This is essential…
To my contemporaries, ie; those twats I go drinking and swap music with, Irma Vep don’t even enter their sphere. I’d be surprised if they had even heard of this phenomenon, in spite of my beating of the Llanfairfechan drum.
I love Irma Vep anyway – and I love them / him more for releasing this absolute masterpiece of an album.More
Irma Vep, that strange beast from Transyfechan has re-released the album ‘Songs Of Guilt’ – a haunting collection of despair gathered together whilst living in the squalor of his cohorts in the Manchester sewers. Both haunting and infectious….
The liner notes to this release describe it all far better than I can….
‘Released 2012 by Comfortable On A Tightrope on cassette its a 57 minute (does that mean it’s a DOUBLE??) record of OG Irma Vep four track idiocy.
For perspective, and for the people who have just come to know my stuff, ‘Songs of Guilt’ was the 13th Irma Vep release prior to the first ‘proper’ LP, HAHA…’
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Transylfechan’s Irma Vep heads out on a UK tour this week, starting tomorrow (Monday 1st August) at The Castle in Manchester. It’s a solo tour dubbed ‘The No Handshake Blues’ and sees Edwin taking in the urban delights of Cambridge, London, Brighton, York, Bangor, Newcastle, Glasgow, Bath and Leeds.More
(review n pix by neil crud)
I was trying to explain to 12 year old Dec the importance and significant part Record Shops played in my youth. A place to hang out on a Saturday afternoon and be cool (and failing miserably on that count!). He didn’t get it, something within me kinda hoped he’d grasp this occasion and would start a quest to amass music at all costs. There again, the thought of him attacking my own record collection would really piss me off; so it was a small mercy that he prefers to get his sound therapy from my iTunes account, 6music and Guitar Hero.
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