What Turn Up The Volume is watching/playing between two coffees
For some incomprehensible reasons Manchester pop/rock band JAMES led by exhilarating voice TIM BOOTH was/is only a really big band in their home country. With the countless pop pearls, these guys came up with in their career since 1982 they should have been a global sensation.
Here’s just only one reason why…
JAMES: Discography – Facebook
13 July 2020
Artist: ENDLESS SEASON (UK)
Who: Fresh pop-punk project started this year by singer/songwriter Anthony Fish
when he began working on finishing some unused song ideas. From these sessions,
the project was born with the aim of fusing together catchy hooks, memorable riffs
and relatable lyrics to engage the listener.
Track: SIT DOWN – debut single
Score: Combine Sum 41 and Blink 1982, add a spark of Weezer on tons of speed and the cooking result is Endless Season going supersonic from the kick-off and never looking back. Play this very loud in the morning and you’ll jump out of your bed instantly and go totally berserk. Alert your neighbors before you press play. Oh yeah this impetuous missile will make you dizzy the way you like it. Zippy swipe!
Start the engine…
ENDLESS SEASON: Facebook
4 June 2020
Band: JAMES (Manchester UK)
Album: GOLD MOTHER – the band’s third LP
Released: 4 June 1990 – 30 years ago today
Score: #5 on NME’s end- of- the-year list
BBC Music wrote: “It’s often savage, sometimes bitter, and always
loaded with ideas. Yet its overall effect is uplifting, even euphoric, and
for all its weight, it flies, light as a feather.”
Key tracks: Come Home / Sit Down
– SIT DOWN –
– COME HOME –
JAMES: Facebook – All Albums
Knockouts from the past…
10 June 2019
Today 30 years ago, on 10 June 1989, Manchester’s tip-top popsters JAMES
released their splendid signature single SIT DOWN . It peaked at a poor #77
on the UK Singles Chart, but when the cracker was re-issued in March 1991
it went to #2. The song was launched a third time in 1998 remixed by electro act
Apollo 440. The lyrics reflected a homage to author Doris Lessing and Patti Smith.
Here’s the original version and the accompanying video clip…
JAMES: Facebook
