The record, ‘Stranger’, follows hot on them heels, releasing itself from its box on Friday 24th February 2017 - more info on all that stuff to be found here - https://cf-records.bandcamp.com/album… http://towedbytheghost.bandcamp.com
This song and this video behave like a launch pad for the Former Bullies album of the same name.
I’ll confess it is a little stranger, but so too is the world in which we live.
Hope you really like the video, hope you really love the song, I’ll let all that sink in and then some time tomorrow I might tell you about how to order the record etc.
This Saturday, Easter Saturday, Former Bullies hit the wilds of Withington. On Saturday, this Saturday, Easter Saturday, Former Bullies play the Fuel Cafe Bar.
With all the other cracking bands that are on the poster posted above too.
This is happening one week today - in fact, in exactly 168 hours from this moment, I, joined by Thomas J, will be footling around with our guitars and voices. ‘Promises to be a lovely evening, hope to see you all there X
New long player on cassette from Secret Admirer; solo project of Manchester long player Nick Ainsworth. You may know Nick as singer and songsmith from Former Bullies, Dinner Party and Feel Right, or indeed from the excellent first Secret Admirer album released on CF Records in 2013. For those unfamiliar, his music is about as direct as it gets: instant, totally catchy, heartfelt but relaxed along with it; just plain great pop songs that need no further explanation. This particular collection is all `Nick, providing all his own accompaniment, so you get these things in spades, and more.
Now obviously, I’m a big fan, but I think I’m being objective when I say this here tape is something very special. The songs are short but generous; they are funny, hopeful, sad but always warm and welcoming. There are sound similarities to folk like Michael Yonkers and Skip Spence, but the actual songs are totally direct, never rambling or incoherent, always happy to be looking at you while talking to you. To these ears, the words and the music are one and the same thing, melody and rhythm play just as much a part here as meaning; the accompanying guitars, percussion and melodica sprout and grow round it all in a lovely natural fashion. It’s a beautiful place to be, and being a tape, it’s totally flippable, you’ll want to keep coming back. Anyway, words alone necessarily fall short; take a listen to ‘Every Time I Dream’ and tell me you don’t hear something special. I can honestly say that I hear someone speaking a language that can’t be translated into any other, it has to be those sounds and that song. And surely that’s the point of it all, isn’t it?
Email Nick direct for a copy: feelrightliveright@gmail.com
