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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME;
Ochre Records Night London, Upstairs At The Garage Sunday February 29th 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD Tel: 020 7607 1818 Nearest Tube: Highbury & Islington 8pm – 12 midnight Pay On Door £6 MIKE RANDLE (of Love) + THE LAND OF NOD + 90 DEGREES SOUTH
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A Free Signed by Mike Randle Cd for the best answer on this one ---In
the song SNUG HARBOR, the waitress is also an actress. why is that?---
MIKE RANDLE, lead guitarist in Arthur Lee's Love, headlines the Ochre Records Night Upstairs At The Garage to promote his forthcoming Ochre Records album 'Barstool Blues'. Mike hails from Los Angeles and has become an integral part of the current Love line-up, not only on lead guitar but on backing vocals as well, and has worked with Arthur Lee in Love since 1993. Mike is currently on Tour in the UK with Love, taking time off to perform this solo gig, as well as helping with the writing, arranging and recording of new LOVE material to be released in 2004. Mike along with Rusty Squeezebox formed BABY LEMONADE in November 1992 with David "Daddyo" Green and Henry Liu (who, following protocol was replaced by Dave Chapple in 1995). They started playing shows throughout L.A., one of which caught the attention of '60s folk-psycho legend ARTHUR LEE. Lee fired his band and asked BABY LEMONADE to back him as the re-formed LOVE. They agreed and, before they even had time to wash the stars from their eyes, they were bopping around Europe like they'd been born there. They still worked as BABY LEMONADE, though, and found time to record the WONDERFUL EP on Sympathy for the Record Industry in 1993, followed y their debut full-length for that label, 68% PURE IMAGINATION in 1995. Both received widespread acclaim, and combined with their LOVE activities everything was as solid as Johnson until Arthur Lee's "3rd strike" conviction in 1996 on a bogus charge that brought that "LOVE train" to a sudden stop. Carrying on as BABY LEMONADE, 1998 saw the release of their second LP, EXPLORING MUSIC, which was released on Big Deal Records. It was heady times. BABY LEMONADE helped to turn the L.A. underground pop scene into a buzzword by the end of the decade, along with their friends and associates in such bands as WONDERMINTS and THE NEGRO PROBLEM. As 2000 approached, Randle and Squeezebox each decided to record solo albums to explore personal, sonic, and songwriting ground that didn't fall within the parameters of BABY LEMONADE. Randle's MY MUSIC LOVES YOU (Even If I Don't) was released simultaneously with Squeezebox's ISOTOPES on the independent label eggBERT Records in May 2000. A short UK tour in November was undertaken as well. MY MUSIC LOVES YOU (EIID) was a dramatic departure from any of Randle's previous musical endeavors -- reaching out to envelop everything from bossa nova and kitschy lounge to Prince-style grooviness and the kind of atmospheric soft rock native only to Southern California. Following the release of the solo albums, Randle and BABY LEMONADE reconvened to begin recording their next opus: THE HIGH LIFE SUITE. After BABY LEMONADE fullfilled their commitment to their record company, Randle enrolled at UCLA to study Film Scoring and was writing music for the as-ever, soon-to-be-released comedy FALLING DOWNSTAIRS, when he recieved a phone call from Arthur Lee, whose prison sentence had been overturned by a California court after 5 years behind bars. At Arthur's urging, the guys decided to "Fall In LOVE Again" and picked up where they left off, and have been touring the world ever since, playing to packed venues everywhere they go; from North America to Europe, the UK and Australia. Support on the night Upstairs At The Garage comes from The Land Of Nod & 90 Degrees South.
90° SOUTH
meanwhile have recently seen the release of ‘Plans For Travel’,
which was the follow up to the critically acclaimed Ochre debut
album from ‘The Barrier Silence’ and the mini-album on
A.A.R Recordings ‘A Distant Memory Of Home’. ‘Plans
For Travel’ was a collection of nine pieces inspired by classic
journeys and the ground breaking pioneers of land, sea and sky.
From the sleek Schneider trophy winning Supermarine S6 sea plane
and the huge Ekranoplan cold war ground effect craft to the early
electric locomotives and the beautiful Citreon DS. Soundscapes to
take you across oceans and continents by trains, boats and planes,
airships, cars and motorcycles. 90° South first appeared with
the track ‘U.H.F’ on ‘Decalogue’, the tenth
and final installment of the Ochre 10" series and with this
and the following releases picked up comparisons to Labradford,
Calexico and Tortoise. The debut album ‘The Barrier Silence’
was based around the themes of exploration and the Antarctic. Italian
music weekly ‘Mucchio’ championed the album describing
it as ‘haunting, beautiful and minimalist’. The mini-album
on the A.A.R label continued the polar theme being based on the
history of a small stuffed Penguin that returned from the Antarctic
with Captain Scott’s first expedition and now resides in Cheltenham
Museum. =====
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