FEBRUARY 2002
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See you next month I said at the end of the previous News Pages....but I didn’t say which month or year! - apologies for such a long delay - a whole load of excuses could be wheeled out but I’ll come clean and admit that time has been non existent - sometimes there just aint the time to write about the things...better they happen than not at all!

Lots of stuff has, and some things didn’t happen - like the Mooz release - which was sad, but problems arose and it became very difficult to resolve them, maybe sometime in the future? who knows....

The Heartbeat History CD that was supposed to be ready when this site was opened! is actually going to be a reality later this year, so many amazing recordings were made back then, many that never saw the light of day, some that I don’t even know who the artist is! many of these will be included and it looks worryingly like being a double CD! but hey, this is our history here - gotta be done.

I’ll take this opportunity to thank one time Private Dick Paul Guiver, without whom this would never have been even a possibility! He has been fantastically supportive of the project and been able to offer help that has enabled us to restore those wonderful old recordings to their former glory. Thanks Paul!

One release that wasn’t covered in the last ‘News’ was the AKO album Find Yourself, mainly because without warning the band suddenly came to my attention around Christmas 2001 and had such an affect on me that I thought “How the hell do I capture this lot before they implode on themselves”, so strong was the performance you had to wonder!

During the past year a chance encounter with a certain Heidi Leib via email has now resulted in Heartbeat being invited to do a 7” with her much renowned band SIT n’ SPIN - said to be “the best girl band in New York” and who would I be to argue such a claim.

Long time been a fan of these rockin’ gals and to do one of their 45’s is indeed an honor and definate highlight in the labels career.on??

SIT n’ SPIN

What you’ll get are two unreleased slices of yet another Leib penned classic, “Elvis” - backed up by a great cover of Peppermint Twist. This should be ready for a late March release, and could well be our final 7” release - they just dont do well enough anymore...lets hope “Elvis” proves that to be wrong! as I still think its the greatest format. Do ya stuff Heidi....

www.sitnspin1.com

Earlier on this year AKO frontman Toby was raving on about an amazing bunch of rabid animals he had seen at Bristol’s Fleece & Firkin playing to about a hundred gobsmacked unsuspecting punters...Americas’ FYDOLLA HO were in town and had taken the place by storm with their unique brand of crazed noise delivered with more sweat & sleeze than a top flight porno flick.

Not quite sure how, but I’m told partly due to the reaction achieved from the AKO album release, the band wanted Trash City to strut their stuff once more over a FYDOLLA HO album - in time to compliment the bands forthcoming seven week European Tour starting in May this year.

The ELECTRIC PRUNES have been going from strength to strength since they reformed, now with a number of storming live shows under their belt they are ready and willing to come to Europe and show us Euros just what these amazing guys are capable of now.

Having blown the VOXFEST gathering apart in Riverside, Los Angeles and taken New Yorks’ annual garage homage CAVESTOMP to a new high with a 2hour show the band are just itching to spread their message, and having been lucky enough to have witnessed both of the above, it really is quite staggering the magnitude of their performance - that thirty year wait must have been unbearable for them.

ELECTRIC PRUNES