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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 09:04 AM
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Anyone heard the group "Trembling Blue Stars"?
Interesting stuff.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 09:06 AM
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1. The Londoners? Bit of a Gallon Drunk/ Jonathan Fireeater thing going on?
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 09:14 AM
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2. Here's what allmusic.com said about them...
Edited on Fri Aug-27-04 09:15 AM by bif
Named in honor of a passage from Pauline Reage's infamous novel The Story of O, the melancholy Trembling Blue Stars heralded the return of singer/songwriter Robert Wratten, best known as the frontman of the British indie pop band the Field Mice. Ostensibly a solo project with significant input from producer Ian Catt, Trembling Blue Stars originally emerged in the wake of the dissolution of Northern Picture Library, the project Wratten mounted after the demise of the Field Mice with then-girlfriend Annemari Davies; 1996's Shinkansen label debut Her Handwriting explored the couple's breakup in heartbreaking lyrical detail, couching its elegiac songs in airy, evocative guitar soundscapes. As of 1998's Lips That Taste of Tears, some measure of reconciliation had apparently been reached, as Davies' ethereal vocal presence again surfaced. 2000's Broken by Whispers was issued in the U.S. on Sub Pop
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