Nite Songs

  Welcome to the July edition of the Singles Bar. The weather outside's a bit scorching so come on in and we'll fix you up with a cold one. Please peruse at your leisure... *** Well I guess the big news this month is a new single from The Cult , their first in three years no less. Pleased to report that Give Me Mercy  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a strong comeback from Astbury and Duffy with its swooping riff and haunting vocals harking back to the group's classic Love  album. New album due in September and hopefully this is a good omen for it. *** Another exciting development is news of a collaboration between Hi-Fi Sean  (aka Sean Dickson, formerly of the Soup Dragons and Nite Songs faves the High Fidelity) and David McAlmont  who have a new album out later in the year. Maybe  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a good first salvo from it too with Dickson's chilled out electronica and McAlmont's trademark sublime vocals combining to make something good. Recommended. Bandcamp link here ...

  “I’ve seen you before with good ideas but this one has its moments...” - China Drum, Last Chance , 1996 I seem to remember mentioning on here a couple of weeks ago when I did the SFTJ on Kerbdog that there are certain bands who seem to almost sneak into your record collection and become favourites by osmosis after you see them supporting enough bands that you like. This is another one of those stories albeit much more immediate. So it was some time in the autumn of 1995 if memory serves me correctly. Having recently seen the Wildhearts for the first time, your correspondent has found out that CJ and Willie, both of whom departed the band the previous year, have got a new band called Honeycrack who are playing the Duchess in Leeds. Ticket duly purchased, I head along there on the night and am well and truly blasted into the middle of next week. Unfortunately, it isn't by Honeycrack. Oh don't get me wrong, they were a good band ( Sitting At Home and King Of Misery still soun...