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Marvellous stuff from this under rated band from Redditch near Birmingham. Debut LP recorded in 1980 and released on the equally fine Small Wonder Records imprint. Great great great…
History and photos of Small Wonder Records and Southern Studios courtesy of thecravats.com site
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pedro
August 30, 2008 at 6:44 pmoh yes, this is the dog’s bollocks.
Nic
September 1, 2008 at 1:48 pmGreat, great stuff…
There’s something really simple but captivating about their song structures…
Remember The Very Things?…
Carl
September 1, 2008 at 3:09 pmThe Bushes scream while my Daddy prunes !!!!
John No Last Name
September 1, 2008 at 8:34 pmThe Very Things were amazing!! Brilliant live band, hey Penguin any chance of posting some of their stuff?
Nic
September 2, 2008 at 8:53 amYeah, get it up Penguin…
I remember a great gig by them at the Sensateria (a Birmingham psychedelic club) in 1985: full-on heavy bass combined with the psychedelic lightshow…nice…
simon
September 3, 2008 at 12:14 pmNice upload Pengers! Both The Cravats and The Very Things made some quality tunes and as John says were brilliant live. Remember picking up a few of their releases at Small Wonder and regularly saw the The Shend at the shop chatting to Pete, can’t think why but Shend reminded me of the character from the film ‘Eraserhead!’
Wrote to them once and was sent a manic scrawl and loads of pics and stuff from Disneyland – I wonder if he got copyright on his name? 😉
PS. Note the backward Small Wonder Records image on the wall behind Shend on the album cover, I still remember their stylish plastic bags with the logo on, sad but true!
Sybil
December 7, 2008 at 3:40 pmOH YES! still trying to get my hands on this LP. A friend’s band remarkably sounds very much like them, I dont’t think they’ve ever heard the cravats.
Penguin • Post Author •
September 3, 2009 at 11:46 pmSome great new photos of Small Wonder record shop and Pete Stennet with JL at Southern Studios added onto this post
John No Last Name
September 4, 2009 at 5:09 amThe Bushes Scream Video a Youtube gem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpgyVxP8OG8