A Head Full of Wishes

My record collection: [370] Angel Corpus Christi + Dean Wareham - Je t'aime (I Wanna Boogie With You)

Andy — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Angel and Dean’s Je t’aime (I Wanna Boogie With You) was released on two seven inch singles, this was the second put out by Spanish label Munster in 1998.

Angel + Dean - Je t'aime (I Wanna Boogie With You)

This is a single I’d resigned myself to not having, it’s been in my Discogs wishlist for a while but I was always too mean to pay the shipping costs which means I feel a little bit guilty about how it came into my possession, basically letting someone else suck up those postage costs (and indeed the record costs).

I know that Angel Corpus Christi reads AHFoW since she emails me occasionally so maybe I was unconsciously (or subconscoiusly, or… consciously) hinting e.g…

The track was also released on a Munster 7” which I don’t own… yet!

[006] Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham - Je t'aime / I Wanna Boogie With You (7")

This is Angel’s fourth entry in this series, and there is (currently) still one to come… although I’m still looking to fill a gap so hopefully two more to come!

[297] Angel Corpus Christi - Louie Louie (CD)

I think this is Angel’s last appearance in this series unless I can track down a missing single without having to pay twice as much again in postage!

[359] - Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham - You / I Want Everything

A couple of weeks ago a package landed unannounced on my doormat and inside was this beauty, signed by Angel. There was also a lovely telephone shaped promo of Angel’s glorious White Courtesy Phone album. So I guess I finally wore her down!

The a-side is Angel and Dean’s medley of Gainsbourg’s smutty gem Je t’aime (moi non plus) coupled with Lou Reed’s I Wanna Boogie With You:

Originally, we planned to do "Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)," but when we got to the studio, Angel told me she'd rather cover Lou Reed's "I Wanna Boogie With You," hence this slightly odd medley. Angel is… how can I put it? Yes, that's it, obsessed with Lou Reed! She even wrote a song called "Lou Reed's Hair."

Google translation of Dean Wareham – La lune dans le caniveau

Dean also mentioned the single during a Radio 1 interview in 1995:

Actually we were supposed to do a Serge Gainsbourg song, Je t'aime, but she couldn't find one of the chords on her accordion so she decided to do I Wanna Boogie With You which is this obscure Lou Reed track, and so she sang that and I sang Je t'aime and it's a bit of a mess.

Xmas countdown 4: Luna on Radio 1 in 1995

I have to disagree with Dean about the “bit of a mess” comment - it is remarkable how well these two muddle together.

The b-side doesn’t involve Dean and is an ACC instrumental original called Wild Bill.

Thank you so much Angel for the beautiful surprise.

I wrote about Angel’s AHFoW connections on Substack a couple of weeks ago - when I thought we’d seen the last of ACC in this series.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/084
Artist: Angel + Dean
Title: Je t’aime (I Wanna Boogie With You)
Notes: Munster release
Format: 7”

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My record collection: [369] Pearls Before Swine - Constructive Melancholy (CD)

Andy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 1997 Tom Rapp was lured back to music at the first Terrastock festival and this was followed in 1999 by a new album, A Journal of the Plague Year and by this compilation album.

Pearls Before Swine - Constructive Melancholy

For the most part Constructive Melancholy was a collection of Pearls Before Swine songs that had previously been released on the band’s Reprise albums between 1969 and 1973. Obviously if that was all this was it wouldn’t warrant a place in my record collection but as well as those Reprise recordings there were two more recent additions that both feature Damon and Naomi and were produced by Damon.

The album opens with I Saw The World/Another Time which starts with the I Saw The World segment that has Naomi and Tom chanting with a harmonium and finger cymbal accompaniment before going into a reworking of the beautiful Another Time that had previously been released on One Nation Underground in 1967.

The other new track turns up midway through the album and is a short Gregorian chant update of Miss Morse (called Miss Morse Update).

When Tom came out of retirement in 1997 I knew nothing at all about him or Pearls Before Swine so Bob, from The Galaxie 500 Mailing List, sent me two cassettes to fill me in. I’ve only just noticed that Bob gets a credit on Constructive Melancholy.

