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April 26-30, 2021 No Postings |
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April 25, 2021 The Queens Public House "This picture was taken in a pub at the bottom of Primrose Hill in London, a few doors up from the Creation Records office and just around the corner from Primal Scream's studio. We had been taking pictures all day and ended up here. I was using an old Pentax K1000 with a faulty shutter and most of the shots I took that day were out of focus. This one was just about okay" Paul Kelly - April 2021 Photograph by Paul Kelly |
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April 24, 2021 Shang-A-Lang "I was really sad to hear the news about Les McKeown this week. I don't profess to be the biggest Rollers fan but songs like Shang-A-Lang and Bye Bye Baby were some of my earliest pop memories. I met Les a few times, he was always lovely and I remember him turning in a blinding DJ set at one of Debsey's birthday parties." Sarah Cracknell - 23rd April 2021 (lesmckeown, baycityrollers, sarahcracknell, saintetienne, at, the, NME, shangalang) |
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April 19-23, 2021 No Postings |
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April 18, 2021 Pale Movie "This was taken during the Pale Movie video shoot in Spain. It was roasting and we were wearing suits. I remember hearing Saturday Night by Whigfield in a bar and everyone got up and started dancing because it had been a hit months before. Our video didn't work out quite the way we wanted it to. We tried to bombard the viewer with cliches like old people dancing and angry ladies throwing roses to the ground in slow motion. It was supposed to be a pisstake but it was too accurate!" Bob Stanley Which is your favourite Saint Etienne video? Photograph by Jamie Fry (nerja, spain, palemovie, videoshoot, with, jamiefry, jimfry77, bobpetesarah, saintetienne, piaggio, scooter) |
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April 13-17, 2021 No Postings |
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April 12, 2021 Happy Birthday Please join us in wishing Sarah a happy birthday!! Photograph by Robert Wilson (sarahcracknell, saintetienne, happybirthdaysarah, birthdaygirl, by, robertjwilson, robertwilson9) |
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April 11, 2021 Power Pop Photograph by Jamie Fry (saintetienne, bobpeteandsarah, by, jamiefry, 1993) |
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April 10, 2021 Train Driver In Eyeliner Nick Sanderson Revisited – The Earl Brutus Cover Versions "Looking out the window of a train is the only time I feel really relaxed." Nick Sanderson Nick Sanderson was a train driver. He wore eyeliner. On April 22nd 2021 he should have been 60 years old. A lighting conductor of creative disturbance, as frontman of the legendary Earl Brutus, Nick knew all about the strange and inescapable ambiguities of the British condition. Train Driver In Eyeliner is a Memorial Device that remembers him in all his genius and life-force, a collection of 19 Earl Brutus Greats, specially recorded by friends, family and fanatics including Saint Etienne, the Jesus & Mary Chain's Jim Reid, Luke Haines Surrey Wrecking Crew, plus Nick's wife and son Romi and Syd, Earl Brutus bandmates and spiritual glam rock peers Giuda. It's all available as a limited-edition cassette, a medium that is both retrospective and incredibly futuristic - like the life and times of Nick himself. Cassettes can be pre-ordered (see link) for delivery on Nick's 60th Birthday, 22nd April 2021. https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com All profits for this release will be donated to Cancer Research UK. The full track listing is as follows: Dark5 (ft.Syd Sanderson) - Bonjour Monsieur Jim Reid - Motarola Saint Etienne - Midland Red Giuda - Life's Too Long Gurgles - Second Class War Sim Sanderson - Universal Plan Quatermass III - Navy Head - England Sandwich 2021 Soft Rock Forever - East Alien (ft.The Daryl Easlea Orchestra) - God, Let Me Be Kind The Million - Come Taste My Mind (ft.Fiona Allen) DJ Murdadawg - Life's Too Long (Destructo Mixx) The Surrey Wrecking Crew (ft.Luke Haines) - On Me Not In Me Alan Vega - On Me Not In Me Zach Rowden - Nice Times Are Here Again Laudanum - Black Speedway Old Grime White Label - Come Taste My Mind |
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April 6-9, 2021 Saint Etienne on vacation for 4 days |
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April 5, 2021 Next Show At? We're just putting the finishing touches to something brand new and will be back again on Friday. See you soon!! Love Bob, Pete and Sarah xxx Photograph by Stefan De Batselier |
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April 4, 2021 (3 Photos) The Saint Etienne Easter Egg Hunt Evening Wow! We've been overwhelmed by entries - thank you to everyone who entered. We are thrilled to announce the winners who were separated by just seconds! In 3rd place, Andy and Samantha Newson In 2nd place, it's Luke Malone And in 1st place, congratulations to .... drum roll ... dramatic pause ... Sir Salt T, Tom Saltarelli! Well done! Please send us an email with your address details and we'll get your goodies sent over next week. Happy Easter! Love Bob, Pete and Sarah x Morning For those of you who missed last Monday's post we've decided to run an Easter competition to win some Etienne goodies. It's not too late to get involved though, so here's how to play... Between Thursday and Saturday this week we hid three eggs - one each day - amongst the hashtags on old posts on this page. All you have to