Planet - Confusion EP (1995)

Graham Day was originally signed as an artist in 1983 as a member of the Prisoners and we have been finding reasons to have him back ever since. We have released albums by the SolarFlares, and a complete set of Prisoners reissues including the recent “Rare And Unissued”, which involved a gathering together of all the bits and pieces of the bands career. Graham is a fantastic songwriter with an amazing voice, and we felt it was time to shine a spotlight on one of the most overlooked parts of his career.
In 1993 the Prisoners re-formed for a one-off gig at London’s Subterranea. It was a roaring success. Over the next year they would play a number of gigs, including headlining at the 2000-capacity Clapham Grand and playing a tour of Germany. However the reunion was never going to permanent as the Prisoners’ organist James Taylor was riding high with the JTQ scoring chart hits and touring the world. After hooking up with the bass player and drummer from the support band on the Prisoners’ German tour Graham Day formed a new band, Planet. Planet were a more groove-based outfit whose influences went beyond his love of classic 60s UK rock and into the realms of late 60s soul and Funkadelic.
It may have been inevitable that they would sign to Acid Jazz’ new indie label, Focus. Acid Jazz is owned by Eddie Piller, the Prisoners’ final manager, and he has an enduring appreciation of Graham’s talent. Signing Planet was a no-brainer. Graham thought that the signing might have been a move to try for a new Prisoners album, but as the JTQ was Acid Jazz’s biggest act, this was probably not his motive. Planet were allowed unlimited time in the Acid Jazz studio and recorded 17 tracks that made up the LP and various singles that appeared throughout 1995. The music has a strong rhythmic thrust and plenty of wah wah guitar, but it also is full to the brim with great melodies and vocals.
“Splitting The Humidity” was released in the late summer of 1995 but although Planet toured heavily around its issue, it was not destined to be the breakthrough for Graham’s talent. It failed to set the charts alight and the band split. What was left has a unique sound and deserves to be heard afresh.

By Dean Rudland

They also released a few singles or EPs in 1995 like "Sky","Dog" and "Confusion". In 2008 was edited "The Complete Studio Recordings" on the Big Beat label.

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This is an "old" picture from the web, it's not complete: The Buff Medways (2002-2006) or Graham Day & The Galoers (2007- )

Planet fue otra de las muchas bandas de Graham Day, no duró mucho, un año, pero dio para sacar unos cuantos EPs o singles ("Sky","Dog" and "Confusion".) y el disco “Splitting The Humidity” en 1995. Tras una tercera reunión de los Prisoners se formó Planet fichando por el sello Focus (Acid Jazz). El sonido de Planet se acerca más al de la última época de Prime Movers que al de Prisoners, quizá con un ligero toque Hendrix, pero no deja de ser Graham Day.
He añadido un esquema o árbol de las aventuras de Day, incompleto ya que es de hace unos años, falta The Buff Medways ,bajo, con Childish y Graham Day & The Galoers con miembros de Woggles.
El archivo se agradece al amigo ,golden67 , ya de hace años..........

The Gain - You Should Know EP (USA 1995)

Four songs, three great, one just mortal. The cover of "I Don't Mind" (Buzzcocks) is brilliant, and not just because it's such a cool song to begin with. These songs are simple rocking punk with elaborate vocals reminding me of Blatz but just with no girl singing. Out of hand is my favorite because I lean towards the Us against the World punk rock inspirational. (GS)

I'd like to start this post with a "you should know" review from The Gain's webpage. Another great single was posted in my blog, here. And searching for info about the band I found five live songs (At Fireside Bowl, 1997) in the record "V.M. Live Series 2 Volume 1" with another three bands: The Pist, Supernova and Brand New Unit. These songs will be uploaded soon...... Another EP: The Gain / Scared Of Chaka split (1995 702 records) is in the blog one-side war.
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Grupo al que tengo especial cariño. Buscando información sobre la banda (y su "Highway to Heck") me encontré con el disco "V.M. Live Series 2 Volume 1", compartido con tres bandas más (The Pist, Supernova and Brand New Unit) que incluye cinco temas en vivo que subiré un día de estos (un mes, vamos). Puede que sea por eso la razón de volver a traer a The Gain, Quadroburbia ya apareció por aquí. De paso, podeís encontrar el EP compartido con Scared Of Chaka en el blog one-side war.

