Rifling through my 7″s #6
There are few things more ‘indie’ (in the old sense of the word) than the split 7″. By split 7″, what I mean is that one band has a song on one side of a record and another band has a song on the other side of the 7″. Hell, I dream of being able to do this with some of the acts on 17 Seconds Records…
Anyway, I digress. This was a double 7″ featuring four acts from Glasgow -Mogwai, El Hombre Trajeado, The Yummy Fur and The Karelia. It was released in 1998 on the London indie label Pastic Cowbly, in association with Glasgow label Guided Missile.
Of the four acts, Mogwai are the best well known, still recording to this day and having released their most recent studio album The Hawk Is Howling last year.
El Hombre Trajeado split in 2006 - if you click on the link, they have made it possible for you to download all their stuff from their own website.
The Yummy Fur split in 1999, singer John McKeown has gone on to form the 1990s, and towards the end of their life the band also included Alex Kapranos and Paul Thompson who would go on to be half of Franz Ferdinand.
The Karelia also included Alex Kapranos (then known as Alex Huntley). They only released a handful of recordings, which were at one stage changing hands for huge sums.
As ever, if you want to get your hands on physical copies of records by these artists, try Avalanche Records.
I like Pastic Cowbly, but sadly it would seem to be a typo as the sleeve gives the dull truth
um, and I hope the nameless folk who don’t always like other people sharing their music around, are ok about this!
The Yummy Fur track reminds me in a Glaswegian way of early Roxy Music… strange! Liked NewYear in New York too. thanks for posting this. Nice to see the family tree connections, too.
Also (ok wrong post) but I’m really enjoying Debaser.
Cheers, Ken, have corrected typo. Seeing as this EP is rare and as always acting as a promotional tool, no idiots should be grumbling about me posting this. Playing it again has made me wat to investigate the other stuff more too…Glad you like Debaser.
I love the 7″ series its made me rifle through some of my old 7″. I forgot I had “Who wants to be the disco king” by the wonderstuff and a couple of old manics 7″s. aah great times. Oooh just found ‘kennedy’ by the wedding present….
Ah, all good! There will be more in this series, bear with me : )