Garbage Days Revisited #49: Birdland - "Birdland" (1991)
"Your evil sun is rising up and he's shakin'/Shakin' for you..." Birdland - Shoot You Down We're taking a quick break away from the whole biker sleaze rock this week to wander into more English territory. Don't worry, we'll be back there next week - blame the random playlist on my Itunes for this diversion as earlier in the week during a quiet afternoon at work, it cued up a song I'd not heard for a few years, namely Birdland's classic Hollow Heart and it made me think "Feck, now if EVER there was a band who deserved a Garbage Days Revisited entry..." I do actually vaguely remember Birdland from way way back in the day just when I was starting to get into guitar music as a 12-year-old - they had a minor Top 40 hit with Sleep With Me (it got featured on the Top 40 breakers on TOTP but a full appearance was not forthcoming) then seemed to disappear from view very quickly afterwards. The group had appeared on the scene in a blizzar...