Jonathan Fire*Eater were great. Their singer Stewart Lupton yelped and yowled his way around some truly great couplets. The organ and drums were distinctive and made your eyebrows vibrate and limbs itch respectively.
When that band fell apart in 1997, most of them survivors formed The Walkmen, who turned out to be great in their own way. Lupton himself disappeared for ten years, which was a tragedy of minor proportions…
Only for him to reappear a few months ago as part of new outfit The Childballads. After all that time, I move to London and hear about them too late, missing the comeback gigs by six weeks. Sigh.
In a similar fashion, anyone fond of defunct ultra-literate “post-hardcore” band Million Dead might be interested in their offshoots The Quiet Kill (noise instrumentals) and Frank Turner (appalling acoustic, it seems).
PS. got Sound of Silver today. All My Friends couldn’t be more like Secret Machines if they tried. Really hard, with a special device of some kind.
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