Re-introducing The Shames

The Dying Shames create a playful garage sunshine punk style with all the downbeat emotions of young love and hate. Their primitive unpretentious storm of naïve melodies, groovy 60s beats and sunglasses illuminated the dying days of an Old London scuzz amidst the post-Olympic malaise. The Dying Shames were one of a flock of London bands that were around in the wake of the 2008 crash that seem to have slipped between the cracks, consumed like much of the hotbed of talent that created a scene of ebulliant escapism in the face of rising austerity, zero hours wages, expensive rent and food as the austerity politics kickied in. Inevitably, as that world unravelled many great bands disappeared too. This set contains their legendary rare first 7'' EP as well as the full album plus three bonus cuts. All tracks were recorded in 2014 at the analogue Gizzard Studio in East London by the band's original line up of Jay Winters (vocals & harmonica), Jimmy Jones (guitar & vocals), Rory Clark (guitar), Sam Hall, (Bass), Shaun Clark (drums), Kris Smart (keyboards). Regulars at dives both home and abroad for their tenure, their shows were a trip into a youthfully decadent and authentic quest for pure joy, or as they put it themselves, 'grooving to well-endowed (in their dreams!) blokes with fantastic cheekbones and musical pants in a dodgy looking venue with terrible toilets'. Good times eh? In another time, their melancholy tinged upbeat style would have been happily at home in the heady world of the early 80s scenes like The Living Room/ Creation Records/ Thames Poly/ Sarah Records/ The Falcon/ Sausage Machine etc. or they could have just been the new Monkees!

Number of Discs: 1

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