do is search through posts made here since January 1st this year and look for - #egg - and note down the date of the posts where you find them. Later today - at 6pm UK time on Easter Sunday 4th April - we'll hide an email address in amongst the hash tags - once again this will appear amongst the tags on a post made this year. The first three people to email the given address with the correct dates where the eggs were hidden will receive prizes. Third prize is a copy of our impossibly rare Live - Paris 92 flexi disc (see the last picture here). The person who emails second will receive a copy of the flexi disc plus a rare 7 Inch of Pocket Call. The person who emails in the correct three dates first will win the flexi, plus a Pocket Call 7 Inch plus a copy of our recent After The Rain CD (100 only pressing). We will announce the names of all three winners tonight at 7pm here. Happy hunting!! (saintetienne, easteregghunt, easteregg, flexidisc, pocketcall, aftertherain) |
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April 3, 2021 Newman Passage This was taken by Paul Kelly in Newman Passage, Soho. This alleyway also features in the film Peeping Tom which we sampled on So Tough Mark, I Am Mark. Sarah Cracknell - April 2021 (sarahcracknell, saintetienne, newmanpassage, newmanarms, soho, london, by, paulkelly, paulkellyfilm, atalocationseenin, peepingtom) |
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April 2, 2021 (6 Pictures) Excavate... ...is a new book about The Fall by Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley. It's out today via Faber and Faber and available here https://bit.ly/3cJnbeB When we imagined our ideal Fall book, we decided that in order to do the The Fall justice, straight-up biography wouldn't cut it, and you would also have to write about the Bury New Road, repetition, social clubs, MR James, the Isthmian League, the Anti-University, Taylorism, The Great God Pan, the Vorticists, Woolworths, and rockabilly. The world of The Fall is not just one of inky fingers thumbing through music weeklies, or of Peel Sessions, but a dazzling city founded on northern architecture, speculative fiction and work ethics, among so many other things. As well as essays, here are notes, stickers, posters, artwork, ephemera, all material sourced from fans, an unfiltered cache of Fall artefacts. This is the world of The Fall. This is The Fall-shaped hole they punched in the wall. We wanted to illustrate how The Fall are a jumping-off point into so many different directions, many of them nothing to do with music. Tessa Norton - April 2021 It may not seem obvious - nothing about the Fall is obvious - but me and Pete were hugely influenced by them. In 1982 we even paid a pilgrimage to their HQ on Bury New Road, and can confirm that it is very, very long. Their artwork, urban iconography, use of text and handwriting, their no encore rule (until they decided there wasn't a no encore rule), and the notion that you can drop hints and notes on your artwork and in your lyrics and send people down pathways they'd never have thought about. They're now called 'Easter Eggs', which seems timely, but at the time it felt like letting people into your world: for MES it was HP Lovecraft, Hoffman La Roche, Gene Vincent and Joseph Holt pubs. For us it was Stradhoughton, Berthold Lubetkin, Francoise Hardy and cafes with formica tables. Bob Stanley - April 2021 (excavate, thefall, markesmith, tessanorton, bobstanley, faberandfaber, faberbooks) |
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April 1, 2021 (4 Pictures) Foxbase Beta Originally released on CD in 2009 Foxbase Beta is Foxbase Alpha reproduced, remixed and reimagined by Richard X. What's your favourite reworking on this one? Foxbase Alpha was the soundtrack to my last year living in the North, and my first years living on the edge of the Big Smoke. The exotic sounds, places and people it conjured up in our imaginations soon became the theme music to a city full of ideas just a travelcard journey away. The realities of being able to take a tube to Camden Town still didn't dull the sense of wonder and possibility. It was here the band lived and filtered their personal love of all things dance, dub, pop and soul through the spirit of the times and onto their records. London seemed to be the catalyst for it all. Fast forward and I'd found myself moving on from standing outside their houses (sorry about that) to standing in the studio with them. Beta was conceived at The Secret Garden party in July 2008, possibly from one of Pete Wiggs jokes, and work started later that year. With Ian Catt's assistance the dusty reel to reel multitracks coughed forth their secrets and Emax sampler discs sang out their distinctive grainy tones. Found sounds from the bands vaults were spun in as Sarah and Debsey brought new ideas into familiar songs. Bob and Pete's abandoned sonic experiments lived again and the mystery of the reverb shrouded looped vocal was finally revealed, then covered up again. Listening again ten years later it's pleasing that Beta still seems infused with Alpha's ethos and essence and not too much of the era in which it was made. That was really what we'd set out to do, not just remix but reimagine the world that Alpha had set out all those years before. Now Foxbase Beta can spin on again to accompany our next adventures. Richard X - London 2018 Photography and sleeve design by Paul Kelly Limited vinyl copies of Foxbase Beta are available now from the Saint Etienne - online shop at: https://saintetienne.greedbag.com (saintetienne, foxbasebeta, foxbasealpha, richardx, richardxbm) |
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