![]() ![]() “Harlequin Knights/Grub Blastin’ ” 7″ by St. ![]() Songs written by Mike D.Ĭan you name a favourite track made by friends? “Ms Ela Stanyon’s School of Acting” or “Irish Suit” have the most active and cohesive full band arrangements, with everyone having their parts. But really I have no reservations about the awesomeness of that song and anyone who has a problem with it can heck off.Ĭan you name a record with inspiring words? No guilt for pleasure! But if you must have an answer, the aforementioned Bay City Rollers’ “Saturday Night” has, as Mike Shoun might say, ‘a bad reputation’ among serious people. What’s a song you remember most from childhood? Mike D wrote this but I dunno how similar they are. What’s the best cover version of something by The Peacers? I remember Shayde iPod DJing some nice cuts as we drove in the EU including Ian Dury, Cleaners From Venus, Townes Van Zandt live …. The whole of the album Pass The Dust, I Think I’m Bowie, by Black Randy and The Metrosquad. The Who’s “Summertime Blues”, from Live At Leeds … or The Beatles, “Please Mr Postman”. Bay City Rollers’ “Saturday Night” is a real ass song and should be taken more seriously. Simon and Garfunkel’s “Leaves That Are Green”.Īnd how about your parents’ records what were the tunes of your formative years?ĭad’s mix tape in car with 70s’ AM hits, specifically Paper Lace (“Billy Don’t Be a Hero”, “The Night Chicago Died”), Bay City Rollers … the best version of “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” is actually by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods and I think that was the version on the tape. What was the track that influenced you to start making music? St Joseph and the Abandoned Food, although I vowed to stop saying this to Noel from the band when I’m drunk and see him at shows. First up: what for you is the perfect Saturday night tune?Īnd for the inevitable day after: a good recommend for a Sunday morning record? Let’s crack on …īACKSEAT MAFIA: Hi Bo, and thanking you for taking the time to lead us through the soundtrack to your life. And you can find that playlist right down the end there to take away with you. We caught up with the band’s Bo Moore to talk about the Soundtrack to His Life, which revealed a playlist that rather rocks, to be blunt. A great record for a dusk motorway, this yeah, a great little record.” Hey, you can read our full review right over here step this way if you would. One foot in a California garage, fiddling with the fuzz pedals another gazing across the ocean to Swingin’ London town, taking in folkiness, powerpop, mod and freakbeat touches. It’s an album which we summated as: “Whatcha got? A great little garage rock record, is what. ![]() Prop the doors open lads, we’s a comin’ in. ![]() Mike Donovan may have headed for the east coast and dropped a couple of solo sets, but they’ve kept a welcome in the Cali hillsides. What’s set The Peacers apart from other bands from that scene they’re travelling alongside (and exchanging members with) is a more baroque, acoustic approach to their garage vision maybe a little more Pearls Before Swine in that initial mix than say, Bubble Puppy, maybe more ’66 than ’69.Īnd well, whaddya know, the second Peacers line-up, the one that recorded that second album, Introducing The Crimsmen, after exactly two-thirds of the album one version of the band made for the out door – they’ve held firm to the tiller for their latest little beauty, Blexxed Rec, so props, Bo Moore, Shayde Sartin and Mike Shoun. Tim Hellman went into the ranks of Thee Oh Sees Mike Donovan was joined by still other members of John Dwyer’s psych voyagers in The Peacers, our main concern here this morning for which we are gathered, dearly beloved and Ty Segall also initially stepped forward from the one outfit into the other before himself spinning out into other aural worlds. SAN FRAN’S Sic Alps, living guitar legends, were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable isotope, emit members to spin off into other musical pursuits, eventually to transform itself in a musical half-life. ![]()
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