Presenting…Jesus H. Foxx
Damn that Toad, how does he do it?!
That Toad, being Matthew Young, who writes the excellent Song, By Toad blog and runs the Song, By Toad record label. His latest release is the very fine Matter EP, an excellent six track release. Trynig to describe them is like falling flat on your face; it gets in the way of you enjoying about what you were trying to do before. Though the folks who have said The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads are probably right in a way…yet somehow this doesn’t really get to grips with what it is. I think i hear bits of the Go-Betweens.There’s brass…they’re definitely scottish…and once again, Matthew is absolutely on the money. Damn him!!! A totally original sounding band. You will want to take them to your hearts.
According to their myspace the band members are Mew, The Wind, Peanut, Madge, Ninsh, Machine, Brash. Hmm.
Anyway, you need to hear this band.
You should start here:
Jesus H. Foxx -’I'm Half The man You Were.’ mp3
Forthcoming live dates from their myspace:
9 Oct 2009 This Is Jim @ Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh w/ Boycotts
23 Oct 2009 Oxjam at The Bowery, Edinburgh w/ Meursault, Y’all is Fantasy Island & Occasional Flickers
26 Nov 2009 Electric Circus, Edinburgh w/ Good Shoes & Copy Haho
29 Nov 2009 King Tuts, Glasgow w/ We Were Promised Jetpacks
To buy the EP, go here
Nice one… Annoyingly I can’t make either of the upcoming gigs in Emra. Pah!
The girl doing the backing vocals occasionally reminded me of Dogs die in hot cars, which made me wonder what Craig is up to. Over the past 18 months I used to hear from him every few months, but things have gone quiet since March this year. I hope he is just busy, and not ill or something.
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Don’t worry, we knew what you meant!
Be good to hear what DDIHC are up to in their different form these days; hope that he’s okay.
And glad you like Jesus H. Foxx!
Thanks Ed, glad you like it. Lovely write-up. I really struggled to describe this when I was writing my spam emails to all the bloggers - I think I tried about twenty different versions, but I’m still not entirely happy with what I wrote. You’re definitely closer than I was.
Oh wow! maybe a new career awaits…wrote a press release for one of our artists this week and they were ecstatic with the first one!
(Ed… not really a comment, but is there a configuration in your template for something to “notify me by email to further comments to this blog”. I only find your responses by specifically going back to blogs I have commented on (if I can remember which). Some people’s blogs have a check box to trigger notification. Am I missing something?)
Er…it’s a really good question, i’ll look into it.
Speaking of which, Katrina Mitchell who you asked about is the pastels drummer who sings on the Teenage Fanclub cover of Nothing To Be Done.
Ed
Ah well it all ties up nicely then… I bow to your encyclopaedic knowledge
*chuckle*