The CD has a quite lengthy essay written by Byron Coley (who has also written sleeve notes for Galaxie 500). The tiny brown text on a greeny-brown background means I’ve only skimmed it. My poor old eyes just aren’t up to CD-sized sleeve notes any more!

I sadly missed the opportunity to see Tom live at Terrastock London when scheduling changes, and childcare responsibilities meant I arrived after his set (and only just in time for Damon & Naomi’s performance) - I was however lucky enough to chat to him after the show and stayed in sporadic email touch with him.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/095
Artist: Pearls Before Swine
Title: Constructive Melancholy
Format: CD

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My record collection: [368] Shonen Knife - Genki Shock (CD)

Andy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dean guesting on one track on the always wonderful Shonen Knife’s 2006 album Genki Shock might have easily slipped me by…

Shonen Knife - Genki Shock

… fortunately video of Dean recording his vocal while Luna were in Japan on their final tour was one of the ‘deleted scenes’ clips on the DVD of Tell Me Do You Miss Me

Shonen Knife and Dean Wareham recording Under My Pillow (play on YouTube)

The next bit of this post is lifted from a Substack article from last year so apologies if it seems familiar!

Shockingly, for a band as long-established as Shonen Knife I only got to see them live when they played in Sunderland last year. I’m genuinely surprised that in that all of those years living in London and seeing multiple gigs a week that they and I had somehow managed to avoid each other. So, it was quite important that I took the opportunity to fill that gap.

I can honestly say that I have never seen a band enjoy themselves as much as Shonen Knife seem to. They’ve been on this tour for months, and are still the smiley-est band I’ve ever seen… they also rock, much harder than I expected. I mean they were, at times, so close to a metal band that I started to regret my lack of hair. They threw poses, they did the sign of the horns, they came to the front of the stage and head-banged. OK… Raven and Saxon and Girlschool didn’t sing songs about Banana Chips, or Cookie Day, or the power of sweet candy, but the way it made me feel was the same!

They played an hour or so of this beautiful, relentless, power-pop-punk-metal, finished with their lovely cover of The Carpenters Top of the World and left us to go and smile on Glasgow.

Now, they were all so smiley … but not equally so… Risa, played an hour of full-on rock drumming, including occasionally while on her feet, sang a couple of songs, and never stopped looking like she couldn’t believe how wonderful everything is! When she became a member of Shonen Knife 10 years ago she wrote on Facebook that she’d “like to play the drums powerfully and cheerfully with a smile” - achievement unlocked!

Shonen Knife, BMX Bandits, and The Cords

Shonen Knife in Sunderland, 2025

Extra love for Shonen Knife because they still do proper blogging while on tour - here’re the two posts about the Sunderland show:

Saturday June 7 Sunderland, UK 🇬🇧 POP RECS (Atsuko)
June 7th Pop Recs, Sunderland UK (Naoko)
Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/175
Artist: Shonen Knife
Title: Genki Shock
Format: CD
Bought from a Discogs seller for £5

My record collection: [367] Luna - A Sentimental Education / A Place of Greater Safety (2xCD)

Andy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017 the reformed Luna released an album of covers and an EP of instrumentals. For the records they were treated as two separate releases but they were packaged together for the CD and this is that release.

Luna - A Sentimental Education / A Place of Greater Safety

If you read my previous posts on the separate vinyl releases you’ll have noticed that I was a little… cool on them (I even, rather shamefully in retrospect, expressed that coolness to Dean face-to-face when he and Britta visited me at The National Archives.

You can read them on the site (the links will be at the bottom of the page) but I’ll pull out a couple of quotes just so you’re aware of my coolness.

I almost never listen to A Place of Greater Safety - it’s OK I guess but… it feels like a record full of soundtrack cues (a couple of which are), or unfinished songs - they’re fine but Luna’s discography could easily have lived without it - and the same goes for the covers album.

So… while I still think that maybe the decision to release a covers album was questionable I think the execution, and therefore the finished product, was flawless so, I guess I’ll shut up about it now.

Of course despite my whining I wasn’t really disappointed and I don’t really object to them being in Luna’s discography. Also, I did listen to the covers album a lot on release… I must have done because listening now it doesn’t feel like an album I was unfamiliar with.

