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Oh Jeez I'd forgotten just how good this band were.
Such a short career but such a rich vein of beautiful swirly goth nonsense. Tim Bricheno's guitar work is just mesmerising, no one else could get away with THAT much chorus. But for me Julianne Regans vocal is like syrup and pachuli oil wrapped in cotton wool. She was stunning in the day too. She could sweep me up in her gypsy caravan and we could trundle off together looking for fairies whilst she sung
Give Scarlett and Other Stories a listen tonight
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He was also the first person I ever saw play C Numb live, when with the Sisters.
And, as noted, I used to own his 1962 jaguar.
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"Flowers In Our Hair" still sounds good to me.
AAE were my first gig when I was 16/17. Saw them at the Manchester Apollo on the Scarlet and Other Stories tour. Was a huge fan of the band and they were my gateway into rock/metal with female vocals. I did tend to prefer their rockier live moments to the whimsical stuff.
In the Meadow is clearly Tim's Comfortably Numb and my favourite live track of theirs. I don't really listen to them much now, but my love of female-fronted metal today is possibly down to AAE as my gateway.
The band's final album was quite trippy. And it sounded to me very much influenced by Pink Floyd. It's my favourite complete album by the band. Marty Wilson Piper seems to be channeling Syd Barrett as much as Gilmour.
And yes, Flowers In Our Hair is a banger.
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and the early demos.
the old Goony website http://www.goony.nl/aae/aae.htm
Julianne is on fb if you didn't know already.
Wait for the backing singer on this vid.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtxPdNJQIU
Ah well...
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Which has basically a CE1 circuit in, which is in De Doo Doo Dah.
Re Squiers, he had a couple, but the main squeeze was one of these, same colour, same pup.
Fantastic and hugely underated.
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Are You Lonely? is the only track other than Echoes that David used his Pete Cornish Orca Wah for (it makes the Echoes whale noises).
There's two Orca units in the world- Steve Mac from the Aussie Floyd show owns the other and I've tried it. It's quite amazing.
Tim was a huge DG fan and very evident in his playing.
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This is from it.
Ghostdance, "When I Call"
As well as Tim's guitar a good part of the sound was the way Andy played bass. As much as a melodic instrument as a rhythmic one. Many of the band's riffs and melodies are Andy on bass rather than the guitar.
I'll add to the trivia. Mark Price on drums went on to join Del Amitri. for a few years. I also believe he married Julianne's sister.
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However the earlier albums have been reissued with extra tracks fairly recently.
I remember I had a cassette with AAE on one side and Reading Writing and Arithmetic by the Sundays on the other. I racked up more hours on that tape than any other in the early 90s, I reckon.
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