The Bevis Frond

As of this morning, He'd Be A Diamond is the greatest song in the world. I had it on a fabulous compilation a friend made but I'd not heard it in years. Randomly found it and am enraptured all over again.

I used to frequent the same second hand record shop on Wood St walthamstow as he did so have wondered if i wound up with any of his old records.
Great place that, was known as Sounds Familiar at the time.
I met him at a St Vitus show at the Standard near Blackhorse rd in around 1988 too.

Saw him at the Dome in Tufnell Park sometime around then, maybe a couple of years later.

I don't know any of NS's older stuff, but really liking Little Eden, especially the last 2 tracks on disc 1, "The Man In The Garden" and "As I Lay Down To Die".
Heard it playing at Red Eye, Sydney's great record store, and I thought I was listening to some kind of classic NZ Flying Nun-type stuff. I guess similar roots.

Back in the early days of the internet, before I'd really ever heard either, I used to get Bevis Frond and Bardo Pond mixed up fairly often. Anyway, I've since long been a Bardo Pond fan, but just started getting into Bevis Frond with Little Eden. The new one, Focus on Nature, is pretty great too!

thanks! I am a huge fan of the early stuff and still like hearing what he's up to

he lives somewhere near Hastings nowadays, I saw them play there before covid. he used to have a 2nd hand record shop in nearby Bexhill but quit it a couple of years ago, shame because it was a decent shop, bought quite a lot of stuff the one time I visited it. it's still a record shop so I dunno if he just sold the stock on or if someone else started fresh

i like the latest frond LP a lot but i feel that little eden is his masterpiece. nick's hit rate even after all this time is absurdly high. i suppose it would be when you're writing a song every couple of days

Yeah I went back to Little Eden again over the weekend and it remains astonishingly good.

ok I'm gonna put that on right now, thanks y'all (and nice to see u electricsound)