Another fabulous photo spread from my dear friend Justin Thomas; photographer extraordinaire. This time it’s of The Jam‘s last shows, printed in the March 2012 edition of Uncut magazine. I was at one of the Wembley farewell shows, so it’s great to see these pics.
Casey Raymond is from Cardiff and designs super cool posters, fliers, album sleeves, fanzines and loads more. He works with Ewan Jones Morris making tripped out amazing videos for the likes of The Yellow Moon Band, Cate Le Bon, John Grant and Islet (in the post below)
Check out more of Casey’s work here.
From their album ‘Illuminated People‘ on Shape Records (Turnstile) which came out on Monday, this is from Cardiff’s finest Islet. Another classic video from Ewan Jones Morris to make your head swim!
Continuing on an Antipodean tip, the wonderful Go-Betweens from 1983 with the glorious, timeless ‘Cattle and Cane’
This is a fabulous song, lovely guitar and vocals. The Church were from Australia, part of a new psychedelic movement in the early ’80s.. This particular clip is made all the more enjoyable by watching the happless hand clapping from the crowd!
This is from 1968, the newly formed Pentangle. We were lucky enough to have the newly re formed Pentangle play Green Man 40 years later in 2008. Featuring the late great Bert Jansch, here they are performing ‘Travelling Song’.
I’ve written about my band Bluetrain fairly frequently on this blog. We had several line ups, always featuring Danny and myself on bass and guitar and as the main songwriters. In 1987 we had an American living in London join our ranks. Mark (AKA Frank) Nemetz. Mark joined shortly after the 12″ ‘Land of Gold‘ was released on Dreamworld. With Mark, we played the cinema tent at Glastonbury, supported The Mighty Lemon Drops at Guildford University, played loads of gigs in London with various jangly bands and also played The Buzz Club a few times. We toured Scotland, supporting The Pastels in Edinburgh and made friends along the way. These photos are all from our gig in Dundee.
We recorded a few songs together in London in 1987. ‘Some Greater Love‘ appeared on the wonderful ‘Uncle Arthur’s Pop Parlour‘ and was also the title of the Bluetrain compilation album released on the Pastillina label in 2009.
Mark returned to California in early 1988. Danny and I decided to go and try Bluetrain U.S.A. so we booked tickets to L.A.X and left in July 1988.
Here from that London 1987 session with Mark on guitar and backing vocals and Kevin Moorey on drums is ‘Decline‘
I’m putting this classic by The Drums up because I just got this message on the contact page (fingers crossed it happens!):
Hey Jo,
Good to see you are doing well, thanks for putting all the North of Cornwallis stuff up, because of you (probably) Jacob from The Drums became a fan and still wants (i think) to put out some kind of compliation on his Holiday Friends label, Lester and I are still trawling through the demos.
drop me a line if you get a chance.
Mark (North of Cornwallis)
