08/12/2022
Wonderful news, so looking forward to this! Thank you for using my photo :) So happy how it turned out, great design. (At Toad Hall Studio, Glasgow)
THE ORCHIDS on Bandcamp Friday
Need I say more? Well just in case I do, tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday (Dec 2) – and we’re more than a little excited to finally be able to released The Orchids two session for John Peel, lovingly compiled on ten-inch vinyl, each with a set of postcards and downloads. Get the bundle for both as it's a bit cheaper Precious Recordings of London Bandcamp page.
The first session, from 1990, features a cracking version of live favourite ‘Caveman’ (better than the Lyceum version, how the band wanted it!) and two others destined to end up on their Unholy Soul album – plus one song never properly released at all.
Session #2 comes four years later, after they’d started phoning in Scottish football reports to Peel. Two of these songs were never released at the time, though one came out as a demo about 25 years later (the shoulda-been-single ‘Patience Is Mine’) – and the other two were very different on Striving For The Lazy Perfection.
They sound fab – and they don’t look so shabby either, even if I do say so myself. Which clearly I do.
I’ve never been much good at the sales pitch but get in quickly because I’m fairly hopeful these ones will sell out. Only 500 of each and no repress. (And while you’re at, you might also consider their brilliant new LP Dreaming Kind on the luvverly SkepWax.)
Now, finally, while I’ve commandeered your full attention, don’t forget we have four brilliant Soup Dragons ten-inchers still available – and then, of course, there’s Boyracer, all ready to be sent out for Xmas … now go out and get ’em boy, as someone once opined.
Cheers, Nick G