The album also produced a couple of videos - the first features Rose McGowan and was (mostly) shot during a special show Luna performed at Gold Diggers in Hollywood in July 2017.

Luna - 'Portrait of Rose' (Fire in Cairo) (play on YouTube)

The second is a sweet video of schoolyard love shot by Matthew Buzzell… which is additionally sweet because of the Luna at school clips inlcuding schoolboy Sean wearing grown-up Sean’s T-shirt (and is that a Bewitched era red jacket on schoolboy Dean?)

Luna - Friends (play on YouTube)

Keep an eye out for Sean's T

The album used Pledgemusic shortly before they went under. I understand that bands and the industry were trying to find their feet in an age where people didn’t have to buy records any more but I’m not sure that crowd-funding, and bonus socks was really the way to do that. Although, it was quite nice to see the album taking shape through videos and photos.

Luna recording A Sentimental Education, 2017 (play on YouTube)

The discs came in a lovely tri-fold package and was signed by all four members since it was part of my deluxe Pledgemusic package.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/149
Artist: Luna
Title: A Sentimental Education / A Place of Greater Safety
Format: 2xCD
Bought as part of the “Deluxe bundle” for $105 (!)
Buy ‘A Sentimental Education’ on Bandcamp
Buy ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ on Bandcamp

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My record collection: [366] - Cheval Sombre - self titled (promo CD)

Andy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is the third copy of Cheval Sombre’s lovely first album in this series, but the first one that came into my posessions. It was sent to me by Dean ahead of release and is the reason that my purchased CD is still in it’s shrinkwrap.

Cheval Sombre promo CD

The CD isn’t really a promo since the disc is full colour printed, and has the proper catalogue number so I assume that it is exactly the same as the released one (I can’t check because of the aforementioned shrinkwrap). It didn’t have a sleeve though, just a plastic envelope and a piece of paper with the track-listing and the release date and credits of the performers.

Cheval Sombre: vocals, acoustic guitar, with
Sonic Boom: organ, effects
Britta Phillips: bass, keys
Dean Wareham: guitar on 6, 9, 10

Britta’s “keys” were elaborated to “Microkorg, Celesta” on the released version.

The album was the third release on Dean and Britta’s Double Feature Records after the 2008 L’avventura reissue and A Thousand Wild Flowers by Sand Pebbles in 2009. Dean has commented on more than one occasion about the headaches of being a label owner so it wasn’t really a surprise to find that the last couple of releases you’d expect to find on Double Feature weren’t. A Peace of Us and That’s The Price of Loving Me were both released by Carpark Records.

It is a lovely album and is probably the one I listen to more than the other Cheval Sombre albums… I wonder if I’m always inclined to lean towards my entry point?

While looking through my email as I researched this post I came across a Dean & Britta newsletter from 2008 where Britta mentions that they had a meal with “Chris Porpora aka Cheval Sombre, one of two new artists we’ll be releasing on our new label, Double Feature Records, next year”.

To be honest I only mention that so I can justify posting this adorable pic of Dean and Britta sharing a mic that was inlcuded in the newsletter.

Dean & Britta (Prefix, 2008)

I have vague memories of commenting on that to Britta (or Dean) and it being pointed out that it only happened because of a broken microphone.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/142
Artist: Cheval Sombre
Title: Cheval Sombre
Notes: Promo
Format: CD
Sent to me by Dean ahead of the album’s release

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My record collection: [365] - Magic Hour - Secession96

Andy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Back in February I posted what I claimed then would be Magic Hour’s last appearance in the series but, as you can see, that turned out not to be true since a couple of weeks back I came across a UK based seller on Discogs with a copy of Secession96… which is now mine.

Magic Hour - Secession96

Secession96 was the last of three Magic Hour albums and while the first two albums were released on Ché in the UK as well as Twisted Village in the US, this album never got a release outside the US which is why I never got around to getting a copy.

