Mouldy old dough by Earl Brutus.

"second class war" is the one track i'd use to convince any unbeliever. which reminds me ... need to do a CD of "that stuff you listen to" for mrs F's 70-something aunt. SCW will categorically be on there.

didn't see the guardian list and don't want to bring myself to care about it :)

xpost: okay, nice try, but ... y'know, facts?

the personnel provided glamour

this is irony, right?

two guys at the front, just drinking

one guy -- and not until later, either. shin-yu wasn't in the band (IIRC) at that time.

actually, 'navyhead' and 'black speedway' take some beating. as do 'edelweiss' and '99p'. and 'male wife'. hmm.

New recruits to the Earl Brutus cause, hooray!

favourite memory involved them playing the new bands stage at glastonbury in 98/99 (a muddy year) or so in a slot before julian lennon. times overrun, and yoko ono turns up in the photographers pit early, just in time for earl brutus to be finishing up their set. to this day i'll never forget the sight of her in her white designer mac outfit and wellies gamely yet confusedly jiggling about as the singer of earl brutus is unwittingly wobbling everywhere and showering her in lager.

yoko went to see julian lennon?!

yoko WENT TO GLASTONBURY to see julian lennon?!?!

earl brutus drinking lager !?!?!?

http://www.plantingseedsrecords.com/news.html

i don't know what to say

Fuck.

Here was me thinking it was a re union post.

Fuck/Shit
Piss/Off

That is brutal news

god!

damn.
like louis, i'm speechless

OK, right, I wasn't going to talk about this until it was officially announced but it seems to have leaked out. Nick died on Sunday night. He was drummer with Clock DVA, Gun Club, World of Twist, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat (not a bad CV) and, of course, singer and frontman with Earl Brutus. More importantly, he was a wonderful man, a total one-off and a real mensch. So long Nick, hope to see you next time around.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2572785667_30ffd59be8.jpg?v=0

Oh man I used to know him when he was in Freeheat, seemed like a lovely guy, very friendly and open. RIP

Universal Plan - Earl Brutus

"I get up.
Go to work.
Eat my lunch.
Come home.
Cure cancer.
That's it.
It's a beautiful world"

fucking brilliant band, if only he had kept to his own plan.

Good appreciation on Quietus:
http://www.thequietus.com/2008/06/nick-sanderson-an-obituary-an-appreciation/

I had no idea really who this guy was until I read his obit here in the Independent. Didn't realise there was a connection between EB and Clock DVA - what a great band they were. Tom, I'm sorry to hear you lost a pal.

This is a delightful story that LJ will like:

Sanderson's interests were broad, including ornithology, Manchester United and British history. I remember him describing a birdwatching trip to see some hawfinches in Norfolk. He didn't find the birds, instead ending up drunk in the dark and falling down some coastal bluffs. His clothes torn, his face scratched, he knocked on the door of some remote cottage. Surprisingly perhaps, the stranger who answered let Sanderson in. The pair then spent the rest of the night in high-spirited revelry.

Hope he got to see the hawfinches in the end, God knows I've tried and those are some bad bitches to nail down.

(dude gets bonus points from me for being a red BTW)

:(

i mean a birdwatching football fan who wrote awesome fucking music

Cheers for posting that Quietus thing, Nick, that was a good piece

Eh, no worries, but that was actually Neil that posted that.

Oh man, so it was, sorry Neil!

Nae bother, glad it was enjoyed.

Blimey, World of Twist are a cursed band - first Tony Ogden, now Nick Sanderson.

Bloody cancer :-((((

good write up by bob stanley in this months mojo re Tonight .. as a lost classic, along with a nice obit by ian harrison (who also sorted out the excellent piece over on quietus).
interesting point about an artist using Earl Brutus as the foundation of a new exhibition.

Yeah, it seems to have been written before, which is a shame.

Never really got used to that second Earl Brutus album; it was too much of a Lexicon to the first's Beauty Stab.

fucking, fucking hell. and there was i hoping the thread revive might have been a reunion or something :(

RIP, nick. you rocked my fucking world in all manner of ways.

there are many days i think earl brutus might just have been the greatest band of all time. unsurprisingly, this is going to be one of them.

and tom, yes, my sympathies: it's obviously something else entirely to lose a guy you knew.

i just spent an hour or so wandering about glasgow in the rain listening to "your majesty". what a blindingly fucking good band. i'm incredibly saddened by this news (i didn't realise the initial thread revive was so long ago; the first i'd heard of any of this was this morning).

yeah.
i listened to both albums for a few days solidly after i heard, and cant deny i was a very depressing experience given that i had always hoped that they would reform and i'd be in the front row with a great big mutha'fuggin' grin.
but sadly this will never be the case now.
a blindingly fucking good band indeed.

They have always begged the question: Why don't more bands dress like sailors in the Royal Navy?

