Fronted by Maggie K De Monde, SCARLET FANTASTIC continue their comeback with From Montreal to Rotherham released next year by Last Night From Glasgow, co-written and produced by John Walters and featuring both him and Basil Gabbidon of Steel Pulse fame. It’s heralded by the first single, a hypnotic, moody, part spoken, electro-clopping cabaret with strings cover of Bowie’s Time from Alladin Sane though whether the line about falling wanking to the floor is more likely to get airplay than it was 52 years ago remains to be seen. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOSKelrE0bA)
KATHERINE PRIDDY gets into an early Halloween mood with new single Matches (Cooking Vinyl), which, the first taste of next year’s sonically varied and adventurous These Frightening Machines, is set to a building lolloping rhythm with a driving drums battery and hushed, conspiratorial vocals was, , inspired by the witch trials and, echoing the album’s, sees her reclaiming the voices of the women who have been silenced, persecuted and misunderstood throughout history. Katherine will play Birmingham Town Hall on May 9.
Reverting to his VILLAGE GREEN MACHINE alias Marc Lemon’s revisited and reworked English Café, about a group of university students about to bid final farewells to one another, knowing realistically they will never see one another again, a fine piece of 60s jangly folk pop that he says took Dave Davies as its inspiration, though anyone who’s into Vinny Peculiar or Cleaners From Venus should embrace with open ears. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8z54-a3yp4)
ROB PETERS & THE SLAPDASH COWBOYS have also done a spot of revisiting, releasing a newly recorded single version of the staccato rhythmically stabbing My Rende-Vous originally from and his first release since 2024’s Dreams album, the psych-freak out section now featuring demented fluttering guitar. He’s launching it with a gig at the Red Lion Folk Club, Kings Heath on Wednesday November 19th along with the expanded Slapdash Cowboys line up of Hannah Brown on drums and vocals, Kate Hall on bass, synth, percussion and vocals and Emma Reading on electric guitar and percussion with special guest Katherine Abbott.
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