alan - drums, b.vox;
andy - bass;
neal - guitar, vox.
Influences
The Breeders,
early but not late James,
The Damned,
Belle and Sebastian,
Sidi Bou Said,
Pixies,
Pavement,
The Velvet Underground,
The Jam,
Sonic Youth,
Northern Soul,
Wire,
Captain Beefheart,
delgados,
The Creation,
The Misunderstood,
The Dismemberment Plan,
Sebadoh,
Flaming Lips,
Love,
Huggy Bear,
The Beat,
Sleater-Kinney,
Tamla Motown,
Buzzcocks,
Joy Division,
The Wedding Present,
Arcade Fire,
Ash,
Divine Comedy,
The Room,
Benny Profane,
The Slits,
Brendan Benson,
Swell,
when House met Pop,
Thirteenth Floor Elevators,
B-52's,
A House,
JG Ballard,
Bobok.
Sounds Like
Throwing Muses,
Josef K,
Go-Betweens,
The Fall,
Divine Comedy,
The Jactars,
The Claim,
Emily.
Indie-folk-pop band from Liverpool, UK. Hellfire Sermons released a string of 7-inch vinyl singles in the 1980s and 1990s to critical approval, selling out of their limited presssings all too quickly.
The songs deal with everyday life in Liverpool - drunks, liars, poll tax bailiffs, girls and Trotskyists.
These are now collected together on the CD 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' on the excellent BusStop label of Milwaukee, USA. We continue to write, rehearse and gig and are looking for an outlet for another twenty or thirty unreleased indie-pop gems.
The two Esurient singles, 'Honey/Moon' and 'Best Laugh I Ever Had'; and the two Dishy singles 'Covered In Love' and 'Sarasine' are now available for free on download.com.
The Bus Stop album 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' which collects together all the singles, flexi-discs and cassette only releases - 19 songs - is now available from Amazon UK, Amazon US, CDBaby and now iTunes.
Here's a snippet from the upcoming album... still in progress
The extremely elegant eighth issue of Your Heart Out is a special edition called The Historical Romance. It was inspired by seeing a film about the jazz singer Jackie Paris, which prompted all sorts of thoughts about fate and fortune.
The Historical Romance is a bit of an odyssey that takes in Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Billy Vera & Judy Clay, Red Krayola & Clinic, Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin, Freda Payne & Pennies From Heaven, plus much, much more ...
Please tell the world that it can be downloaded for free from our library over at:
The new (7th) issue of Your Heart Out can be downloaded for free at: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mwknyd233ym This special edition is called ... The Archaeology of an Abandoned Soul Single. It takes you on an expedition that will take in the young mod’s forgotten story of the 6Ts Rhythm & Soul Society, The Users and The Visitors, Munich disco and Tamla tapes, the return of the Wild Swans and Laurel Aitken’s protest, Robert Lloyd’s verse and The Aller Vaerste! And much, much more. Please point everyone that needs to know in the direction of our site at: www.yrheartout.blogspot.com
This special edition is called ... The Archaeology of an Abandoned Soul Single. It takes you on an expedition that will take in the young mod’s forgotten story of the 6Ts Rhythm & Soul Society, The Users and The Visitors, Munich disco and Tamla tapes, the return of the Wild Swans and Laurel Aitken’s protest, Robert Lloyd’s verse and The Aller Vaerste! And much, much more.
Come down to our show on May 14th at the Academy 2! We would like it to be a celebration of ‘off the scale’ proportions! But, we’ll need you lot there if that is to occur.
Have a listen to the new album on www.thehours.co.uk !!! www.ticketweb.co.uk
The Enormity of Small Things, the sixth issue of Your Heart Out, is a special edition, with The Flirtations on the cover dancing in the ruins of an abbey, while inside take as a starting point Dexys' Coming To Town shows in 1985, add a soundtrack of lopsided soul and odd pop, and enjoy lots of thoughts about how things fit together, and the consequences of intuition and influence.
Your Heart Out ... issue no. 5
The latest issue of the world's coolest music mag can be downloaded free at:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xtnz2gryyyr Find out what happens when you take the Main Ingredient, Motors, Malcolm McLaren and Jeanne Moreau, Milva and Morricone, Marilia Medalha, Letta Mbulu, Mark Murphy, Mixed Nuts, Moonshake, Ella Mae Morse, Marcia Griffiths, plot them on a chart and join the dots. It's a bit of an odyssey, but there's some great places to visit en route!
Free The Hours gig in Liverpool on Friday!
7th March - BBC Radio Merseyside, for Dave Monks’ ‘The Pool’ show. The show starts at 8pm and finishes at 9pm - if you are free and want to come along we have 25 pairs tickets to giveaway! – Just email in!
E-mail your name, e-mail address and mobile number to thehourscompetitions@googlemail.com - see our blog for more details!
Thanks for being my friend! I am having an art show in Austin next month during SXSW at the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture. The reception will be the evening of March 14. Hope you can come by.
Thank you! It's exciting to have new things happening, and will be wonderful to have the Claim CD finally see the light of day! How are things over there?
cheers hellfires nar no gigs at the mo..trying to finish my 3rd record..money and the lack of it gettin in the way..hopefully things will pick up soon..lemme know if ya got any gigs planned in the smoke..cheers lin
Thanks Hellfire Sermons, Your stuff sounds pretty good too. I became aware of you because of a thing you wrote about one of my old bands, Kit. I was the original drummer (before I moved up to the SECOND to bottom rung - bass) and was in Send No Flowers too ...
