i love Saint Etienne

I was already a Faith Over Reason and Field Mice fan (thanks, I think, to Mike Jones and Andy Dean) when I heard Saint Etienne's versions of 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' and 'Kiss and Make Up'... it would have been in the Bear in Maidenhead, or maybe Skindles





Fox Base Alpha would have been played on the record counter when I worked university holidays in Boots, and I'm pretty sure I shoplifted the second album, on tape, from WHSmiths - it was in the sale section, so the tape was in the box, rather than behind the counter

then there was that Glastonbury in 1994 that Cath and Dave I went to - the one where the Manics said they should build a motorway through it:


there is just hit single after solid gold hit single, Hug My Soul, Pale Movie, Sylvie and the Bad Photographer!



ans then, more recently (I've got the Monkees Head soundtrack... ON TAPE!)


I think what i'm trying to say is - Saint Etienne singles are always amazing, and here's another one!

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/

Catenary Wires video

 

Deerful - Moon Maps video

yep - the Easter Weekend just got better:

a video for My Favorite's Second Empire

as previewed on Skatterbrain, and all ready for your own karaoke party

And The Rain by Freschard, recorded live at the Union Chapel

here's an acoustic recording of the lovely And The Rain from when Clemence played the Union Chapel earlier this year

you can get the original on the album Boom Biddy Boom, or the recording with the Wave Pictures here:

Trick Mammoth video

here's the video for Trick Mammoth's prevoius single - Delphine (With A Purpose):


and you can preorder the new one here:

Hong Kong In The 60s Patricia video

and rather lovely it is too:

Jeff Mellin at MoMA

yup, not content with having Doug Yule, Helen & Steph Shrag and Jenny Dee on his latest single, Jeff's had some of his videos on show at MoMA:

As part of peripheral festivities for Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 exhibit, MoMA’s PopRally group invited artists to contribute one-minute abstract videos to be projected on large screens in the lobby and main hall during its Abstract Currents Interactive Video Event, April 7, 2011... here's Jeff's stuff:

new video from Darren Hayman

here's the video we made while recording Darren's 7777777 single - Old Man... those nice chaps at the Quietus have mentioned it too
or subscribe to the whole set of seven 7"es (Jeff Mellin, Hong Kong In The 60s, Darren Hayman, Sourpatch, Pups, Comet Gain and the Middle Ones) here:

to subscribe to wiaiwya-7777777 2013 (all seven 7" singles)

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Smile Like A Lemon Peel review...

those nice chaps at Did Not Chart have reviewed Jeff's 7777777 release, and by golly, they like it!

"When The Cars’ Ric Ocasek produced Guided By Voices, I hoped it would sound something like Jeff Mellin’s Smile Like A Lemon Peel Kiss Like A Papercut does today: power pop beat and bounce, controlled messiness and maybe – and it was a lot to ask – Gary Valentine’s post-Blondie new wave classics. Come on, who wouldn’t want a song that matches up to The First One? "

video for Jeff Mellin's Smile Like a Lemon Peel, Kiss Like a Paper Cut

Jeff Mellin: Smile Like A Lemon Peel, Kiss Like A Paper Cut from Soamel Pictures on Vimeo.