While the first two albums had songs, this album just contains four instrumental work-outs, which I guess may have discouraged Ché from releasing it? I suspect it’s also the reason I didn’t try too hard to get a copy. I had a download, not sure where from - I assume I bought it somewhere - maybe eMusic back in the day? I’ll have to admit that, while I’m partial to a work out I’m often more partial to a song, so haven’t listened to Secession96 that often.

I did just notice that they are described as “songs” on the sleeve which got me a little intrigued about just what is a song? To me a song needs, at the very least a melody, and preferably some words, but I guess my definition is a little constrained in the modern (last 60 years!!) age.

That’s not to say that I’m not partial to a lengthy instrumental work out (a “composition” maybe, or perhaps a “piece”) and Secession96 is not bad, although I sort of feel it would be better experienced live (and sadly I never got to see Magic Hour live).

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/180
Artist: Magic Hour
Title: Secession96
Format: CD
Bought from a Discogs seller for £11.89
Buy ‘Secession96’ on Bandcamp

My record collection: [364] - Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom - A Peace of Us (LP)

Andy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So, despite my finest efforts to post all my Christmas releases around Christmas here we have a massive failure on that front getting posted as far from Christmas as it’s possible to be. But… a Dean & Britta album is for life, not just for Christmas.

Dean & Britta & Sonic Boo, - A Peace of Us

The “Cherry Eco Mix vinyl” release of A Peace of Us was released for Christmas 2025, a year on from the album’s first release. I had no intention of buying another copy… sometimes even I know when I should draw the line at having multiple copies of the same album. But then in January the Rough Trade shop discounted it, and also had an additional 10% off deal and so it turns out that I don’t know when to draw that line after all.

I haven’t actually taken the record out of its shrinkwrap so as well as having no idea wtf “Cherry Eco Mix vinyl” is I also don’t know what it looks or sounds like.

A bit of (admittedly half-arsed) research revealed that Eco Mix vinyl was developed a couple of years ago by Canadian record pressing company PRP:

In early 2023 we began developing a solution for these problems and as a result, “Eco Mix” was born. Eco Mix is a new effect that uses 100% recycled vinyl, and is split into six distinctive color groups. This allows it to complement the color theme or artwork for your album, in ways not possible before. Additionally the new colors all feature varying levels of an effect we call “marbling”. This gives the mix a dynamic element, blending complementary colors to achieve a subtle, yet stunning look.

Precision Record Pressing continues its push for sustainability

While I’m not that big a fan of “marbling” I am a fan of recycling and it’s a healthy step away from the fad for “virgin vinyl” that there was a few years back.

Of course Eco Mix sounds as good to my ears as the previous release, which I guess wasn’t on Eco Mix.

I must admit that the plastic involved in the music business has been one of my most difficult things to resolve…

I like to own music - it’s not just something to play, it’s a declaration. But the plastic manufacturing industry is an awful polluter, producing pollutants and products that will last for years (or forever) and if that wasn’t enough its obviously heavily tied into the petroleum industry and all the awful things that that entails for our planet.

A few years ago I made the decision to stop buying records and CDs and move to entirely to buying downloads - while my record and CD buying tailed off it didn’t really ever stop completely (hence being on #364 of this series) - and of course with time came the realisation that the downloading and streaming had different but equally awful side effects powering massive data centres and tech made from rare-earth minerals and all the poisoning and polluting that extracting, manufacturing, and disposing of it involves.

I still get pangs of environmental guilt ever record or CD I buy, made all the worse by the utterly pointless shrinkwrap I have to remove before I can play them… but, I’m a hypocrite, because I love music and have no idea how to manage that without contributing to the destruction of the planet. I’m sorry.

I still buy records and CDs new (although considerably fewer than in the past)
I subscribe to a streaming platform
I buy downloads from Bandcamp (and other platforms)
I buy CDs and records from charity shops
I have most of my CDs (and downloads) on a server… my own streaming platform - on a fairly low-power PC - but it’s on 24/7 (although it’s more than just a music server).
I buy second-hand records from local shops (and online)
I off-loaded hundreds of records to charity shops before we moved

Trying to be good is hard… and I guess all we can do is to be as good as we possibly can.

