February 2022 - I'm proud to report that the new Beach Bullies album 'Road To Heaven' (Musclebound Records) is now available on CD and download, via Bandcamp! The album was recorded mostly at Bassment Space (Tigersonic Productions), under the creative and supportive guidance of Felix Macintosh, and features not one but two fantastic female vocalists alongside my own dulcet tones. As Leoncia Flynn lives in Munich now, she sends in her vocal contributions remotely (and exquisitely). For live purposes and more immediate results I have been collaborating with talented young singer songwriter Rebecca Morris, who lives locally and has proved to be an inspiring co-writer ('Another Gem'). Also joining me on the sessions were multi-instrumentalist Mark Braby (Subway Sect and many other bands) who played drums on several tracks, Bettina Schroeder who graced us with her wonderful electric ukulele on two songs, and going back to Containers' days, bassist Adrian Foster played on 'Getting Drunk At Lunchtime'.
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Recorded in 1979, released in 2017, Self-Contained is the only album by the Containers - predecessors of the Beach Bullies, sharing some of the songs but a very different sound. Manufactured Recordings found me via youtube in 2015, and made this possible...
“Simply put, the innocence so integral to each of the album’s twelve songs is also infectious; Self-Contained plays like it was made for the joy of playing and recording – not necessarily for a proper release (how else can one explain the fact the fact that the album went thirty-eight years without a formal release?). In a way, that makes it even better too – getting to finally hear this music just feels special... ”
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‘We Rule The Universe,’ recently re-released by Manufactured Recordings of Brooklyn NY. Downloads available with vinyl and CD versions only, from https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/we-rule-the-universe
“The Bullies record intermingles the stripped drum machine melancholy of Young Marble Giants with a more energetic restlessness closer to The Cleaners From Venus and Hitchcock’s own work of the period, or more acutely, that of The Vaselines, whose own “fuck off” laissez-faire attitude is comparable – though for my money the Bullies’ strain of weirdness trumps that of the Scottish duo.”
Both of these albums can be purchased from Manufactured Recordings, Brooklyn, NY, also via Amazon, or they can be ordered from reputable record stores!
https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/we-rule-the-universe
https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/collections/manufactured-recordings/products/self-contained