge and Van Morrison, with a giddy gospel reprise that has Jack and Wednesday promise that they “won’t do you no wrong”. And they’re damn right. Haunted by name, haunting by nature. Flip it up and start again. More Cowbell.
Cowbell are Jack Sandham and Wednesday Lyle.
They live in London, England.
Haunted Heart is their 3rd album on Damaged Goods, following their debut Beat Stampede and the follow-up Skeleton Soul.
They have been playlisted on BBC 6Music and toured extensively in the USA and Europe.
“Cowbell .... excel at writing superior party tunes” -Uncut
‘Tracks....ooze vigour and vitality, they’re feel good songs” - Artrocker
“Sweet Shimmying '60s R&B” - Classic Rock Magazine
Cowbell - Haunted Heart (DIGI ONLY SINGLE)
Haunted Heart will be released as a stadalone digital single on April 28th, featuring an exclusive B-side 'No Way Out'.
Check out the video for 'Haunted Heart' below.
LIVE DATES
April 21st - Radicals and Victuallers, N1, London
May 27th - All You Read Is Love, Leytonstone, London
June 2nd - The Lexington, London
June 3rd - Ramsgate Music Hall (With Cee Bee Beaumont)
June 17th - What's Cookin', London
BUTCHER BOY - BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN IT'S QUIET (Ltd. 7"- 500 copies)
Butcher Boy are issuing a new EP, their first set of recordings since 2011’s Helping Hands, as an exclusive Record Store Day 2017 release.
It's a very special gatefold, reverse board sleeve, a lovely thing in fact & each copy contains a digital download card.
The EP, released on Damaged Goods and entitled 'Bad Things Happen When It’s Quiet', is a three-part story told from three perspectives and was recorded in Glasgow with long-time collaborator Brian McNeill.
The songs on the record are:-
November 1947, Storm Warning In Effect
July 1950, The Captain is the Whale
November 1951, Bad Things Happen When It’s Quiet
The songs, written over the course of a series of autumn and winter trips to the Cape Cod National Seashore, feature guest vocals from Anna Miles, Moog synthesisers, a choir, a string quartet and a weather radio, bought for twenty-five cents at a holiday fair in Brewster, MA.
Check out the video made to accompany the strings only version. (This song is the demo, not on the single, but will give you an idea.)
SINGLE LAUNCH GIG - GOVANHILL BATHS, GLASGOW - 22nd April
Govanhill Baths : 22nd April
99 Calder Street, Govanhill, Glasgow, G42 7RA
Doors 5.30pm Band onstage 6:00pm
Tickets £10/£6 (available in advance from brownpapertickets.com)
Glasgow’s Butcher Boy play a one-off show in support of the Govanhill Baths Community Trust to coincide with the release of new EP Bad Things Happen When It’s Quiet, the band’s first set of recordings since 2011′s Helping Hands LP. The EP will be released by Damaged Goods on limited-edition 7” vinyl in a gatefold sleeve (catalogue number DAMGOOD473) as part of Record Store Day on 22nd April 2017. The songs form a three-part story told from three perspectives and were recorded in Glasgow with long-time collaborator Brian McNeill.
The Baths
After being closed by the city council in 2001, the community occupied the baths and eventually took ownership under Govanhill Baths Community Trust. The small pool has recently re-opened in time for the building’s 100th anniversary. The Baths support many community activities including sport, exhibitions, shows, films, poetry & debates and has a welfare & legal advice project. The Trust is close to saving this unique piece of Glasgow’s heritage and fully reopening Govanhill Baths as the swimming and wellbeing centre for the community. Refurbishment will cost over £6m and there is ‘only’ around £1m left to raise. Butcher Boy’s show will be in support of the Trust’s restoration and rebuilding project with the band playing in the currently empty swimming pool.
Also available by Butcher Boy...from us...
HELPING HANDS (CD)
IMPERIAL (7")
Happy Easter!
Ian & Duncan