Anyway… I’ve been listening to A Peace of Us and right now Dean is singing that “Christmas can’t be far away” - what does he know… Christmas literally couldn’t be further away! Here are Dean & Britta performing it in December 2020 during their live stream… when it wasn’t far away.

Dean & Britta - Christmas Can't be Far Away (Echo Park, December 2020) (play on YouTube)

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 12/013
Artist: Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom
Title: A Peace of Us
Notes: Cherry Eco Mix vinyl
Format: LP
Bought from Rough Trade for £16.20
Buy ‘A Peace of Us’ on Bandcamp

Previously in my record collection:

[202] Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom - A Peace of Us

My record collection: [363] - Damon & Naomi - Shibuya O-Nest, Tokyo, Japan 2005 (DVD)

Andy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was the first of two Japanese shows that Damon & Naomi released on limited run DVDs - this was filmed in June 2005 and released at the end of that year.

Damon & Naomi - Shiuya O-Nest, 2005 - DVD

The video is very much of bootleg quality, one camera, show-lighting, no camera movement (just zooms and pans) but is a lovely record of Damon & Naomi’s live show with Masaki Batoh, Michio Kurihara, and Bhob Rainey and a guest appearance from Mikami Kan on one track.

What is it about last shows on a tour? The band is exhausted, but at its most together; the mood can be loose, but intense because it's the last night; the feelings are celebratory, but also melancholy.

The Galaxie 500 live CD, "Copenhagen," was the last show of a long European tour; the D&N with Kurihara "Live in San Sebastian" CD was likewise recorded at the end of an exhausting tour. And earlier this year, the last show in Japan of The Earth Is Blue tour turned out to be a similarly special night for us.

First of all, we had a dream band on stage with us: Kurihara, of course. But also Masaki Batoh from Ghost, fingerpicking an acoustic guitar. Bhob Rainey, on soprano sax. And we asked the legendary singer Mikami Kan - who had opened all our shows in Japan - if he might join us on stage for an encore this last evening. He honored us by saying yes . . .

We put together a set list that reflected the group we had assembled - the band's choice of our touring material, from the new album and otherwise; plus a song by Ghost ("Awake in a Muddle"); a song by Kurihara drawn from his remarkable solo album ("The Wind's Twelve Quarters"); and, for the encore with Mikami Kan, an improvised medley of our song that is dedicated to him ("Ueno Station") with a traditional Japanese "enka" tune that he recorded on one of our favorite albums of his ("Sendou Kouta"). At the end, because the crowd asked for a second encore, and because we always get a bit sentimental in Japan, we played the Galaxie 500 song "Blue Thunder."

And then we packed up and went home. There's always so much to attend to on coming home from a long tour, and somehow the last echoes of the trip fade first.

So some months later, we were surprised and delighted when a package arrived from our friend Hiroo Ishihara in Japan - Ishihara (who directed the great Ghost DVD released earlier this year) had filmed that night's show in Tokyo, and edited it for us as a souvenir on DVD.

We're pressing a limited run of these DVDs, to share the souvenir with anyone who might have come to one of our shows this year, or wanted to but couldn't. Thanks to Ishihara and all the friends we had on stage, it's a show we will always remember from our tour of the world.

Damon & Naomi release announcement (3rd November 2005)

It’s bootleggy origins make it something that doesn’t really reward repeated viewings, the image are very murky… sometimes you can barely make out the performers, particularly Kurihara who stands in the dark towards the back of the stage making his majestic sounds. The sound however is beautiful so it can reward repeated listenings!

Damon & Naomi - Beautiful Close Double (Shibuya O-Nest 2005) (play on YouTube)

It came in a beautiful sleeve designed by Naomi.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 13/001
Artist: Damon & Naomi
Title: Shibuya O-Nest Tokyo Japan June 24, 2005
Format: DVD
Bought direct from Damon & Naomi for $12 plus postage

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[192] Damon & Naomi - Shibuya O-Nest, Tokyo (DVD)

My record collection: [362] - Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So / Where Did Our Love Go

Andy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This Cheval Sombre single was released in 2008 by Static Caravan and contains I Found It Not So on the a-side. It was produced by Sonic Boom and has instrumental contributions from both Dean and Britta. Britta also mixed it.

Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So

These two sides of softly building melancholia find Cheval Sombre teaming up with Sonic Boom, who features here as well as lending production touches, and with Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna...) and Britta Phillips (Luna).

I Found It Not So is infused with a sense of sleepy reverie; a low-key lullaby which echoes and chimes while floating around your sub-conscious. Sumptuously trip-wired with sveltely layered psychotropic glazes of looping out of body transcendental hypnotics, plangent guitar melodies creep and intertwine, moving to a warm climax. It's all topped off with barely-there vocals, a whispered dream filled with a sense of longing which belies the almost post-coital atmosphere.

Static Caravan website, 2008

In 2009 Dean & Britta played a show at St. Giles in the Fields in London and Cheval Sombre provided support. Dean and Britta, and Sonic Boom joined him to play I Found It Not So:

Cheval Somre - I Found It Not So (London, 2009) (play on YouTube)

Dean and Britta had covered the song for their 13 Most Beautiful project that debuted at the end of 2008.

I also saw Cheval Sombre (without Dean or Britta, but with Sonic Boom) at St Pancras Old Church in 2012 which was released on cassette (and digital) by Sonic Cathedral. Although, when I say I saw Cheval Sombre…

Cheval Sombre - London 2012

The b-side of this single has a cover of The Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go which closed that London show and is also on the live album.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/063
Artist: Cheval Sombre
Title: I Found It Not So / Where Did Our Love Go
Format: 7”
Bought direct from Static Caravan for £4 plus postage.

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Dr Kiko Tours T-shirt in aid of the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

Andy — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

In honour of their friend Kiko Dean and Britta are taking orders for a T-shirt which will be sold in aid of the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. The short will have the logo that was designed by Pete Folwler, and that lived on the side/back of Kiko’s tour van

Dr Kiko Tours T-shirt (black)

Kiko Loiacono (aka Dr. Kiko) was a much loved UK and European tour manager for Luna, Mogwai, the Growlers, White Fence, Gruff Rhys and many many others. He passed away in his sleep in 2022, the night before he was to undergo a procedure for a hernia. Kiko was a wild and generous character, he liked to buy multiple copies of his favorite records and give them as gifts. He spent his holidays raising money for refugees in Eastern Europe. In his honor, and after discussing with his sister Ameliana, all profits from these shirts will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund who provide medical and humanitarian aid to injured and ill children in Gaza and Lebanon.

The shirt will be availabe in red, navy blue, or black. You can pre-order the shirt in Dean’s online shop until the 30th June when they’ll be printed up and shipped out by early August.

Kiko's van outside The Cluny, Newcastle in 2022

My record collection: [361] - Various artists - Homesleephome2

Andy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Homesleephome2 was released in 2002 by Italian label Homesleep and is a collection of cover songs and has Luna covering Jonathan Richman’s Fly Into the Mystery.

Homesleephome2 Cover Songs

Luna’s cover had previously been released on a 5CD Benicassim compilation in 1998, although it was mis-titled on that release as Fly Into the Sun.

The album is a pretty cool collection but like all such compilations is a little hit and miss. Hits, as well as Luna’s contribution, to my ears are Life Without Buildings’ cover of Prince’s Pop Life, which suits them perfectly, although maybe it helps that I didn’t really know the original. The Zephyrs cover Greyhound Going Somewhere that Dean had covered on the Cagney & Lacee album and is cool but neither can match Bobbie Gentry’s version. Former Spaceman 3 bass man Bassman plays on a fairly straight cover of Spaceman 3’s Sound of Confusion with an Italian band Mirabilia, and then has a solo shot at Can’s You Doo Right. I also quite like Of Montreal’s take on Friends of Mine, but maybe because I love the original so much.

I think Fly Into the Mystery might have been another song recorded in the 1973 sessions with Kim Fowley but there are live versions from as early as 1971, a version finally got officially released on Rock and Roll with The Modern Lovers in 1977.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/094
Artist: Various artists
Title: Homesleephome2
Format: CD
Bought at the time of release, probably from a West End record shop.

Two newly digitised Galaxie 500 shows available to download

Andy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:26:00 +0000

Two recordings of Galaxie 500 have just been popped onto the Internet Archive Live Music Archive as part of the astounding Aadam Jacobs Collection.

