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     Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 36 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.daintees.com/workshop.htm | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2005 |
this looks fantastic, just need to convince the wife I should participate. the Daintees were really really brilliant, along with Prefab Sprout, hyrrah and The Kane Gang, they all had something to offer in their own way when Kitchenwars first launched. Daintees first album is a must. i saw The Daintees loads of times '86 - '88, played pool with them before they went on in Wolverhampton once too! Once at a really really tiny venue in Wolverhampton, called Scruples, now gone, like everything else that was great, venue wise around here, John Dunn the guitarist walked off stage during their 15 minurte version of Louis, where Matrin used to tell a story and drag the song out like Jim Kerr used to drag Minds songs out in the mid 8o'!!, but with much more comedic value, he ended up in the toilets playing the song and I think he had a wee whilst the band members were all still playing, it was hilarious!! Ah bless em all, Martin is such a nice guy. Gary Dunn the bassist used to get all the ladies!!! They were one of the first "indie" groups to use and openly admit to having session guys, ithink the drummer and keyboardist looked so out of place on stage. A bit like the group backing members in Dexys Don't Stand me Down videos, in thet the drummer had a headband, capped t-shirt with bulging biceps and a pair of really short two-tone running shorts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh dear... | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, That Louis version "live" is the b-side to the Croc cryer 12", I still have it. He tell's a great story about Greyhoonds ! Kitchenware were obviously postcard fans as they even used JD Salinger references in their promotional stuff just after Edwyn got his Holden Caulfield Universal "label" with polydor. I've reminded myself about the Daintees and so will now have to get "Boat.." on CD. I'd also forgot about The Lilac Time. I recall their first single, what LP is best to start with ? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 188 Registered: 05-2005 |
hi chap, yeah that version was good wasn't it! Got an MP3 of it? Must get one! Cravats and Greyhoonds!!!!!!!!! I had a friend who lived in Low Fell near newcastle when it all started to happen and she used to rave about the kitchenward scene being very exciting... It started off sheer plagarism but ended up being highly individualistic! I mean, Paddy Mcaloon is quite original would you think? As is old Martin. Lilac time wise, I really can't fault the first one. Its packed with really deep thoughtful songs, reminds me of Surfs Up a bit, not the sound just the way the songs take over the esnese, very evocative. The otherLP's are good, but its that first album thing again. I'm full of anecdote's, one other reason I love the first LP is that when we signed to lazy records with my old group, the demo that got us signed was recorded and produced by Bob Lamb, who produced the irst album, and we used the acoustic guotar ans percussion that Duffy and everyone used on it too! Sorry, I can hear you all yawn!! | ||
| Stephen Harris Member Username: Smh Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2005 |
sadly wilson none of them a fantastic live band but awfully bland on record first saw them in 1982 - i think they and hurrah played the gig that should have been aztec camera and go-betweens. Followed them about as much as I could and they were lovely blokes. At their best with their first drummer Marty Yule, apparently dumped when London Records said he wasn't good enough. Dave Ruffy played a lot of gigs with them. I have some great tapes from 82-84. As nice as Gary Dunn was things were never the same after John Steele left. In about 1993 I'd met my wife-to-be and Martin was playing a solo gig in Brighton. I took my wife and four of her best friends to see him, thoroughly excited and sure to impress. He was dreadful, so pissed he could hardly keep on his stool. They all left towards the end and I stayed on only because I was too embarrassed to go with them. Something was said or done at the end of the set as he came back for an encore no-one expected and was brilliant. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 190 Registered: 05-2005 |
he's on about the lilac time | ||
| Stephen Harris Member Username: Smh Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
so he was! I've a Dr Calculas lp somewhere in the loft, wasn't that Stephen Duffy too? | ||
| Mark Tuffield Member Username: Mark_t Post Number: 17 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really liked the Kitchenware label, I can remember trying to convert a 17/18 year old work colleague at the time to the delights of the Kane Gang, but as a Rolling Stones fan he didn’t get it at all. I am probably alone in this, but on my desert island “Closest Thing To Heaven” would be picked in preference to anything in the Stones back catalogue. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Christ that's commitment talking about the stones like that!! Closest is a lovely slice of white soul innit?! They wer inoffensive enough. Yeah Dr Calculus, was Duffy, any good? |