11 - The Close Lobsters - Never Seen Before

[quimpons]

Mitic Band...brutal songs!

[kink66]

THANKS TO JOHN PEEL (R.I.P) WHO PUT THEM ON THE AIR

[potace]

A C86 classic

[Rich27014]

Takes me back to the heady days of Peter Easton's 'Beat Patrol'/'Rock on Scotland' on Radio Scotland. Every programme an absolute gem.

[revmulvey]

@Rich27014

Yeah i remember listening to Beat Patrol on Friday nights - great happy times indeed.

[lonesomesound]

Takes me back, sigh....

I'm going to follow this up with the Railway Children's 'Brighter'... classic tune

[Rich27014]

Now THAT is a tune and a half.....

[robodoll]

you can find Close Lobsters on Amazon. get your hands on all their releases - well worth seeking out.

[grooveonup]

This is one of the best tracks from this time period and genre!

[CHRISAMBIENCE]

Superb. Whatever happened to good music? At least the 'independent charts' of the time meant if we looked we found it, today we look hard but it's really really hard to find anything worth finding :-(

[TransFatAndBi]

you're not looking hard enough or in the right places

[CHRISAMBIENCE]

Maybe I've just become too old/complacent/cynical :-) I know there's good stuff out there (now's as good a time for music as any other), but when I hear songs like this I sometimes wish it was then again. A good melody, a jangly guitar, genuine musicians...what more d'ya need.

[lobsterdvl]

Me too...it's nice to have this sort of thing preserved on YouTube and in blogs like Willfully Obscure, Jangle Pop Boutique, and The Doledrums (all blogspot)

[tgodd]

rock is dead

[pessimystica]

cool, never seen this before ;-) or heard it for that matter... i don't even remember how i even heard of this band several years ago

[FranticChant]

If you haven`t already got it, buy the Foxheads Stalk This Land album. A true lost classic.

[CoalMiningPolak]

Agreed, an excellent album - I found a sealed copy last year for $7 :)

[ar4216]

@FranticChant

I agree. That album should have been so much bigger.

[TONDELEON]

Great! Great! Great! The Close Lobsters should've been BIG!!!

[crash1929]

can someone please post 'violently pretty face'!

[CoalMiningPolak]

Need a video of "Firestation Towers"

[eckmacdonald]

towers of st nirren. good stuff

[BeckyyBop]

The drummers my uncle :)

[provokatie]

how nice =)

[pokitz13]

@BeckyyBop Cool!

[thudd23]

Wher have these guys been I have their album on casstte a nice mix of Echo and the bunnymen, the Mighty lemondrops and a littl of the housemartins please let me know where you are

[boynewwave]

One of the best New Wave Bands UK ever produced

[ttimothymurphy]

brill.

wish i'd known about them earlier

[AccuristMusic]

I'm the drummer, Stewart McFadyn's nephew [:

Good music.

[masonpitzel]

So you're either brother/sister or cousin to BeckyyBop up there.

[BeckyyBop]

@AccuristMusic huhuhu hi cousin

[gonzax]

simply one of the greatest bands EVEEEEER!

god, they were so fucking good! what i wouldnt give to watch a live video.

[gankidori]

Can't stop playing this. Was great. Remains great. Fantastic band.

[fgyjtdhttdtu]

haha the guitarist is my lecturer at college!

[DCREVERSE]

@fgyjtdhttdtu yeah at stow college, he also helped to promote my band for a bit but we forget to give him a copy of our demo so it never happened haha

[DCREVERSE2]

the bass player(bob burnett) is one of ma dads m8s n might be teachun me how 2 play da bass :D

[safesurfer71]

Saw Cumbernaulds finest a few times and they always delivered. Shame they were around at a time when indie bands never made the charts

[ClohessysJockstrap]

Cumbernauld!?!?!? I don't blommin think so.

These lads are Paisley Buddies born and bred. Went to school with them so I should know. And by the way, if Neil Neil Orange Peel ever reads this, I want my copy of "Foxheads Stalk This Land" back, ya bam! "I want to borrow it to tape it" you said. That was 20 years ago - did your deck break or something? At least 4 different audio technolgies have risen and fallen since then so you've no excuse!

[roonini]

saw these in Warrington. There was about 30 of us. Brilliant.

[DaDazey]

Someone should upload What is there to smile about?

!!!

[faerymoon1]

This brings back great memories for me, I saw them at Bobarts in Cincinnati OH, and got to hang out with them for the evening...fantastic band

[carbonrough]

Hey Andy, you wanna buy Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies[vinyl] :-p

Peace

CR.

[purpleoxo]

The first song I ever heard from them was FOXHEADS STALK THIS LAND and I was hooked...

[poskett]

oh the memories - eating chips in the back of their tour van outside the venue, new cross gate in london. still got the caff single they gave me at the powerhaus & the badge from the 'lets make some plans' 12".

[Matbro]

unseen classics here

[daveliso]

Fuck yes! Love it!

[topsypops]

Me lo recomendo una chica de Peru.Muy buenos.

[willyj51]

Reply to person who wondered about Go-Betweens rip offs: HUH? This band is from UK and the similarity is purely coincidental. Maybe you've only heard a few bands with that strummy 80s guitar pop sound? Find some Close Lobsters records (there are only 3)and self-educate! This early Lobsters song is not that typical of the band either -- they employed a wall-of-guitar jangle like no one else.

[willyj51]

This is brilliant, does anyone have anything else, even the Nature Thing video, to put on here. Thanks WIll J Pawtucket RI USA

[goldminetrash]

crackin' tune, topped only by "Im Going to Heaven (to See If It Rains)"

[gloomtown]

Excellent song! "Just too bloody stupid" was one of the best songs of the 80's.

[bluebell692001]

Great video!!!! so happy that we from the far SEA can get to watch this! If not for the internet, I would probably die without having some idea how this guys looked like. though listening them on my dusty vinyl is still superior! (aural than visual!)

[velocityjones]

Talk about never seen before...! Thanks for this.

[clamtard]

Why do bands continue to TRY and rip-off The Go-Betweens? Sad...

[philjunebride]

Ha, Ha!! This is from 1986.

[purpleoxo]

This constitutes my first ever seen video footage of The Close Lobsters. Big shout-out to T. Jones for informing me of this via myspace.com :)

[ecdysis]

thanks for something rare! we have the close lobsters video for nature thing on a very worn vhs tape.