A Post Script to my gig of last Friday. When I went to see The Girl With The Replaceable Head at The Cumberland Arms where I had a brief but memorable encounter with their drummer Lindy Morrison, once of The Go Betweens of course. Where she helped to get me into the gig.
The album itself is called Sometimes She Lives in the Dark, Sometimes She Lives in the Light. You'll need to go to its Bandcamp page to hear it because it's not on Spotify. But its worth chasing down. It's an excellent record as well as a curiosity that drags some of us back to some things that were fundamental to us in our youths. . A reminder of a bygone age. The time before the Internet when you had to make an effort to track down the music you fell in love with. The time when falling in love as it transpires meant doing so forever.
The band is a meeting, a reunion of Hurrah! and The Go Betweens. Two bands who shared bills back in the Eighties Dave Taffy Hughes, once guitarist of the former. Lindy Morrison once drummer of the latter. A singer Sylvia whose voice quivers and trembles.
It's a record and and it was an evening that took me back. Hughes may not have the most faithful singing voice but he has a faithful heart. The record casts a spell. Some things which did not make the charts feel a lot more memorable and treasurable than things that did. For those this interests there is a lengthy podcast with Hughes discussing the story of Hurrah! and the genesis of the record here.
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