- We'll ask Jimmy, said Outspan. - Jimmy'll know. Jimmy Rabbitte knew his music. He knew his stuff alright. You'd never see Jimmy coming home from town without a new album or a 12-inch or at least a 7-inch single. Jimmy ate Melody Maker and the NME every week and Hot Press every two weeks. He listened to Dave Fanning and John Peel. He even read his sisters' Jackie when there was no one looking. So...
Ah, the Screaming Blue Messiahs. Never quite the most melodic of groups, never the highest achieving, bar what could be termed a novelty hit in the form of I Wanna Be A Flintstone (which, while no favourite of mine, was in fairness to them, part with a career doused in a kind of political critique [...]
Either this is a massive coincidence, or we're in The Matrix and I'm bending reality to my own ends with the power of my mind. Wait....I know kung fu ! Anyway, the point is that not long after my mentioning the classic 1980's TV series Tutti Frutti in the Nicky Wire post the BBC have released the whole series on DVD . Apparently the delay was due to some legal wranglings over a performance of the title...
I should've flagged this before, but I was in that funk when I didn't want to write any blog posts. WTMD is doing their fundraising drive by playing two songs from their user submitted 897 greatest artists . We should've gamed it so that we could've gotten The Screaming Blue Messiahs played.
An Exclusive Interview with Kenny Harris, the drummer from Screaming Blue Messiahs(DaRK PaRTY isn’t shy to admit that we rock. Seriously. That’s why we were into the Screaming Blue Messiahs back during the alternative 1980s. What’s not to love about a British post punk band that has a song called “Holiday Head”? If you've never had the pleasure of listening to the album...
I came out of nowhere, I came out of nowhere, Just to say Just to say I'm Back AGAIN The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Suburban super heroes are back. Fresh from their attempts to save your planet from ultimate destruction...
I will not pretend to know more about the Screaming Blue Messiahs than I actually do. All I know is that their singer was bald, and the people who liked this band fucking loved them. Take a look at what their first two albums for Elektra are going for on Amazon. Yowza. As for this, [...]
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