Sinister Cleaners - Shine [CD]

Cat. no: AAZCD12
Format: CD
Barcode: 5036865007033
Release Date: 25 Nov 2022
Genre: Rock

Leeds band THE SINISTER CLEANERS' re-release their classic album SHINE on the 35th anniversary of the band's split in 1987, and the 15th anniversary of the album's frst release

In the 1980s BBC Radio 1's John Peel was a Cleaners' fan, playing every one oftheir singles and EPs - and so was Janice Long, who invited them  to the BBC for tea. Deals were discussed in London record company ofces; tours were undertaken throughout the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland but the group was too independent and maverick to play the corporate game. The Sinister Cleaners had three songwriters and took their infuences not just from the 1980s but from the whole rock'n'roll canon. They referenced Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, British psychedelia and punk while disconnected 1980's TV pop stars ignored politics and made sure their eyeliner looked OK. The Sinister Cleaners were part of the scene that produced The Sisters of Mercy, The Age of Chance and The Three Johns. The Sinister Cleaners had a 7 € single success in the USA, where € When I Feel Strange' was a college radio hit. Perversely, they split up. It was 1987 and they were planning to release their frst LP, Shine. They
had just four songs left to record. 20 years later, in 2007, they traced each other online. They agreed to meet up at the Corner Caf ©, their favourite Indian restaurant in Leeds, and over a curry they decided to record those four songs and to release the album. All have been involved in other projects: Simon with The Wedding Present, Beachbuggy, and Cha Cha Cohen, Len with The Ukrainians, The Wedding Present and The Legendary Len Liggins, Andrew with The Tripping Cherubs and John with Whole Sky Monitor, Fuzzbird, Greenhouse, Electric Flea Show and as solo artist John Parkes. Len says, € Our reviews agreed we made a pretty interesting racket and that we could write excellent songs, but the fact we refused to compromise our Indie principles got in the way of our success more than once. We could have been bigger than we were, but if we'd taken the deals we were offered and played the corporate game, in our own eyes we would have
failed. € 

Tracks: Calling Home / I'll Never Forget This / Eating Raoule / The Monkey and the Typewriter / Imaginary Friend / Tickertape / Bleed / Bastards / Goodbye Ms Jones / Longing For Next Year / Life With the Sexes / Wallfower / Who is Angela King? / Complication Day / Crazies #3 / Crimpelene Jean Mama / 1941 / Atlantic Satellite / Crazies #1 / When I Feel Strange

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