What's Time To a Mole?
One of the more interesting (?) ideas of the 80s was the music press encouraging unsigned bands to send in tapes of the efforts to be ‘reviewed’ by the papers experts. The Melody Maker called their page for aspiring artists ‘Playback’ and it regularly featured some literary gems along with some unconsciously funny stuff from the bands themselves.
Take Hickory Wind who were named after a Gram Parsons song who listed their influences as “Planxty, The Clash, Dylan and Dexy’s Midnight Runners.” The band featured two saxophones, which makes it difficulty to see either the Parsons or the Planxty connection. Amongst the songs they submitted for consideration was What’s Time To A Mole?. Unsurprisingly we’ve heard nothing from them since. Weird and wonderful group names abound; Adrian’s Wall and Uncle Ian & The Tooth Decay give you a flavour of the times.
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Great to see a mention of our long lost band! We now have a myspace page here http://www.myspace.com/uncleian0 with some of the music and a website here: http://www.paddywack.co.uk/Uncle_Ian/ including the originall Steve Sutherland review in Melody Maker
Thanks for noticing us.
I actually think the music on Myspace is better than I would have anticipated. There's shades of I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's recent album. Very interesting! Isn't the internet amazing? Whowooda thought it possible after all those years that Uncle Ian would have got a mention?
I actually think the music on Myspace is better than I would have anticipated. There's shades of I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's recent album. Very interesting! Isn't the internet amazing? Whowooda thought it possible after all those years that Uncle Ian would have got a mention?
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