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Post War Glamour Girls: new single and tour news

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Leeds noisemakers and Real Gone favourites Post War Glamour Girls have a new single out on 15th April.

The two track release is the first for the I Like (ILR) record label and features ‘Jazz Funerals’ (a PWGG original) with the band’s twisted take on Robert Palmer’s ‘Johnny & Mary’ on the b-side.  According to the band’s press, the Palmer cover “reimagines the memorable synth line as a broken and gnarled guitar riff”.

Copies of the 7″ are limited to 451 copies and can be purchased from the ILR shop.

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TANYA DONELLY – Lovesongs For Underdogs

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5014436700828Best known as frontwoman for Belly and sometime member of Throwing Muses, this first solo outing by Tanya Donelly is everything you’d expect. Issued on 4AD records in 1997, ‘Lovesongs For Underdogs’ does not always sound like great departure from previous work with Belly; but while not greatly different, it manages to pull together the soft sounds of that band’s ‘Star’ and rockier parts of ‘King’ on one release.  In that respect, it could be viewed as Donelly’s most “complete” record.

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REAL GONE GOES OUT: Brad – Islington Academy, London 10/02/13

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In an age where band’s debut albums are expected to be an instant hit or record companies drop them like a lead weight, it seems inconceivable that, at the beginning of 2013, Brad are celebrating over twenty years together.  An on-again, off-again project for Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, Brad have always received mixed feelings from PJ fans, but those who love the band really do love them.  Perhaps more inconceivable is the fact that – despite their 1993 debut ‘Shame’ retaining a special place in the hearts of their fans – it took the band two decades to embark on their first full European tour.

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