VVAA - Come On Peel The Noise (1995)

Tangerine Records is a UK-based independent record label founded in 1992 by musician Paul Bevoir, music journalist Chris Hunt and marketing executive John Ashworth. The label specialised in reissuing collectable vinyl recordings on CD, focusing on mod, psychedelic, power pop and bubblegum pop genres. Acts released by the label have included The Jetset, The Moment, Direct Hits, Squire, The Cleaners From Venus, Dee Walker, Paul Bevoir and The VIPs.

Recopilación de grupos Mod realizada por el sello Tangerine Records.
Soy consciente de que las palabras Mod y recopilación podrán echar para atrás a más de uno. Para los que hayan aguantado y den un vistazo a los grupos que aparecen se encontrarán con conocidos como Jetset, Direct Hits, Moment, Squire, Mood Six ..... pero también aparecen grupos que estuvieron relacionados con ellos de una u otra forma como Melvyn & The Smartys, Cleaners from Venus,Smalltown Parade, Paul Bevoir, Dee Walker, The Candees.
Tangerine Records es un sello ligado a Paul Bevoir desde 1992 y especializado en editar - reeditar a grupos del "revival" mod de los 80s, vertiente POP. Es en esta recopilación donde descubrí un par de canciones de lo mejor del pop que he escuchado: "Maybe Not" de Bevoir y "Modesty Blaise" de los "Direct Hits", con uno que esté de acuerdo conmigo ya seremos dos.
Publicado en 1995, 20 temas, carátulas y folleto completo con comentarios sobre los grupos.
Buena introducción para el buen mod pop.

The Aardvarks - Bargain (1995)

Band that needs no introduction to fans of Mod/60's influenced music, these guys have been popular on the circuit for a fair few years now, and they're '95 debut long-player doesn't disappoint."Bargain" showcases a band with excellent influences (The Small Faces, Beatles, Who, The Kinks - "Office No.1" and "Mr. Inertia", for example, remind me an awful lot of Ray Davies tunes), but also a band not afraid to give their sound a contemporary feel. Mixing Hammond organ with psych-guitar riffs, most of the tunes are up-tempo Mod-rockers - if you'll pardon the term, and any album that includes a tune called 'Arthur C.Clarke' must be good, musn't it? Strong and impressive debut album, and nice get-up on the cover-sleeve lads!
Reviewed by David Steel (review posted on 9th September 2001) modculture.com

You can find in this blog a version of "Mr Inertia" by Mark Vark (Mark Pietronave) here.





De nuevo nos encontramos ante un buen disco y de nuevo nos vemos con una banda que posiblemente debió tener mejor suerte.Conocí a los Aardvarks a través de sus singles con Screaming Apple (89 y 91), discográfica con la que debieron tener algún problema para la publicación de su LP ya que no fué editado hasta 1995 y por otro sello: Delerium Records coincidiendo con problemas en la banda. Posteriormente se editó otro single en Detour Records: Buttermilk Boy / Bad Clothes (1999). Entre los temas del disco aparece "Mr Inertia" cuya versión a manos de Mark Vark (Mark Pietronave) apareció hace tiempo por este blog.
Influencias mod por todos lados con un toque psycho agradable.El archivo es colaboración del amigo jllopez, aunque al tenerlo en vinilo lo he ripeado también.

The Shreds - Brutally You (7" ,1995)

Otro single publicado por Detour Records. The Shreds se alejan un poco de lo que consideramos "mod" acercándose hacia el pop punk en la línea de "Senseless Things" o con aires a The Gain, pero el Fred Perry que lleva el guitarrista Russ me dá que pensar...... Creo que sólo llegaron a publicar este single y varias canciones sueltas en recopilatorios diversos. Podeís escuchar "Things I've Said" y otras tres más en su página de myspace . De ahí está sacado el siguiente comentario en inglés.

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The Shreds were formed in 1991 in the darkest depths of Lincolnshire. Heavily inspired by the Senseless Things and the thriving scene of UK pop/punk bands that were around at the time they recorded a shitload of demos over the years but actually released very little!! They did manage to get out and play shows all over the country though and got to play with great bands like Lovejunk, Funbug, The Revs, Goober Patrol and many more.The original line-up of the band was Russ, Austin and Martin. At some point they roped in Bruce to join to play lead guitar who was later replaced by Matt. When Martin decided to leave, Russ swapped from guitar to drums and the band carried on for a couple of years with that line-up before splitting up. (myspace)

You can find four more songs and some info in myspace .