You Should All Be Murdered.

Kudos for the wonders of the internet eh??

The title of the thread is actually that of a long lost nugget just discovered the other day by yours truly from a band called Another Sunny Day, who were once on Sarah Records (home of anorak cuties Field Mice, Orchids, St Christopher, Heavenly, Brighter, Sweetest Ache, Blueboy) and often moonlighted with members of the Field Mice, the latter having very distinct New Order overtones and influences on some of their more electronic numbers (interesting!) along with some distinctly Factory-esque packaging (no credits just the barest of info and catalogue numbers etc etc).

Anyway, this song sounds like a great lost Smiths tune - right down to the Johnny Marr guitars, Andy Rourke bass and incredible Morrissey-esque vocals from the lead singer Harvey Williams. Anybody who hasn't heard this track yet should give it a listen. I don't know how many people on this forum have even heard of many of the Sarah bands (I have only just about because my missus Lorraine has a few records from some of the bands - chiefly the Field Mice and Orchids) but maybe this might rekindle some interest in getting some of the vast back catalogue of this label's roster reissued and remastered on CD for the rest of us philistines to enjoy!

Love the extended guitar outro to this song too! :)

...and, of course, the Field Mice later mutated into Trembling Blue Stars who continue to wear their indie saddo hearts on their sleeves by making records that are basically a somewhat-more-twee version of New Order tunes.

Factoid.

PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: ...and, of course, the Field Mice later mutated into Trembling Blue Stars who continue to wear their indie saddo hearts on their sleeves by making records that are basically a somewhat-more-twee version of New Order tunes.

Factoid.

Yep - correct. They're all right as well I guess.... brought out quite a lot of records as well as it happens. But too much obsessive lovelorn navel gazing is kinda bad for you!

:p

By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: But too much obsessive lovelorn navel gazing is kinda bad for you!

fiddlesticks. it's my favouritest hobby.

my mate paul was in blueboy.

PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: ...and, of course, the Field Mice later mutated into Trembling Blue Stars who continue to wear their indie saddo hearts on their sleeves by making records that are basically a somewhat-more-twee version of New Order tunes.

Factoid.

abba on the juke box was in the festive fifty 1998 - got to number 15. not a bad tune.

If You Need Someone by Field Mice .It sound like New Order yer know!

johnny wrote: If You Need Someone by Field Mice .It sound like New Order yer know!

But not half as New Order-like as their seminal "Missing The Moon". An absolute killer dance track that was and I was gobsmacked when I found out it was by the Field Mice. Lorraine stuck it on one day and said to me - "have a listen to this.......does it remind you of anyone?" Possibly one of the greatest singles ever made - and that's coming from somebody who really didn't believe in that whole post-C-86 / anorak / cutie scene that Sarah records acts so typified.

Saint Etienne covered the Field Mice for 'Kiss and Make Up'.

Never heard the original but the Saint Etienne version with Bo Savage is nice.

Well, it all comes full circle in the end. After all, this Harvey Williams bloke who is the subject of the thread title was actually once a member of the aforementioned Saint Etienne - he is credited on their first album Foxbase Alpha (the only St Et album I got) as bass player on their ace version of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" - an even better single than that Field Mice cover me reckons.

By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: Well, it all comes full circle in the end. After all, this Harvey Williams bloke who is the subject of the thread title was actually once a member of the aforementioned Saint Etienne - he is credited on their first album Foxbase Alpha (the only St Et album I got) as bass player on their ace version of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" - an even better single than that Field Mice cover me reckons.

And the singer on "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" was Moira Lambert from the briefly rather wonderful Faith Over Reason.