Yes, Bugbear wish you wealth, warmth and wonder in 2018. A riotous New Year’s Eve party in The Dublin Castle (where better?) was preceded by some batshit crazy doings care of Bugbear and Mike Spenser , the King of Trash, at Soho Radio, tap on the greetings motif above and hear the two hour session again. Wild and wayward, just as we like it.
The Dublin Castle
Friday 19th January
The Flaming Stars + The Long Mynd + The Delta Jacks
+ DJs We Got Killers
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The Flaming Stars. John Peel favourites from 20 years or more ago. Bugbear favourites too. Wonderful to have this pivotal London band back again, and yes they provided us with many a marvelous Dublin Castle gig back in the as they say day, and have had us swooning even more with the ones they’ve played since their recent comeback. They just get better and better. Their slinky garage punk tweaked rocknroll romantique hits a beautiful sweet spot somewhere between The Seeds and perhaps a Joe Meek wrangled Gallon Drunk, with tunes to die for and tood aplenty via the beautifully trashy keys of frontman, bon viveur and wordsmith Max Decharne…still, the swish Dirk Bogarde of Ye Trashe, the wrongful ravishes of time ain’t touched him or his ace band. The Long Mynd’s slacker Americana post punkishness has some pithy psych elements. So you get bits of Dinosaur Jr/ Sebadoh/Fannies fare but also Myndful of the long shadow of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Byrds. So, all in all, a guaranteed night of excellence ably embellished by The Delta Jacks whose rockabilly fuelled upbeat Americana recalls Sun Studios era Johnny Cash.. see also Hank Williams, but rocking all original tunes and great players too. Plus DJs We Got Killers– spinning exotica, rhythm n blues, soul and sass into big party bangers as 2am approacheth…..
Anyway, take Dr Decharne’s advice…Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye…
Improve Your Record Collection. The Flaming Stars Discography…
Studio albums
Songs from the Bar Room Floor (Vinyl Japan 1996)
Sell Your Soul to the Flaming Stars (Vinyl Japan 1997)
Pathway (Vinyl Japan 1999)
A Walk on the Wired Side (Vinyl Japan 2001)
Sunset & Void (Vinyl Japan 2002)
Named and Shamed (Vinyl Japan 2004)
Born Under A Bad Neon Sign (Big Beat, 2006)
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Singles/ EPs
“Hospital, Heaven or Hell” (tracks “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye” / “Davy Jones’ Locker” / “Like Trash” / “Revenge” – Vinyl Japan, March 1995)
“The Face On The Bar Room Floor” / “Get Carter” (Vinyl Japan, August 1995)
“Money To Burn” / “Bandit Country” / “A Hell of a Woman” / “New Shade of Black” (Vinyl Japan, December 1995)
“Downhill Without Brakes” / “Broken Heart” / “Eat Your Heart Out” / “Burnt Out Wreck of a Man” (Vinyl Japan, May 1996)
“Ten Feet Tall” / “Spaghetti Junction” (Vinyl Japan, December 1996)
“Bury My Heart At Pier 13” / “Down to You” (live in London) (Vinyl Japan, March 1997)
“New Hope For The Dead” / “Are You Being Served” (Vinyl Japan, October 1997)
“Sweet Smell Of Success” / “The Day The Earth Caught Fire” / “Never Missed You Tonight” / “A Place in the Sun” (Vinyl Japan, April 1998)
“Only Tonight” (Vinyl Japan, November 1999)
“You Don’t Always Want What You Get” / “Saturday Night Special” (Vinyl Japan, January 2001)
“One Lonely Night” / “Days Like This” (Alternative Tentacles, September 2001)
“A Little Bit Like You” / “The Man Who Would be B.B. King” (Vinyl Japan, September 2002)
“Spilled Your Pint” / “Sixty Nine” (Vinyl Japan, Bang! Records, 2004)
“Stranger On the Fifth Floor” / “New Hope for the Dead” (live in Germany) (Vinyl Japan 2005)
Other albums
Bring Me the Rest of Alfredo Garcia (Singles 1995-1996) (Vinyl Japan, March 1997)
The Six John Peel Sessions (Vinyl Japan, 2000)
Tijuana Bible, (Nippon Columbia, July 2000) (Japanese release only)
Ginmill Perfume, (Alternative Tentacles, October 2001) (North American release only)
London After Midnight: Singles, Rarities and Bar Room Floor-Fillers 1995-2005 (Big Beat Records, 2006)
Tracks on other compilations
The Face on the Bar Room Floor appeared on “Various Artists do the Nuclear Tests in Paris and Beijing” (Vinyl Japan, 1995) NB The Earls of Suave track “A Cheat” also appears on the same CD. The Earls featured most of The Flaming Stars members.
Bring Me the Rest of Alfredo Garcia appears on the ‘CD magazine’ “Volume 15” (Volume, 1995)
Back of My Mind appeared on “Cowpunks” (Vinyl Junkie, 1996)
Like Trash appeared on “What Did You Come Down For? Music from Club Zitt And Beyond” (Genki, 1996)
A Hell of a Woman appeared on “Plan Boom” (What’s That Noise, 1998)
“Spilled Your Pint” appeared on “Sci-Fi Lo-Fi Vol.1: Mixed By Andrew Weatherall” (Soma, 2007)