Fickle Fingers New Track!

Got It Made featuring Huw Wild Eyes by Fickle Fingers

Quiet Life

Not been posting for a while...been busy recording an album full of Fickle Fingers...coming soon to a blog near you...scroll down for a taster...

Let It Go by Fickle Fingers

Fickle Fingers - Live @ Mello Mello

Heads up pop pickers, here's the first offering from Fickle Fingers, newly formed in the wake of The Tripping Forecast's meteorological destruction. This is a bootleg recording of their debut gig in Liverpool's Mello Mello. As you can hear a splendid time was had by all.

Tracklisting:
1. Sunny Days
2. This World We're Living In
3. The Sun Hangs Heavy (On My Head)
4. Think About Love
5. Bended Knee
6. La La La
7. Get There In The End

Special thanks to the indefatigable Mr. Simon Conneff for DJing and running the live sound, to Mello Mello for having us, and to the Draw The Line crew for their continued support.


Download it HERE.
HI45008

Fickle Fingers

Finally some news on the forthcoming project from three-quarters of the sadly deceased Tripping Forecast.

Go HERE for a listen. All tunes rough and readily recorded in the practice studio, but high fidelity recordings will be done and dusted soon.

Secrets - Live

The Wild Eyes on fine form here. 10 minutes of Neu! inspired weirdness, enjoy!

It looks a lot better if you go direct HERE though - damn letterbox format!

The Bad Fugues

The first offering from new duo The Bad Fugues.

Tracklisting:

Come With Me
Cream Of The Crop Is Over
Dive Tonight
The Following
Rattlesnake Charms
The Only High
Lonesome Hill
In League With The Raven
Oh When Thy Soul Doth Lift Unto The Sky
The Porpoise Riders
Sew Up The Stars
One Light

Download it HERE.


HI45009

High 45s Hiatus Over

High 45s return with the release of The Bad Fugues debut album, catalogue number HI45009.

Also forthcoming - the first Iscariot's Chariot EP, the long-delayed Mermen EP and possibly the last release from The Tripping Forecast.

The Minstrel

Tightly packed in straw and feathers, this record was delivered to High 45s offices on a foggy Mersey night by a bespectacled gent on horseback. Little information has surfaced about the mercurial stranger who made this music. Known only as 'The Minstrel', attempts to discover his origins or even his real name have proved as fruitless as Jesus's fig tree. We are fortunate that this small selection of his music has been preserved for your enjoyment, digitised from the original shellac compounds.

From medieval ballads to fairytales, to turn-of-the-century seaside musichall to more brutal chanson, 'The Minstrel' has it all. Download it HERE.


Catalogue Number: HI45005

High 45s Live!

Your chance to catch The Wild Eyes live:

Thursday 18th March
at the Zanzibar, Seel Street, Liverpool

I Asked For Strawberry But She Bought Raspberry By Accident

Absent for years as competent musicians were steadily replaced by robots, melodies tuned into government conspiracies, and the few remaining bands incapacitated by excessive backstage Peruvian, 2010 brings the return of the overblown supergroup. Evict yer Emerson Lake & Palmers, cross off Crosby Stills and Nash, finish your Humble Pie and turn off the Travelling Wilburys, because there's a new collective in town.

May we present to you their first noises? Recorded deep into Friday night on a 1970s National Panasonic tape recorder, this bootleg contains a couple of Paul Baker classics and a whole lot of freshly preserved jam.

Download it HERE.

Tracklisting:

I'm Not Stickin' Around
Mongolia
Really Living
Sword & Shield
Neal's Tune

Catalogue number: HI45004

Oh, and speaking of supergroups, was anybody else as disappointed with Monsters Of Folk as I was? Still, hopefully some good M. Ward related stuff on the way, see here.

Iscariot's Chariot - Ambulance Man

New version of a very old song. Simon played some excellent mandolin on this one.

Look out for this track and more on the forthcoming Iscariot's Chariot EP on High 45s Records.

JuJu Spider Acoustic Session

Recorded in March '09 or thereabouts, enjoy this acoustic three-piece session by the Most Punctual Band in Rock & Roll. There's even a video knocking about somewhere that Simon filmed.

Download it here.

You can see them in action here and here. Check their myspace for more stuff.

Catalogue: HI45003

Flood Your Mind

The Tripping Forecast's Flood Your Mind EP now available for download here.

More material from The Tripping Forecast can be gotten at here and here.

catalogue: HI45002

Welcome To High 45s

Greetings Earthlings, Martians and Millwall fans.

Welcome to the High 45s records blog. Here you will find all manner of weird and wunderbar muzik to amuse your ears. Stay tuned for new releases by The Tripping Forecast, Iscariot's Chariot, The Wild Eyes and maybe even the mighty Juju Spider if I can locate where they've eight-legged off to.

This week, High 45s have been listening to:

the remastered 2009 issue of Autobahn by Kraftwerk. crystal clear and quite fantastic.

a compilation of Dylan covers that veers from the sublime (Rod The Mod's take on Mama You Been On My Mind, Yo La Tengo's Fourth Time Around) to the ridiculous (German language rock version of Quinn The Eskimo, schlock-jazz Walkin' Down The Line).

the xx. Wanted to hate them because of the hype, but was confounded when they turned out to be worth almost every hyperbole written about them.

and the new Iscariot's Chariot number, Five Steps To Midnight.

Next up, HI45002, Flood Your Mind EP by The Tripping Forecast