My mother gave me a book of cds I made in high school, so I was playing one a few years ago and it had two songs by a band I couldn't place. I really loved the songs so searched everywhere for this band. Shazam, clips to instagram, asking everyone in bars. For three years this saga went on. Then last night I was reading Russel's autobiography and he mentioned a half dozen bands he considered superior to Pulp prior to him joining. One of the bands: Artery. I remembered having some kind of compilation that I pulled the songs from one midnight twenty years ago. I immediately found one of the songs: "Louise". But the other bloody one doesn't seem to appear on anything.
Artery fans:
Is there a song called Mother's Ruin or a cover of a song or a Peel Session or a demo or something? It has the line "Do you remember your father, the man with the black moustache, he's a bad cowboy" in it.
Yeah it's an original I believe. Part of a set of songs they worked up after touring the One Afternoon In A Hot Air Balloon album, dropped when that version of the band split up and Gouldthorpe decided to go heavy for the Second Coming album instead. A shame really, would have been more to hear a bit more from that line-up before they moved on.
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"Yes I saw her in the chip shop / so I said get yer top off"
Artery are ace..
So many people/it's Christmas again from that session also appear on the Flight Commander lp 'A Room full of this'
Mother's Ruin appears on the compilation Sturdy already mentioned, another song 'Take' doesn't appear to have surfaced anywhere, It's a magical track..
While there are 3 versions of 'Louise' that i know of, all of them great..
Yes, The Flight Commander were predominantly a Simon & Mark project with Simon providing the majority of musicianship & production.
With input from other musicians and backing vocals from Saskia C..
They released 2 albums quite a number of years apart:
Solitude & the Snake (1985)
A Room full of this (1993)
Both worth checking out..
Yes, the song 'Take' was part of the demo session that included So many people/Mother's ruin etc...circa 1983..