INDIE-TEST PRESS..Jesse Garon & Desperados "Union City Blues" 14 Nov 1988 EX
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THESE ARE A BOXFUL FROM MY SON-IN-LAW WHO IS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS--NOT MY THING BUT I AM SURE THEY ARE OF INTEREST TO OTHERS
VARIOUS PROMO/PRESS PACKS OF MAINLY INDIE STUFF/SOME GRUNGE/PUNK?at least I think that`s what they are!!
ALL EX CONDITION/IN FACT PROBABLY NEVER PLAYED !!
JESSE GARON & THE DESPERADOS
TEST PRESSING
UNION CITY BLUES
MAYKING RECORDS
LABEL DATED 14 NOV 1988
Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes Origin Edinburgh, Scotland Genres Indie pop Years active Mid 1980s–1990 Labels Narodnik, Velocity, Avalanche Associated acts Rote Kapelle, The Shop Assistants, The Fizzbombs, The Stayrcase Past members Andrew TullyAngus McPake
Fran Schoppler
Margarita Vasquez-Ponte
Kevin McMahon
Stuart Clarke
Bruce Hopkins
John Robb
Michael Kerr
Dave Evans
Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes were a Scottish band formed from around, and within, the Edinburgh indie-pop scene of the mid-1980s. The band had a distinctive guitar-jangle sound with male and female vocals.[1] The band took their name from Elvis Presley's stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley.[2]
History
The original members of the band were Andrew Tully (guitars/vocals), Angus McPake (bass guitar), Fran Schoppler (vocals), Margarita Vasquez-Ponte (drums), Kevin McMahon (guitars), and Stuart Clarke (guitar). Tully and Vasquez-Ponte were also members of Rote Kapelle a band that was active from 1985-1988.[1]
This initial line-up recorded the first two singles, "Splashing Along" and "The Rain Fell Down" (described by one reviewer as a "pop gem that's not to be missed"),[3] on Narodnik Records. With the departure of McMahon and Clarke, Bruce Hopkins and John Robb (not the Manchester writer) were drafted in for third single, the Billy The Whizz EP, these being replaced on a more permanent basis by Michael Kerr (of Meat Whiplash).[1] Next release was a flexi-disc featuring the track "Hank Williams Is Dead" along with a track by The Fizzbombs, a side-project of Margarita and Angus, along with Ann Donald of The Shop Assistants. Moving to Velocity Records, the band released two more well-received singles, "The Adam Faith Experience" and "You'll Never Be That Young Again", followed by first album, A Cabinet Of Curiosities, which collected the tracks released to date.[1]
In 1989, Kerr left to join The Darling Buds, and the band returned in 1990 with single "Grand Hotel", a reference to the IRA bombing of Brighton's Grand Hotel, the venue for the Conservative Party conference. Tully described this as a 'f*** Thatcher and f*** the IRA for not killing her when they had the chance' song[4] - the band never afraid to be controversial. The album Nixon followed, and in October 1990, they released their final single, the Hold Me Now EP.
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