The shows were both recorded in Chicago, the first at the Cabaret Metro in March 1989 - the recording here includes a radio interview (of sorts) with the band before the recording

Galaxie 500 Live at Cabaret Metro on 1989-03-29

The second show was at the Lounge Ax in October 1990.

Galaxie 500 Live at Lounge Ax on 1990-10-12

The recordings are part of a collection of thousands of shows recorded around Chicago by Aadam Jacobs from the mid 1980s well into the 21st Century and the Live Music Archive is in the process of digitising and presenting them for download (or stremaing) via the Internet Archive.

It’s well worth wading through… if you have too many hours to kill!

Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Live Music Archive

My record collection: [360] - Galaxie 500 - Peel Sessions CD

Andy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As mentioned before, back in early 2005 I had used my position of employment to acquire a copy of Galaxie 500’s two Peel Sessions. Since I didn’t want my employers to track the leak down to me I passed them onto Ian to share on Dimeadozen. It turns out all the cloak and dagger stuff was a little unnecessary as within six months it was announced that the Peel Sessions would be released officially. This is the second copy of the official CD release and the one that has actually been opened and played.

Galaxie 500 Peel Sessions CD

I’m not 100% sure why I have two copies, and since I also have two copies of the poster that was limited to the first 300 copies of the disc I guess I must have ordered two at the time… which seems a little profligate of me.

The sleeve was by Lara Tomlin and rather divided fans, although the division wasn’t an equal one and most, myself included, weren’t that taken with it at the time. I do like it a lot more now, although not enough for the poster to find a place on display in the museum, although it didn’t help that the posters were delivered folded so had a crease through Dean’s face.

The CD had a hype sticker:

Long awaited, definitive release of previously unavailable recordings by GALAXIE 500. Covers of the SEX PISTOLS and the YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS, together with some of the band's favorite originals.

There is still no vinyl release of the Peel Sessions… just saying.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/046
Artist: Galaxie 500
Title: Peel Sessions
Format: CD
Bought direct from Damon and Naomi’s online store.
Buy ‘Peel Sessions’ on Bandcamp

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My record collection: [359] - Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham - You / I Want Everything

Andy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Another beautiful little 7” gem - this one is a lovely red vinyl affair with Dean Wareham guesting with Angel Corpus Christi on her own track “You” and on the flip Angel doing a wonderfully sweet take on Luna’s I Want Everything.

Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham

Having gushed a couple of weeks ago about my absolute favourite 7” single in the series we come across a contender for that crown!

You has guitar by Dean and he’s also credited as having mixed it (something that he leaves entirely to Britta these days). Dean isn’t on the b-side but that doesn’t make it any less perfect. The cover of I Want Everything turned up on Angel’s Bewitched: A Tribute to Luna a couple of years back - and def worth tracking down if you can’t find a copy of this beauty.

The single was released on Manchester indie Emma’s House Recordings which had a short run in the early part of the century. I bought the single direct and bought a couple of other releases at the same time… maybe there was an offer?

Angel Corpus Christi - I Want Everything (play on YouTube)

Here’s a pic of Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham (and Alan Vega) - pinched without asking from Howard Thompson an age ago. By the way Howard’s Insta is an absolute goldmine… as well as Dean and ACC turning up regularly it also regularly pushes my Sugarcubes and Motorhead buttons!

Dean, Angel, Alan (photo: Howard Thomspon)

I think this is Angel’s last appearance in this series unless I can track down a missing single without having to pay twice as much again in postage!

I’d guess that Emma’s House was named after the debut single by The Field Mice, released by Sarah Records in 1988.

I was lucky enough to see Deerful doing a beautiful cover of Emma’s House in the church at Indietracks in 2016. I miss Indietracks!

Deerful - Emma's House (Indietracks, 2016) (play on YouTube)

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/044
Artist: Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham
Title: You / I Want Everything
Notes: Limited to 200 numbered copies - mine is #94
Format: 7”
Bought direct from Emma’s House for whatever three singles cost back then.

