Tribute show for the late Nick Sanderson of Earl Brutus
Nick Sanderson, singer and co-founder of the magnificent Earl Brutus, died of cancer earlier this year at the untimely age of 47. On Monday 27 October Nick's former band The Jesus And Mary Chain (he was their drummer) and long-time admirers British Sea Power and Black Box Recorder will play a tribute show at the London Forum. Fittingly for a man whose loves included glam rock and the railways, and who latterly drove a locomotive on the London-Brighton line, the night is called 'Train Driver in Eyeliner'. Tickets are available here.
Earl Brutus were an astonishing band, a sort of thuggish and uncompromising mixture of Kraftwerk and Slade. We're bitterly sad that now they will not get the second chance that was surely on the way, and that Nick will not be acknowledged as the natural star he undoubtedly was. Anyway, here are Earl Brutus in their pomp:
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Earl Brutus...
...struck me as one of those bands whose music you hear emanating from the bedroom of your best friend's weird older brother. They were odd but never in a way that was going to be considered cool, or earn them any mainstream acceptance.
As the weird older brother of two siblings, I enjoyed Your Majesty... We Are Here and it's follow-up - Tonight You Are The Special One. I was genuinely shocked to read of Nick's death. He was clearly held in high regard by the people who knew him.
I thought
I was the only one (apart from the shamefully tiny crowd who witnessed them in Glasgow c.97) in the world who loved those guys. Sad about Nick, he definitely had stage presence.
Nick also featured in a World Of Twist line up
Ahead of the pack wearing Helly Hansen for the Sons of the Stage.
From this he went onto Earl Brutus with Gordon King & James Fry. RIP Tony, RIP Nick. "It's gotta be pop music Gord"
Love Earl Brutus
I have live version of "show me your mind" which is just one of my favourite recordings it's got pithy interjections from Nick telling the audience to make sure they turn their gas fires of at night so stomping tunes and h&S advice good stuff.
Is that
the one I saw late on ch4 once, at some NME/Brats live in concert mishmash?
If so, that's what caught my attention. They looked like 40 something blokes too mad to be afraid - I was not only captivated by their noise but their attitude.
and it's never been repeated, nor is it on YaChoob
I posted the tune
here when the news first broke, hope this is ok re:cross posting guidelines.
http://living4pleasurealone.blogspot.com/2008/07/sad-news.html
Thank you so much
I have waited around 10 years to hear that again and it sounds even better than I remembered. What a band, sadly missed albeit by just a handful of us.
Is there anyway I can download your audio file, I'd really like to have that one in my collection.
Orbit Downloader
will let you capture the Divshare stream and save it to your PC.
I is
Mac
think this works for
you obscure mac types but if you click the words "divshare" on the player it takes you to the download page if you click through the ad pages (it a "free" service) you should be able to download it, any probs I can pass on the direct link or something.
thanks
I'll give that a try and report back
Thankee!
worked a treat.
make sure you turn
your Ipod off before you go to sleep ....