They looked fucking fantastic.

One of the most refreshing live bands I've ever seen. Did I howl? I always had the biggest shit eating grin. Genuinely fucking crazy on stage were the Brutus - 'old enough to know better' made them more rewarding

Bar 'Navyhead' which was usually blasted only when well oiled, I didn't really play them at home that often.

After hearing the horrible news, it dawned on me that I must have seen Earl Brutus as much as any other band.In one or two venues but in their hey day (fuck yeah) they just sort of arrived at Festivals - usually first or second on on , on the third stage. Still pissed from the night before.

Having given both a lot of listens, I'd say the two albums are very close but Tonight is the, erm, special one. Would be interested to read the obits/write-ups. As I said above, Nick seemed like one of the genuine heroes and even a wasteful young'un like myself will miss him. ;-)

Train driver in eyeliner

A tribute concert for Nick Sanderson featuring Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Box Recorder, British Sea Power & Earl Brutus DJs.

The Jesus & Mary Chain are set to headline a one-off show in commemoration of musician & railwayman Nick Sanderson who sadly passed away on June 8th of this year.

The show, to take place at The Forum in London on October 27th 2008, will also feature sets from Black Box Recorder, British Sea Power and a DJ set from Jim Fry & Gordon King of Sanderson’s final group, Earl Brutus.

Tickets for the show are priced at £20 and are available via www.kentishtownforum.com. All proceeds from the show will go to Nick’s immediate family.

Born Sheffield, South Yorkshire 22nd April 1961, Nick was a talented musician with an infectious passion for everything from Manchester United, the British rail system, British history to ornithology.

Nick started out as drummer with Sheffield post-punk group Clock DVA in the early Eighties before a stint with The Gun Club. A founding member of Manchester’s World of Twist, Nick also went on to regularly drum for Jesus & Mary Chain, for whom he played on their 1998 album Munki.

Yet it was to be Earl Brutus, the band he formed with Gordon King of World Of Twist and Jim Fry, who he knew from his Clock DVA days, which gave a voice to Nick’s acute sense of the minutiae of British culture.

The name was meant to conjure up "a pub that's quite a rough sort of place, but with a nice carvery on Sunday lunchtimes" and they marvelously continued to be at odds with all prevailing trends courtesy of a musical blend that fell somewhere between Kraftwerk and the terrace-stomp of classic glam-rock and a keen lyrical absurdity that often championed the un-celebrated while deriding the vacuous.

Having originally come from a railway family, Nick was to finally become a train driver on the London to Brighton line following the demise of Earl Brutus.

For further information contact:

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jim reid talks about nick and about the gig; also some amusing mary chain interview footage from back in the day.

3 and a half years since I started this thread and I STILL haven't heard this.

Did it ever surface?

if it did, i've not heard it either :)

Still sounds like the best thing ever...(when i play it in my head)

Another Quietus article on the Brutus and Nick Sanderson, this time with their manager's thoughts. Wish I'd bought tickets to the gig now.

Jim Fry giving a talk on music photography at The Apple Store, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Thursday 12th March 2009 at 6.30pm.

Then afterwards DJing at McSorley’s, Jamaica Street.

Be there and be square.

and ASK HIM about MOD!

He's got a book coming out, don't think it's out yet

Aargh, shit: I can't make that. Might be able to get along to McSorley's later.

what a glorious result : today i found a live version of come taste my mind in the archives that i had no idea about.

There was a great live version of that on an NME free CD once. That's got to be one of my favorite singles of the 90's.

There's not many bands I love as much as Earl Brutus.

the video for come taste my mind might be my favourite video in the entire history of the music video

ha.
thats where i found it.
i had no idea it was on the cd as the rest is pretty arse.

ps. posted it on blog if interested.

It's one of the few NME CD's I still have, just for that song. The NME were behind them for a while, I remember the second album got album of the month.

The video is indeed a classic I remember seeing it on the ITV chart show. Those were the days!

i hope so, as the extra stuff is fantastic.
get it fixed up KP !

the 1998 hagiographies are pukescent but even worse is the absence of Tonight You Are The Special One from literally all of them

Mouldy old radio play from Jim Fry and Luke Haines.

https://soundcloud.com/user-988845513/test-driving-the-new-prius-full-radio-play

Collection of covers inc Saint Etienne:

https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/product/v-a-traindriver-in-eyeliner

I think this is one of the best one of these I've ever read. I'd expect nothing less from Jim though.

https://thequietus.com/articles/32053-james-fry-earl-brutus-bakers-dozen

‘Put Your Love In Me’, which is one of their best songs, is more like an album track than something you’d expect to hear on a greatest hits. You don’t hear that one on the radio but it’s one of their best singles.

It's one of the best singles by anyone ever, glad to see it mentioned. Great list throughout.

yeah, this was a cracking read.
as tom says, to be expected from jim.