Previously in my record collection:

My record collection: [358] - Luna - Rendezvous (2016 Pledgemusic LP)

Andy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Luna’s final album Rendezvous had originally only been released on CD, it got a RSD release in 2012, and then was reissued as part of a Pledgemusic deal along with Romantica in 2016. This is my Pledgemusic copy and has been signed by the band.

Luna - Rendezvous (LP)

The first announcement about the release of Luna’s final album was in January 2004 when Luna’s emailing list kicked briefly into life:

Luna Update -- January 20, 2004 If you are wondering why there are no Luna live shows scheduled at the moment, well that’s because we are busy in the studio recording our next album. Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Lemonheads, Ramones) is producing at his studio in Brooklyn, NY. Tentatively titled Rendezvous, songs include Malibu Love Nest, Eyes Get In Your Smoke, Speedbumps, Rainbow Babe, and Broken Chair... we hope to be finished making the record in February, and it will likely be released by Jetset in the late Spring or early summer.

Luna mailing list - 27th January 2004

“Late spring or early summer” eventually turned into autumn and its release coincided with the announcement that it would be Luna’s last album and that the tour in support of it would be the band’s last.

On October 26, we will release our seventh studio album, Rendezvous, on Jetset Records. This will be Luna’s final record. We will tour the United States and Europe over the next six months, playing our last shows in 2005.

Rendezvous release announcement (Fuzzywuzzy, 23rd September 2004)

In my memory the announcement wasn’t too much of a surprise although reading back over the Mailing List archives it was taken quite hard by the fans… me included.

Can I just say - ten years of my life has gone into the website and this mailing list - TEN YEARS - they don't think of the children when they get involved in a divorce.

Good luck to all of Luna (past and present) and I hope Dean has some rock and roll plans to keep me in a job!

Andy Aldridge - Galaxie 500 Mailing List, 23rd September 2004

Fortunately Dean did have “rock and roll plans” … as did, eventually, Luna.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 12/056
Artist: Luna
Title: Rendezvous
Notes: Signed 2016 Pledgemusic re-reissue
Format: LP
Bought from Pledgemusic along with Romantica for $60 plus postage.
Buy ‘Rendezvous’ on Bandcamp

Previously in my record collection:

My record collection: [357] - Jule Brown - Soldier in the 9th

Andy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

While posting about Jule Brown’s Smoke and Mirrors back in April 2024 I discovered, rather belatedly, that Dean also contributed to the next album by Mark Holland’s Jule Brown project and found a CD copy on Amazon for £5.68.

Jule Brown - Soldier in the 9th

Dean is once again listed as a co-producer along with Rick Miller and, this time, Mark Holland. Dean also plays guitar.

The website I had dissed back in 2005 had been ditched and gets no mention on the sleeve - we just get pointed at MySpace… it was a sad time for music on the web when MySpace became too many bands “official” site.

There was also a link to the Enabler Records website and thankfully the Wayback Machine allows me to find out how Soldier in the 9th was plugged back in 2007:

On his latest release, Soldier in the 9th, this core structure to the "Jule Brown sound" is continued, but the inclusion of keyboards into Soldier in the 9th has expanded his sound greatly and widened its appeal to a larger audience (as witnessed by his increasing draw live and gigs opening for large acts like a recent show at Durham's Carolina Theatre with Robert Randolph and the Family Band). On the new LP, you can hear Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes. Jule displays his impressive keyboard skills (along with his standard harmonica, guitar and vocal treatment) to take the music and sound to a deeper level that conjures up images of reggae greats. '60s stalwarts Procol Harum, Dylan and a host of other influences, while continuing his wry commentary on life in America.

Enabler Records - Jule Brown - Soldier in the 9th (Wayback Machine 2007)

Soldier in the 9th appears to have been the end of Jule Brown but it’s a good finish, an enjoyable muddle of styles.

Jule Brown - Clear Tone Blues (play on YouTube)

Britta also guests on “Clavinova”.

Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/168
Artist: Jule Brown
Title: Soldier in the 9th
Format:
Bought from an Amazon seller for £5.68 in April 2024.

Previously in my record collection:

[133] Jule Brown - Smoke and Mirrors (CD)